Rutz Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Three Michelin Stars Tasting Menu Modern German
Formal & Historic-Core
Mitte
Berlin's central core, Museum Island, Brandenburg Gate axis, Rutz / Ernst / Adlon dining.
Mitte is Berlin's historic core, the Spree's S-bend, the Museum Island UNESCO complex, the Brandenburg Gate axis, Hackescher Markt and the courtyard-and-passage grid that runs north to Rosenthaler Platz. The chapter accepts the rooms that earn the central postcode: Rutz (Marco Müller's three-Michelin-star room on Chausseestraße), Ernst (two stars on Gerichtstraße, the eighteen-seat counter), Bandol sur Mer, Cookies Cream and the Adlon-side hotel dining on Pariser Platz. Mitte is where the traveller books the proper booking, the one with the three-week horizon, and walks home through the courtyards.
Highlights
Rutz (3 Michelin stars) + Ernst (2 stars) Museum Island + Brandenburg Gate Hackescher Markt + Hackesche Höfe Adlon Kempinski + Hotel de Rome dining
15 places
3 Categories
Restaurant
11 places
Bandol sur Mer Restaurant
One Michelin Star Small Room Fixed Menu
$$$$
One Michelin star, twenty seats, four-course menu, Andreas Saul on Torstraße.
Cookies Cream Restaurant
One Michelin Star Tasting Menu Vegetarian
$$$$
One Michelin star, Berlin's most architecturally hidden vegetarian fine-dining room.
Borchardt Restaurant
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Grill Royal Restaurant
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Katz Orange Restaurant
Slow Food Modern European Mitte
$$$
Mitte's slow-food courtyard restaurant, the Candy Bomber pork at 12 hours.
Lokal Restaurant
Modern German Neo Bistro Weekly Menu
House of Small Wonder Restaurant
Brunch Japanese Modern Cafe
Mitte's Japanese-cafe brunch on Johannisstraße, the Berlin original of the Brooklyn import.
Yarok Fine Syrian Restaurant
Syrian Middle Eastern Mitte
Mitte's Syrian-fine-dining room on Torstraße, meze, lamb, the post-2015 Syrian-Berlin wave.
Lutter & Wegner Gendarmenmarkt Restaurant
Wirtshaus Brasserie Wiener Schnitzel
Gendarmenmarkt's 1811 Sekt-and-Wiener-Schnitzel institution, Charlottenstraße.
Zur letzten Instanz Restaurant
Historic Tavern Wirtshaus Berlin 1621
Berlin's oldest continuously running pub, Waisenstraße 14-16, 1621.
Bar
2 places
Buck and Breck Bar
Cocktail Bar Speakeasy By Reservation
$$$
Berlin's cult speakeasy, Brunnenstraße, fourteen seats, by-reservation only.
Newton Bar Bar
Cocktail Bar Grand Bar Mitte
$$$
Charlottenstraße's grand cocktail bar, Helmut Newton photography on the back wall.
Cafe
2 places
Father Carpenter Cafe
Brunch Third Wave Coffee Cafe
The Barn Roastery Cafe
Third Wave Coffee Roastery Mitte
