Where to brunch in Berlin: morning rooms worth the queue.
Where to brunch in Berlin. the morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
Silo Coffee in Friedrichshain serves Berlin's best-known seasonal brunch from a small room with a serious house espresso and a menu that leans heavily on produce sourced from local farmers.
Order: Smashed avocado with feta on sourdough, or the pulled-pork hash with a poached egg.
House of Small Wonder on Johannisstrasse serves a Japanese-American brunch in a leafy courtyard room with a spiral staircase. The miso hollandaise and the okinawan rice bowl have anchored the menu since 2013.
Order: Okinawan taco rice bowl with avocado; eggs benedict with miso hollandaise.
Benedict Breakfast Bar in Prenzlauer Berg serves comfort-driven brunch classics from shakshuka and pancakes in a Parisian-toned room. Bottomless mimosa sessions run weekend afternoons into the evening.
Order: Shakshuka with merguez; the berry pancake stack with lemon curd.
Cafe Mugrabi at the edge of Goerlitzer Park in Kreuzberg cooks an Israeli-inspired Levant brunch from locally roasted coffee to warm mezze plates. The corner terrace is the neighbourhood's quieter Sunday option.
Order: The hummus plate with green chili; the shakshuka with labneh and za'atar-roasted tomatoes.
Cafe Rix in Neukoelln, attached to the Heimathafen theatre, anchors the neighbourhood's weekend brunch scene with a German-style buffet of regional cheeses, smoked fish and fresh-baked pastries at accessible prices.
Order: The weekend brunch buffet with rye bread, smoked salmon, Thuringian cheeses and house pastries.
Mogg in Mitte's former Jewish girls' school does a New York-deli brunch anchored by house-cured pastrami and matzo ball soup. The former school hall is the room; closed Saturday in observance.
Order: The pastrami sandwich on rye with house pickles; the matzo ball soup on Sunday.
Standl 20 inside Markthalle Neun runs a market-sourced modern-German lunch counter from Tuesday to Sunday, with the slow-roasted pork-shoulder Sunday roast from 13:00 the week's headline dish.
Order: The Sunday pork-shoulder roast with Sauerkraut, or the Brandenburg trout with brown butter on weekdays.
Peak food season in Berlin is year-round.
Local dining hours: lunch around 12:30, dinner from 19:30.
service is typically included; small extra is welcome but not expected.
Ask the next local you meet what they would order. Berlin rewards trust.