Café im Literaturhaus

”An afternoon kaffeeklatsch (coffee-and-cake gossip session) is one of Germany’s most cherished traditions, and there’s no better place to experience...”  More

Imbiss W

”A small spot in Mitte with a tandoori oven that turns out delicious pizzas on Indian nan bread. The endearing...”  More

Käfer

”It can take as long as three hours to get inside the Reichstag parliament building. The best way to avoid...”  More

Restaurant 44

”Chef Tim Raue strives to shock the palate with intense flavors—and comes up with the most exciting, truly original food...”  More

Restaurant Horváth

”Occupying a former celebrity hangout where Bowie p...”  More

Vitrum

”In a formal dining room at the Ritz-Carlton full of Murano glass chandeliers, chef Thomas Kellermann offers four different tasting...”  More

Weinbar Rutz

”The city’s most talked-about wine bar stocks roughly a thousand different bottlings from Germany and around the world—and has a...”  More

4Experiment Gastraum

”The perfect restorative treat after a day spent shopping, 4Experiment Gastraum serves unusual dishes created with whatever is fresh at...”  More

Alter Gasthof

”This 200-year-old inn dishes out classic regional food, including stellar house-smoked salmon and eel. ...”  More

Anno 1900

”Franz Kafka lived in the hotel building in 1912, as did his longtime friend Max Brod. Outside, the weather has...”  More

Antique Weinstube Alte Gutssehanke

”Sample that famous Riesling with Arthur Schmitz...who organizes tastings from a vast collection that includes varietals from his own vineyard....”  More

Austria

”Enjoy the monstrously sized schnitzel perched atop a tangy potato salad made with onion and vinegar inn this folksy, low-ceilinged...”  More

Bandol

”Locals pretend to dislike this intimate 20-seat bistro because Brad Pitt has been spotted here (it’s very Berlin to be...”  More

Blue Spa and Restaurant

”The city of lederhosen and beer steins is having a...”  More

Borchardt

”Frequented by luminaries of German politics, film, and media, this power-dining institution opened more than a century and a half...”  More

Brauhaus Früh am Dom

”The place to go for a classic bockwurst and a glass of kölsch, the light, sweet local lager...”  More

Brenner

”The city of lederhosen and beer steins is having a design moment....”  More

Café Einstein

”Legendary for its mellow house-roasted Kaffee and kuchen (cake), Café Einstein has spawned a chain on swank coffee bars across...”  More

Cafe Jacques

Café Maria

”For much of the world, Munich is likely to evoke one or more stereotypical images, among them the Glockenspiel in...”  More

Clärchens Ballhaus

”Berlin has cold-war mystique, ambitious contempora...”  More

Das Leben Ist Schön

Defne Restaurant

”Though nominally Turkish, the restaurant also smartly plays with the flavors of the Mediterranean. In other words, the greasy döner...”  More

Desbrosses

Die Quadriga

”Die Quadriga, in the boutique hotel Brandenburger Hof, has long been Berlin's favorite place to celebrate. Thanks to a Bauhaus-meets-Biedermeier...”  More

Facil

”At Facil, housed within the glass inner courtyard of the Mandala Hotel, Kempf has now carved out his own distinct...”  More

Fischers Fritz

”At the Regent, chefs Christian Lohse and Yves Mattagne (this Belgian is arguably Europe's greatest seafood maestro) have devised creative...”  More

Fuchstanz

”Enjoy the steaming bowls of goulash and Bavarian cheese spaetzle at the alpine-kitsch Fuchstanz in the Taunus national park...”  More

Fürstenzimmer

GästeHaus Klaus Erfort

”Fish like turbot served with sautéed totani (squid) is especially good, thanks to the Saarbrücken fish market...”  More

Gasthaus Glockenbach

”Twenty years before its current vogue, Karl Ederer made organic food fashionable here, when he opened Gasthaus Glockenbach....”  More

Gerbermuhle

”Gerbermühle, Frankfurt’s hot new destination, has an illustrious past: It’s where Goethe met his great love, Marianne. Now reopened as...”  More

Golden Cut

”Across town, Friday and Saturday nights make the clubby discothèque Golden Cut more fashion runway than dance floor. The rest...”  More

Greta’s Rauchfang

Grill Royal

”Berlin has cold-war mystique, ambitious contempora...”  More

Gugelhof

”When former president Bill Clinton visited Berlin in 2000, this is where German chancellor Gerhard Schröder took him. Try the...”  More

Hannibal

”The seats at this affordable Kreuzberg café (a short walk from the Jewish Museum) are salvaged from old S-Bahns...”  More

Hartmanns

”Chef Stefan Hartmann adds a Mediterranean twist to New German flavors (think seared foie gras with beetroot and caramelized apples). ...”  More

Henne

”Henne offers the moistest, crispiest milk-roasted bird to be found in Mitteleuropa, along with a décor that’s a celebration of...”  More

Historische Weinwirtschaft

”With the castle as our base, we explore the Middle Rhine, stopping at small villages along the valley floor and...”  More

Hubertusstube

Hugos

”...Hugos draws Berlin's beau monde with a dazzling view, modern design, and Thomas Kammeier's clever cuisine: pink nuggets of lobster...”  More

Kay's Bistro

”The menu and décor at Kay's Bistro are revamped every month. The most recent theme was Caribbean, with waiters in...”  More

