Where to Eat in Berlin The Best Coffee Shops, Natural Wine Bars & Restaurants

Berlin is one of Europe’s most dynamic food cities – a melting pot of cultures where traditional German flavors meet global influences. From iconic döner kebabs and rustic gasthaus fare to Michelin-starred tasting menus and world-class cocktail bars, the German capital offers endless options for food lovers.

With the guidance of the hungriest man in Berlin, Per Meurling from Berlin Food Stories, we ate our way across the city to create the ultimate Berlin restaurant guide. This curated list highlights the best restaurants in Berlin, along with the city’s top cafés, bakeries, and bars – from fine dining institutions to hole-in-the-wall hidden gems. Whether you’re craving authentic Mexican tacos, natural wine and small plates, or the perfect scoop of Italian gelato, we’ve got you covered if you’re wondering where to eat in Berlin.

In this Berlin food map, you’ll find all our favorite spots in one place so you can plan your perfect culinary adventure. Explore the best places to eat in Berlin by scrolling through the list on the right or clicking the pins on the map. All locations are listed in geographical order.

Tim Raue is the most internationally renowned restaurant in Berlin. It holds two Michelin stars, has been frequently ranked on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, and was even featured on Netflix’s Chef’s Table. Tim Raue remains at the top of its game – in fact, it’s our favorite fine dining restaurant in the city. While the menu previously leaned more Asian, Raue has re-embraced his German roots and now offers two distinct tasting menus: one German and one more Asian-inspired. No matter which menu you choose, don’t miss the signature wasabi langoustine – Norwegian langoustine brined in wasabi mayonnaise, tempura-fried, and served with a Thai-style vinaigrette. This is craveable fine dining food.

Nobelhart & Schmutzig (“noble, hard, & filthy”) is a Michelin-starred restaurant that has been repeatedly ranked on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. The concept focuses on regional produce – Micha Schäfer, the creative culinary director, and his team serve what’s in season from small-scale local farmers. It’s a “farmer first” mentality – they take whatever the farmers have and design the menu around that. Billy Wagner (owner and sommelier) takes a similar approach with the wine program, supporting and showcasing female producers alongside men, and highlighting other beverages like craft beers, ciders, and fruit wines. Don’t expect traditional fine dining – the food is simple and sometimes rustic. Each dish uses no more than a few ingredients to let the produce speak for itself. Guests are kindly asked to put away phones and cameras for the duration of the meal to make it a “less media, more social” experience. It’s an opportunity to disconnect from the outside world and be fully present in the moment.

Stoke is one of our favorite restaurants in Berlin, serving world-class yakitori. The place is hip and cool, with a gorgeous wooden bar centered around a wood-fired grill, and the team is extremely friendly. You can order skewers à la carte or opt for the Stoke menu, which comes with five skewers plus some signature dishes. One favorite bite from our visit was the chopped chicken liver toast – caramelized bread topped with a rich chicken liver paste, chives, and a sprinkle of sansho pepper. This is a must-order! We also loved the negima skewer with chicken and Roscoff onions, the tsukune (chicken meatball) with a tare-cured egg yolk, and the fatty Iberico secreto skewer with peach mustard on the side. Such juicy, delicious pork – this was our favorite bite of the meal!

Self-taught chef Karl-Louis Kömmler and co-owner Mical Rosenblat began hosting supper club-style dinners before opening their own restaurant. Just over a year after opening, Loumi earned its first Michelin star. The intimate space features an L-shaped counter facing the open kitchen and a small dining room. The vibe is casual, but the food feels much fancier. Loumi offers a great value-for-money tasting menu with French, Japanese, and Nordic influences – eight courses for €150. Our favorite dish was the dry-aged Spanish tuna belly with dashi-soaked, deep-fried eggplant, piment d’Espelette foam, crispy seaweed, and yuzu zest. These are young passionate chefs with a lot of promise – Loumi is one to watch!

If you’re craving a burger in Berlin, head to Goldies – it’s our favorite in town. While the classic cheeseburger tastes like an elevated McDonald’s burger, simply dressed with American cheese, ketchup, mustard, pickles, and diced onions, the "7th Street Burger" is where it’s at. It’s one of the thinnest, most compact smash burgers we’ve ever seen – a small, snack-sized single patty served on a Martin’s potato roll. Get a double for the best textural experience! We loved the caramelized lace on the thin, crispy patties, with diced onions smashed into the meat, caramelized onions on top, a peppery punch, and a special mayo-based sauce with garlic and a hint of mango purée for fruity freshness. This is a great smash burger!

