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2 Stars - 13 Opinions
Schonhauser Allee 103, Berlin, 10439, Germany
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heading to berlin on aug 6 for 5 or 6 days. will be staying at the st.christopher's apartment (39-41 rosa luxemburg str). is this a good area? any recommendations on good restaurants or brewpubs in the area? i haven't been to berlin for about 30 years, so i am completely unfamiliar with the city as it is now. we are interested in cozy german-style restaurants, not anything hip or trendy. thanks for any help!! susan
Rosa-Luxemburg-St, situated close to Alexanderplatz, is only so-so (albeit generally safe), but within walking distance you'll find nice spots in both Mitte Area and Prenzlauer Berg (take the tram up Kastanienallee or the U2 to Eberswalder Straße). Both areas are hip, though. Still, I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding a restaurant that suits your taste.
Perhaps read my tip on "German food" here:
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/c8106/12626/2/?o=1&i=1
okay, so maybe we can be a little hip! but basically, looking for typical german places (hey, i can find a hard rock cafe or mcdonalds anywhere!). looking for local places, maybe off the beaten path? thanks, susan
You'll be hard pressed to find a McDonalds or Hard Rock Cafe. The restaurants and bars in your area blend different styles and adapt them to local taste. So this could be considered "typically German" nowadays.
Take Cafe Orange (see tip) or Gugelhof (economy - business http://www.gugelhof.de/) or Nola's am Weinberg (Swiss, business but affordable at noon http://www.nola.de/).
Bars: Deponie (tip), Strandbar (tip), Prater (Berlin's oldest beergarden http://www.pratergarten.de/e/) and many others.
But don't worry, there are plenty of other bars and restaurants.
the area is pretty nice, especially the streets to the west!
And you're very lucky having one of the best german kneipe/restaurants directly around the corner.
the "gaststaette W. prassnik" is torstrasse 65.
Also good and not far away: Hackbarth, Augustrasse 49 and some other in the area (Auguststrasse corner tucholskystrasse)
Localize a place called: 'Hackescher Markt'! Bars!!! The nights, in which you can not get some rest... Just the city! It's a strange feeling, which can not be discribed in few words! 'Unterwegs sein!' - to be on your way down town! And Berlin has got many to offer you...
It is very interesting place where two churches, looks similiar, are situated opposite each other. Unfortunately when I was there last time, there was Christmas market and I just saw the roof of the concert hall and two churches. In the northern part of the square there is Franzoesische Dom. opposite is Deutsche Dom. The first churches were built here in 80-s of XVII cntury but the final view was built in 1780-1785 by Karl von Gottard. In 1817-1821 Karl Friedrich Schinkel built the concert hall. In 1871 the monument to Schiller was built in the center of the square.
Within Treptower Park in the former East Berlin, there is a cemetery dedicated to the Soviet soldiers that died fighting during the battle for Berlin in the last weeks of WWII. The cemetery was quiet when i visited, i was one of the few people there. In the centre of the cemetery there is a statue of the 'ideal soviet soldier' holding a child and crushing the swastika with a sword. On either side of him are murals dictating the soviet peoples' struggle throughout the war with quotes from Stalin translated to German. The Red Granite flags apparently came from Hitler's Chancellery.
Berlin is located along Spree River which flows from east to west. Hmm... it's not Mississipi as you can see on my picture but I enjoyed short walk along its southern bank at Spreeside government quarter.
There was the Jakob Kaiser House on the right - a complex of old buildings but mostly reconstructed in modern way. It accommodated members of the presidium of the Bundestag, its administrators, and representatives of the parties. There was modern Marie-Elisabeth Lüders House on the oposite, northern side of the river. It housed world's third largest library. There was Marschallbrücke (Marschall Bridge) seen to the east and the skyline was dominating by TV-tower (Fernsehturm).
Koepi 137 is quintessentially Berlin. A big old run-down building where groups of punks hang out (some - actually live there) - there's often live music (i saw a great polish punk band the first time i went there) and good cheap vegan food (i think it's a co-op?). We drank beer and ate at the communal tables in the front room, danced in the big room with peeling gilt and plaster (reminded me of an old movie theater) and played foosball in one of the noisy back rooms. Everyone there is really friendly...if you just stick to the trendy clubs, you will miss out on a huge part of the Berlin scene. none
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