restaurant
Taquería Mexa
Handmade tacos, quesadillas and tostadas on corn tortillas, with barbacoa, carnitas, tinga and nopal or mushroom fillings. You order and pay at the counter.
Date ideas in Berlin you probably haven't tried.
Not the usual dates
- restaurant
taz Kantine
The canteen of the taz newspaper in Kreuzberg, open weekday daytimes with vegan and vegetarian dishes.
- café
Tea One
A bubble tea café in Mitte with no outdoor seating.
- restaurant
The Klub Kitchen
A bowl-focused restaurant in Mitte with a clearly vegan and vegetarian range, one of several Berlin, Hamburg and Munich locations. Takes no reservations.
- restaurant
Tokyo Gohan Berlin
Counter-style Japanese spot in Kreuzberg known for hand-pressed onigiri, tonjiru pork soup and karaage fried chicken.
- ice cream
Vanille & Marille
A Berlin ice cream maker with about nine shops, offering many flavours from classic vanilla to pistachio and fruit sorbets. You order at the counter or take it away, and it also does catering.
- park & garden
Volkradpassage
A small passage park in Friedrichsfelde, a green route for a short stroll between streets.
- park & garden
Volkspark Wittenau – Göschenpark
A public park in Wittenau with a Göschenpark section, a green space for walking and sitting outside.
- park & garden
Volkswohlpark
A public park in Adlershof, a green space to stroll through and sit in outdoors.
- restaurant
Weiße Bude
A late-opening kebab counter in Moabit with labelled vegan and vegetarian options.
- workshop
zentrale
A non-profit, community-run creative space on Greifswalder Straße with an afternoon open studio. You bring your own materials, pick a spot and make something, funded by support contributions and volunteers.
- cinema
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Live Shadow Cast
A cult shadow-cast staging of the 1975 film, with performers in costume acting out the story in front of and among the audience. RHPS Berlin has run it since 2009, here at Babylon, with props and audience participation.
- cinema
Babylon
Cinema showing classic films by Kubrick, Hitchcock and Chaplin, silent films with live orchestra, and some original-language screenings with subtitles.
- café
Barcomi's Café & Kaffeerösterei
A Kreuzberg café with its own coffee roastery, known for cakes, torte and house-roasted coffee since 1994.
- live music
Celtic Cottage Irish Pub
Irish pub founded in 1979 with about 70 whiskies, live music on Thursdays and Saturdays, a Monday pub quiz and a monthly traditional Irish folk session.
- games & arcade
Hertzberg Golf
Eighteen minigolf lanes from the 1960s under shady trees in Neukölln, with a beer garden for cold drinks and ice cream.
- restaurant
Suriya Kanthi
Sri Lankan restaurant open since 1997, with 1926 S-Bahn benches and a basin for eating with your fingers. Spices are roasted fresh daily.
- restaurant
Trattoria del Corso
A Friedenau trattoria open since 2003, known for stone-oven pizza, house-made pasta and vegetarian antipasti, with its own garden. Reservations are by phone only.
- cinema
Halloween [DF]
John Carpenter's 1978 slasher Halloween, shown in the German dubbed version on Halloween night. It relies on suspense more than gore and shaped the slasher genre.
- café
Café Hardenberg
An Art Nouveau building from 1902 to 1904 in Charlottenburg, serving breakfast, cakes, salads and mains, with beer and both indoor and terrace seating.
- restaurant
Cafe Surf Inn
A Tex-Mex café and restaurant in Lichterfelde open since 1997, with burgers, enchiladas, tapas and cocktails.
- café
Café Wetterstein
A café in a listed 1839 half-timbered house in old Tegel, known for XXL cakes, waffles and apple strudel. The large sunny terrace is used into the evening in summer.