Kuschlowski

If you’re a veteran Berlin traveller and wistfully remember the days when Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg were the haunt of improvised, trashy-cool bars, pubs and cafés, you should feel quite Piccadilly in Kreuzkölln – the hot new Kiez (neighbourhood) between Neukölln and Kreuzberg. The bad-rap ‘ghetto’ south of the Landwehrkanal is being discovered by kool kids from across town hungry for a funky, unrenovated non-scene where prices are low and people relaxed. And new ventures open up all the time to feed their appetite. Here, a fresh wind has blown into an old bordello: a small and charismatic bar with a fireplace and Russian vodka.