"With its mirrored bar, beaded chandeliers, velvet seating, and suited barmen shaking classic cocktails to the soundtrack of light jazz, Würgeengel in Kottbusser Tor feels like you’ve time-traveled back to 1920s Berlin. Come alone on a weeknight for a pre-movie martini before tottering seconds down Dresdener Straße to Babylon Kreuzberg, one of the best arthouse cinemas in the city. If the olives aren’t quite cutting it, order a plate of puttanesca that’ll be brought to your table from next-door Gorgonzola Club. Just don’t turn up with a big group on a Friday or Saturday night (you won’t get in), and don't show up on a Sunday, either. Würgeengel is annoyingly and nonsensically closed then, which proves just how Berlin it is." - olivia ladanyi
