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Velvet Lounge: Best martini in town
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  • sue_stone
  • Updated By sue_stone on August 11, 2006
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  • Alex and that martini - Berlin
    Alex and that martini
    by sue_stone,
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    The Velvet lounge is a small stylish cocktail bar connected to the Arcotel Velvet Hotel in the Mitte district. We stayed in the hotel and were keen to try out the bar as it looked really nice.

    One evening before dinner we stopped by to sample some of their cocktails. The bar man was incredibly friendly and service was with a smile, though he did give me a lecture at one stage!

    Alex had possibly the best martini he has ever had….and he has had a few over the years. I had a vodka and lime concoction which was also good.

    The comfy leather seats were a great place to relax and chat about the days events. If we didn't already have dinner reservations that night I think we would have stayed and just had martini's for dinner....is that wrong?!

    No official dresscode, but smart casual or better

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Oranienburger Strasse 52, Berlin Mitte 10117
  • Phone: (49) (30) 2787 53-0
  • Directions: Arcotel Velvet Hotel lobby Nearest Subway: Oranienburger Tor (U6) or Oranienburger Str (S1 or S2)
  • Website: http://www.arcotel.cc/velvet.htm
  • Other Contact: velvet@arcotel.at
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    Pfau: . . . more than only a bar
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  • Karin1S
  • By Karin1S on October 8, 2004
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  • it's the right place after a long day . . . enjoy your "happy hour" cocktail till 9:00 or go out for dinner . . . they offer a very delicious italian cusine for fair prices . . . take a beer at the bar . . . i nice place for the whole day

    Hey, it's Kreuzberg - there is no dress code!

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Bergamnnstr.88, 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • Phone: +49(0)30 69 81 91 86
  • Directions: Subway U7 Gneisenaustrasse
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    Club der Visionäre: Open Air Chill Club
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  • Karin1S
  • By Karin1S on September 15, 2004
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  • sitting at the river . . . you're listening to the music . . . there is a bird landing on the water . . . SUMMER . . . it's SUMMERTIME . . . it's SUMMER in the city . . . take a beer and relax

    be yourself . . . wear Jeans and Sneakers . . . it's open air . . .

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: Am Flutgraben 1
  • Phone: +49 (0) - 30 - 69518944
  • Directions: U Schlesisches Tor; S Treptower Park
  • Website: www.clubdervisionaere.com
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    Golgatha: Legendary Beer Garden
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  • Karin1S
  • By Karin1S on September 15, 2004
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  • . . . is frequented by a lot of colourful mix of people. . . If you've lost the way in Victroria Park . . . follow the BBQ smoke . . .

    Open April - October

    Be yourself

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Dudenstrasse 48; 10965 Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • Phone: +49 (0) 30 -785 24 53
  • Directions: In the middle of Viktroiapark U6 Platz der Luftbrücke, U+S-Bhf. Yorckstraße, Bus 104, 119, 140
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    Irish Harp Pub: Cold beer - warm hearts
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  • Karin1S
  • By Karin1S on March 22, 2004
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  • Guinness Stout or Kilkenny make your choice . . . an other original Irish Pub in the heart of Berlin . . . enjoy the live music at weekend . . . and if you're hungry - no problem - they serve a lot of very tasty food. . . ahhhh I forgot . . . english spoken because the staff is irish :-)

    Be yourself

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Address: Giesebrechtstr. 15, 14629 Berlin (Charlottenburg)
  • Phone: +49 (0) -30 - 882 77 39
  • Directions: Subway: U Bahn Adenauerplatz
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    "Roter Salon": The Red Room
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  • By antistar on October 16, 2004
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  • Roter Salon, Berlin - Berlin
    Roter Salon, Berlin
    by antistar
    "So, less one sleepy Italian, we headed off on the second of our cross-town treks with Hanno. After seemingly endless tram journeys and a quick marathon walk, we arrived at the "Roter Salon" in Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The club was advertising itself with posters as some kind of Indie Britpop noise session, which sounded worth the six euros the grumpy door staff were charging. However, once inside, we found that we'd been conned. It was not Indie Britpop at all, but DJ Thomas Bohnet with his Tour de France blaring out never-before-heard-by-non-francophone tunes in unfathomable French. Hanno was despondent. I was enthralled. Craig and Martin couldn't care less as long as they had beer in front of them.

    Hanno was upset because the place was relatively empty, and wasn't playing the music he'd brought us to listen to. He was unhappy that we weren't being entertained in proper Berlin fashion. I, on the other hand, was enchanted by the idea of Berliners so eclectic in their musical taste that not only would they come along to a Französicher Musik night, but they would also be such regular patrons of the event that they knew all the words to sing along to. I tried to impress this upon Hanno, but he was too far gone. Nothing was going to change his mood while we were in that club. Craig and Martin were staring, goggle-eyed like the train obsessed boy on the ICE to Berlin, at a young couple as they enthusiastically made passionate virtual love to each other on the bar, behind the bar, on the dance floor, on the sofa, before finally disappearing behind a meter high stall." - from my travelogue

    This is a happening little club in Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, which seems to have quite an interesting line up of events. The Friday we went it was French night, and the following Saturday was the far more popular Britpop Indie night. You can find out what's on at their website, linked below, although it is invariably Indie, or something very similar.

