Berlin Nightlife

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You will find some small bier gartens scattered around Berlin. Not as plentiful as in Bavaria, but there are some. I found a cute little place at Alexanderplatz. Dont recall the name, but it was located in the subway station and there is an entrance from the outside as well ( and entrance from inside of the subway station too). They all serve fresh german beers... a .21 litre glass was about 2.4 euro...

I visited this pub the first time on my very first visit to Berlin, and have dropped by all other times as well. There are a lot of tourists and irish/brittish people visiting here, so this isn't the place for meeting locals.

There are live music nearly every night of the week and this could be everything from traditional German or Irish music to Karaoke and various cover bands. Live music always create a certain atmosphere and I guess that's what makes me come back here. It has happened that I visited to cool down during a really hot summer day as well, the air conditiion is really good down there!

In addition to live music there are lots of big screens in the pub where all sorts of sports is shown during most of the day.

A bigger venue than the Komische Oper where I had been the previous evening. This time I was seeing Carmen. Excellent performances and singers. I was sitting beside a young couple who thought they were at the movies though. They kept whispering and kissing. The usherette noticed and asked me about them at the interval. She didn't do anything about it!

Dress Code: Again I was dressed in shirt and pants and I felt quite comfortable.

I'm not usually a big opera buff but I wanted to see the opera houses. Komische oper is very beautful inside but looks like a 1970's building outside. I was glad I went. I saw Don Giovanni but a modern interpretation of it.

Komische means "comic"

Dress Code: Some people were very well dressed but I was in a shirt and pants and I don't think I was out of place

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On the corner of Schlesische Strasse and Cuvry Strasse you find the music venue Lido. I recommend investigating what is playing here when you are in town. You might be lucky to experiencing the up and coming new star in an intimate location.

Dress Code: Ready to party!

Although situated at the bottom of a shopping centre, a strange place for a pub you might think, the Irish pub is great, large pub, large bar and band area, good selection of beers, Guinness if you like it and Live music.
As for food, there aren't any full meals only snacks and as I didn't try one I can't comment.

Atmosphere was good and its open until 3 or 4am.

Well worth a visit

Dress Code: Casual

Where do I start in trying to describe our experience, I think "Weird and Wonderful" comes close, Its like walking back in time and being mixed up with Fawlty Towers and Hannibal lecters storage locker ( in a nice way ). There are signs " TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS IS FORBIDDEN WITHOUT THE OWNERS CONSENT" this is a real shame, another sign says NO MOBILES and when you hear and see the owners you will know they arent jokes. Whilst we were there, a group of 7 German men came in for beer, they started past the sign of a cardboard waiter saying "WAIT HERE TO BE SEATED", she was out like a rottweiller, they were hearded back to the seats near the bar, she laughed and they laughed ( nervously ).

There are 3 rooms and if the wife needs service from the bar, she presses a button and a blue police light flashes under a table, there is clutter hanging from the walls and ceiling and little signs all over the place, I have included their website so you can have a look, as my description wont do it justice. Saying all that, it works, atmosphere is fun, beer is good, although 2 small pilsner was more expensive than most, we enjoyed a fun couple of hours try it, you wont be dissappointed.

Dress Code: Casual

Berlin is a hugeplace, buttered thickly with fun possibilities, events, nightclubs and never-ending choice of pub-bars. It’s one of those crazy party cities, that can quench any of your nightlife desires. If its a stag do or stag weekends, i would recommend this company -
www.berlinstagweekends.com - If you can think of it, they can probably organize it. From go karting to paintball sessions, vip clubbing and drink pub crawls, they are the team to talk too.

Dress Code: casual and smart, always contact venues