Mid-range: The Soho House is every bit as slick as its London and New York counterparts. A late Bauhaus building in Mitte. From £100. Read a full review here http://bit.ly/XGbLZF.
The Michelberger is a converted factory building with innovative rooms that suit a range of budgets and tastes. From £75 Read a full review here http://bit.ly/X24FjZ.
Arrive in style with dinner at Café Einstein is a 1920s villa with parquet floors and leather banquettes that serves a divine schnitzel (€20/ £17).
If you’re new to Berlin, you may wish to spend much of your day exploring the city’s classic sites, from The Reichstag to Museum Island among others.
Enjoy a casual breakfast at Barcomi’s (barcomis.de), a smart café that roasts its own coffee and serves filling, elegant breakfast plates and tasty bagels (around €8/ £7).
Right next door is the wonderful Gestalten Space (gestalten.com), a 350 square-meter bookshop and exhibition space.
The wonderful C/O Berlin (co-berlin.info) is a photography museum housed in a huge 19th-century post office.
Leafy squares like Kollwitzplatz are brimming with young professionals, families and wonderful cafés and shops.
Stadt, Land, Fluss (slf-restaurant.de, Pappelallee 65; mains €15-25/ £13-21) is a smart, unpretentious place with food that’s plucked, fished and hunted by the owners.
Head to Potsdamer Platz, one of Europe’s busiest squares in the 1930s and a complete wasteland during the Berlin Wall years. Today’s collection of high-rise offices includes the sparkling Sony Center