We did not expect to have some of the best tacos of our lives in Berlin – but that’s exactly what happened at Tacos El Rey. This sit-down taqueria (from the team behind street food taco hotspot El Oso at Markthalle Pfefferberg) presses fresh tortillas to order to prepare their signature tacos. We ate our way through the menu, devouring taco after taco in disbelief that we’d found such authentic Mexican food in Germany. We loved the crunchy pork skin pieces in the chicharron taco – a perfect contrast to the juicy, tender meat. The ribeye taco was another highlight, with incredibly tender meat brushed with birria beef fat – an absolute flavor bomb, with premium steak that melted in the mouth. The chorizo taco is light and nutty, while the birria is a decadent, cheesy grease trap.

Barra is, hands down, our favorite restaurant in Berlin. This casual hotspot has a Michelin Bib Gourmand and is beloved by chefs and locals alike, so be sure to make a reservation. The menu is constantly in motion, featuring seasonal small plates made for sharing, and there wasn’t a single miss on our visit. We were blown away by the insanely flavorful food. We started with fluffy focaccia and grilled sweet corn glazed with hazelnut honey butter, continued with a fresh and spicy combo of tuna, tomato, and marigold, and devoured richer plates like mushrooms with egg yolk sauce and an incredibly crispy fried skate wing with tartar sauce. There’s always a daily pasta (tonnarelli with pistachio cream and stracciatella on our visit), perfectly cooked seafood and meats (the Iberico pork chop was a showstopper), and wonderfully inventive desserts. The Sicilian mango with yogurt ice cream and rice pudding tasted like mango sticky rice meets a creamsicle – it was so good we ordered seconds. This is the one meal you absolutely can’t miss in Berlin.

Jaja is a tiny natural wine bar and eatery, like something straight out of Paris, located in the Neukölln district of Berlin. The walls are lined with wine bottles featuring beautiful labels, most of them from France, including some of our favorite producers. The food menu consists of small plates meant for sharing, all proudly made in-house from local and organic ingredients.

Wax On, previously featured on the 50 Best Bars list, is our favorite cocktail bar in Berlin. With friendly people, chill vibes, and great drinks, it's a relaxed hangout with cafeteria-style tables, clipboard menus, and a stripped-down, no-frills space. Bartender Sam Orrock previously worked at Scout in London. We loved both the House Sour, made with pisco, white peach umeshu, yogurt, and whiskey infused with makrut lime, and the Paloma, a carbonated cocktail made with a passionfruit and grapefruit cordial and a non-spicy habanero distillate. The house shot, basically a mini cocktail, is constantly changing – on our visit, it was flavored with ginger, jasmine tea, hazelnut, and black pepper. This was a fun combo – balanced and easy-drinking.

While we find Five Elephant’s signature cheesecake to be overhyped, we do enjoy their coffee, which can be found at several locations around Berlin. The original café in Kreuzberg offered one pour-over and one batch brew, while the smaller location in Mitte had four filter coffees to choose from. We loved the washed Kenyan with notes of wild strawberry, honeydew melon, and raisin, as well as a natural Brazilian with notes of green tea, pineapple, and white chocolate. Five Elephant is still one of Berlin’s leading coffee roasters.

Jones makes our favorite ice cream in Berlin! Their freezers are filled with fun flavors, and their friendly staff are happy to let you sample them all. Our favorites are the vanilla cookie dough, Earl Grey shortbread with lemon curd, blueberry cheesecake, and carrot cake, and we also love the peanut butter and jelly and salted butter caramel. Added bonus: Jones makes the best waffle cone in Berlin – homemade, buttery, and perfectly crisp.

Instagram hotspot Annelies lives up to the hype – it’s the must-visit brunch spot in Berlin! The pancakes here are so picture perfect they look like an emoji: five thick, fluffy hotcakes stacked high, topped with butter, blueberry compote, and crème fraîche, sitting in a pool of maple syrup. Cutting into them feels like playing Jenga – the stack inevitably topples, but that’s half the fun. We also loved Annelies’ take on the McGriddle, using pancakes as the bun for a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich. With a pork patty, a fluffy egg omelette, spicy mayo, and two kinds of melty cheese, this is the ultimate breakfast stack. Savory breakfast lovers can’t leave without ordering this beauty! Another underrated hit is the toasted sourdough topped with soft scrambled eggs and smoked egg yolk, with fennel and a dollop of kimchi mayo on the side.

Another oustanding ice cream shop in Berlin is Duo, which serves high-level Italian gelato, Sicilian brioche, and granita. On the menu, you’ll find classic Italian flavors, and they go deep – for example, there are six different types of pistachio gelato. (Yes, six!) We tried them all. Our favorite is the salty pistachio, which is addictively sweet and salty. The tiramisu flavor is also fluffy and light, and not too coffee-dominant, which we prefer. But our very favorite flavor is “Etna,” a Sicilian almond gelato with swirls of homemade pistachio cream – to die for! We’ve never had such an authentic almond gelato outside of Italy. Of course, they also serve all the other Italian classics like fior di latte, stracciatella, and gianduja. This is ingredient-driven, flavor-forward gelato at its best.

