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Hard Rock Cafe - Berlin
Berlin’s Hard Rock Café in the Kunsterdamm is right in the heart of beer halls, coffee houses, theatres and lots of over kinds of entertainment and night life. With Hard Rocks, you know the drill: great American food, ridiculously quaffable cocktails, awe-inspiring rock memorabilia and rock’n’roll pounding over the amps. Tuesday night is usually karaoke night, so that’s a don’t-miss. But have we mentioned the licensing laws? Berlin has no officials closing hours, so just when the rest of Europe is going nighty-night, this city is getting revved up and the Hard Rock Café is right in the midst of the action. Food includes sharable nachos, several kinds of barbecue, Texas chilli, brilliant burgers, salads, fajitas, steaks and pastas, and child-silencing desserts. Memorabilia includes Elvis’s GI Blues uniform and Madonna’s bra. For special events, there’s a VIP function room, Hard Rock Guitar Bar, the main Dining Room and the entire venue with audio visual equipment and a plethora of menus from breakfast until late.
Address: 21 Meinekestraße
Price range: £24 / €34 and und
Cuisines: World
Berlin’s Hard Rock Café in the Kunsterdamm is right in the heart of beer halls, coffee houses, theatres and lots of over kinds of entertainment and night life. With Hard Rocks, you know the drill: great American food, ridiculously quaffable cocktails, awe-inspiring rock memorabilia and rock’n’roll pounding over the amps. Tuesday night is usually karaoke night, so that’s a don’t-miss. But have we mentioned the licensing laws? Berlin has no officials closing hours, so just when the rest of Europe is going nighty-night, this city is getting revved up and the Hard Rock Café is right in the midst of the action. Food includes sharable nachos, several kinds of barbecue, Texas chilli, brilliant burgers, salads, fajitas, steaks and pastas, and child-silencing desserts. Memorabilia includes Elvis’s GI Blues uniform and Madonna’s bra. For special events, there’s a VIP function room, Hard Rock Guitar Bar, the main Dining Room and the entire venue with audio visual equipment and a plethora of menus from breakfast until late.
Address: 21 Meinekestraße
Price range: £24 / €34 and und
Cuisines: World
Vox
Vox Restaurant in Berlin’s famous Potsdamer Platz built on the site of Vox House, the birthplace of German radio broadcasting, and it’s something of a show in itself. The dining room is organized around the wide open theatre kitchen, where guests can enjoy the spectacle of chefs creating brilliant eastern-inflected regional cuisine. There’s also a sushi bar where sushi chefs work their magic with sharp knives, sharp mustard and high-quality raw fish. A daily changing business lunch menu offers choices that are innovative and healthful. Décor is smartly modern, with dark moorland oak parquet and dark oak furniture, white table linens and colourful touches here and there. There’s terrace seating in summer and all year round you’ll find live jazz and blues in the Vox Bar next door, an oasis for whisky lovers who are dazzled by the 230-bottle selection. An intimate private room seating up to 12 is separated from the main restaurant by the glass partition of the wine store, so your guests can enjoy one another’s company and the buzz of the restaurant, too.
Address: 2 Marlene-Dietrich-Platz
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Vox Restaurant in Berlin’s famous Potsdamer Platz built on the site of Vox House, the birthplace of German radio broadcasting, and it’s something of a show in itself. The dining room is organized around the wide open theatre kitchen, where guests can enjoy the spectacle of chefs creating brilliant eastern-inflected regional cuisine. There’s also a sushi bar where sushi chefs work their magic with sharp knives, sharp mustard and high-quality raw fish. A daily changing business lunch menu offers choices that are innovative and healthful. Décor is smartly modern, with dark moorland oak parquet and dark oak furniture, white table linens and colourful touches here and there. There’s terrace seating in summer and all year round you’ll find live jazz and blues in the Vox Bar next door, an oasis for whisky lovers who are dazzled by the 230-bottle selection. An intimate private room seating up to 12 is separated from the main restaurant by the glass partition of the wine store, so your guests can enjoy one another’s company and the buzz of the restaurant, too.
