Berlin - Nightlife - Performance

Michaelkirchstrasse 23, Berlin 10179
+49 (0)30 5105 2134

Kater Holzig

Riverside techno carnival club for glassy-eyed hipster clowns, oversized and understaffed. Much-anticipated antecedent to legendary Bar 25 (RIP), marathon dance orgies are main attraction with wide... read more

Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9, Berlin 10178
+49 (0)30 2434 2920

.HBC

Alternative events space playing host to city's hip, art cliques housed in the super-weird, sprawling digs of Berlin's former Hungarian Cultural Center. Restaurant serving delicate Francophile dish... read more

Schönhauser Allee 6/7, Berlin 10119
+49 30 5034 8668

White Trash Fast Food

Hyper-kitsch restaurant/bar/club reveling in solid rock n' roll with campy oriental décor meets wildly tripped out family-style dining. Spread across three floors teeming with colorful local... read more

Am Wriezener Bahnhof 1, Berlin 10243
+49 30 2935 1830

Berghain/Panorama Bar

Best advice to get into what’s touted as "the world's best techno club” is shut up in line. Sound easy? Not when the wait is two hours long. To avoid, go early (midnight) or late (7am),... read more

Richardstrasse 10, Berlin 12043
+49 (0)30 3472 0717

Sameheads

Emerging talent scout boutique of creative stylings for Berlin's hipster avant guardians. Three British expat brothers opened shop to give fledgling artisans retail hospitality. Bright-eyed newcome... read more

Warschauer Strasse 34, Berlin 01243
+49 (0)30 8975 1327

Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke

Berlin's most infamous karaoke bar comes equipped with seven private rooms to serenade your loved ones. Dressed up in trashy saloon décor with themed nights, promising drunken debauchery und... read more

Torstrasse 58, Berlin 10119
+49 (0)30 2804 6495

Kaffee Burger

DDR-style dive bar hosting everything from dance parties to lit readings to avant-garde Yiddish cabaret. Having been around since the 1930s, this locale has its share of history and was even a meet... read more

Oranienstrasse 34, Berlin 10999
+49 (0)30 6110 7469

Luzia

Just around the corner from Kotti's charming crackheads is this Parisian café meets funky euro salon. Authentic local spot for milling about among students, artists, drunks, trannies and soc... read more

Sonnenallee 27, Berlin 12047

O Tannenbaum

Beyond dive bar pulsing with the blood, sweat, tears of unhinged artistry, courtesy of neighborhood creatives. Live acts run the gamut from painful performance art to experimental electro concerts ... read more

Oranienstraße 190, Berlin 10999
+49 30 6140 1306‎

SO36

Radically liberal club of historic import for gigs ranging from Social Distortion to Desmond Dekker—counterculture stomping grounds, SO36 doesn't discriminate. Named for leftist multi-cultura... read more