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Just a Few Berlin Date Ideas …

More lovely Berlin selections for restos, hotels and sight seeing you’ll find here

 
 

In Berlin, you can a) take a walk in the Tiergarten or Treptower Park
b) Stroll along the shopping mile Kudamm and slurp on an eclectic assortment of oysters at the historic department store KaDeWe; the only international place in Berlin
c) Have art-historical views at the Museumsinsel, the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Gropiusbau, or in one of the countless museums and galleries or d) contemplate on photographs in the C/O Berlin.
e) As a reward relax in one of the dayspa suites in Berlin's huge inner city SPA, the Vabali.
f) Take the sight seeing bus line 100 or
g) Take advantage of one of the many subsidised theatre, opera, dance and music offerings.
h) Go skinny-dipping in one of the many forest lakes while you i) ride along the Berlin Wall Trail with rented bicycles.
j) Late in the evening we will get hungry....

 

Restaurants in Berlin, or the drama of the empty stomach after 9 o'clock in the evening

Uh-oh. Unfortunately, most good restos are booked weeks in advance … yet in my experience those and these are always worth a telephone call:

  • 893 Ryōtei Kantstraße, Japanese, fine

  • aerde Gleisdreieck Xberg 61, small sharing resto, local forests and fields

  • Crackers, let’s dine in a former club I spent my teenage nights in, close to Adlon and Bar Freundschaft, lovely cocktails

  • Lovis Kantstr; beauty, vegan options, bring your own wine!

  • Irma LaDouce Potsdamer Str, French, Michelin x 1

  • MINE / WINE City West, Italian

  • Rutz Mitte, Michelin x 3

  • Neni im 25h Zoo, the view!

  • Golvet Potsdamer, Michelin x 1, the view!

  • Vegan: Cookies Cream, FREA, Kopps

Cuisine after 21 o'clock in Berlin

Lunch (Mittag)

If there is nothing to eat left one could also always take a drink:

  • Freundschaft close to Friedrichstr, wine

  • Newton Bar, Gendarmenmarkt, a Berlin bar classic

  • Bellboy, Gendarmentmarkt, tourist experience with crazy drinks and a dress-code, reserve a table in advance

  • Curtain Club Ritz Potsdamer, only if we’re already there …

  • Monkey Bar, Zoo, at 25h Hotel, with a view!

  • Velvet Southeast, seasonal drinking, lovely virgin options!

 

Sleepless nights? The best hotels in Berlin

In Berlin there are endless dance music clubs. Even there are sex themed music clubs in Berlin like the Insomnia or the Kitkat. Yet Berlin weakens when it comes to beautiful hotels. Here is a small selection of appropriately phantasy inducing hotels in Berlin

  • Telegraphenamt Mitte (hot)

  • Château Royal Mitte (design)

  • SO/ Berlin Das Stue Tiergarten (quietness)

  • Sir Savigny City West, (indiscrete cuty)

  • Provocateur City West (noisy)

  • Hotel de Rome Mitte (classic)

  • Michelberger Fhain (the “Hideout” comes with a private sauna)

  • Henri City West (budget Berlin beauty)

  • Berlin’s new beauty KPM Hotel & Residencies Tiergarten

  • As a member of Soho House, make sure to tame your reception personnel, they are horrible even to registered guests with invite

We are not doing anything illegal, but unfortunately “very discreet” in Berlin rules out good design, discreet enough for the paranoid are the corporate classics:

  • Ritz Potsdamer, Adlon Brandenburger Tor, Waldorf Zoo (bath tubs!) etc.

  • 25h Zoo (the view!)

  • the Sky Suites of Park Inn
 Mitte (the view!)

  • Gorki Apartments Mitte, Locke- serviced apartments and anything self-check-in/out

  • or the Leonardo Posthouse in Mitte-Kreuzberg (former Crown Plaza)

 
Our Date
 

I am fascinated by that sparkle in your eyes when I enter the restaurant or my hand gestures elegantly during dinner. How you watch my body and listen to my voice – in silent anticipation.

I am currently available as your city guide.