Address: 2 Marlene-Dietrich-Platz
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Tizian
Tizian restaurant in the Grand Hyatt Berlin has one of the best addresses in Germany. It’s set across from Philharmonic Concert Hall right on the Potsdamer Platz, the centre of shopping and nightlife before the war, home of the ugliest wall in the world after the war and an historic concert by Pink Floyd, and now the scene of one of the greatest and most successful urban regeneration projects ever. Though Tizian is named for the great painter Titian, its style is modern and well-designed. There are dark wood floors, floor to ceiling windows, gas fireplace that gives a genial glow. The menu focuses on international classics, here entitled Grand Classics, that range across the continent from beef carpaccio to salmon with beurre blanc sauce, tagliatelle with truffles and classic and delicious wiener schnitzel. For groups, the Grand Hyatt staff are masters of every kind of gathering, from intimate dinners for a few friends up to enormous conferences and headline-making charity events.
Address: 2 Marlene-Dietrich-Platz
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: World
Tizian restaurant in the Grand Hyatt Berlin has one of the best addresses in Germany. It’s set across from Philharmonic Concert Hall right on the Potsdamer Platz, the centre of shopping and nightlife before the war, home of the ugliest wall in the world after the war and an historic concert by Pink Floyd, and now the scene of one of the greatest and most successful urban regeneration projects ever. Though Tizian is named for the great painter Titian, its style is modern and well-designed. There are dark wood floors, floor to ceiling windows, gas fireplace that gives a genial glow. The menu focuses on international classics, here entitled Grand Classics, that range across the continent from beef carpaccio to salmon with beurre blanc sauce, tagliatelle with truffles and classic and delicious wiener schnitzel. For groups, the Grand Hyatt staff are masters of every kind of gathering, from intimate dinners for a few friends up to enormous conferences and headline-making charity events.
Address: 2 Marlene-Dietrich-Platz
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: World
Ana e Bruno
Ana e Bruno Italian restaurant in Berlin’s western Charlottenberg district is widely recognized as one of Berlin’s premier restaurants. With exciting, innovative – and healthfully low calorie -- nuova cucina emerging from the kitchen of Bruno Pellegrini and Andrea Girau, this upmarket restaurant manages the neat trick of appealing to gourmets and high-fliers while maintaining a warm, homey atmosphere. Luxury, hospitality and comfort are the bywords here. The peach-coloured dining room with its wooden floor, while linens and cheery flowers is smart, but not slavishly stylish. In summer a charming patio comes into use. In addition to the seasonally-changing a la carte there are four and eight-course menus showcasing the award-winning brilliance of the kitchen. Dishes include starter of scallops on sepia ink with risina beans and Pachini tomatoes, main course of breast of wild duck with Trentino apricots, puree of celery and Xocopili sauce and dessert of pear-Valrhona chocolate lasagna with kumquats and caramel ice cream. The large wine list is mostly Italian. Bring groups up to 60 to this exclusive location for private events.
Address: 101 Sophie-Charlotten-Straße
Price range: £55 – 64 / €80-
Cuisines: Italian
Ana e Bruno Italian restaurant in Berlin’s western Charlottenberg district is widely recognized as one of Berlin’s premier restaurants. With exciting, innovative – and healthfully low calorie -- nuova cucina emerging from the kitchen of Bruno Pellegrini and Andrea Girau, this upmarket restaurant manages the neat trick of appealing to gourmets and high-fliers while maintaining a warm, homey atmosphere. Luxury, hospitality and comfort are the bywords here. The peach-coloured dining room with its wooden floor, while linens and cheery flowers is smart, but not slavishly stylish. In summer a charming patio comes into use. In addition to the seasonally-changing a la carte there are four and eight-course menus showcasing the award-winning brilliance of the kitchen. Dishes include starter of scallops on sepia ink with risina beans and Pachini tomatoes, main course of breast of wild duck with Trentino apricots, puree of celery and Xocopili sauce and dessert of pear-Valrhona chocolate lasagna with kumquats and caramel ice cream. The large wine list is mostly Italian. Bring groups up to 60 to this exclusive location for private events.
