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    Das Lemke

    3.3 (158 reviews)
    ModerateBreweries, German, Beer Garden
    Closed 12:00 pm - 11:00 PM

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Dogs allowed

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    Thomas M.

    To be honest, we walked over here because LB are my wife's initials but had a great time. Different types of beers, with a large bar space, inside and out. We got a few drinks and just kind of hung around with locals. It's a cool space under the subway/street so you really feel like you're in Berlin. Very easy to get to either walking or by subway.

    Kurtis J.

    Think of this as a pretty sweet brewery with great food, so much so you can't tell if they are kitchen- or brewery-first! I recommend the flight lineup, be stupid not to order these at a brewery in my opinion. Don't be fooled by the menu prices because they are family sized. Goulash came in a pot with a ladle equipped and everything. Sausage, sausage, sausage. Yum.

    Marco T.

    The beer is excellent and available in the right variety, without falling into the annoying IPA-centric trend-trap. Evenings are usually quite full, and the waiters seem to be at the maximum of their capacity at all times, so don't mind waiting for anyone to seat you, or providing swift service - they're quite busy with the mass of customers. I had the 'Original' beer, which was excellent, along with the salmon Flammkuchen, which was unfortunately a bit cold (understandable for the salmon, not the rest of the Flammkuchen). My advice: Come here in the late afternoon for a beer, or sit at the bar in the evening for a drink, but there are other typical German restaurant at the Hackescher Markt that offer better food.

    A small Bohemian Pilsner compared to a glass of Sprite.
    Peter L.

    They have many types of beers on tap. The chalkboard menu was clear and in readable font/style which many bars should do more of, really. More of a craft beers place than a standard beer hall joint. However, my small beer was pretty big. Located near the rail lines of Hackescher Markt (https://www.yelp.com/biz/s-bhf-hackescher-markt-berlin-2). Solid place to stop in to rest or wait before dinner (We had dinner plans elsewhere so cannot review how the food was). Even though there is a bar area, it is table service only even if you're ordering just a beer/drink.

    9 euros for a flight
    Sanam A.

    Good for groups if you can get a table and youre luckier with service. This place isway from the nearby market, but under the train tracks so it can get a bit noisy. Service was terrible. We started out as a group of 5 friends around 5pm. Half of the restaurant patio was closed until 6pm and many of the tables in the open section had signs saying reserved. We sat at a small table and asked if we could make a reservation for 6pm on the closed side because we had other friends joining. I was told that would be fine so we sat at a smaller table, expecting to move at 6pm. After we settled, 2 couples came and sat at smaller tables and were served before us by our server. I tried to get tap water and was told I could not. Same goes for filling up my water bottle. Once we finally got our drinks & food (fries were amazing), we had a nice time only because the weather was good & the beers refreshing. 6pm came around and we were now 8 people and sitting very tightly together. We asked to move to the other side but were told no because the tables seat 4 over there. The waiter said we could not move the tables. I will definitely not come back here.

    Ale and lager selection
    Lina H.

    Great brewery with great food The ambience was very warm and cosy with candle light. They provide a small interesting selection of their ale and lager to taste. The food was good too. Staff was very welcoming and knowledgeable of the products.

    Their own pale ale
    Patrick H.

    I had a great experience here last night for dinner. Service was very quick and friendly in a fun German beer hall atmosphere. I ordered a sausage dish that came with sauerkraut and potatoes and it was excellent for 10 euros. Along with my food I tried two of the beers that they brew themselves. The pale ale was ok but the IPA was really good.

    Eisbein mit sauerkraut und mashed potatoes
    Ryan M.

    Great food and good drinks. We ordered the Hax'n and Eisbein and loved every bite of it. I dont think I can eat for the next 3 days.

    Michal D.

    Nice brewry with quality house beers. We ordered some light summer varieties anf they were both excelent. The garden is leafy and cool too. S trains roared on our heads but it feels fun and authentic.

    Henry L.

    Run away from the tourist trap. Enjoy a currywüster - or however it is you spell it - over here. Nice place. Very good, flavor-full beer.

    Lemke's Salad (vegetarian)
    Chris W.

    Fun Biergarten atmosphere with simple, delicious, and reasonably priced entrées. As a bonus, their house beers are quite varied, especially for Germany. We had the beer sampler which really shows off their different brewing styles (€8). lf your interested in more than "ein Pils", I recommend it. The spätzle was excellent and the Lemke's salad, delicious. We ate on the terasse. We made reservations so that we had our own table. You can also go without reservations and have the long communal table experience as is typical for a Biergarten.

    Beer sampler. Tasty!
    Anna W.

    We went here because it took Amex, my company issued card. Was pretty standard German food, but the beer sampler was on the decent side but pricey. Nice to have an imperial IPA for a change! We shared the cheese plate as an appetizer, had to ask for more bread and the waiter brought only 3 more pieces for 4 people--not incredibly helpful. I ate the roast pork loin which was okay, salty, but the dumplings as a side were good. Then later the waiter was very short with us as we were trying to separate the bill. Space is good for groups, biergarten is nice but gets loud when the train passes by, every 10 minutes or so.

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    Brauhaus Lemke was a place I was meaning to try when I first visited Berlin but I only put that right on the second visit.

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    Stadtklause

    Stadtklause

    4.3(202 reviews)
    2.6 kmKreuzberg

    Fantastic local place to get some low-frills eats and beer! Very friendly staff who accommodated us…read morewithout a hitch. We came here after having been turned away by an Indonesian restaurant that was "full for the night". We are so glad that fate brought us here instead of that Indonesian restaurant!! What were we even thinking anyway -- forget the Indonesian food, get the local specialities!! Ordered the schnitzel as well as the meatballs and both were executed perfectly. Schnitzel was hot and crispy on the outside and tender on the inside -- not overly salty either. Meatballs were juicy and packed with flavor from the minced onions that they had mixed in. The beer (we ordered a Pilsner) was the best that we had tried in all of the Berlin and Dresden restaurants that we visited. I believe it is from some small private brewery affiliated with the restaurant somehow. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it right, so definitely order the house beer. Super cozy seating (you'll probably be sharing a table with other guests) and packed all night long but amazing vibes and casual comfort food. Would come back if I ever visit Berlin again!

    They must have expanded as the menu seems the same and it was quite big and clean. Not a dive at…read moreall. Also they take credit cards. We tried to go to a nearby Greek place but they were full and kind of rude too. We walked over here and the place was empty at 6:30 pm so a bit worried. No need. The draft Pilsner was very excellent and the food was outstanding and reasonably priced. We got pork schnitzel and meatballs and it was really very tasty. Would recommend!

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    Stadtklause - Gastraumnische mit Bestuhlung aus der Bernburger Straße

    Gastraumnische mit Bestuhlung aus der Bernburger Straße

    Stadtklause - Scrambled eggs with bread, pickles, and sauerkraut :)

    Scrambled eggs with bread, pickles, and sauerkraut :)

    Stadtklause - Unfortunately not open according to Yelp's hours. Check the restaurant's website before you go.

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    Unfortunately not open according to Yelp's hours. Check the restaurant's website before you go.

    Prater Garten

    Prater Garten

    4.0(303 reviews)
    1.9 kmPrenzlauer Berg
    €€

    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.

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    Prater Garten - Plenty of outdoor seating

    Plenty of outdoor seating

    Prater Garten - Hefeweizen (€5.50)

    Hefeweizen (€5.50)

    Prater Garten

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