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Monarch

In Kreuzberg, the Monarch bar, on the second floor of a hilariously dreary housing project, beckons the 40-year-old hipster who wishes to turn the clock back by exactly 15 years and is ready to groove to a disco version of “Hava Nagila” or the gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello.

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From Travel + Leisure , AUG 2008

“Berlin ist gross und ich bin klein” (Berlin is big and I am small) reads a popular children's T-shirt featuring a forlorn mite of a penguin staring up at the immensity of East Berlin's iconic TV tower...MORE>>

– Gary Shteyngart Adventures in the New Berlin

Last updated August 2008