ophisticated gay restaurant & lounge bar, located within the popular Axel Hotel Berlin in Schöneberg gay district. Juniper Kitchen & Bar offers a modern delicious twist on German cuisine.A lively bar with friendly...

Gay-friendly café & restaurant in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg district. Schall und Rauch also has rooms for rent.

Gay cafe bar in the heart of Schöneberg gay district, next to Quentin Design Hotel. Friendly staff and relaxing atmosphere.

Gay-friendly Austrian restaurant in Berlin’s gay district, Schöneberg, just around the corner from Mutschmann’s and almost next door to Reizbar, MORE, et cetera.check Sissi’s website for menu. Reservations can be made...

Gay-popular cafe & restaurant with modern interiors. MORE serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and has a terrace (open in the summer). Reservations recommended, particularly for the weekends. Located close to...

Gay-friendly restaurant & cafe bar that serves the best Indian food in Berlin. ARMAN has an extensive menu and friendly staff. Cocktails are cheap and tasty, too!

Gay landmark for more than 50 years Café/bar on two floors, with major al fresco situation and expanded crusing potential during the summer months. Reliably decent for breakfast, lunch and beyond, though the food and...

Not your typical rest stop Formerly a hip corner food outlet with decor to ironically conjure up the spirit of a motorway diner, the Raststätte was passed on to other hands in 2008 and no longer has the pull with those...

Good Berlin Indian restaurant A reliable Indian restaurant in Kreuzberg serving good if not always vital food, prepared with fresh ingredients. Generous portions, with pleasingly inexpensive lunch deals. Buzzy...

Exemplary schnitzel and other tasty things Atmospherically warm and local-feeling restaurant serving home-made Austrian and German food somewhere between unpretentious-tasty and foodie. Schnitzels rank among the city's...

Tasty Turkish in the gay ghetto By far the most gay-friendly of Hasir's six Berlin locations, this reliable and buzzy Turkish restaurant offers home-made soups (red lentil 'Rote Linsensuppe' – very nice, and...

Cake and coffee intimately Friendly and tasty cake shop in a nice part of Charlottenburg, five minutes from the once bohemian, now designery Savignyplatz. The colourfully cluttered shop window hints at the generous...

Schöneberg café giving established Berio a run for its money Immediately south of Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station – where hordes of gay men disembark for the pleasures of special-interest Schöneberg – you'll find this...

A cruise in the Tiergarten. A stroll in the zoo. A sausage and beer You wouldn't expect to find decent food in a park, but that's just what you can expect at this tucked-away best-kept-non-secret spot serving wurst,...

Among the city's finest schnitzels An unusually warm-feeling restaurant in the vein of a hunting lodge, and not without its antlers, Austria gives its culinary intentions away with its name, and since 1993 has served...

German food, but not like Mutti used to make A small Prenzlauer Berg restaurant with quaint charm, providing a European dining experience that is relaxed and un rushed, though this is partly down to the at times slow...

Americans gone wild Homesick Americans in Berlin might consider this funny and kitschy Berlin take on an American burger joint. The food is good, and there's a great bar with live music. They say: "Berlin’s best steaks...

A gay burger in the Motzstraße Very popular corner burger specialists located smack in the centre of Schöneberg's (and Berlin's) gayest street, with a generous selection of burgers produced from local, free range beef,...

Berlin's oldest restaurant For a truly German experience recapturing the old days, you might consider Zur Letzten Instanz in a restored medieval building not far from Alexanderplatz. Traditional dishes abound,...

Very nice Italian in Kreuzber A warm, woody, welcoming and unstuffy restaurant with a candlelit glow and unfinished-style walls with hints of cave paintings, opened in 1989 but with an older and more classic. The place...

Olde-worlde pub for chicken, salad, bread and beer One of Berlin's great institutions, this early-20th-century tavern specialises in beer and, since the 1950s – when the business needed a boost – hearty, tasty, salty...

Good, gay and Austrian One of the Mozstraße's more appealing food options and located at its quieter end nearer to Nollendorfplatz, Heuriger Gustav — started in 2011 by Christian Korinek — does very decent Austrian...

Natural bread from za old days, baked now Just south of Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn and diagonally opposite Café Berio you'll find the most gaily located outlet of this small, sincere and serious bread/pastry chain which...

Very good Indian in gay company A reliable Indian restaurant serving good if not always vital food, prepared with fresh ingredients. Generous portions, with pleasingly inexpensive lunch deals. Buzzy atmosphere. Opened...

Sincere but excellent cakes and breads A funny little tea room/konditorei that comes highly recommended for its tall cakes, fruit tarts, Gugelhupf, breads and rolls, all carefully crafted from various combinations of...

Kreuzberg cakes worth crossing any border for Particularly good German cakes and tarts, baked on the premises with the requisite nuts and berries and spices and cheeses and creams, all executed with flair and flavour....

Pretzel specialists Pretzels for every need, whether neat, buttered or as a sandwich and beyond. The business started in 2000 in Neukölln, with the current owner taking over in 2014 and expanding into Schöneberg in...

Quality fast food burger in Schöneberg Just a gay mince south of the Nollendorfplatz is this third outlet of mini cross-city chain Burgers Berlin, which started in 2008 in Friedrichshain (Sonntagstrasse 2, S-Bahn:...

Like za old days A Berlin institution started in 1978 by Ursula Bachauer, this Viennese-style café/brasserie occupies a reassuringly olde-worlde, plummy and panelled space in an 1878 villa just minutes from...

Gay Jewel of the Motzstraße Bang in the middle of the Motzstraße, clashing rather with glossy neighbour More, is this singularly charming and old-fashioned-gay breakfast-and-cakes establishment, opened in 2013 by...

