Fine Italian dining at its best! And yes, in Berlin…read more I enjoyed a late lunch here. I had walked past the restaurant on numerous occasions in the evenings when it is rather crowded. They offer seating both outdoors and indoors. I opted to dine outdoors. Nice atmosphere. The waiter spoke German, Italian, and English. He was professional and efficient. Complimentary warm, fresh bread and olives were served first. I ordered a Latte Macchiato and the Spaghetti Aglio Olio. The spaghetti was perfectly cooked, al dente. It was simple, not loaded with many ingredients, just garlic, roasted red peppers, Parmesan, and olive oil. Delicious. Reminiscing makes my mouth water. It was a pleasant expensive.

Based on recent ratings I expected to like this Calice d'Oro more than I did. In the end, it was a…read morerather disappointing experience overall. The restaurant sits along a busy street near The Gate. Atmosphere is nice enough...comfortable seating inside and out under awnings, crisp white table cloths, Italian wait staff straight out of "Central Casting Roma" who charm with Italian greetings and banter. But the good times end there. While menus were brought to our table immediately, taking our order took some time and a few hand gestures to make happen. Food, a pizza and some pasta for my friend, were bland and mediocre at best. Have feeling the orders sat a bit before being delivered as they were lukewarm upon arrival. The pizza was undercooked, under-sauced, and rather boring overall. Pasta was reported to be the same. When it was to go it took three asks to settle the bill. Our charming waiter politely suggested our tip was insufficient (it wasn't), and I left feeling much more like I'd been hoodwinked into dining at a tourist trap vs. having an enjoyable experience. I'm clearly in the minority compared to other recent reviews. Maybe it was just an off-night. But I travel to Berlin enough to know there are some really good small independent places to find great Italian food. This place is not one of them. Diners beware.

A very small but incredible Italian restaurant where a group of 6 of us had an incredible night…read more Our service was a tad slow to begin with but once we got rolling the night was incredible. Our server was great fun, our meal was incredible and we stayed until we could not eat or drink any more...well done.

We had a fabulous meal here! Service was excellent, servers were pleasant and very attentive. We…read morehad a House Specialty appetizer to start, a spinach roll with ricotta and roasted garlic. It was excellent! For the main course, we had a ribbon pasta with chicken and mushrooms in a cream sauce and veal medallions with porcini mushrooms, also with a cream sauce. Both were very tasty. For dessert, we sampled the cheesecake and the pistachio tiramisu, which was quite light and airy. We ate outside and they had blankets available at every table since the weather turned colder today. Overall, it was an excellent experience and I highly recommend it!

I would say this quaint little Italian joint was very good but mainly because it was literally the…read moreclosest restaurant we could walk to from our hotel before everything in town closed after a long day out. The missus and the kid ate here twice just due to the ease after a long day of dragonboat racing in Brandenberg that went from morning to night. We had the pasta with beef medallions in a mushroom cream cognac sauce. It was good in a stroganoff kind of way. The spaghetti bolognese was decent, too, if not anything amazing. Still, staff was friendly and the food was good enough. If you're stuck at that Sheraton hotel around the corner, you can do a lot worse in the nearby area.

Definitely a good restaurant to dine in or order out (we did both). Nice ambiance to dine in &…read morefriendly staff...and of course, the food is really good. We as a large group (7 people) on second time and 3 person on the first time...a walking distance from Sheraton Esplanade hotel. The third time, we ordered out since it was raining & we didn't feel like going out in the rain. We loved this restaurant for the exact reasons = food quality, friendly staff, and cleanliness...and also, limoncello or grappa on the house after your meal (after paid the bill )... life is good !

Surprisingly great food. We just walked by from Berlin wall park up to river side. Looking for a…read moreplace for a quick lunch. And Avanti showed up. We were pretty much done with Eisten or currywurst after being here for a week. Very warm lobby with all open doors. No outside seating so we sat inside next to bar area. The services were very prompt. We chose a goat cheese salad and mushroom pasta. Both dishes exceeded our expectation. Salad was mixed great with walnut and cheese and dressing was light with nice honey taste. very refreshing and tasty. Pasta was nice creamy mushroom sauce with diced beef. Yummy. Price were very reasonable and waiters were very friendly.

This place is close to work and I'm a fan!…read more The restaurant looks relatively modern and very clean. Judging from the interior, I thought the prices would be a bit higher. Everything on the menu is really affordable and I ordered the funghi pizza, which is about €6. My only issue with the pizza was that it needed a more generous glaze of oil or butter on the crust, along with some more tomato sauce because the pizza was a tad dry. I also ordered the tiramisu for dessert and the consistency and texture of this tiramisu reminded me of the ones from Italy. The spoon would easily sink into the dessert and you could see the decadent layers with each bite. However, I do prefer my tiramisu to have a more prominent coffee flavor, but this one tasted more chocolatey like the Nestle hot cocoa mix. To sum it up, if you're craving Italian food and in the area, I would give this place a chance!

There is only one word DUMP! Disgusting and horrible. So bad an environment that we left before the…read morefood came. Sat right by bathroom door , waiter couldn't care less( left a bottle of water (that was unopened and impossible to open), two slices of bread... loud and horrible. Big NO !!!

This place was extremely slow and service was not great. I had one of the pizzas which was good,…read morenut nothing to write home about. The setup and layout is not suitable for large groups.

We had a wonderful experience for dinner while in town. The Moxy hotel suggested that we check it…read moreout and they were not wrong. We enjoyed the olives to start and then shared the house salad. I chose the beef with mushroom pasta, which is on their list of House favorites. It was incredible. We shared a very delicious tiramisu. The restaurant is quaint and friendly. Service was outstanding.

