14 editor picks in Berlin.
Food tour in Mitte
Mitte District Food Tour with 7 Authentic Local Tastings
4 of these places are in Mitte
Berlin's cocktail tradition spans unmarked speakeasies, classic-era hotel bars and bespoke no-menu rooms scattered across Mitte, Schoeneberg and Charlottenburg. Buck and Breck on the Brunnenstrasse in Mitte has run a fourteen-seat unmarked bar built on classic and pre-Prohibition drinks, while Rum Trader on the Fasanenstrasse in Charlottenburg is held to be the oldest cocktail bar in the city, hidden behind a black-and-gold door.
14 cocktail bar places in Berlin we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Berlin · Cocktail Bar across every city.
Drink Buck and Breck (Cognac and champagne)
Buck and Breck on Berlin's Brunnenstrasse has run an unmarked speakeasy cocktail bar since 2010; 14 seats around a single bar, classic and pre-Prohibition.
Drink Tausend No. 1 cocktail
Bar Tausend on Berlin's Schiffbauerdamm runs an unmarked door under the train tracks at Friedrichstrasse station; the bar runs late, the cantina kitchen.
Drink Green Victoria (champagne cocktail)
Victoria Bar on Berlin's Potsdamer Strasse in Tiergarten has been the city's reference classic-cocktails bar since 2001; the long brass-and-leather room.
Drink House vermouth on the rocks
Bar Bonvivant on Berlin's Goltzstrasse in Schoeneberg runs the city's reference vermouth bar with 50 bottles on the back wall; the cocktail list.
Drink Bartender's choice cocktail
Schwarze Traube on Muskauer Strasse in Kreuzberg has run a no-menu bespoke cocktail room since 2012; tell the bartender a spirit and a profile and they build.
Drink Foraged-Berlin weekly menu
Velvet on Ganghoferstrasse in Neukoelln is a hyperseasonal cocktail room from a small team that resets the menu every week around foraged Berlin plants.
Drink 1920s-era classics with live music
The Curtain Club at the Ritz-Carlton on Potsdamer Platz runs an elegant cocktail room behind heavy drapes off the hotel lobby, the carte built around.
Drink Vodka martini
Windhorst on Berlin's Dorotheenstrasse near the Bundestag has run since 1991 with the same bartenders; the martini and the journalist regulars define.
Drink Classic cocktails (no menu)
Beckett's Kopf on Berlin's Pappelallee in Prenzlauer Berg has run a no-menu classic cocktail bar since 2004; the room is named after Samuel Beckett's head.
Drink Jurke (signature large-format cocktail)
Lamm Bar on Berlin's Wisbyer Strasse at the northern edge of Prenzlauer Berg runs a craft cocktail bar local mixologists recommend to each other.
Drink Bespoke rum-based cocktails
Rum Trader on Fasanenstrasse is the oldest cocktail bar in Berlin, behind an unmarked black door trimmed in gold off Charlottenburg's Fasanenstrasse.
Drink Bourbon Old Fashioned
Stagger Lee on Berlin's Nollendorfstrasse in Schoeneberg runs a 1920s American whiskey bar with 200 bourbons, the music is bluegrass and country.
Drink Jazz Manhattan
Thelonious on Berlin's Weserstrasse in Neukoelln runs a jazz-themed cocktail bar with live music three nights a week and an Old Fashioned program.
Drink Classic-era cocktails with jazz
Reingold on Novalisstrasse in Mitte is a low-lit 1920s cocktail lounge favoured by Berlin's media and advertising crowd, classic-era drinks set to recorded.