Address: 101 Sophie-Charlotten-Straße
Price range: £55 – 64 / €80-
Cuisines: Italian
REmake
Remake restaurant in Berlin’s Mitte quarter is a lively, adventurous eaterie that’s a destination for foodies. The sign in front says ‘wine, enjoyment and emotion’ and that’s how proprietor Stefan Dreier likes it. A native of Austria – check out the wine list – Dreier has created a warm, relaxed place for easy meals of both traditional and creative cuisine. The finest, freshest ingredients are employed to create dishes in quirky combinations that really work. Chef Andreas Dietrich offers you dishes like quail breast with bitter chocolate foam and berry reduction or scallops in pumpkin and passion fruit sauce or menthol perfumed chocolate souffle with pineapple. Let the hip, friendly staff direct you through the three, four, five or six course degustation menu, then sit back and enjoy the very smart crowd who gather in this well-designed, low key dining room with its terracotta and cappuccino foam coloured walls, tiled floors and recessed lighting. A great place for hip business entertaining or gathering with friends.
Address: 32 Große Hamburger Straße
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: World
Remake restaurant in Berlin’s Mitte quarter is a lively, adventurous eaterie that’s a destination for foodies. The sign in front says ‘wine, enjoyment and emotion’ and that’s how proprietor Stefan Dreier likes it. A native of Austria – check out the wine list – Dreier has created a warm, relaxed place for easy meals of both traditional and creative cuisine. The finest, freshest ingredients are employed to create dishes in quirky combinations that really work. Chef Andreas Dietrich offers you dishes like quail breast with bitter chocolate foam and berry reduction or scallops in pumpkin and passion fruit sauce or menthol perfumed chocolate souffle with pineapple. Let the hip, friendly staff direct you through the three, four, five or six course degustation menu, then sit back and enjoy the very smart crowd who gather in this well-designed, low key dining room with its terracotta and cappuccino foam coloured walls, tiled floors and recessed lighting. A great place for hip business entertaining or gathering with friends.
Address: 32 Große Hamburger Straße
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: World
Felix Club Restaurant
Felix restaurant and club just off Unter den Linden in the heart of Berlin Mitte is a destination for both adventurous diners and a swarm of very stylish clubbers. Not to mention a superb venue for smart parties. Set on two levels, the design is inspired by the sleek minimalism of 1940s New York, with white walls and ceilings, chocolate brown banquettes and very loungeable booths upstairs in the bar area. But it’s the twenty fabulous ever-changing two-story light columns that can make Felix into anything you desire, from an elegant golden dining room to a sexy hot blue club. Add in a superb sound system and DJs who know what they’re about and the transformation every evening is complete. Done your dining and dancing? You might chill out upstairs and do a spot of celeb-spotting -- partiers have included Robbie Williams, the Backstreet Boys, Bryan Adams, Nicholas Cage, Colin Farrell and Will Smith. Head Chef Gabriele Feliciani is in charge of the contemporary Italian kitchen. His version of pasta carbonara is don’t-miss. Live music on Thursdays.
Address: 72 Behrenstrasse
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: World
Felix restaurant and club just off Unter den Linden in the heart of Berlin Mitte is a destination for both adventurous diners and a swarm of very stylish clubbers. Not to mention a superb venue for smart parties. Set on two levels, the design is inspired by the sleek minimalism of 1940s New York, with white walls and ceilings, chocolate brown banquettes and very loungeable booths upstairs in the bar area. But it’s the twenty fabulous ever-changing two-story light columns that can make Felix into anything you desire, from an elegant golden dining room to a sexy hot blue club. Add in a superb sound system and DJs who know what they’re about and the transformation every evening is complete. Done your dining and dancing? You might chill out upstairs and do a spot of celeb-spotting -- partiers have included Robbie Williams, the Backstreet Boys, Bryan Adams, Nicholas Cage, Colin Farrell and Will Smith. Head Chef Gabriele Feliciani is in charge of the contemporary Italian kitchen. His version of pasta carbonara is don’t-miss. Live music on Thursdays.
