Below you'll find insider tips on getting the best from Berlin, from hints on finding a home to reviews of the hottest restaurants in town.
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Charlottenburg
Queen Sophie Charlotte, wife of King Friedrich I of Prussia, must have been quite a classy lady judging by the burg that bears her name. During the 19th Century, this then city served as... read more
East: Treptow, Lichtenberg & Marzahn
While the Communists made a laudable if sometimes dubiously conceived effort at restoring their portion of the inner city, things quickly turn nightmarish as one heads toward the... read more
Friedrichshain
To get an idea of what the gentrification of Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte was like in the past decade, one only needs to visit Friedrichshain today. Currently navigating those unstable... read more
Kreuzberg
Raffish, rowdy, creative and irreverent – that’s Kreuzberg. Though slightly eclipsed in the 1990s, when the hip were colonising the former GDR neighborhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg,... read more
Mitte
No place in Berlin has been as completely transformed by the events of November 9 1989 as Mitte. It is the oldest and most central district of the original city (the name means ‘centre’),... read more
North: Wedding, Spandau & Pankow
North of the city is a mixed bag. Spandau beckons with its baroque streets and medieval castle, while working-class Wedding has some interesting mid 20th century curiosities. A trip over... read more
Prenzlauer Berg
Occupying the north-east section of the central city, Prenzlauer Berg has come to be identified by a single icon: the baby stroller. A trip to the Saturday open market on Kollwitzplatz... read more
South-West: Wilmersdorf, Grunewald & Zehlendorf
Traveling west from the city centre, it doesn’t take long before the landscape turns decidedly rural. Here, there’s more area given up to greenery than to buildings, though the seasonal... read more
South: Schoneberg, Tempelhof and Neukölln
South of the city centre are the boroughs of Neukölln, Tempelhof and Schöneberg. While all of these fell within the borders of the old West Berlin, a peculiar dynamic has been at work... read more
Tiergarten
Much of Tiergarten is unlivable, but that’s hardly a bad thing – unless you want to live in the zoo. Or elegant park that goes by the same name, and runs the entire length of the borough.... read more
