Berlin Advice

the dark wizard · Post by **the dark wizard** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:40 pm

Hey Troops

Me & the good lady are off to Berlin for a long weekend in feb and was wondering if I could trouble you lot for some advice (people who have been or live there obviously)

We will be looking to go to a couple of club (house/minmal/techno etc)

And some nice places to eat

Cheers

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:47 pm

I hear the Abes have a nice cafeteria.

8O · Post by 8O » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:50 pm

Hi, some suggestions here: http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=102992

For food I highly recommend skipping dinner and fuelling up here instead - http://www.erstesabsinthdepotberlin.de/index1.html - then go clubbing until 7am - grab some falafel/döner - go back into the club - repeat until it's time to go home...

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:52 pm

ok this is not a rhetorical question - how do you people go clubbing till 7am? don't you have to work the next day? doesn't being up all night totally mess up your sleep schedule? HOW DO YOU DO IT??!?!?

8O · Post by 8O » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:59 pm

nebulae wrote:doesn't being up all night totally mess up your sleep schedule?

Yes, it does. And when you're pushing on a bit and in your twilight years like me, it really takes it out of you - I'm wiped out for a couple of days after that! But also, you start later - you only turn up at around 2am. S'all good.

3phase · Post by **3phase** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:02 pm

oh its easy..we just dont go out before 7 am.. so..where is the problem?

8O · Post by 8O » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:10 pm

nebulae wrote:don't you have to work the next day?

Unemployment 262,042= 15,5%... no.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:18 pm

8O wrote:
nebulae wrote:doesn't being up all night totally mess up your sleep schedule?
Yes, it does. And when you're pushing on a bit and in your twilight years like me, it really takes it out of you - I'm wiped out for a couple of days after that! But also, you start later - you only turn up at around 2am. S'all good.

yup, it's a mental attitude, we berlin people are made of $£^%&£ it's virtually indestructable, you feel it a bit while you get older, but as he said we lot don't start before 2am to show in a club, but usually have a warmup

and then go on till next midday... and then again and again and again...

in the real days of berlin, 3 days in a row where standard.

ok, to the original poster...

clubs are a plenty, weekend, watergate, panorama bar / berghain / kantine... tresor, TAPE (that one is smart! and not to full of zombies or kids after 3am, but usually only goes 'till max 7-8am

) liveadot - that is the ex 103 club, no idea what it is like now, those are the obvious ones...

send a PM 2-3 days before you come, no promise if something small is happening, but i recommend going to parties like the one wallace played, or eggnchips did.... MUCH better music then in the one i mentioned and nicer people, too...

a bit of a way from the center, but rechencentrum is cool.

about food, you need to be more precise... what type, budget. i love food and i am sure that i can give some great tips, but don't want to write a book, you want smart restaurants? cheap, cool eats? real streetfood or a taste of it all?

cheers

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:20 pm

8O wrote:
nebulae wrote:don't you have to work the next day?
Unemployment 262,042= 15,5%... no.

he? unemployment? we are very busy drowning drinks and shenanigans all night long ...

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:12 am

nebulae wrote:how do you people go clubbing till 7am? don't you have to work the next day?

Cocaine. Yes, but I deal with it.

Grappadura · Post by **Grappadura** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:20 am

You deal with cocaine?

bicarbone · Post by **bicarbone** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:26 am

A good club is reportedly Alte Renate (don't remember where it is located...).

As for food, eat the biggest schnitzel ever in Neuköln, at a restaurant called Louis, Richardplatz, U-bahn Karlmarxstrasse. Enjoy some good turkish or lebanese food in Kreuzberg as well: cheap and tasty Shawarma at Maroush, Adalbertstrasse, off Oranienstrasse towards Kottbusser Tor.

Keep off Charlottenburg after partying hard or you might feel very alone.

And yes, everyone is either unemployed, a DJ, or a clubber, and quite often all three at the same time.

my 2 pfennig.