One thing about Germans here is that they love their cappuccino's, pastries, and pretzels for…read morebreakfast! This cozy little spot with a chill vibe was nice to relax at noshing on some pretzels while in town to run the Berlin Marathon. Had a few visits here to help me carb load the days before the race -LOL! Menu all in German and little English was spoken here but staff was friendly and had no problem ordering.

I could live in here honestly. Between the amazing pretzels, the tremendous music always playing…read moreand the strong coffee, jet lag's got nothing on me! Cash only and tap water on request (snicker). Seriously though, if this place were in Nashville I would honestly move my office here. The vibe is mellow and welcoming even for us from the states.

I am writing this review on behalf of my mother, who insists that I let everyone know that Ditsch…read morehas by far the best soft pretzel in Germany. Even though I told her that Ditsch is like the 7-11 of Germany and there is one on every corner, she insists that people should know that this is the place to find the perfect, warm, soft, delicious pretzel. To be fair, my Mom is right, guys.

best snack for the price and if you are in a hurry nothing like a fresh, warm and salty pretzel hot…read morefrom the oven!! sehr lecker!!

Nice charming neighborhood bakery! Went to get some good German pastries and pretzels.read more

Nice spot not too far from our hotel while walking and exploring the neighborhood the days after…read morethe Berlin Marathon. very nice little breakfast spot. Casual vibe and nothing fancy but the food offerings were good and tasty. Of course, it was another place offering all kinds of yummy pastries, breads, and cappuccinos! Germany does it right for breakfast!

German food can be hard to find in Berlin…read more You can find German food at Prater Garten. Prater Garten has a double distinction. Outdoors, it has the oldest biergarten in Berlin. Indoors, it has an upscale German restaurant of distinction. The biergarten is not my style. If I am going to spend all day sitting outside drinking beer, I want the location to be outstandingly beautiful. Prater Garten's Plain Jane courtyard doesn't cut it. The indoor restaurant though is a different story. This is the traditional German restaurant of your dreams. The Gaststatte was the culinary peak experience of a month of serious Berlin eating. * * * Prater Gaststatte looks just the way you would expect a German restaurant to look. Dark woods. Wainscotting. Cream walls. The menu for both food and drink are limited, although they do change seasonally. This means that they make the same dishes over and over and over again. They have brought them to a high level of perfection. They only serve three beers at Prater Gaststatte, beers they brew themselves. I have no doubt those beers are wonderful. However, Prater Gaststatte had the Holy Grail of what I had come to Germany looking for Artisanal German Schnapps and Artisanal German Distilled Spirits. Bars in Berlin just don't carry those. Prater Gaststatte had a curated selection of six. (Actually a curated selection of five. The sixth item was a traditional Czech rarity.) Indiana Jones had just found his treasure. German Spirits are strong. Judiciousness limited my consumption to three. I went with a Nordhauser Doppelkorn, a Dirker Hasselnussgeist and a Stahl Birnenschnaps. Doppelkorn is a German alternative to vodka. It is 76 proof, just slightly weaker than a traditional vodka. It can be made from any of five different grains, but the rye-malt combo is the most common. The Nordhauser is an eminently superior alt-vodka - consummately smooth yet full of taste. I could have done a string of those happily. The Dirker and Stahl were both schnapps: hazelnut and pear respectively. I have never had a beverage like the hazelnut schnapps. It was not a liqueur. It was a strong brandy. Nothing sweet or cloying here. It was commanding like a brandy but smooth like the Doppelkorn. The hazelnut taste was overwhelming. It was as baritone and nutty as an Amaretto. An utterly unforgettable beverage. I stuck my neck out by going with a pear brandy. Most pear brandies are awful. I had had one and only one in my life that was good, the Finnish product Xante. Nothing is as good as Xante. Xante tastes like the canned pears served in heaven. But the Stahl Birenschnapps impressed. Nothing cloying. A real fresh pear taste. I was a very happy guy. * * * Note that although my beverages were outstanding, The food was even better. Given the quality of my distilled spirits, that last sentence is saying quite a lot. Never mind the strawberries I had for dessert. It is the beginning of strawberry season in Germany, And my meal had been so substantial that anything other than fruit would have been a crime. Spring is asparagus season in Germany. German restaurants will have one third to one half of all the dishes be asparagus dishes. I ate my fair share of mediocre asparagus dishes elsewhere in Berlin. The cream of asparagus soup at Prater Gaststatte is utterly to die for. Nothing tastes more like asparagus than that cream soup. And good cream soups are one of the fundamental pleasures of life. However, the headliner act which blew me away was their Brandenburger Pork Chop. A Brandenburger Pork Chop is a thick double-cut pork chop. The only way to get a "good" pork chop in the United States is to go to a steak house and pay steak house prices. American steak houses typically cheat by cooking it in apple juice so the pork chop gets caramelized. You eat well, but you are still covering up a ho-hum pork chop. This was a we-don't-have-to-hide-under-anything superlative pork chop. Yes there was about a tablespoon of red cabbage on top of the pork chop. It was like a maraschino cherry on top of a huge slab of meat. That pork chop had nothing to apologize for. It was a magnificent piece of meat. Easily a third of it was outer fat - outer fat that had been broiled to perfection. The pork chop fat was the star ballerina. The pork chop meat was the male dancer holding up that ballerina in a romantic pas-de-deux. It was the absolutely perfect pairing. (Anyone who uses that pork chop and ballet to make a joke about "Swine Lake" will be thrown off Yelp permanently.) Suffice it to say, I liked the meat course. Accompanying that was the potatoes au gratin of your dreams, And the green beans with bacon of your dreams. I never wanted to wake up. * * * If you come to Berlin, Come to Prater. Skip the Biergarten. Eat at the Restaurant. Deutscheland, Deutscheland Uber Alles!

