eating out

In 1621 a retired stable groom of the then king elector opened a pub and thus laid the foundations of today's Zur letzten Instanz ("The Final Instance").

Freshly made pasta with figs, fennel salami, pignolia and rosemary sells like hotcakes at Mitte's hip Mädchenitaliener.

In close proximity to Savignyplatz you will find the restaurant Repke Spätzlerei which sells far more than only Spätzle, a pasta type from Southern Germany. Next to their speciality, Repke offers more than 30 dishes for a good and inexpensive lunch and a variety of different soups.

The oriental restaurant Kreuzberger Himmel offers fine Syrian cuisine and a concept that helps refugees to find a perspective after their arrival to Germany.

The Austrian restaurant Sissi, located in lovely Schöneberg, is pink through and through.

Prenzlauer Berg's Omoni earns brownie-points with creative Japanese-Korean food.

In close proximity to Friedrichstraße and Berliner Ensemble, Restaurant ALvis is the ideal location to retreat to a relaxed business lunch.

Fall is crime time. Just in time for those longer nights, the improVisaion theatre Paternoster starts its popular crime story dinner series, this time in the Ellington Hotel in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

This tiny Turkish fish restaurant Balikci Ergun under the S-Bahn rails of Berlin-Moabit has reached cult status.

The Spanish-Portuguese restaurant La Sepia in Berlin-Charlottenburg's Europa-Center specializes in fresh fish and other seafood.