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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Places to Shop
Whether you're willing to max out the credit card at an international designer store or raid the piggy bank to pay for a vintage rarity at the markets, you won't be short of options.... read more
Areas To Shop
Unlike Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, which revel in their grittier, unpretentious atmosphere, Prenzlauer Berg is unashamedly more upmarket. Shoppers head here for the classier boutiques... read more
Shopping Malls - Main
On the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Franzoesische Strasse, Quartier 207 is largely taken up by the Galeries LaFayette department store. Though not as showy as Quartier 206, it’s still a... read more
Department Stores
The newest of Berlin’s department stores, it’s gone to great effort to make its presence felt. From the second you enter the art deco foyer of ritzy Quartier 206 it’s clear that behind... read more
Independent Shops
Like a lot of Berlin’s newest and coolest shops, it’s a little hard to categorise Heimat. Not strictly a clothes shop, although it does have some super funky streetwear; not a bag shop,... read more
Markets
Held in the same square that John F. Kennedy made his famous ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech some forty odd years ago, the location is more interesting than the goods on offer. Lacking in... read more
Supermarkets & Hypermarkets
Germans tend to buy their bread from bakeries, their meat from butchers and their fruit and veg from grocers and markets. Still, every neighbourhood in Berlin has several supermarkets but... read more
