My wife, daughter and I walked briskly through a slightly shadier part of Berlin to find the Gorgonzola Club. It was a suggestion from a complete stranger at one of the U-Bahn stations as a local favorite. Not as much English spoken here as in the downtown more touristy district of Berlin but we figured out that we should just grab an open table in the back. We stumbled through ordering some apps, drinks and our main entrees and managed to mostly get what we were looking for. Our waitress was kind and spoke a bit of English but had many other tables to attend to and was not always around when we needed her for something. The interior had these quaint wooden tables covered in white paper with real candles (bonus heat on a cold Berlin night) and lots of boisterous and happy folks enjoying their Italian fare. We really liked the setting and felt very comfortable in there. We started with some fresh rosemary bread complemented with several bottled oils and spices to ramp up the heat as desired. I got a giant Pilsner while my wife went with a glass of their house red wine. Our entrees took a bit to arrive but by then we were ready for a second drink anyway and feeling no pain. I had the spaghetti bolognese as did my daughter and we both loved it. My wife commented that it tasted like beef-a-roni but what does she know. She got some type of ravioli that she really enjoyed as well. If you have tired of beer and sausage and want to mix it up a bit, you won't go wrong here. The Gorgonzola club is a little rough around the edges but in the end a great dining experience with wonderful Italian fare. read more

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The first rule of Gorgonzola Club is: You do not speak about Gorgonzola Club. The second rule of Gorgonzola Club is: YOU DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT GORGONZOLA CLUB. Just kidding. I've been here for dinner with friends and was delighted to see this super nice interior. Warm lights are giving the taupe wall some king of magic limestone cave flair which is nicely accompanied with the dark brown of the wood tables and the small stairs that leads to the souterrain area. I really liked that atmosphere. The menu is small and very well slected and surprisingly affordable. Pasta, pizza and wine are all great with fresh ingredients that will make you happy. The weekly changing dinner menu is delicate and well composed. I had a lovely plate of pasta with scampi in white wine sauce and it was very delicious. The only thing I didn't like: If you are a glutton as I am one plate might be not enough. :/ But all in all great food, great interior, great servie: I will come back! read more

Gorgonzola Club - Italian Near Me - Berlin, BE

Great Antipasti with good cold cuts, nice atmosphere but pretty bad pizza and pasta. Ordered linguini with what was supposed to be duck breast, but it looked and tasted like beef. The pasta was pretty dry and salty, maybe I had bad luck with my dish. Also tried the pizza which a friend ordered and the dough was not pizza dough, rather some kind of a flat bread. Pretty nice place for having wine outside though. read more

I've had so much amazing Italian food while in Berlin... I didn't think it was possible to eat this good! Gorgonzola Club definitely tops the list. Terrace seating out front, romantic dark interior with a lot of space, and a lovely little garden terrace nestled in the back of the restaurant. The menu was extensive - pasta, pizzas, main dishes, appetizers, etc. We started the meal with a glass of Prosecco and a plate of bruschetta. The bruschetta is a bit different than the stale toasts topped with tomatoes that many are used to, instead it comes out looking a bit like a pizza and tasting a lot like heaven. A thin dough topped with juicy tomatoes, olive oil and tons of garlic. Don't skip it! Next, I had the seafood pasta which was one of the daily specials. I received a large portion of spaghetti in red sauce filled with the tiniest, sweetest clams, shrimp, squid, and so on. The dish was delicious. I also tried a bite of pizza that a friend ordered - it was very tasty. We finished the meal with an espresso. The food was on-point and memorable. The service was also impeccable. Whether you're in the area or not, Gorgonzola Club is worth a visit! read more

For me, this place ticked all the boxes. It's a small Italian restaurant with dishes mostly in the pizza and pasta range (one of us asked for a vegan option which was accommodated without a problem), prices are fairly low and everything our group tried from pizza and pasta to carpaccio was really good. The interior is lovely - neat and tidy without being fancy and very "gemütlich". The lady serving our food (I think she might be the owner) softly enquired a couple times if we liked the food, without coming across like just asking the typical routine question. If you like spirits ask for a grappa after your meal, I've rarely had such a mellow one. Overall, if I lived in Berlin I'd definitely be back. read more

Gorgonzola Club - Italian Near Me - Berlin, BE

There are several reviews to GC in German, and the most of them don't bless the food. But I was not only once in the restaurant (and NOT always in the bar Würgeengel next door afterwards, so I can remember the meal I had!) and the kitchen was always very very good. Antipasti plate is the runner, pasta always good, I also tried soups and salads. Not boring, delicious food! Interiour is very berlinerisch simple&shabby, and it's overcrowded at night, so maybe not the best place for a business meeting. But to give the evening a glance change to the bar Würgeengel after eating! Just slip through the hole in the wall. But warning! not more than 2 Maithais! read more

C'mon! This place is a GEM. Me and my study abroad friends went here 7+ times while we lived in K-Berg last fall semester. You have to get the pesto pizza! Or the other ones with italian names that I can never remember. Some of their pastas are good too! read more

Highly recommended for large groups. Of course make a reservation in advance.

When a restaurant exceeds your expectations and then adds another layer of pleasure/satisfaction what rating does it deserve? Gorgonzola Club deserves my 5 star rating. We loved the staff, family run with other lovely servers, and we loved the food, the ambiance, the wines. What else do you want? We were treated so well the first time we went it made us Manhattanites feel like local Berliners. Don't tell anyone. read more

Love it, good food and nice atmosphere. Have been here twice and will definitely visit more.

