Drinks & Nightlife
If you like excellent long drinks and cocktails and sitting at an actual bar, this is a great place.
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GREENDOOR
50 WinterfeldtstraßeIf you like excellent long drinks and cocktails and sitting at an actual bar, this is a great place.
Oldest Italian pizza joint in West Berlin. Open til the wee hours of the morning. Famous for their 2 euro mini pizza
Piccola Taormina
29 UhlandstraßeOldest Italian pizza joint in West Berlin. Open til the wee hours of the morning. Famous for their 2 euro mini pizza
Food Scene
On a sunny day, waterfront cafe near apartment - great for coffee or breakfast.
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Cafe am Neuen See
2 LichtensteinalleeOn a sunny day, waterfront cafe near apartment - great for coffee or breakfast.
A nice place for lunch or brunch. Good schnitzels, meal salads, etc
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Restaurant Jules Verne Berlin
45 BleibtreustraßeA nice place for lunch or brunch. Good schnitzels, meal salads, etc
Restaurant Baba Angora
29 SchlüterstraßeGreat Turkish restaurant
Excellent Szechuan cuisine. Highly recommend the fried eggplant, all the dumplings, spicy cucumber side salad, and the duck!
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Tian Fu 天府酒家
142 UhlandstraßeExcellent Szechuan cuisine. Highly recommend the fried eggplant, all the dumplings, spicy cucumber side salad, and the duck!
A wellknown Viennese-style café/restaurant located in a neo-renaissance villa. Great Strudels, but also nice for a cup of coffee or a meal.
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Café Einstein Stammhaus
58 KurfürstenstraßeA wellknown Viennese-style café/restaurant located in a neo-renaissance villa. Great Strudels, but also nice for a cup of coffee or a meal.
Our local Italian restaurant across the street. Good pizzas, pastas and salads - and lunch specials. Outdoor seating all year round (with heaters and blankets for colder seasons).
Luardi
24 MeinekestraßeOur local Italian restaurant across the street. Good pizzas, pastas and salads - and lunch specials. Outdoor seating all year round (with heaters and blankets for colder seasons).
Berliner Kaffeerösterei
173/174 UhlandstraßeCoffee beans and chocolate
Famous confectionary right around the corner from the apartment, try their strudel or rote grütze with vanilla sauce.
Leysieffer
Famous confectionary right around the corner from the apartment, try their strudel or rote grütze with vanilla sauce.
Lovely cozy Indonesian bistro and cafe. Excellent daily specials and coffee
Handoyo's - Sate & Coffee
2 Ludwigkirchpl.Lovely cozy Indonesian bistro and cafe. Excellent daily specials and coffee
Everything Else
Terrific farmer's market on Saturday mornings. Also good for buying gifts.
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Winterfeldtplatz station
Terrific farmer's market on Saturday mornings. Also good for buying gifts.
Supermarket (right across from apartment.) Open til 21:00 (closed on Sundays)
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Lidl
192 SonnenalleeSupermarket (right across from apartment.) Open til 21:00 (closed on Sundays)
Huge supermarket that's open 7 days a week (until 22:00)
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Hit Ullrich Consumer market
7 KantstraßeHuge supermarket that's open 7 days a week (until 22:00)
BIO COMPANY Uhlandstraße
41 UhlandstraßeOrganic grocery store close to house
Neighborhood
Groceries
There's a supermarket (Lidl) right across from the apartment that has all the basics and produce (including organic foods). Right outside Lidl is a bakery and a small Italian deli.
Two blocks away, there's an organic supermarket (Bio company at Uhlandstrasse 41), and a huge supermarket called Hit am Zoo about a five minute walk away (which is open until 10 pm on Sundays as well, when nearly all shops stay closed in Berlin.) There's a lovely farmers' market at Winterfeldplatz on Saturday mornings, which is about a 10-15 minute bike ride or short cab or subway ride, or half an hour walk away. There’s also the Karstadt department store about a 5 minute walk-away which has a big downstairs supermarket/deli/wine shop/liquor store.
A little higher end: the KaDeWe department store is about a 12 minute stroll down the Kurfürstendamm. There are a few Asian and international supermarkets in walking distance on Kantstrasse.
The addresses in case you want to plug them into Google Maps:
Lidl, Meinekestraße 22, 10719 Berlin
Bio Company, Uhlandstrasse 41, 10719 Berlin
Karstadt, Kurfürstendamm 231, 10719 Berlin
KaDeWe, Tauentzienstraße 21-24, 10789 Berlin
Restaurants
There are a lot of restaurants on our street – two Italian places across from the apartment called Luardi and Arlecchino’s, which are nice and affordable for lunch. There's an excellent pricier Alsatian bistro called Diekmann’s a little further down the street and Mena’s, which serves excellent wine and appetizers. All restaurants have outdoor seating in the spring and summer.
One block over, the Literaturhaus on Fasanenstrasse has a nice cafe/restaurant/garden. Kantstrasse has lots of great Asian restaurants and markets. The Savignyplatz area has lots of iconic restaurants that serve traditional German, Austrian and Berlin fare. We recommend Diener’s on Grolmanstraße – an old artists’ hang out – that serves good beer and hearty staples.
Also nearby:
Tian Fu. Very good Chinese/Szechuan. Highly recommend the fried eggplant, all the dumplings, spicy cucumber side salad, and the duck. About a 10 minute walk. Uhlandstrasse 142.
Jules Verne. A nice place for lunch or brunch Good schnitzels, meal salads, etc. About a 10 minute walk. Schlüterstrasse 61.
Baba Angora. A lovely Turkish restaurant. 10 minute walk. Schlüterstrasse 29.
Café Einstein. A wellknown Viennese-style café/restaurant located in a neo-renaissance villa. Great Strudels, but also nice for a cup of coffee or a meal. About a twenty minute walk. Kurfürstenstrasse 58.
Late night snacks and drinks
The closest Späti – late night corner store – in our area is on Joachimstalerstrasse
Transportation
The nearest subway stop is Kurfürstendamm, which is about a 3-minute walk from the apartment. The Zoo station, where the S-Bahn runs to East Berlin (and all over the city ), is a 7-minute walk away. There are also a ton of busses. If you have mobile internet, I suggest plugging in where you want to go into Google Maps – it has a public transit option that will map how to get everywhere. There's also a taxi stand right on the corner of Meinekestrasse/Kurfürstendamm.
You can call a cab by dialing: 030/202020.
Parks
The Tiergarten – a huge park – is about a seven minute walk from the house, and is nice for longer walks (with pets.) It extends all the way from the Zoo to the Brandenburg Gate. There’s a lovely café called Café am Neuen See with a winter garden and outdoor seating.
Pets
There’s a small park a few blocks away, which you can access from the parking lot next to the Festspiele at the end of Meinekestrasse. At the corner of Schaperstrasse/Fasanenplatz, lots of people let their dogs play there.
For long walks, we recommend driving to Grunewald (10-15 minute drive) or the nearby Tiergarten.
Bike rental
The best way to get around town when the weather’s nice.
Berlin Bike Rental is 3 blocks away at Hardenbergplatz 9-11.
Tian Fu 天府酒家
142 UhlandstraßeBest Szechuan food in Berlin.
Ludwigkirchplatz
Ludwigkirchplatz