Just noting that as of this review the hours are incorrect on Yelp so better check the website…read morebefore you go. It opens at noon, not 6pm on Saturdays. There are plenty of tables with communal seating. It wasn't super busy when I was there but admittedly the weather was pretty poor so I imagine it gets buzzier when the sun is out. I ordered a beer, some sauerkraut and a pretzel. Beer was nice, as was the food. Pretzel seemed stale upon initial inspection but was actually pretty good. They have mustard on the side. Overall, didn't wow me, but it was a nice stop and I'd recommend for someone wanting a chill biergarten to visit in Berlin.

Bäcker Wiedemann is a bakery café chain with over 30 locations in Germany. Located on the corner of…read morePariser Platz looking towards the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate), they sell pastries, bread, drinks, and sandwiches. Feedback first. We were initially attracted to the window display of sandwiches because we wanted to quick meal and they looked great. They do not to toast or warm-up sandwiches or pastries here. Overall, we liked the flavor the sandwiches, but the bread consistently through all through three sandwiches were somewhat stale. That's three kinds of bread of three types of sandwich (chicken, beef, and salami) that we had trouble chewing. I had the easiest time chewing through my salami sandwich, and even that involved me have to twist the sandwich as I ripped a bite off. This also became the first time I tried zwetschgenkuchen (German plum cake), which essentially felt like eating plum skins on a piece of slightly stale bread? I think I should have tried it somewhere else. Latte and cappuccino were pretty though. We first noticed them when we saw people in the front using the bread to feed the pigeons, even guiding them to fly into their hands. So after full-on sprinting through how many blocks to make our scheduled visit to the Reichstagsgebäude (Reichstag Building) and reveling in the Brandenburger Tor afterward, we just wanted someplace to sit down, to get out of the rain and cold, and maybe a drink and rushed lunch. There was still a number of places we still needed to go so there was no time for a full-on lunch and so just drifted back towards that corner since we couldn't really see any other places. Overall, it was a decent place to rest if you're just looking for a convenient, immediate place to stop and go or take shelter in. There wasn't anybody else there at the time, so we had plenty of room to put our set things to the side without getting in anybody's way. The Starbucks next door sells a lot of the same things and then some (coffee, sandwiches, and cakes), so you could go there as well. However, I would also recommend trying Adlon To Go, a small, fancier coffee shop ALSO selling the same kinds of items that are almost directly across the square from Bäcker Wiedemann.