I know, I know. I sure ate a lot of Italian while in Germany. But let's face it, German food is…read moreawful. It's either all pork knuckles, currywurst, and sausages. We met up with a friend who has lived in Berlin for 12 years and she informed us that the hot cuisines right now were Italian, Indian, Vietnamese, and Japanese (but that the well known secret was all the Japanese places are run by Vietnamese so the food is not authentic). She also had friends from Italy who gave her a list of recommendations of the best Italian restaurants in Berlin and this was on their list. And man oh man were they not kidding. The food was amazing. First, it's a very, very tiny but quaint restaurant in what would've been once East Berlin. The staff and chefs are all from Italy and are extremely friendly. Like most places in Berlin, they refuse to give you free tap water, so you have to buy flat or sparkling mineral water. If you speak German sometimes you can get tap water, which is just perfectly fine, but they will tell you at most places it is awful and they won't give it to you. They did this here, too. Anyway, wasn't gonna fight about it. Back to the food. We had three entrees. We had a carbonara, and even if the picture looks slightly odd to you maybe, it was amazing and one of the best we've ever had in the world. My kid was in heaven. And they firmly state they don't make it with cream, as it's supposed to be made. Really killer! Also had the fettuccine con gamberi, which was also amazing. Was very happy with this authentic food, as well. Both these pasta dishes had truly decent sized portions and were reasonably priced. I got the lasagna, which was absolutely delicious. To die for. Only problem was my slice was like a baby portion. I could've eaten two of these and would've gotten something twice the size at any other restaurant I ever went to, so that was the only disappointment. Still, all the food was so good, I almost went back again the next night to eat and try something else. I would've had the whole menu if I was there a month. This is a MUST TRY for anyone in Berlin either living or visiting. Go!!!

Arrived in town and my coworkers wanted Italian. Found this restaurant on Yelp within walking…read moredistance of our hotel and gave it a shot. Busy on a Sunday night which is a good sign. Cozy dining room and outside seating, but too cold to sit outside on this night. Server was good. Menus in German and English. Complimentary bread and oil. Standard bread service but three different types of bread was nice. Burrata and calamari appetizers were good. Burrata was the better of the two. The calamari was nothing special. Tomato soup was excellent. All of the pasta dishes were fresh, hot, and delicious. My truffle pasta was very good. Creamy, hot, and the fresh truffles were excellent. Coworkers loved their spaghetti bolognese and carbonara. And of course, the beer was refreshing :-)

My final Italian meal in Germany was this very popular joint I stumbled upon on Yelp! Located in a…read moresection of Berlin populated with rows of restaurants, this place is happening right now for locals. We went without a reservation and that was a big mistake. Luckily they found one small table for the three of us, but otherwise, the inside and outside dining was overflowing. They also speak little to no English so hopefully you speak German. I think we only go the table because the maitre'd figured giving us a table was easier than trying to figure out what I was saying. Haha! While not as amazing as the two other places I reviewed in Berlin that were also Italian, it was pretty good. We ordered the margherita pizza to start and it tasted good. Sadly it asked for it crispy or well done and they couldn't understand so it was not undercooked but pale as heck. The carbonara was okay but had cream - a big no, no - and was too heavy to finish. The chicken verde (a green peppercorn sauce) was very good and I would highly recommend it. The spaghetti bolognese was pretty good but not as good as other places we tried in Berlin. Still, I would recommend trying this place. Just make sure you have a reservation!

I just ate at Night Kitchen yesterday for dinner with a colleague and it was so phenomenal! We went…read morearound 6pm without a reservation and I didn't think we'd be able to get in given it was a Friday night and the place is usually quite busy, but I think we were early enough to manage to get it. We opted for the Dinner w Friends and drinks menu where the chef decides which meals will come out and unlimited beer/wine are included (for 75€ which is a great deal!). You have a 2 courses where multiple dishes will come out at once - a nice balance of appetizer and fish, meat and vegetable plates. All are shareable and very delicious. Everything was so flavorful! I especially loved their salmon ceviche which was more like a salmon poke, in a Bloody Mary sauce which was so unique and interesting! The sesame seed "bagel" with the pickled veg and tahini sauce were also phenomenal. Throughout our meal, our waiter would come by to check in on what we'd want to drink also while offering shots haha. Everything was fantastic but I'd say the only thing that was just okay was the dessert. They brought 2, one was a chocolate truffle dish and the other was some sort of "cake" made from sorghum flour topped with pistachios. The truffles were good but much too rich and the cake was a little bit of an interesting texture although fine flavor, but nothing that exciting. Otherwise it was a fabulous place to eat and I'd totally go back!

Our meal at Night Kitchen is probably one of the best I've ever had. Thankfully we were able to get…read morea last-minute reservation, and I'm so glad we did. Like other reviews say this restaurant is tucked away in a cute little area with other local businesses and lots of foliage - beautiful. There were a lot of people and it was a bit loud, but you could tell everyone was just happy to be there and enjoying each others company. The service was great - we were even offered shots multiple time throughout our meal which was fun. But truly, the star was the food. We ordered the bagel, the burrata, the broccolini, the braised beef and the chicken thighs. My personal standouts were the broccolini and the chicken, but everything was truly amazing. The broccolini was plated on a skordalia sauce - which I had never heard of - but nearly licked off the plate. The chicken thighs though...are probably the best thing I've ever eaten. Unique, juicy, sweet, savory, creamy, umami, everything. I will dream about that dish until my next trip to Berlin, you just have to get it. Overall, Night Kitchen is definitely worth the hype and I highly recommend anyone considering it to (1) go and (2) make a reservation to secure your spot.