restaurant
Vapiano
A casual Italian-style chain restaurant beside Berlin Hauptbahnhof, serving pasta, pinsa and salads made to order, with a terrace and takeaway.
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- restaurant
Vapiano
An Italian-style chain restaurant on Augsburger Straße serving pasta, pinsa and insalata, with a seasonal pasta special and a gluten-free pinsa.
- restaurant
Vapiano
An Italian-style chain restaurant on Rathausstraße in Mitte, open late on Friday and Saturday, with pasta and vegetarian and vegan options.
- restaurant
Viet-Cocos
Sushi, noodle soups and curries from a broad Asian menu, with sushi set menus and bubble tea.
- park & garden
Waldowpark
A park in Mahlsdorf in eastern Berlin.
- park & garden
Ziegenhof
A volunteer-run urban goat farm in Charlottenburg, looked after by local residents who also hold community work days on the grounds.
- café
zwölf.uhr.mittags
A Moabit cafe serving pasta, salads, soups and baked goods at weekday lunchtime, with a business lunch and catering service.
- theatre
IN THE CORPSE OF THE PRESENT Prinz Friedrich von Homburg Heinrich von Kleist
A durational performance by Marco Fusinato, running eight hours a day over twenty-one days across the foyer and main hall of the Maxim Gorki Theater.
- guided tour
Historische Führung
A guided tour of the Berliner Ensemble focused on Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht.
- literary reading
Stechschritt des Friedens. Texte zur Kriegsertüchtigung
Two readers take more than a century of German war propaganda and present it as a literary survey, followed by a discussion.
- talk & lecture
Literaturstadt Berlin #8: Die neuen Leute
A German-language panel on careers for emerging writers, readers and curators, with four guests and two moderators. It takes place in the PopUp building of the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek.
- event
Verleihung des Helene Weigel Theaterpreises
An award ceremony held straight after a Berliner Ensemble performance, honouring the ensemble's artistic work and an emerging-talent prize for performers up to 35.
- literary reading
Ich wurde niemals schwankend
A performance mixing music and poetry as a collage, with the poetry presumably in German.
- theatre
Antonia Baehr: Schreien (SCREAMING) II – Eine Forschungsreihe
A research series in which vocalists, composers and anthropologists explore screaming as sound and gesture, with performances of written scream scores.
- cinema
Cargo 200
Aleksei Balabanov's 2007 Russian black comedy thriller set in 1984 Soviet Union, with graphic violence, screened with English subtitles.
- café
Al Teatro
An ice cream parlour in Moabit, open daytime and into the early evening, with wheelchair access.
- park & garden
Am Dachsbau
A small park in Heiligensee, a green space on Berlin's northwestern edge.
- restaurant
Anthony Bacon - Burger-Restaurant
Homemade burgers prepared by hand, made without deep-frozen ingredients, with a monthly Burger of the Month. Locations in Kladow and Falkensee, with a takeaway-style shop.
- restaurant
Atila's Kebap Haus
A kebab restaurant in Britz with seating outside and vegetarian options. Vegan dishes are not offered.
- bar
Bei Joschi
Neighbourhood Kneipe in Schöneberg with a beer garden, where Bundesliga matches and World Cup games run live in HD on four TVs.
- café
Bistro 125
Breakfast and lunch bistro run by the INTEGRAL workshop, with a bright room seating about 70 and a separate room on request. Organic coffee and oat milk, plus reusable packaging.
- café
Bistro Waldschulallee
Campus café at the Technische Universität in Westend, open on weekdays and weekend daytimes.
- café
Bunter Panda
A Steglitz branch of a bubble tea chain, with no outdoor seating.
- café
Bunter Panda
A Schöneberg bubble tea café with outdoor seating.