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This is where the editorial team of visitBerlin gives tips and personal recommendations from their city. Insider tips for events, discoveries from the neighbourhoods, news from Berlin: we have written down what we like.

November 2026 in Berlin

Christmas Garden Berlin — © visitBerlin, Foto: Michael Clemens

Science week, winter markets and the fall of the Berlin Wall

Berlin is celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall, Freedom Week, Jewish Culture Days and the opening of the first winter markets.

Our series

Weekend tips in Berlin

TGIF! We have the best insider tips for city explorers, concert goers, exhibition visitors and sports fans on all 52 weekends.  

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What happens this month? We have compiled the most important events for you.

New Openings

What's new in Berlin? New stores, restaurants, cafés and personal tips from the editorial team. There’s a lot to discover.

Our newest posts

Irma La Douce Restaurant — © White Kitchen

11 tips for fine dining in Berlin

In the last few years, some of the world’s finest dining establishments have set up shop in Berlin. Here’s a list of just a few of the very…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Water fountain — © Getty Images, Foto: Zuberka

Top 11 Berlin Water Playgrounds

Want to cool yourself down? These water playgrounds in Berlin are the best places to have fun with the kids this summer.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Rund um den Tegeler See — © visitberlin, Foto: Chris Martin Scholl

The 11 most beautiful city oasis in Berlin

Green parks, sunny beer gardens and lots of city history: Discover with us idyllic places you wouldn't expect in a big city.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

© visitBerlin, Foto: Tapiocaria GmbH_Leandro Diogenes

11 tips for delicious gluten-free food in Berlin

Our recommendations for gluten-free food spots in Berlin. Everything from savoury to sweet.

Café Lenné in the Königlichen Gartenakademie in Berlin — © Foto: Wilfried Gerstel

11 Cafés in the sunshine

It's Summer time and we want to drink our coffee outside. We have put together 11 particularly beautiful cafés with sunshine for you.

Written for you by: Catrin

Two dancers of the club in Berlin: people on the dance floor — © GettyImages, Foto: mediaphotos

11 tips for sing-along concerts in Berlin

Whether you know all the words by heart or just fancy a bit of a thrill: these sing-along concerts bring Berlin to life. Pick your favourite…

Written for you by: Catrin

Kiezkampagne 2024, Landing Page — © visitBerlin

11 Tips for a Day Out in Lichtenberg

11 tips for East Berlin. We’ll take you on a tour of theatres, museums and lively neighbourhoods.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Pankow, Kollwitzkiez — © visitBerlin, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle

Top 11 places to play table tennis in Berlin

As soon as the sun comes out, people in Berlin are back playing table tennis outdoors. Discover 11 table tennis spots in parks, along canals…

Open-air cinema Sommerkino Kulturforum in Berlin — © visitBerlin, Foto: Pierre Adenis

11 tips for open air cinemas in Berlin

Whether it’s arthouse films at Bethanien-Hof, blockbusters at Volkspark or classics with a view of the skyline: Berlin’s open-air cinemas…

Written for you by: Catrin

Our authors

Berlin Blogger

Fans of fine dining, recreational sports nuts, dog lovers: our guest bloggers see Berlin from their own, completely different perspective. Read for yourself and see where they take us.

Catrin

lives in Berlin for over 20 years and loves to travel the city. Preferrably by bike, she discovers the most exciting and interesting sides of Berlin. Across the city, across country and also off the beaten track.

Person mit langem Haar lächelt in die Kamera. — © visit

Dagmar

is an archaeologist who has worked on Mayan sites in Central America. After ten years, she left the world of the Maya for a life in Berlin and found that the city a rich place for field research as well. She has fallen in love with cultural treasures of Berlin. Whether alone or with her children, she loves to be out and about in the city, taking the time to look deeper and turn over a stone here and there.

Josefine

is originally from Munich and started out her career at one of Germanys largest daily news papers. Before finding her home in Berlin, she also reported as a correspondent and trend scout from the US. Today she is cruising Berlin's neighbourhoods, always on the lookout for good stories - with a focus on culture, music and ideas for the future of an innovative Berlin.

Kristin

does not smile on fotos. But in real life she enjoys with a smile in her face the rich cultural life of Berlin - the metropolis both in front of and behind the scenes. Her favourite season is the Berlinale, then she spends 10 days watching movies and writing about them in the blog.

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