Berlin Nightlife: Places and Districts to Go Out in Berlin
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Berlin's nightlife is routinely hailed as one of the very best in Europe, if not the whole world. It’s impossible to walk more than about 50 meters in the city without stumbling across a fantastic bar, restaurant, café or club.
Bar-hopping within the various areas is simple and probably the best way to explore the city. Whilst the whole of Berlin throbs with a high-octane nightlife scene, if you try to take too much of it in at once, you may find you’ve spread yourself a little too thinly.
Nightlife in the smarter Western Berlin is divided into a handful of main areas. As a general rule, prices in the west tend to be slightly higher, a reflection of the old economic gap between the city’s two separate zones.
Savignyplatz in Charlottenburg offers an upmarket party scene for affluent pleasure-seekers; Kreuzberg has its fair share of punks, political activists and alternative types; Winterfeldplatz attracts a slightly more mature crowd, and has a more tranquil pace.
The eastern part of the city is home both to a number of more intimate and studiously scruffy bars and a handful of more modern cafés and restaurants. Friedrichshain, particularly, contains a clutch of seriously trendy bars and clubs.
But it’s the north of the city center, in Prenzlauer Berg (Prenzl'berg for short), that’s really not to be missed. Here, some of the household names of the Berlin scene can be found alongside countless well-established bars and clubs.
The area’s seen a fair bit of gentrification in recent years – where once there were punk garrets, now a host of upmarket restaurants hold sway. But this part of town still offers some wildly decadent clubs and music venues that are open well into the early hours.
Berlin's gay scene also has a reputation as one of the largest and wildest in Europe: the bars and clubs of Motzstrasse and Fuggerstasse in Schoneberg, Schonhauser Allee in Prenzlauer Berg and Oranienstrasse in Kreuzberg are constantly lively.
Berlin is a city in which pretty much anything goes: its avant-garde cultural scene and über-cool clubs meld with a more laidback and unflustered café and bar culture. Once it’s got its hooks into you, one way or another, it rarely lets go until morning...