Burgermeister is now a big chain with locations all over Germany, but the original is inside an old public restroom underneath the railway bridge at Schlesisches Tor station. The Fleischermeister burger is what you want here, with double meat, double cheese, fried onions, mustard, and ketchup. This smash burger has a caramelized edge but a soft, chewy bite. Overall, it’s quite sweet, with the ketchup and caramelized onions dominating the flavor, all held together by a soft, semi-sweet brioche bun. It’s a solid fast-food burger that satisfies the craving, and a great late-night option. Burgermeister is open until 2 a.m. every night, and until 5 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Our favorite coffee shop in Berlin is Bonanza. It was the first third-wave roaster in the city and remains one of Berlin’s best today. The roastery is tucked down a back alley in a big, beautiful warehouse filled with natural light and green plants – a not-so-secret coffee oasis. Bonanza’s roasting profile is light, with a focus on flavor, and their philosophy is that farmers should be paid a fair price. While there are no pour-overs on offer, they had three filter options available. We loved the Kenyan – bright, juicy, and packed with citrus, tropical, and stone fruit notes – but our favorite was a natural anaerobic coffee from Colombia with notes of strawberry, cocoa, and a touch of funk. Pastries and cookies are also available.

The Orania.Berlin is a boutique luxury hotel housed in a historic building on Oranienplatz in the Kreuzberg neighborhood. Centrally located, it was the perfect base for our trip to Berlin. The lobby is home to a restaurant and bar (don’t miss the mini cocktails!) that hosts frequent live music performances. The interior design incorporates subtle Asian influences – our sun-soaked suite featured a repeated elephant motif on the headboard and pillows, and a spacious bathtub for soaking. The staff was incredibly welcoming, making Orania feel like our home away from home in Berlin. The hotel also has a gym in the basement, and breakfast is served until 2 p.m.

Zur Letzten Instanz is one of Berlin's oldest restaurants, open since 1621 and serving traditional German cuisine. Despite its fame, it’s not a tourist trap. The two dishes you need on your table are the Königsberger Klopse (meatballs) and the Eisbein (boiled ham hock) with sauerkraut. This is a signature! In the summertime, you can sit outside in the restaurant’s charming courtyard.

Mr. Susan is a cocktail bar run by Korean-American owner Susan Choi and her husband, Stefan Endres. The bar sits on the corner of Krausnickstraße and Oranienburger Straße, overlooking Monbijoupark with views of the Spree River. The cocktails here are some of the most complex and unique we’ve ever tasted – often savory and frequently highlighting Asian ingredients. They’ve even developed a Korean rice spirit infused with gochujang, the fermented chili paste, which works surprisingly well in their Paloma. Don’t miss the pandan daiquiri!

Another must-visit for pastry lovers is Canal, known for phenomenal French-style pastries and artisanal ice cream. Owner Daniella Barriobero Canal trained with Cédric Grolet in Paris before opening in Berlin and now runs three shops across the city. The pastries here are astonishingly impressive cream-filled creations with stunning lamination, like the hypnotizing brownie cube. Our favorite was the pistachio swirl, a buttery pastry filled with a creamy, salty pistachio filling made from two types of Sicilian pistachios. A close second was the tart and zippy yuzu curd meringue pastry. Canal is best known for its eclairs, with ten flavors that change seasonally; we loved both the vanilla pecan and tiramisu varieties. These are truly world-class pastries.

Sofi the bakery, from the owners of Copenhagen cult favorite Atelier September, is one of Berlin’s buzziest bakeries. Our favorite item was the Tartine-inspired morning bun, a cinnamon sugar swirl with a hint of citrus zest, served slightly warm so the inside was sticky and gooey. Easily one of the most delicious pastries in Berlin! The kouign-amann was also great, the focaccia was fluffy and spongy, and the miso chocolate chip cookie was addictingly salty. This is a worthwhile stop for pastry lovers in Berlin – don’t be deterred by the line.

