Il Calice is the Italian outpost in Berlin's west where Antonio Bragato has run an enoteca and restaurant under one roof since the nineties — today alongside his son on the floor.
The bar wraps around a heavy column near the entrance; behind it, the dining room opens with dark wood and Murano-glass chandeliers. The menu is pan-Italian and moves between classics and refined plates from the antipasti display, pasta, and the lava-stone grill. The cellar holds several hundred Italian bottles, among them wine from Bragato's own vineyard in Friuli. Two nights a week a jazz band plays live; the room tips from trattoria calm into salon mode.
