café
CO Berlin
Café in the C/O Berlin photography house, where an artist's installation changes yearly and seasonal dishes mix regional produce with French-German cooking.
Date ideas in Berlin you probably haven't tried.
Not the usual dates
- restaurant
Gärtnerei
A restaurant on Torstraße in Mitte with outdoor seating and room for 60 guests, bookable online or by phone.
- restaurant
Gasthaus Renger-Patzsch
Restaurant in Schöneberg cooking German-French food with Alsatian roots, known for its Flammkuchen and a small seasonal daily menu, with wine from several regions.
- wine bar
Hans Weinstube
Wine tavern and café in Schöneberg pouring Rheinhessen wines, with regional German dishes such as Spundekäs and Frankfurter Grüne Soße. It also serves Hessian apple wine.
- restaurant
Heno Heno
A Japanese restaurant in Charlottenburg where vegan dishes are on the menu, with outdoor seating.
- live music
Jockel
Canal-side garden in Kreuzberg, shaded by trees, with a wide beer list, Flammkuchen and cheeseburgers. It hosts regular live music and has an event hall for up to 150 guests; dogs are welcome.
- cinema
Kino Krokodil
A Prenzlauer Berg cinema mixing new releases with older films, including silent screenings with live piano. Talks, readings and guest events are hosted, and some films play in Czech or Slovak with German subtitles.
- cocktail bar
Mustang Restaurant - Cafe - Cocktailbar
Pizza, pasta, burgers and grilled steaks, plus a café and cocktail bar with fresh longdrinks. Vegetarian dishes are offered, and there is outdoor seating.
- bar
Ngon
A Vietnamese restaurant in Mitte with a bar-lounge area, where tables can be booked ahead.
- restaurant
Restaurant Medusa
Greek restaurant in a late 19th-century corner building, with walls lined with historic ceramic and stove tiles from the Historismus to Art Déco periods. Windows open in good weather onto a front garden terrace.
- café
Spitz+Pfau
A Charlottenburg café and bar with a small wall of paintings for sale, serving breakfast, sparkling wine, cocktails and light food.
- restaurant
Taverna Ousia
Traditional Greek taverna in Schöneberg built around mezedes-style small plates to share, with grilled sea bream, fried calamari and farmer's sausage, and a wine list with pairing advice.
- restaurant
Transit
Thai tapas-style restaurant in Friedrichshain where small shared bowls arrive for the table. Vegan bowls are marked, and the menu runs from soups and curries to grilled meats, seafood and noodles.
- restaurant
Waterlily
Vietnamese restaurant on Karl-Marx-Allee where recipes come from one family, with fresh herbs, house spice blends and no MSG. Many dishes come in vegetarian or vegan versions.
- museum
Unendliche Ausstellung
An open-ended programme of permanent and commissioned artworks spread through the Hamburger Bahnhof museum, its garden and nearby streets.
- museum
Fujiko Nakaya: Nebelskulptur im Skulpturengarten
Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya's site-specific fog sculpture returns to the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie in 2026 because of strong public interest. It runs from late April to late October.
- theatre
Lina Lapelytė: We Make Years Out of Hours – Chanel Commission
Lina Lapelytė turns the Historische Halle of Hamburger Bahnhof into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography. It is the second edition of the Chanel Commission.
- museum
Die Kette – Gesichter – Geschichten – Schöneberg
Over a year, John Kolya Reichart travels around Schöneberg, meets people, listens to them and portrays them. The portraits come out of those conversations.
- museum
Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche
Ten German and Polish photographers look at how the former German eastern territories are remembered in Poland today. The show marks 35 years since the 1991 German-Polish Neighbourhood Treaty, and Sunday guided tours run in German and English.
- museum
Helmut Newton‘s One-off Album
The third part of the summer show, built around a 1999 photo album Helmut Newton assembled for collector Gert Elfering, now held in the Nicola Erni Collection.
- museum
Alles vorwärts - Los! – Fotografische Perspektiven auf Wassersport und Politik
A guided tour through a photography exhibition on water sports, covering imperial-era postcards and how the Nazis used sport imagery to spread racist ideas about bodies.
- gallery
Courage: Schwestern im Geiste
Show in the Prater Galerie's new rooms, part of an ifa series examining the GDR's Central Art Exhibition Centre and its work.
- gallery
Ersan Mondtag: Dispair
Solo show by Ersan Mondtag, whose sculpture, installation and performance merge into one visual language that reaches into theatre, opera and film.
- gallery
Kim Chong Hak und Andreas Eriksson: Painting the path
Paired show of new and recent paintings by Kim Chong Hak and Andreas Eriksson, presented as a dialogue between the two artists.