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  • Theme: Nightclub
  • Address: Volksbuhne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
  • Phone: + 49 (0)30 240 65 806
  • Directions: Line 2 of the U-Bahn.
  • Website: http://www.roter-salon.de/
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    Seven Lounge Cocktail Bar: Seven Lounge Cocktail Bar
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  • antistar
  • Updated By antistar on October 17, 2004
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  • Luciano, Craig and Martin, at the Seven Lounge - Berlin
    Luciano, Craig and Martin, at
    the Seven Lounge
    by antistar
    "After the long footslog back to the apartment, we quickly ventured out on another mini-odyssey, this time over to Mitte-Berlin, and the Seven Lounge. After many hikes, tram journeys and U-bahn trips, including a brief pause to stare at the fireworks over der Alex, we finally arrived at the 7L cocktail bar. This proved to be as cramped as the entrance to Hanno's apartment, but with plenty more style and character. The four girls who seemed to be running the place were particularly distinctive. First there was the DJ with the goggles reeling off a series of classic lounging tracks from the decks crammed into one side of the confined corridor. Secondly there was the pig-tailed bar maid, frantically serving up complex cocktails for the crowded gangway. Finally, and most strikingly, were the two girls who ran the length of the narrow passage taking orders and delivering drinks. The first was a shaven headed black girl, with taut cheekbones, and the second an Asian girl with huge hair, plucked straight from the 5.6.7.8.'s garage rock band in Kill Bill." - from my travelogue

    This is a stylish and very comfortable lounging bar, at least if you can get a seat in the busy and narrow gangway. The place is free to get into, and is open from 8pm until 4am at weekends, and until 2am the rest of the week.

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: Ackerstr. 20, Berlin-Mitte
  • Phone: +4930 - 27 59 69 79
  • Directions: Map
  • Website: http://www.seven-lounge.net/
  • Other Contact: seven-lounge@web.de
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    CSA Bar: Smooth cocktails on Karl-Marx Allee
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  • yooperprof
  • By yooperprof on December 13, 2004
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  • This is one of the most beautiful martini bars I've ever been in. Located in a former sales office for the Czech State Airline (hence the name), the CSA Bar has a sleek minimalist decor, lighting that flatters, an attentive staff, and broad plate glass windows that look out at traffic whizzing by on what was intended to be East Germany's grandest boulevard. I have to confess this: I experienced a "frisson" of delight sipping my Cosmopolitan and shamelessly engaging in decadent homosexual flirtation while sitting comfortably ensconced on "Karl-Marx Allée". History does have its pleasurable ironies.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Karl Marx Allee 96 (south side of the road)
  • Phone: 29 04 47 41
  • Directions: Friedrichshain -- U-Bahn Weberwiese
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    HARLEM: Live and unplugged . . .
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  • Karin1S
  • By Karin1S on February 17, 2004
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  • Harlem - Berlin
    Harlem
    by Karin1S
    Blues, Rock, Jazz and more . . . is the music you'll find in HA`RLEM . . . every evening . . . and when you're hungry - no problem they serve fresh made american food . . . Every Sunday Gospel Brunch . . .

    Be yourself - you are in Prenzelberg

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Address: Rodenbergstr. 37 10439 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)
  • Phone: +40 (0) - 30 -444 56 54
  • Directions: Subway U Schoenhauser Allee
  • Website: www.harlem-berlin.de
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    Hackesche Höfe: Many places at one place
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  • Gerrem
  • Updated By Gerrem on August 22, 2005
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  • Berlin Nightlife
    by Gerrem
    If you are coming to Berlin spend at least one evening at this place!

    The painstakingly restored Hackesche Höfe are no doubt one of the most popular destinations for tourists at the present time.
    The Hackesche Höfe consists of a web of eight courtyards for living and working, which together forms the largest of its kind in Germany. Like many Berlin courtyards, this complex of buildings, which arose around the turn of the last century, was a mixture of offices, workshops, multi-story factories (particularly in the front courtyards) and apartments. This concept was also adopted and successfully applied during the modernization of the courtyards, which were in serious need of renovation. Hof I (Endellscher Hof), which was designed by the Jugendstil artist and architect August Endell, houses the "Chamäleon" cabaret theatre, a film theatre, and several bars and restaurants; in Hof II (Theaterhof) there is the Hackesche Hof Theatre and a series of architects' offices; the remaining courtyards are occupied by numerous smaller shops and galleries. The area around the Höfe is also thriving: with countless bars, restaurants and clubs; it is one of Berlin nightlife's most talked-about districts.

    No dress code at all..

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  • Theme: Other
  • Directions: Rosenthaler Straße 40/41 10178 Berlin-Mitte Right in the middle of Berlin !
  • Website: www.hackesche-hoefe.com
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