Address: 72 Behrenstrasse
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: World
Die Quadriga
Die Quadriga restaurant in Berlin’s Charlottenburg: resistance is futile. Set in a turn-of-the-century Prussian mansion, award-winning Die Quadriga is the gourmet restaurant of the boutique Brandenburger Hof hotel located on a peaceful side street a few steps from the Kurfürstendamm. Michelin-starred chef Bobby Brauer creates modern European dishes inspired by the Mediterranean with exquisite results. The dining room itself is a gem of refinement and elegance, an exclusive space of Wedgewood blue walls with dark wood paneling, many-layered table linens and seating designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1904. The menu changes frequently and has included starter of Cancarneau lobster sald with asparagus, melon and coriander mayonnaise, main course of Limousin lamb with Ligurian olive oil, smoked bellpepper and polenta cake, cheeses with fig mustard and orange chutney, and dessert of Provencal cherries scented with Tasmanianpepper and balsamic with white chocolate and acaia seeds. The 850 bottle wine list is also a prize-winning German treasure trove with fine wines dating back more than a century. The glassed-in lounge opens into a stylish courtyard garden. Three Berliner rooms are available for meetings and private dining. Service is superlative.
Address: 14 Eislebener Straße
Price range: £65- £74 / €95-â
Cuisines: World
Die Quadriga restaurant in Berlin’s Charlottenburg: resistance is futile. Set in a turn-of-the-century Prussian mansion, award-winning Die Quadriga is the gourmet restaurant of the boutique Brandenburger Hof hotel located on a peaceful side street a few steps from the Kurfürstendamm. Michelin-starred chef Bobby Brauer creates modern European dishes inspired by the Mediterranean with exquisite results. The dining room itself is a gem of refinement and elegance, an exclusive space of Wedgewood blue walls with dark wood paneling, many-layered table linens and seating designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1904. The menu changes frequently and has included starter of Cancarneau lobster sald with asparagus, melon and coriander mayonnaise, main course of Limousin lamb with Ligurian olive oil, smoked bellpepper and polenta cake, cheeses with fig mustard and orange chutney, and dessert of Provencal cherries scented with Tasmanianpepper and balsamic with white chocolate and acaia seeds. The 850 bottle wine list is also a prize-winning German treasure trove with fine wines dating back more than a century. The glassed-in lounge opens into a stylish courtyard garden. Three Berliner rooms are available for meetings and private dining. Service is superlative.
Address: 14 Eislebener Straße
Price range: £65- £74 / €95-â
Cuisines: World
Margaux
Margaux restaurant right on bustling Unter den Linden in the heart of Berlin is a wine-lover’s mecca. Named for its top-flight wine list, Margaux cellars thirty vintages of this noble liquid. The cooking is renowned, too. It’s a new thing, styled Avant Garde Classic and chef Michael Hoffman has earned a Michelin star creating it. Based on the truest French classical techniques, Avant Garde Classic brings Hoffman’s prodigious powers of creation to combine new flavours in complex new ways. Menus include the Voyage de Cuisine, AC Classique with many options for substitutions, and daily recommendations. Dishes include marinated turbot with cream of sea urchin with watercress salad with passion fruit vinaigrette, parfait of Gilllardeau oysters with Champagne Beaumes de Venise and roasted pancetta, stewed lobster with black Perigorde truffles and braised celery in veal jus. The restaurant is luxuriously kitted out, with onyx-clad walls, lovely woods, warm velvet upholstery, imported antique mirrors, all styled to modern tastes. A temple to gastronomy.
Address: 78 Unter den Linden - Entrance Wilhelmstraße
Price range: £45 - 54 / €65-â
Cuisines: Other
Margaux restaurant right on bustling Unter den Linden in the heart of Berlin is a wine-lover’s mecca. Named for its top-flight wine list, Margaux cellars thirty vintages of this noble liquid. The cooking is renowned, too. It’s a new thing, styled Avant Garde Classic and chef Michael Hoffman has earned a Michelin star creating it. Based on the truest French classical techniques, Avant Garde Classic brings Hoffman’s prodigious powers of creation to combine new flavours in complex new ways. Menus include the Voyage de Cuisine, AC Classique with many options for substitutions, and daily recommendations. Dishes include marinated turbot with cream of sea urchin with watercress salad with passion fruit vinaigrette, parfait of Gilllardeau oysters with Champagne Beaumes de Venise and roasted pancetta, stewed lobster with black Perigorde truffles and braised celery in veal jus. The restaurant is luxuriously kitted out, with onyx-clad walls, lovely woods, warm velvet upholstery, imported antique mirrors, all styled to modern tastes. A temple to gastronomy.
