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Prenzlauer Berg


New York meets Berlin at this always bustling expat favourite whose dry-aged steaks, burgers and hand-cut fries might just justify the hype. Sink your teeth into a dripping half-pounder made from freshly ground imported American beef trapped between a toasted English muffin (yes, it’s messy – that’s what the kitchen paper is for!).


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Nearby Prenzlauer Berg attractions

1. Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark

0.24 MILES

Behind a short segment of the Berlin Wall (now an officially sanctioned practice ground for graffiti artists) loom the floodlights of the Friedrich-Ludwig…

2. Jugendfarm Moritzhof

0.27 MILES

This educational farm playground for kids offers interaction with barnyard animals and courses in basket-weaving, forging, felting and other old-timey…

3. Mauerpark

0.37 MILES

With its wimpy trees and anaemic lawn, Mauerpark is hardly your typical leafy oasis, especially given that it was forged from a section of Cold War–era…

4. Gethsemanekirche

0.43 MILES

This 1893 neo-Gothic church was a hotbed of dissent in the final days of the GDR and thus a thorn in the side of the Stasi, which, as late as October 1989…

5. Kulturbrauerei

0.56 MILES

The fanciful red-and-yellow brick buildings of this 19th-century brewery have been upcycled into a cultural powerhouse with a small village's worth of…

6. Museum in der Kulturbrauerei

0.57 MILES

Original documents, historical footage and objects (including a camper-style Trabi car) bring daily life under socialism in East Germany to life in this…

7. Volkspark Humboldthain

0.85 MILES

Berlin’s second public park has offered a nature retreat to city dwellers since 1866, but it considerably changed its look after WWII when two of its…

8. Kollwitzplatz

0.86 MILES

Triangular Kollwitzplatz was ground zero of Prenzlauer Berg gentrification. To pick up on the local vibe, linger with macchiato mamas and media daddies in…