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!

We popped in here randomly, just walking around Mitte. A real locals joint, and it was a fantastic…read moretime! Friendly regulars, cold beer, and it looked like it was women/family owned. I'd come back here any time, and hope that any time is soon!

I walked into this bar since it was near my hotel and had no idea what to expect because it was…read moreclear that no English was being spoken. This turned out to be a great evening out in Berlin. First the music in the background was "a kick" because there were many English songs being sung in German. Have you ever heard Chattanooga Choo Choo in German? They had a great selection of beer a nice old fashioned juke box and the place felt like Cheers. They pour a big drink and everybody that came in said hello. You can play a game of pool, sit outside to smoke (and you shouldn't) or try to tell time with their backward clock. A lot of regulars go here and I got a chance to meet a great couple from London. This is just a great, friendly old-fashioned pub

Terrific little restaurant in Berlins Mitte neighborhood. All the usual German specialties can be…read morefound for reasonable prices. The pork schnitzel was phenomenal, and the bartenders know how to do a great cocktail. Definitely recommend the Long Island iced tea.

Finished our vacation here in Europe tonight and asked the hotel for a good eat. They referred us…read morehere with a sort walk. My wife has the mushroom based chicken and I the lamb. Both dishes were great and total bill including to beverages was 40 euros. Service was wonderful and inviting

Not bad at all. Good for outdoor seating during COVID; some nice beers on the menu; no cocktails…read moredescribed, but they were on offer. They had an odd baked potato covered in sour cream, sun dried tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs which somehow worked. Sweet staff.

Got here on a sunny Friday after a Walk around Pankow and…read moreloved the sunshine getting through the windows around lunch time. Decided to give it a chance and I do not regret it. The food was great, people are really friendly, quality of the food was fresh and perfectly cooked. Coming from London I couldn't believe the whole thing including some fresh ginger tea cost me less than 10 euros. Really recommend that place.

A nice quiet place I found while I was walking around Alexanderplatz and needed to burn some time…read morebefore my flight. I needed my last Germany meal to be official. Huge schnitzel with spätzle and mushroom cream sauce. It was a little salty but very delicious and I'm surprised I liked it as much as I did. Restrooms in the basement were very clean, staff was kind and service was fast.

Tasty food, quick service. I had the one with spinach, hold the speck. Service was pleasant,…read moreambiance was minimal, price was reasonable. One of the better options in the area.

Excellent little restaurant/pub not far from central Berlin. The staff couldn't have been…read morefriendlier and were very helpful with their recommendations. The pig knuckle which was what I came for was excellent! Super tender and flavorful with unctuous fatty goodness. It paired excellent with mustard and a slightly sweet sauerkraut. I wanted to try the potato dumpling and they were happy to make a side dish so I could try it. Also tried their Hackethals lager which was very good a dark and slightly sweet caramelized lager and also a foussebasse (lemonade soda kind of drink). The apple streudel was ok, nice apple and pretty presentation, but flavor was just ok for me. Really pleasant dinner in a very cute pub and really excellent staff. Loved it! They also take reservations via email and are very responsive.

Outstanding neighborhood eatery and bar…read more This was, without a doubt, the best restaurant we visited in Berlin. It was within walking distance from the hotel, and good reviews convinced us to give it a try. We arrived just before the kitchen closed, but they greeted us graciously and sat us for dinner. Food was outstanding, but that was only the beginning. After our meal of sausages followed by desert and accompanied with their own beer, we sat a while longer and met the owners Frank and Nils, and a couple of regulars, Andrea and Anton. Our night of a quick dinner turned into an evening of great conversation and drinks with new friends. This was a fantastic evening, made only better by Frank offering us taste tests of the sauce he was preparing for the next days venison. OUTSTANDING! DO NOT pass this up. And say hello to Frank and Nils from me.

We stopped in here for dinner on our last night in Berlin. We were excited to try their various…read moreGerman tapas, as it gave us the opportunity to try several traditional German dishes without committing to a big plate, which is especially nice for us mostly-vegetarian-but wanting-to-try-some-German-dishes types. I loved the classy ambiance, but found the establishment very child-friendly. We were given bread with several decadent spreads to start with, followed by an amuse-bouche of mushrooms and a plum dumpling. Outstanding! For our tapas, we ordered the soup of the day, a carrot salad, potato gratin, schnitzel, meatball with sauerkraut, salmon and spinach rolls. The standouts being the potatoes and the salmon rolls, while the others were decent. We also ordered one of the flammekuchen, which was fantastic. We were worried that it might not be enough food, but it turned out to be too much and we ended up carrying home a doggie bag. The food at Restaurant Die Schule was very tasty, but the highlight of the evening truly was our server, Nico, who was so attentive and kind. And his suggestions were spot-on. I have already suggested this place to my friends in Berlin.

As travelers in Berlin, still getting to know the city, we reached outside our comfort zone to…read moretravel away from the tourist areas of Berlin to find this absolute gem! German tapas! Who knew such a thing exists! I can not adequately describe what we ordered: tomato sorbet, goat cheese, pomegranate seeds, herring salat, scallops, so many ingredients, put to such excellent use. Lovely outdoor dining patio. Local history in the menu, which was provided in English as well as German. It is also on the tram line, M12 for sure, M1 probably.

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.

Five stars for authentic German ambiance, welcoming service, fair pricing and most of all, the…read morefreshly prepared traditional entrees like our trout and veal schnitzel. Delicious.

(3.5 stars) Really enjoyed the currywurst and fries here, though I wish there was more sauce for…read morethe fries. The meat was quite good, fries were fine. Beer on tap not my favorite but easy to drink.