Neukölln

Italian bistro on Friedelstraße: familiar Italian dishes and drinks until late.

Italian-American day bar on Friedelstraße: comfort food like schnitzel with cheese and rigatoni ragù bianco, drinks with Campari and amaro.

The Maybachufer shop where Europe's first vegan doughnut chain began in 2016: classics, monthly specials and fair-trade coffee.

An Italian place in the Schillerkiez since 2014: a small, changing menu of antipasti, fresh pasta and mains.

René Frank's two-star restaurant on Friedelstraße: a menu built on patisserie techniques, without refined sugar.

Café and micro-bakery on Karl-Marx-Straße with an evening pizza window in the courtyard: cardamom buns, bostocks and sourdough pizza.

German, Irish and Danish classics with a North Atlantic twist on Herrfurthplatz: sharing plates, natural wines and Irish whiskey.

Bakery with an open bakehouse on Hermannstraße: sourdough, Roman pizza and viennoiserie made with flour from small mills.

Beef döner on Karl-Marx-Straße: Imren bakes its own flatbread and stacks the spits with cumin and cinnamon.

Café on Hermannstraße with a zero-waste cycle since 2016: espresso roasted with Café 9, brunch and a leafy terrace.

Natural wine bistro on Weichselstraße since 2016: "Naked Wine & Seasonal Food", guest chefs and a Michelin Guide listing.

South Tyrolean dumplings on Fuldastraße, where it all began as a living-room supper club in 2013: cheese, speck, vegan kinds, sweet dumplings.

French boulangerie-pâtisserie on Herrfurthplatz: croissants, pain au chocolat and tarts, a few steps from Tempelhofer Feld.

Natural wine bar on Hobrechtstraße with hand-painted ceilings: wines from Austria, France and the Czech Republic, some on tap.

Canteen at the Junges Tanzhaus: a changing lunch from Monday to Saturday, a garden in summer and aperitivo in the evening.

Pizzeria verace on Weichselstraße: San Marzano, fiordilatte from Agerola, montanarine and the Mater Rossa in four quarters.

Paul Mogg's New York deli, now in the Kalle food hall on Karl-Marx-Straße: house-cured pastrami, reuben and New York cheesecake.

Café by day, cocktail bar by night on Weichselstraße: gin basil smash with fresh basil, small plates and three rooms.

Wine bar on Pannierstraße with directly imported natural wines from France and Italy, plus grilled cheese and Minimisu.

Wood-fired bakery on Nogatstraße, now with fresh New York-style bagels every day from Phil, the founder of Bagel Oven.

The Barn on Friedelstraße: a communal table for 15, seats under old trees, single-origin espresso and filter coffee.

A natural wine bar, café and bottle shop on Friedelstraße: wines from small European growers, with tapas such as boquerones.

Cocktail bar on the corner of Weserstraße and Fuldastraße since 2009: candlelight, seventies design, seasonal menu, entry from 21.

Cocktail bar by the Stadtbad Neukölln: a weekly changing menu built on plants foraged around Berlin, twice Bar of the Year.

Breakfast as tapas on the corner of Weserstraße and Elbestraße: the Morning Plate from five categories, each dish on its own plate.

The café of Berlin roastery Warawul on Karl-Marx-Straße: single origins only, such as Gitesi from Rwanda, with all-day brunch.

Cocktail bar on Weserstraße, Bar of the Year 2024: drinks from the basement lab such as the Go Apes with clarified banana.