Zwiebelfisch

Zwiebelfisch is the literary-and-press bar on Savignyplatz Friedrichstraße corner in Charlottenburg that has run continuously since 1965, the Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll generation's regular, the Tagesspiegel and Berliner Morgenpost journalism corps' regular, the format that has not changed: long bar, dark wood, the steak-frites-and-Sauerkraut canteen menu that fills the kitchen all day, the kind of late-1960s-West-Berlin room the audience inherits as a piece of the city's intellectual layer. The kitchen is competent rather than fine; the room is the booking.