I liked the restaurant and the casual style. Liked the antipasta which had an excellent selection of veggies and meats. The pasta was good, as was the wine. Always busy, especially at weekend. My only reservation with the place is the smoking in the room next door which is fine, if I can't smell it, but I could. Needs better insulation, therefore. Other than that, a good meal (depends how sensitive your nose is!). Our next visit seemed to have better insulation as we sat backing onto the smoking room and I was not able to smell smoke. Still an excellent meal and still really busy, with people being turned away (New Years Day, though). read more

I enjoyed my meal here. I thought the dining room was charming and the service was solid. The antipasti plate was good, as were our pastas (the amatriciana was delicious and properly spicy). A good Kreuzberg option. read more

Gorgonzola Club is kind of like two different places awkwardly grafted together. The front room is dominated by an atmospheric bar which, like several haunts in the neighborhood, boasts a gritty, crumbled kind of elegance and looks older than it is. The back room feels more like a restaurant from a half-century ago: dim and cavernous, with formally-dressed and mannerly servers pulling plates from an awesome dumbwaiter. Together they feel less like a trendy hipster hangout and more like an old-fashioned neighborhood restaurant. Unfortunately, the food is also old-fashioned: not in the Italian grandma way we'd hoped, but more like something out of a 1950's cookbook. A soggy pile of pasta in a bland, nondescript sauce with chunks of overcooked vegetables and meat. Tough and gristly "lamb chops" (which turned out to be much less-tasty neck pieces) drowned in a gelatinous brown sauce with boiled potatoes and wrinkled zucchini. Limp and lifeless salads. It felt like they cut corners by sourcing all the ingredients from budget supermarkets and cooking them to death. That said, they don't skimp on the portions. The starter foccaccias were the one highlight of our meal - nicely baked flat breads with simple toppings, they would have made a fine bar snack with a glass of wine before moving on elsewhere. This is probably the best way to approach Gorgonzola Club - a cozy place to grab a pre-cinema wine and appetizer, rather than a restaurant. read more

a solid italian restaurant in kreuzberg. i sampled a lot of stuff: the antipasti, a carrot soup of the day, and a ravioli with olives and capers were all pretty good. it didn't blow me away, but this is a nice place with a good atmosphere. read more

one of my favorite places to dine in kreuzberg! delicious foods ranging from italian style salads, pizzas, pastas and the like amazing desserts & coffee as well, and the prices are budget-friendly too. love this place!! read more

This was one of the worst restaurant experiences of my life! We made a reservation for 20:30 and arrived 5mins before to find a line out onto the footpath of people waiting for tables. I went and talked to one of the staff and told her we had made a reservation and she told me she to wait and she would seat us soon. 20 minutes later we were seated after all of the walk in's waiting in line before us got to sit down first. Once seated, the restaurant was loud, hot and over crowded. We had a couple of different waitresses serving us over the course of the meal and they were all nice and friendly, but very rushed and service was slow due to the ratio of tables to staff. We ordered an Antipasto Plate and Olives to start and a large red wine. The wine was the most expensive on the menu but was really not very nice (little did we know this would be the highlight of the meal). The Antipasto Plate and Olives arrived and was quite different to the description. Firstly, there were a lot of olives on the Antipasto Plate. This was not mentioned in the menu which is why we ordered the Olives and really the waitress should have mentioned this when we ordered. The serving size of the Antipasto was huge but all of the items on the plate were of low quality and had either little flavour (some odd parmesan cheese wedge not mentioned in the menu). The plate also had a bunch of things that were clearly there to just fill up space, like some steamed broccoli or half a grilled tomato. For our mains I ordered the weeks special of Lamb Chops and my wife ordered the Saltimbocca (thin slices of veal layered with sage leaves and pancetta) off the daily specials chalkboard. Both meals arrived and again were HUGE portions and again were accompanied by and odd selection of steamed vegetables on the plate (broccoli, paprika, boiled potato). My lamb was so tough it was almost impossible to cut and even harder to chew. I'm not sure how it had been prepared but it was drowned in a murky brown sauce that tasted like a Maggi packet from the supermarket (which I despise with a passion). Unfortunately for my wife, I had really got lucky on this occasion. Her Saltimbocca absolutely awful! Again the meat was as tough as an old boot (which seams to be parr for the course at Gorgonzola Club), and again was accompanied by the misplaced selection of bland veges. The Saltimbocca was also swimming in a slightly more pale brown Maggi sauce. Saltimbocca is a rather salty dish simple because of the ingredients but the sauce they served this with was so salty it made the whole plate inedible. We finally got the attention of one of our waitresses and told her we couldn't eat our mains (this is the only time I can remember sending back a main meal at a restaurant). She was very apologetic and tried to offer us something else but by this stage we had been seated over an hour and also didn't fancy our chances of getting something edible so we asked for the bill. She bought the bill (minus the two mains) and again apologised and asked if we would like a free espresso or grappa. She was very nice and the food was not her fault so we paid and gave her a nice tip and left. One other thing that really stood out about the place was that none of the food was overly Italian, let alone authentically Italian, and definitely lacked that Italian pride one would expect. read more