A top libation station, Zentral is run by two local bar gurus who offer up a seriously crafted palette of classics and new-falutin' potions, amid decor that defines elegant understatement. Instead of glowing in a well-lit backbar, bottles discreetly hide in black cabinets that form a nice contrast to the long wooden bar.
Bar Zentral
City West & Charlottenburg
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
3.07 MILES
Walk through ancient Babylon, meet an Egyptian queen, clamber up a Greek altar or be mesmerized by Monet's ethereal landscapes. Welcome to Museumsinsel …
3.06 MILES
For over 60 years, not a soul was able to visit Berlin’s Neues Museum – in fact, it sat in ruins. But today it’s one of the city’s most celebrated…
3.06 MILES
The Pergamonmuseum is one of Berlin’s most visited historical gems and perhaps also its most controversial. This museum offers an archaeological time-warp…
2.29 MILES
This compelling exhibit tells stories of terror and persecution in Nazi Germany.
-
Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen
18.2 MILES
About 35km north of Berlin, Sachsenhausen was built by prisoners and opened in 1936 as a prototype for other camps. By 1945, some 200,000 people had…
1.79 MILES
Charlottenburg Palace is one of Berlin's few sites that still reflect the one-time grandeur of the Hohenzollern clan, which ruled the region from 1415 to…
Nearby City West & Charlottenburg attractions
0.12 MILES
The 3.5km Kurfürstendamm is a ribbon of commerce that began as a bridle path to the royal hunting lodge in the Grunewald forest. In the early 1870s, Otto…
0.12 MILES
Founded in 2000, C/O Berlin is the capital's most respected private, nonprofit exhibition centre for international photography and is based at the iconic…
0.12 MILES
The Amerika Haus was a United States–sponsored cultural and information centre with a library, cinema and exhibition spaces. Designed by Bruno Grimmek, it…
0.21 MILES
A former Prussian officers' casino now showcases the artistic legacy of Helmut Newton (1920–2004), the Berlin-born enfant terrible of fashion and…
5. Mahnmal am Breitscheidplatz
0.23 MILES
This simple memorial honours the victims of the terror attack of 19 December 2016, when an Islamist asylum seeker drove into a crowd at the Christmas…
6. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
0.27 MILES
Allied bombing in 1943 left only the husk of the west tower of this once magnificent neo-Romanesque church standing. Now an antiwar memorial, it stands…
0.27 MILES
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was a famous early-20th-century artist whose social and political awareness lent a tortured power to her lithographs, graphics,…
0.29 MILES
Berlin's zoo holds a triple record as Germany's oldest (since 1844), most species-rich and most popular animal park. Top billing at the moment goes to a…