Jan Josef Liefers and Anna Loos: That's our Berlin!
Cafe Einstein
Breakfast, lunch break or just a break, our first address is the "Café Einstein". We like that it's nothing new, like so much else in Berlin. But nice old, time has stopped here, everything a bit scraped, the service but first class. There's also the best caffè latte in the city. Kurfürstenstraße 58, Tel. 030/261 50 96, U Nollendorfplatz, www.cafeeinstein.com
Medel & La Pignata
In Kreuzberg we have two favorite Italians: "Medel" and "La Pignata". The first one is great for lunch. The chef cooks himself, and the pasta tastes particularly good. In the second, there are wines that are fun to eat: good and affordable. Medel: Fichtestraße 32, Tel. 030/61620866, U Südstern; La Pignata: Spielhagenstrasse 2, Tel. 030/34704908, U Bismarckstraße
Britzer garden
The most beautiful and relaxed walks we do here, the two euro entry into the former Federal Garden Show are worthwhile. There are ponds with giant carp, small rivers, a railroad that drives around with the children. Sangerhauser Weg 1, Tel. 030/7009060, daily from 9 am until dusk
Program cinema Sputnik
Our favorite cinema in Berlin, an old, crazy program cinema. Anyone who finds it, can be happy, it is in a loft on the fifth floor. Höfe am Südstern, Hasenheide 54, Tel. 030/6941147, U Südstern
hen
We go into the "hen" if it has to be chicken. So good chickens are there anywhere else? which is why you have to book in advance! The chickens are roasted fresh, until then they are inserted in a secret seasoning. The ambience is 100 years old and very cuddly. Leuchnerdamm 25, Tel. 030/6147730, U Moritzplatz
Wiegand Sporting Club
The best way to do sports in Berlin is at the Wiegand Sportstudio, run by a former competitive athlete. No simple Muckibude, here you also meet people like Frank Casdorff. Here we prepare ourselves for roles where it says: well toned body. We also manage to get away from the Christmas bacon here. Corneliusstraße 3, Tiergarten, Tel. 030/26558776, U Nollendorfplatz
Dussmann: the cultural department store
If we need five different books on five different topics plus five special CDs, then we're going to Europe's biggest department store. There, they strive for good advice, and they are well-stocked, not as confusing as other big stores. Friedrichstrasse 90, Tel. 030/20251111, Mon.-Sa. 10-22 o'clock, U Friedrichstrasse
Art Bookshop Gallery 2000
Browse art books, we make it more enjoyable here. So to dive into other times and worlds: There's choice, time and advice - limitless. Rarely, that one comes out without packages. Knesebeckstraße 56-58, Tel. 030/8838467, U Uhlandstraße
To the last instance
This very old pub is especially recommended: in the court district, right on an ancient piece of Berlin city wall. Good knuckle is here and Berlin atmosphere. Waisenstraße 14, Tel. 030/2425528, U Klosterstraße
Bar of reason
Typical Berlin cabaret scene in an old mirrored tent with super nice, slightly oblique ambience. The programs alternate between comedy and magic, are often very good, last we were with Tim Fischer and have enjoyed it deliciously. Schaperstraße 24, Tel. 030/8831582, U Uhlandstraße
Greenwich Bar
Late in the evening we sometimes come to this bar in Mitte. As you sit in the blanket between gray leather beads on the walls and takes his last nightcap. Between the leather panels fish swim around, very calming. Gipsstraße 5, U Weinmeisterstraße
flea market
From time to time it has to be: Strolling over the flea market on the weekend in the street of June 17. You stroll to the stands with lamps, cupboards, signs, sometimes even the prices are right. Just look but enough. Street of June 17, year-round Sat. and Sun.
Trumpet
Cool loading of Ben Becker with live music. A little New York feeling comes up. The music goes from urban to funky, jazz is also often there. Lützowplatz 9, Tel. 030/25464039, U Nollendorfplatz
The old theaters in Berlin Mitte
In addition, we advise all Berlin visitors to watch the theaters, which in Berlin Mitte simply still look the same: beautiful, old and full of history. Berliner Ensemble: Tel. 030/284080, DT Visitor Service: Tel. 030 / 28441-221, Kammerspiele: Tel. 030/284410
