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21st Century Berlin

Micha Richter Inside Norman Foster's glass-and-steel Reichstag dome.

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Berlin has become an electrifying international cultural scene, with a 21st-century brand of unpolished, after-hours glamour thriving under the weight of 20th-century history.

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Destinations: Berlin · Mitte · Friedrichshain

Inspired by: Adventures in the New Berlin — by Gary Shteyngart, Published Jul. 2008

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Hotels (4)

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    Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin

    Semicircular property with 301 rooms (some classic and outfitted with English and Continental antiques, others modern) and a leafy inner courtyard.

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    Art’Otel

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    Hotel Adlon Kempinski

    Celebrity chef Tim Raue, who has done much for the city’s cuisine at the restaurant 44 in the Swissôtel, is moving on to the famous Adlon Hotel. He

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    Ritz-Carlton, Berlin

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    Lebensmittel in Mitte

    A grocery store in the front, and a deligthfully boisterous neighborhood restaurant in the back. Highlights include the occasional appetizer of hom

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    Henne

    Henne offers the moistest, crispiest milk-roasted bird to be found in Mitteleuropa, along with a décor that’s a celebration of Berlin as a working-... More
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    Facil

    Facil, on the top floor of the Mandala Hotel at Potsdamer Platz, is reminiscent of the clean lines of the Neue Nationalgalerie down the street, and... More
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    Defne Restaurant

    Though nominally Turkish, the restaurant also smartly plays with the flavors of the Mediterranean. In other words, the greasy döner kebab that feed... More
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    Tape

    The club is the home of the World Championship for Chess Boxing, where the contenders play chess for four minutes and then beat each other up. At o... More
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    Monarch, Berlin

    In Kreuzberg, the Monarch bar, on the second floor of a hilariously dreary housing project, beckons the 40-year-old hipster who wishes to turn the

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    KMA 36

    The vodka martinis are excellent, and the bar’s architecture alone is worth the visit—this former GDR cosmetics studio is an open constructivist gl... More
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    Berghain

    This hip favorite is housed in a muscular former power station in a nether zone between West Kreuzberg and the gentrifying Friedrichshain area of t

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    Ankerklause

    This bar boat moored by the Turkish market, is afloat with hipsters, punk rockers, and the occasional aging French tourist couple who have steered ... More
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    Turkish Market

    The market stretches along the Maybachufer bank of the canal. Sample a smorgasbord of fat navel oranges, hot spinach böreks that flake to nothingne

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    Reichstag

    The Reichstag, with its transparent Norman Foster dome and top-notch collection of contemporary art (cue Gerhard Richter’s stunning interpretation ... More
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    Berliner Philharmonie

    The concert hall, by architect Hans Scharoun, is widely considered one of the best in the world and still the greatest artistic joy the city has to... More
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    Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

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    Haunch of Venison Berlin

    This branch of a London gallery put on a stunning display of Zhang Huan’s 13-foot-tall Berlin Buddha, which was made entirely of incense ash and t... More
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