museum
Feuerwehrmuseum Berlin
A museum in Tegel on the history of Berlin's fire brigade, with museum vehicles and equipment; the brigade was Germany's first professional fire service.
Date ideas in Berlin you probably haven't tried.
Not the usual dates
- museum
Museum im Böhmischen Dorf
A two-room museum in a listed former school in Neukölln, showing the Bohemian Village and the Herrnhut Brethren, with volunteer-run displays of church costumes and Herrnhut stars.
- restaurant
Kitchen Library
Fine dining by chef Udo Knörlein, who cooks almost alone and makes pickles, bread and brioche in-house. The dining room holds more than 1000 cookbooks to browse.
- theatre
Bar jeder Vernunft
A mirror-tent theatre where chanson, cabaret, comedy and musicals run alongside a restaurant and a piano bar that opens after Friday and Saturday shows.
- bar
Berlin Icebar - Polar Expedition
A bar where the interior and glasses are made of ice, kept at about -10°C and themed as a polar expedition. Ice sculptures stand inside, and a ticket includes three drinks.
- restaurant
I-Ke-Su
Japanese sushi restaurant in Wilmersdorf where small dishes travel past your seat on little wooden boats along a water channel.
- cocktail bar
Sharlie Cheen Bar
Cocktail bar on Rosenthaler Platz built around a fictional 1915 playboy's drinking diary. Behind an inconspicuous door is a speakeasy with limited seats, tailor-made drinks and flavours with smoke or electric effects.
- cocktail bar
Spree Fumée
A restaurant and bar on a moored ship on the Spree, serving Asian dishes for sharing, with cocktails named after Berlin bridges.
- cabaret & drag
Tafelrunde
A medieval-themed dinner show with a multi-course feast and mead, plus jugglers, fire and sword acts, bards and a puppeteer-storyteller, running a little over three hours.
- live music
unsicht-Bar
A restaurant where dinners are eaten in total darkness, with a 4-course menu and themed shows or live music on some nights.
- restaurant
Sy
Sushi and Vietnamese restaurant where dishes are presented under water, beside saltwater aquariums and an open kitchen.
- cocktail bar
Train
A bar built into a retired commuter train carriage, where drinks are mixed by hand to order, ranging from sweet and creamy to bitter and dry. Menus come in German and English.
- cocktail bar
Zyankalibar
A Kreuzberg cocktail bar styled as a chemistry institute, serving molecular cocktails, aged drinks and its own spirits. The basement has a dance floor run from guests' phones and digital table football.
- restaurant
Zur Letzten Instanz
A Mitte restaurant that claims to be Berlin's oldest, serving regional German dishes in two dining rooms and a beer garden. A goose dinner runs from November.
- cocktail bar
Bar im Wasserturm
A cocktail bar in a former water tower by Obersee, with seats at the bar to watch the bartenders work. The menu covers cocktails, classic drinks and international wines, and there is a terrace for warm days.
- cocktail bar
Crackers
Restaurant and bar in a former East Berlin cinema and techno club, with a high-ceilinged room, a large dinner island and reworked classic cocktails.
- museum
DARK MATTER
Light and media art in dark, multi-room spaces in a former industrial site, with permanent installations by Christopher Bauder, some interactive.
- museum
Disgusting Food Museum
A museum devoted to disgusting foods, with exhibits and occasional tastings of unusual items such as durian and mite cheese. An audio guide runs over 70 minutes in six languages.
- escape room
Escape Game Berlin
VR escape room where teams wear headsets and solve puzzles inside virtual worlds, with more than 20 scenarios from pyramid to wonderland.
- workshop
Imago
A walk-in giant analog camera in Kreuzberg where you pose and trigger the shutter yourselves. Each life-size black-and-white print is one of a kind, and a mirror shows what others see.
- bar
Klo
A Charlottenburg bar with a toilet-themed interior since 1971. Furniture wobbles and tilts, tables float, and drinks arrive by lift. It pours a Herrnbräu pilsner and serves a house curry in a kidney-shaped dish.
- cabaret & drag
Madi – Zelt der Sinne
An oriental dinner show in a large original Caidal tent called the Königszelt, with cushions and divans. The MiRAGE show mixes a wandering hero and a magic genie with magic, acrobatics, belly dancing and Middle Eastern dishes.
- restaurant
MikroKosmos
Experimental restaurant in Kreuzberg where the chef blends Peruvian roots with regional, seasonal produce from small producers. The menu changes constantly, and insects are on the plate.