09:00That‘s Frühstück to you. Take yours hale & hearty over Der Spiegel at the classic Cafe Einstein. This lovely old-worlde cafe is the ideal spot to sample the German’s extensive take on the breakfast genre – in our view, they are the Breakfast-ers of Champions …
A. Café Einstein Stammhaus
Kurfürstenstraße 58
10785 Berlin
10:00The memorial dedicated to the Murdered Jews of Europe designed by Peter Eisenman is sobering, graphic and disorientating, but less harrowing than the Jewish Museum designed by by Daniel Libeskind.
B. Cora-Berliner-Straße, 10117 Berlin, Germany
11:30Berlin‘s many green spaces sprout wild and soothing throughout the city. Lustgarten, in the middle of tourist mayhem in Mitte, is perfectly positioned for a pause…but we also recommend biking through the lovely Tiergarten.
C. Am Lustgarten
Karl-Liebknecht-Str.
10178 Berlin
13:00At the tiny Barn Cafe the waiters had Antipodean accents. They do a mean cup of coffee sourced from the likes of Square Mile Coffee Roasters or Copenhagen’s Coffee Collective and some of the best sandwiches we’ve eaten. Ever. Anywhere. Too bad we didn’t have room for cake.
D. The Barn
Auguststrasse 58
10119 Berlin
13:30Looking into the window of a Mitte art gallery a middle-aged American guy enthuses, “This is my kind of art” at a knitted sculpture of Superman crashed into a wall… …
E. Sammlung Boros
Bunker, Reinhardtstr. 20
10117 Mitte
Berlin
14:00A crush of elderly tourists obstruct a mural of Reagan and Gorbachev in a passionate embrace… The longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall is one of those ‘must-do’s. Hire a bike – it‘s more fun that way.
F. Mühlenstraße, 10243
Berlin, Germany
15:30Eerie, sad, kitsch and surreal; re-live the Lives of Others at the slightly-down-at-heel Stasi Museum where unfortunate East German citizens previously found themselves “detained for the clarification of facts”. (An ominous charge if we ever heard one.) …
G. Stasi-Museum Berlin
Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1
10365 Berlin
17:30Coffee worth crossing town for! At Bonanza Coffee Heroes a near religious calm prevails as two hipsters work their magic over the Synesso Cyncra coffee machine; like priests in a pulpit or DJs at the deck. Note, seating is limited to outdoor benches and perching on bags of coffee beans …
H. Bonanza Coffee Heroes
Oderberger Straße 35 10435 Berlin, Germany
20:30We can’t decide what’s nicer, Da Baffi, a cheap, cute-as-a-button Italian restaurant in Wedding or slightly more up-market old school elegance at Renger Patzch in Schoenberg …
I. Da Baffi
Nazarethkirchstraße 41 13347 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 175 6926545
22:00Low-Fi buzz meets gemütlichkeit. This innocuous watering hole in Kreuzberg hides a cheerful interior that can border on the frenzied. Hipster crowd, cheap drinks, great music, candle-light. For more tips on where to tipple during your stay check iHeartBerlin.
J. Das Hotel Bar
Mariannenstraße 26a 10999 Berlin, Germany
+49 30 84118433
00:00If you’re planning an all-nighter you might want a recovery plan. For which we suggest the Liquid Room, a cool spa experience with chilled sound track at a reasonable price which is open until midnight or 1am on weekends. If the weather’s good you might prefer the outdoor baths on …
K. Liquid Room
Möckernstraße 10
10963 Berlin
Open: Sun-Thur 10.00am–12.00am; Fri-Sat
10.00am–1.00am
03:00In a rare instance of global concensus, the pundits are agreed that Berghain/Panorama Bar is the consistently the most insane dance club in Berlin, if not the world. Situated in a former power station the club is famed for its industrial surrounds, intense yet tolerant atmosphere, long-endurance gigs, long queues …
L. Berghain
Am Wriezener Bahnhof
10243 Friedrichshain
Berlin