Pauly Saal

11-13 Auguststrasse

49-30-3300-6070

The biggest and buzziest restaurant opening of 2012 is an ode to classic German cuisine, located in a renovated Jewish girls’ school (now occupied by high-end art galleries). Overseen by Stephan Landwehr and Boris Radczun, the dapper duo behind Berlin’s most glamorous restaurant, the Grill Royal, the Pauly Saal was imagined as a classic bistro that might have existed in Berlin in the Golden ‘20s: leather booths, pine green fabric-covered chairs, walls covered in handmade ceramic tiles, and enormous Murano chandeliers. Austrian chef Siegfried Danler was imported from his Michelin-starred restaurant in Portugal to conceive the upscale family-style menu with entrees like ox steak or skate with spinach, sunchokes and crab. Almost everything is handmade on site, from the bread to the sausages.