Insiders Berlin

  For a taste of Berlin at its wackiest and most wonderfully eccentric you have to head over to the Mauerpark Berlin over a sunny, summer weekend. The main attraction here is a huge old flea market (in German its known as the Mauerpark Flohmarkt) that has hundreds of stalls selling the most amazing assortment of treasure [...]

Peer through the heavy gates outside the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Prenzlauer Berg and you could be forgiven for thinking that there is not much there, especially when it is compared to the ostentatious Moorish facade of the New Synagogue on Oranjenburgerstrasse in Mitte. Yet step inside Rykestrasse’s synagogue and you will find yourself in a huge [...]

Fleischerei (www.fleischerei-berlin.com) is one of those restaurants in Prenzlauer Berg that we often found ourselves looking into wistfully. The idea of eating good meat, especially steak in Berlin always appeals, but the classy scene in Fleischerei (fabulous chandeliers and crisp white linen napkins against a backdrop of white tiles, metal swing doors and meaty photos [...]

Ever since I arrived in Berlin all of my friends, German and foreign, had been telling me to try the pizzas at Due Forni. I kind of figured that they were making a big deal out of nothing. After all, how good could pizza’s really be. How wrong I was. It took me almost a [...]