Lebensmittel in Mitte

”A grocery store in the front, and a deligthfully boisterous neighborhood restaurant in the back. Highlights include the occasional appetizer...”  More

Lenbach

”The restrained façade of Lenbach barely hints at what's inside. Sir Terence Conran updated the 1898 interiors with blue neon...”  More

Leo Bettini

”Berlin has cold-war mystique, ambitious contempora...”  More

Lutter & Wegner

”At Lutter & Wegner, succumb to traditional favorites like Wiener schnitzel (fuel for Berlin’s notoriously rollicking nightlife)...”  More

Margaux

”Perfectly poached langoustines came beside a row of sauces—stockfish brandade, vanilla langoustine reduction. ...”  More

Master's Home

”The inexpensive nine-course menu changes often and you never quite know what you'll be served; simply choose vegetarian or meat....”  More

Ma Tim Raue

”Provocative chef Tim Raue opened this modern Chinese spot in the Hotel Adlon. His Asian-ish dishes are ridiculously light (he...”  More

Modellhut

”Modellhut is the most improbable of restaurants: a fashion-industry canteen sans attitude. During Saturday lunchtime fashion shows, an air-kissing crowd...”  More

Newton Bar

”A stylish cocktail and cigar bar named for Berlin-born photographer Helmut Newton, whose large-scale black-and-white photographs of nude women hang...”  More

Nocti Vagus

”In Berlin, there's Nocti Vagus, a restaurant devoted to the concept (the waiters are blind). If that's not enough deprivation—or...”  More

Ododo

”Ododo opened its doors five years ago, and it's still hard to get a table. If you do, don't miss...”  More

Paris Bar

”A first-rate bistro serving white-asparagus soup and duck confit under the sepia glow of antique lamps....”  More

Prater

”The best, largest and oldest beer garden in Berlin...”  More

Ratskeller

”Bavaria is the heartland of simple, rib-sticking dishes...”  More

Remake

”Adventurous diners gather at Remake, where Cristiano Rienzner, a Venetian-born chef who worked at El Bulli, pushes the envelope with...”  More

Restaurant Cookie’s Cream

”Berlin’s most successful nightlife impresario, known only by the name Cookie, has in his own quirky way made vegetarian dishes...”  More

Restaurant E.T.A. Hoffmann

”Berlin restaurants offer a fair number of well-priced, quality chef’s menus. One of the best is at this German-influenced bistro...”  More

Restaurant Maxwell

”Restaurant Maxwell serves seasonal dishes, such as poularde breast with cabbage, trumpet mushroom, and onion casserole, to a lively crowd...”  More

Restaurant Mittermeier

”True to his word, Mittermeier shows up the next morning, and together we drive north through pastureland and orchards brimming...”  More

Ristorante Villa Kellermann

”Berlin has cold-war mystique, ambitious contempora...”  More

Saf im Zerwirk

”For much of the world, Munich is likely to evoke one or more stereotypical images, among them the Glockenspiel in...”  More

San Nicci

Sansibar

”This stylish restaurant attracts a number of German celebrities (Claudia Schiffer, Boris Becker). But the restaurant's North Sea-meets-Asian dishes, like...”  More

Schleiperla

”Schleiperla serves no-frills seafood....”  More

Schumann's

”For much of the world, Munich is likely to evoke o...”  More

Silk

”At Silk, Lohninger serves beautifully crafted modern Austrian dishes like corn ravioli with pumpkinseed oil and rack of lamb with...”  More

Sterns

”Power-lunching professionals and creative twentysomethings congregate at newcomer Sterns....”  More

T&C Apartments

”I spent the post-conference weekend exploring and hanging out. Based on a tip from our star European contributor Gisela Williams...”  More

Tantris

”In the ongoing battle to be called Munich's best restaurant, Tantris always comes out on top, thanks to chef Hans...”  More

Tigerpalast

”Reservations are a must at Tigerpalast, an inventive, Michelin-starred restaurant (artichokes with piñon-foam soup, fried-lobster cannelloni) with a variety show...”  More

Uma

unsicht-Bar

”Our evening at unsicht-Bar, also in Mitte, began in the dimly lit but not yet totally dark lobby, with a...”  More

Vau

”Even though it has earned a Michelin star for its nouvelle German cuisine, Vau, like most Berlin restaurants, has a...”  More

Vendôme

”Received three Michelin stars for its acrobatic tasting menu—think foie gras 'snowflakes' or wild boar with lemon gnocchi....”  More

Vendôme

”At the castle's restaurant, Vendôme, 30-year-old chef Joachim Wissler is creating one of Germany's most groundbreaking menus....”  More

Vintage

”Pours Teutonic wines and inventive digestifs (hazelnut eau-de-vie from Franconia) to complement seasonal dishes....”  More

Wagner

”Regional delicacies can be found at any of the several Kneipen (German pub-style restaurants). Wagner, in Sachenhausen, Frankfurt's historic apple-wine...”  More

White Trash Fast Food

”I'm mesmerized by this new, mocking nostalgia for the East, which crops up at places like White Trash Fast Food...”  More

W Imbiss

”This five-table spot from eccentric Canadian expat Gordon Wojcickowski (the “W” in W Imbiss) has a near-cultlike following for its...”  More

Winebar Rutz

”This Michelin-starred spot offers one of the city's most extensive and notable wine lists, with a selection of more than...”  More