Address: 78 Unter den Linden - Entrance Wilhelmstraße
Price range: £45 - 54 / €65-â
Cuisines: Other
Aigner
Aigner restaurant in the heart of Mitte Berlin enjoys views of the charming Gendarmenmarkt from its terrace and vistas of the French and German cathedrals. Aigner has furnishings rescued from the legendary Café Aigner in Vienna, from the billiard table to the modernist Thonet furniture, wine bins along the walls and mirrored ceiling, giving an air of elegant restraint. Private groups may make use of the billiard room. This is a fine restaurant and watering-hole for Berlin’s high-fliers – like former Chancellor Schröder -- though award-winning chef-owner Herbert Beltle cares little for that moniker. Instead, he concentrates on using the freshest ingredients to create excellent regional Austrian and south German cuisine alongside newer, lighter inventions. Signature dish is Tafelspitz, served in a brass kettle with haunch and shoulder of beef, veg, savoy cabbage, crème fraiche and apple-flavoured horseradish. Other dishes include ice cream of potato-leek soup with fried scallops, pink-fried calf’s kidneys in mustard sauce with potatoes, and Tete de Moine with fig mustard. Strong wine list. A few steps from the Schauspielhaus theatre.
Address: 25 Französische Straße
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Aigner restaurant in the heart of Mitte Berlin enjoys views of the charming Gendarmenmarkt from its terrace and vistas of the French and German cathedrals. Aigner has furnishings rescued from the legendary Café Aigner in Vienna, from the billiard table to the modernist Thonet furniture, wine bins along the walls and mirrored ceiling, giving an air of elegant restraint. Private groups may make use of the billiard room. This is a fine restaurant and watering-hole for Berlin’s high-fliers – like former Chancellor Schröder -- though award-winning chef-owner Herbert Beltle cares little for that moniker. Instead, he concentrates on using the freshest ingredients to create excellent regional Austrian and south German cuisine alongside newer, lighter inventions. Signature dish is Tafelspitz, served in a brass kettle with haunch and shoulder of beef, veg, savoy cabbage, crème fraiche and apple-flavoured horseradish. Other dishes include ice cream of potato-leek soup with fried scallops, pink-fried calf’s kidneys in mustard sauce with potatoes, and Tete de Moine with fig mustard. Strong wine list. A few steps from the Schauspielhaus theatre.
Address: 25 Französische Straße
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Shiro i Shiro
Shiro I Shiro restaurant is one superhip dining location in Berlin’s very cool Mitte. The cutting edge design – like that of hotel Lux 11 in which it is located – relies on acres of the whitest white offset with electric blue upholstery and modern art work. The bar is a gathering place for Berlin’s beautiful people and there are a few curtained-off niches for more private groups. Bag one if you can. Sharon Stone held a film premiere party here and fit right in. The Asian/Italian fusion menu is extremely unusual for Berlin and an absolute delight: sea bream sashimi with truffle sauce, skate and scallops on rhubarb with orange chilli and salmon caviar, lamb with gnocchi, edamame and cilantro pesto. Got it? The staff are open and friendly – also unusual in Berlin – and the drinks list famous in its own right.
Address: 11 Rosa-Luxemburgstrasse
Price range: £45 - 54 / €65-â
Cuisines: Other
Shiro I Shiro restaurant is one superhip dining location in Berlin’s very cool Mitte. The cutting edge design – like that of hotel Lux 11 in which it is located – relies on acres of the whitest white offset with electric blue upholstery and modern art work. The bar is a gathering place for Berlin’s beautiful people and there are a few curtained-off niches for more private groups. Bag one if you can. Sharon Stone held a film premiere party here and fit right in. The Asian/Italian fusion menu is extremely unusual for Berlin and an absolute delight: sea bream sashimi with truffle sauce, skate and scallops on rhubarb with orange chilli and salmon caviar, lamb with gnocchi, edamame and cilantro pesto. Got it? The staff are open and friendly – also unusual in Berlin – and the drinks list famous in its own right.
Address: 11 Rosa-Luxemburgstrasse
Price range: £45 - 54 / €65-â
Cuisines: Other
