Freundschaft

Wine bar of sommeliers Willi Schlögl and Johannes Schellhorn on Mittelstraße: almost 800 wines, focus on Austria.

Willi Schlögl came from Cordobar, Johannes Schellhorn from Nobelhart & Schmutzig; both are sommeliers from Austria. In 2018, with their business partners Moritz Estermann and Stephan Landwehr, they founded Freundschaft on Mittelstraße, parallel to Unter den Linden. The idea: a big wine list without the pressure of a set menu, a place for every day.

The 450 bottles on the list have since grown to almost 800, plus twelve open wines and plenty of fortified wines by the glass. The focus is Austria, with Germany and France as fixtures. You sit at a long bar and eat small dishes, so that, as the two put it, nobody falls off their stool too soon. Open Monday to Friday from 6 pm.