Chef Tobias Beck, who previously worked at top restaurants like Noma, Frantzén, and Ernst, decided to turn away from fine dining and put nostalgic German comfort food back in the spotlight. At Luna D’Oro at Clärchens Ballhaus, you’ll find playful classics like the iconic meat “hedgehog” made of beef tartare and the cult-favorite Toast Hawaii: housemade milk bread topped with ham, cheese, pineapple, and sauce mornay. Silly, fun, and tasty! Other standouts included the tempura-fried pickles (“frickles”) with dill dip and the “Maultaschen” meat dumplings with melted onions and potato salad. Save room for dessert: “Spaghetti Eis” is on the menu – salty-sweet vanilla ice cream noodles with whipped cream, strawberry jam, and shaved white chocolate flakes that look like Parmesan. We also loved the Waldmeister-Wackelpudding (“wiggle pudding”) with woodruff Jell-O and vanilla sauce. For drinks, go for a classic cocktail – we had a perfectly balanced daiquiri – or the housemade lavender lemonade.

The Barn is a specialty coffee institution where locals and tourists alike gather for lighter, more flavorful brews. The team works closely with individual farmers, sourcing beans with a focus on quality, cleanliness, sustainability, and traceability. Founded in Berlin, The Barn has since expanded globally, with locations in Munich, Mallorca, London, Dubai, and even Korea. This is a great place to enjoy a perfectly brewed V60 coffee.

Acid Café is a Spanish bakery and coffee shop serving Scandinavian-style pastries such as cardamom buns, lemon poppyseed babka, canelés, and seasonal fruit danishes. The cardamom bun was soft and fluffy, with a hearty, sourdough vibe. Acid Café is also a great spot for specialty coffee – they serve hand brews and espresso-based drinks made with Coffee Collective beans.

Trio is a modern German gasthaus from the team behind Otto and Pluto. At lunch, there’s a daily special on offer – we enjoyed cabbage-wrapped beef rolls with mashed potatoes and a rye bread crumble. The evening menu expands with more servings like käsespätzle, veal meatballs, beef goulash, and strudel. This is hearty, comforting, rustic German food.

Pluto is an intimate wine bar from the team behind restaurants Otto and Trio. The space is cozy – a narrow, hallway-like bar with corners to snuggle up in – but if the weather is nice, sit outside on the street with a glass of natural wine and a snack. We loved the fatty housemade charcuterie (they buy whole animals and use all the parts across their restaurants) and the spicy marinated mussels with garlic and chili oil – so punchy and flavorful. The endive salad with bread crumbs, cheese, and an anchovy vinaigrette was buttery and fresh with great textural contrasts, but our favorite bite was the caramelized onion tart with a dollop of labneh. Finish with a sunflower seed financier dipped in burnt honey – moist, nutty, and decadently sweet.

Hokey Pokey is another of Berlin’s best ice cream shops, with multiple locations around the city. Our favorite flavor is their signature “Hokey Pokey” – a vanilla-studded base with salted caramel and big, crunchy pieces of honeycomb that crackle in your mouth. We also loved the brown butter ice cream with almonds and an anise-flavored financier. Other flavors sounded intriguing too, like blueberry lavender, bergamot blood orange, and banana peanut butter – we’ll have to come back!

Julius is a casual restaurant from the team that previously ran fine dining restaurant Ernst. In the evenings, the focus is on natural wine and small plates, with both an à la carte and a set menu designed for sharing. The food is Japanese-inspired but made with local ingredients. On weekends, Julius serves brunch with just a few dishes on offer. We loved the gooey omelette with Brie and Parmesan – soft with a wonderfully liquid center – and the signature French toast, sweet and salty with a caramelized edge and a gooey middle, served with whipped cream and seasonal fruit. Finish with a freshly baked cookie; the apricot cookie dulce de leche and the buckwheat miso chocolate chip pair perfectly with a hand-brewed coffee.

One of our favorite bites in Berlin wasn’t at a fine dining restaurant but at a hole-in-the-wall Balkan eatery in Wedding. You come to Sarajevo for the burek – ask which kind is fresh from the oven and order that one. We tried both the potato and minced meat varieties, with deliciously buttery, paper-thin layers of flaky pastry wrapped around molten hot fillings. We can’t wait to come back and try more dishes, like the ćevapi!

Döner expert Per Meurling (Berlin Food Stories) took us to Pamfilya for what he considers the best veal kebab in the city. While we don’t have the same firsthand experience as he does (he’s tried them all!), we have to agree – this is one of the best döners we’ve ever had. Thin, juicy slices of young veal meat are shaved off the spit and piled high on a plate. Eat it like a taco, wrapped in house-made lavash with onions, a squeeze of lemon, and a sprinkle of chili powder. The lean meat is elegant and light, so skip the mayos and let the meat shine. Other must-orders include the Adana Kebab, a minced meat skewer grilled over open fire and served with rice and yogurt, and the manti – tiny beef dumplings with yogurt, brown butter, and tomato sauce. This is pure comfort food with amazing flavors – it’s a must visit in Berlin!