Cake culture indeed Exemplary cake business started here in 2011 by two Lebanese brothers with a handle on international recipes and serious about ingredients, produced with "Liebe und Kreativität" (love and...

German and Austrian breakfast, lunch and dinner Traditional and cozy café/restaurant/bar serving German and Austrian specialties — including schnitzel, Königsberger Klopse (meatballs) and Matjesfilet (salty fish) — but...

Elegant but casual oasis One of four 'literature houses' in Berlin, this establishment opened both its bookshop and café doors in 1985. The decorative 19th-century building makes for an elegant and lovely café...

Good food to go with your tango and cha cha A practically untouched dance hall, opened in 1913, with two ballrooms hosting a daily menu of dances on rotation, including swing, salsa, tango and cha cha. And for those...

Seriously hip coffee One of Berlin's premier indie-spirited coffee outlets, the shoebox-sized concrete-walled Double Eye feels very early 21st century in its embrace of hip young coffee culture, but keeps it simple in...

"Metropolitan Food" A sleek and fashion-aware club and restaurant combined, frequented by Berlin's fashion-and-status-aware. The restaurant attracts an A-list clientèle and does not guarantee entrance to the club,...

Affordably luxuriant breakfast, lunch, tea and beyond In the vein of London's fabulous brasserie/café/restaurant the Wolseley [see entry], Berlin hot spot Grosz offers the warmly incandescent and elegant style of a...

Cheap and delicious falafel Small and buzzy Lebanese/Middle Eastern takeaway serving particularly good falafel, kibbeh, tabbouleh and salads, plus doner kebabs. There are a few tables indoors and minimal seating...

Gays love tasty and cheap Vietnamese food Hugely popular, unusually inexpensive Vietnamese establishment on the Kreuzberg/Neukölln border. Hamy identifies itself as fast food, but the quick-fire service is the only...

Thin crust in Kreuzberg Very possibly Kreuzberg's most revered pizza establishment, Il Casolare serves fresh and tasty thin-crust pizzas and is located near gay-trendy Kottbusser Tor. The pizzas are not quite as wet...

Korean widows in the kitchen A tiny restaurant run by two Korean widows devoted to Jesus and good authentic cooking. The menu concentrates on just a few dishes — noodles, beefy things, soups (no. 3 with tofu,...

Gay quality in Friedrichshain Cosy and gay-owned restaurant with gay waiters and a gay chef specialising in fresh and tasty German dishes and Berlin specialties. The menu is not extensive and all-embracing, and in a...

Queer café-bar for women...and men (and everyone) A stylish lesbian-run but mixed-crowd café-bar started in late 2008 by Gabi Koch in the heart of Kreuzberg, with a certain 1950s thing going on in the decor and...

Delectable Alpen specialties worth the trek Small but high-ceilinged quiet hot spot in the heart of trendy middle-class Prenzlauer Berg, Meierei serves Swiss specialties, including what could be Berlin's finest...

Reliably good breakfasts, lunches and snacks within easy gay reach If you're looking for a breakfasty-plus alternative to gay stalwarts Café Berio and More [see entries], neighbouring Miss Honeypenny offers a decent...

Slick Saigon-flavoured hot spot Buzzy, über-trendy restaurant offering very good and fresh but not necessarily outstanding Vietnamese food. M Vuong is a place for certain Berliners to feel on the pulse, though the...

German food in a German town An early 1980s restaurant that changed hands and decor in 2014, with a weekly changing menu alongside staples such as schnitzels, burgers, pastas and Flammkuchen. Lunch starts at 11am but...

Attention all cake connoisseurs Terrific cakes by Andreas Minsch, who in 2007 landed at the Schöneberg/Kreuzberg border following a long and obviously inspiring trail that started in the Bavarian town Coburg, then...

Dining in the dark The pitch-black darkness of this restaurant provides a unique culinary experience. Music, comedy, or poetry readings might happen on the stage as you focus on eating in the dark.

Cheap and tasty lunch with the workers Designed by Alfred Berger and Tiina Parkkinen and completed in 1999, the six-building complex that houses Berlin's Nordic Embassies (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland Iceland) is...

Authentic Austrian Australian specialists since 2008, using traditional family recipes brought to Berlin by restaurant owner Johanna Nußbaumer, plus modern variations on classic dishes. Schnitzel is meant to be a very...

Cosy Italian in a quiet corner of Schöneberg Marco Prandi's earthy and welcoming Italian establishment is something of a best kept secret despite its excellent repuration, perhaps owing to its location in the section...

Stroganoff in Schöneberg A popular all-day restaurant opened in 2006 by a Russian who named his venue after the mutiny among ill-fed sailors in 1905 Tsarist Russia, made famous by director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948)...

French, formal and affordable A relatively inexpensive French restaurant started in the 19878 by Prussian Berliner Bernhard Heising and his wife. The three- and four-course menus are reassuringly limited, with no more...

Like za old dayz A love letter to old Berlin, overseen by grande dame and chanteuse Angelika Rüdiger, who is joined every Friday by pianist Timo Tietz. Located in the non-gay-catwalk wing of the Motzstraße (southwest...

Good food for ready money German and Mediterranean lunches in a somewhat sober and sufficiently sleek and stylish room, with plum accents recalling the Victorian plushness of the restaurant's namesake, the great and...

This restaurant was very good, from the quality of the service to the food itself. They have a good selection of beers. Finally the home made ice cream (I had peanut butter) was a tasty conclusion.

hand made burgers and cocktails at its best