Eating in Berlin-Mitte: restaurants, cafés and wine bars
Brunch at Bar Basta, a competition coffee at Kolo, a bánh mì for Weinbergspark, a vegan tasting menu behind a red door at Oukan: ten places in Mitte, from a quick lunch to a long evening.
Mitte can be quick: a slice on Torstraße, a bánh mì to go. Or you stay put, over brunch, at a long wine bar or for a six-course menu. The ten places here lie between the Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Torstraße and Mittelstraße. Torstraße itself has a guide of its own.
Bar Basta – market cooking at Casa Camper
Mitte · EuropeanBar BastaOn the map
Bar Basta is on the ground floor of the Casa Camper hotel, on the corner of Weinmeisterstraße and Rosenthaler Straße. Arash Ghassemi and Cäcilia Baldszus ran the pop-up Lobb here for two months in 2024, then their bar moved in permanently. At the Mixology Bar Awards, Ghassemi was named host of the year. The kitchen cooks market food with influences from Italy, France, Turkey, Greece and Spain; it is open, and the waiters wear white. At the weekend there is New York-style brunch, on weekday evenings the market kitchen, in summer at windows open onto the street.
SOFI – bread from Nordic grain
Mitte · BakerySOFIOn the map
SOFI sits in the courtyard of the Sophie-Gips-Höfe in a restored brick factory. Behind it are Danish chef Frederik Bille Brahe and Slowness, the company of Design Hotels founder Claus Sendlinger. The grain comes from small organic farms in Northern Europe, including old varieties like emmer, and the bakehouse is in the middle of the shop. A Berlin Loaf is the bread to take home.
Slice Society – New York by the slice
Mitte · ItalianSlice SocietyOn the map
Alex and Marcus founded Slice Society in 2023 for New York-style pizza: thin, crisp, foldable. The dough ferments cold for 48 hours, and pizzas are baked whole or by the slice. Besides cheese and pepperoni there is the Vodka with vodka sauce and the vegan Tomato Garlic. The classic is a pepperoni slice with the house-made hot honey.
Kolo Coffee – micro-roastery with competition beans
Mitte · CoffeeKolo CoffeeOn the map
Vladyslav Demonenko is from Ukraine and was runner-up world champion in Coffee in Good Spirits in Milan in 2022. During the war he moved to Berlin and in 2024 founded Kolo, a micro-roastery and café on Brunnenstraße. Kolo is Ukrainian for circle. They roast on site and buy single origins, rare microlots and competition-grade coffees. The competition coffees are also served as filter.
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Mitte · ItalianW Pizza MitteOn the map
The W stands for “Weed and Wheat”: W Pizza bakes with hemp in the flour, and there is a wheat-only version too. The branch on the corner of Chausseestraße and Invalidenstraße, near the Natural History Museum, is the second in Berlin and has long standing tables for big groups. The standouts are the Turkish Delight with pepper-tomato sauce, sucuk, egg and chilli oil and the radicchio bianca with gorgonzola, walnuts and honey.
Oukan – a menu behind a red door
Mitte · VeganOukanOn the map
Behind a red door in a courtyard on Ackerstraße lies a room in shades of black, inspired by modern Japanese architecture and wabi-sabi. Founder Tran Mai Huy Thong, who comes from fashion design, designed it himself. The cooking is Japanese-inspired and fully vegan, with lots of ferments from its own lab. The six courses with tea pairing, with teas from Japan, China and Taiwan, show the kitchen most fully. Open Wednesday to Saturday from 6 pm.
Freundschaft – wine at the long bar
Mitte · BarFreundschaftOn the map
Willi Schlögl and Johannes Schellhorn, both Austrian sommeliers, founded Freundschaft on Mittelstraße in 2018 with Moritz Estermann and Stephan Landwehr: a big wine list without the pressure of a set menu. It now runs to nearly 800 entries, focused on Austria. At the long bar the sommeliers recommend one of the wines by the glass. Open Monday to Friday from 6 pm.
Saveur de Bánh Mì – two sandwiches by Weinbergspark
Mitte · VietnameseSaveur de Bánh Mì MitteOn the map
Saveur de Bánh Mì is a Berlin brand that now also sells in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The menu is deliberately small: one sandwich with chicken, one vegan. The baguette is baked specially for the shop, crisp outside and airy inside, and filled to order. The sandwich belongs across the road in Weinbergspark. Closed on Sundays.
Distrikt – breakfast all day
Mitte · CaféDistriktOn the map
Sophie Hardy came to Berlin from Britain in 2011 and gave up teaching for coffee. In 2014 she opened Distrikt on Bergstraße with Hannes Haake. Breakfast and lunch are served all day, and the coffee comes from Fjord in Berlin and rotating European roasters. The best is the breakfast sandwich with omelette, mortadella and sriracha mayo on brioche.
Standard Serious Pizza Mitte – Neapolitan on Torstraße
Mitte · ItalianStandard Serious Pizza MitteOn the map
Standard has been baking Neapolitan pizza in Berlin since 2014 and now has four shops, in Prenzlauer Berg, Charlottenburg, Kreuzberg and on Torstraße. The house asks you to order the pizzas without changes. The pizza of the day is on the board, and a burrata with tomatoes works as a starter. On weekdays it only opens at 5 pm.
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