24/7/19 @7:10, TERRIBLE service and very RUDE server. If you order take away you will be kicked…read moreout. Order dine-in if you want to use their facility. Definitely NOT coming back!

Very nice bakery in Old Town. Fresh bread and all sorts of baked goods…read more They also have hot beverages available.

Love, love, love. Sadly they do not have self- control available for their visitors, but they do…read morehave beautifully prepared sweet or savory bread related products - there really is no better place to go. I can't honestly say that I searched for variety - when I know that I like something, why stray? Cinnamon rolls - not the cloying type that you get covered in a sugar glaze - these had a fair bit of sugar, but it was neatly tucked into the rolls of the cinnamon. There was a focaccia type bread served with juicy mini tomatoes, rosemary and ethereal goodness (no extra charge). Most people knew what they wanted on the efficiently run lines, but those who did not received painstaking explanations. I liked it and still think about each of the items I tried (and those I missed)

Donuts were really good and fresh even though we went late in the day after dinner! They were very…read morehelpful explaining the flavors since they were not in English. I forgot the name of the donut I got (pictured) but it was a signature flavor and had a delicious cream filling!

Very good donuts. They're vegan but you won't miss whatever they would put in the donuts to have…read morethem not be vegan. Lots of flavor options from plain to wild. Service is pretty basic. Order at a machine and pick up your donuts. Ambience is nice fast food-ish.

OMG so much love for this place. I will remember it for the rest of my life. Arrived god knows…read morewhen, stayed till 6am, lapped up every second and then some, and walked out into sunny Berlin streets reeking with promise. There is simply no way to describe the depth of the experience I had here.

here's a great metric for how good a place is: i'm a non-smoker and HATE having my clothes reek of…read moresmoke the next day, but i still think some places are worth toughing it out. Lerchen+Eulen is one of these places. it's been one of my go-to spots in this neighborhood for years and i don't see that changing. Svenja's review is right on: there are plenty of bars like this around Berlin --cozy secondhand furniture jumbled together like a bad Tetris game, warm low lighting, great coffee+alcohol-- but the specific details set it apart. the staff are amazingly friendly (seriously, i wonder where they find these saints!), their cakes are always delicious and the perfect balance to their coffee, and you can get whatever kind of seat your little heart desires: curling-up-with-book benchseats in the big windows, working-with-laptop table seats, barstools for hanging with the bartenders, cuddling-sofas, and outdoor tables in summer for people-watching. it's a great spot for most times: earlier in the day, it's mellower and emptier (and less like a smokehouse), so is nice for working or catching up with friends. the wooden-tiled floors (very cool!) and brick archways, the old jazz and blues on the stereo, the old chairs and wooden tables decorated with fresh flowers and candles in big jars, make the space feel somehow a bit like a country inn during the day, a perfect pause from the bustle of the Markthalle next door. when Lerchen+Eulen fills with people at night, the dense layout and multiple rooms make for a wonderful coziness for huddling together...and Drinking (with a capital 'D'). Svenja's right, their Moscow Mules hold their own, but they're also one of the few bars in the area to serve the delicious local Potsdamer Stange beer from the Braumanufaktur. all in all, a perfect addition to your full weekend ritual on Pücklerstrasse: stop by the Pony Hütchen for second-hand gear+furniture, then the Markthalle Neun for groceries+lunch, then to Lerchen+Eulen for all your caffeinated and alcoholic needs...

We showed up without a reservation and maybe :05 before they were open (forgot the damn "open now"…read morebutton, again) but the nice lady seated us outside, and took amazing care of us. One of the best meals I had in Europe, the special, "truffle-pasta with tomato and parmagiano" was so good we had it as a main and again as dessert, lol. If you're in the neighborhood, look for the sweet vw bus and get some wine and nibbles.

Lovely wine cafe with even better food. We loved the family feel, and the menu was so large - tough…read moreto decide what to get when everything sounded and smelled incredible. Ended up trying a local Riesling & multiple cheese/meat boards. Can't wait to be back. Service was also lovely.