Nightlife and bars in Berlin¶

Stadteil Mitte¶

Gay bar¶

Betty F*** (Mulackstraße 13): A well known bar in a basement. Open daily from 21h.
Bar Saint Jean (Ziegelstraße 29): With a French touch.

Schöneberg¶

Rather gay café/restaurant¶

Café Berio (Maaßenstraße 7): Popular bar with a limited food menu. Affordable, also for breakfast. Open daily from early in the morning (breakfast time) till late in the evening.
Sissi (Motzstraße 34): Austrian restaurant, rather pricy. Open daily from 5pm.
Romeo und Romeo (Motzstraße 20): Coffee bar opposite from Tom's.
Neues Ufer (Hauptstraße 157): Gay-friendly according to Patroc, but may even be just a gay bar.
Impala Coffee (Maaßenstrasse 5): Gay-friendly coffee bar. Open daily from the morning till the evening.

Gay bar¶

BLOND cocktail bar (Motzstraße 28): Karaoke on Tuesday and Thursday evening. The drinks are pricier than in many other bars.
Hafen (Motzstraße 19): According to some sources it can be a little cruisy. The bar attracts mostly a younter audience (20s - 30s). The bar is open daily in the late evening and night.
Heile Welt (Motzstraße 5): Open daily from 8pm till night.
K6 Berlin (Kleiststraße 6): Opened daily from 3pm or 1pm till early night.
Prinzknecht (Fuggerstraße 33): Can be a little cruisy, and there is a small darkroom that is not always open. It can be a rather busy bar, with a mix of locals and tourists and it is certainly very popular with leathermen. Open daily from late afternoon or everning till night.
Pinocchio (Fuggerstraße 5): Has also become a bar where escorts try to find clients, certainly outside, so it may not be the safest place with respect to pickpockets.
Tabasco (Fuggerstraße 3): One of the oldest gay bars, with reasonable prices. Open daily from 6pm till late night. Seems to have become mostly a place to pick up an escort, and there are many pickpockets. Therefore to be avoided unfortunately.
Rastlos (previously Toy Boy Bar): Likely still a bar to pick up escorts despite the name change. Doorbell. Recent reviews claim it has become a safer space than it used to be though. Permanently open.

Gay bar with cruisy atmosphere¶

Tom's bar (Motzstraße 19): cruising bar. Open daily rom 8pm till very late in the night. Monday 2-for-1.
Woof (Fuggerstraße 37): Bar for bears, a bit cruisy with a darkroom area. Open daily from 9pm till night. Biergarten for Folsom.
BULL Berlin (Kleiststraße 35) Permanently open. It was closed for a few months in the fall of 2023 but reopened.

Gay fetish club¶

Mutschmann's (Motsstraße 30): Fetish/leather club with some SM activity. Open Wednesday - Saturday from 9pm till late night. At the last check (early 2024) the web site was dead so it is not clear how the place functions at the moment and if there are still special events with specific dress codes.
New Action (Kleiststraße 35, close to Nollendorfplatz): Fetish bar with dress code on some days. Open Wednesday-Sunday from 10pm. 2-for-1 on Thursday?

In November 2014 I was refused entrance because I was not in full fetish wear even though the day was marked as "Casual" on the web site.
Böse Buben e.V. (Sachsendamm 76-77, in the South-East of Schöneberg): Gay SM club and association with varying opening days and theme evenings.

Opposite the sports centre of Schöneberg, and easiest to reach with the bus that also passes the Wittenbergplatz. The club is also close to the S-bahnhof Südkreuz.

Gay bathhouse¶

CLOSED: Steam Works (earlier Apollo Splash Club) (Kurfürstenstraße 101, close to the Zoo so more the Tiergarten district): Closed after a fire in 2017.

Gay sex club¶

Scheune (Motzstraße 25): Seems to be a club with a decent Fetish level, open daily from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Naked only on Sunday. Is or was also the clubroom of Berlin Leather Fetish (BLF) – there are now also meetings in WOOF. It is not clear if the downstairs darkroom got reopened after the closing in 2019.
CLOSED: CDL bar-lounge-club (Hohenstaufenstraße 58)
CLOSED: Reizbar (Motzstraße 30): GESLOTEN

Kreuzberg¶

Regular café/restaurant¶

Steakhaus Angus (Kreuzbergstraße 11): Affordable and was recommended on the web site of Melitta Sundström. Open daily from 11:30 am till midnight.
Curry 36 (Mehringdamm 36): The best known place for the "currywurst" in Berlin. There are other locations also these days.

Rather gay café/Restaurant¶

Südblock (Admiralstraße 1-2, near Kottbusser Tor): Meeting place where queers often come together, but also a mixed bag of other alternative people. Open from 5pm, Sunday from 3pm.
Möbel Olfe (Reichenbergerstrasse 177): Popular with gays and lesbians. It is said to be more lesbian on Tuesdays and more gay on Thursdays. Open Tuesday till Sunday from 6pm till late in the night.
Roses (Oranienstraße 187): Nowadays on Google marked as a gay bar. Open daily from 6pm till late in the night.
Melitta Sundström (Mehringdamm 61)
Rauschgold (Merhingdamm 62): The drinks appear to be a bit expensive.

Gay club/disco¶

SO36 club (Oranienstraße 190): Occasionally organizes parties with a distinctly gay content, for example
- Gayhane, which mainly appeals to people of Turkish and Arab descent (last Saturday evening of the month)
- Kiezbingo, once a month, with drag queens.

Gay bathhouse¶

Der Boiler (Mehringdamm 34): Best (and only remaining?) gay sauna in Berlin.

Gay sex club¶

Club-Culture-Houze (Görlitzer Straße 71): Varying activities, check the programm on the web site. Each Monday naked.

It is close to the Gorlitzer metro station, along a road that still feels reasonably safe even though the club is in a migrant area.
Ficken 3000 (Urbanstraße 70): Looks very unattractive from the outside.
Triebwerk (Urbanstraße 64): Varying opening times, closed on Monday and Thursday. Unofficial Facebook page. The place may not be as busy at it used to be.

Prenzlauer Berg¶

Rather gay café/restaurant¶

Schall und Rauch (Gleimstraße 23): Used to be affordable. The breakfast has a good reputation. Closed on Sundays, other days open from 7am till afternoon.

Gay bar¶

Bärenhöle (Schönhauser Allee 90): A fairly relaxed bear bar. Open on weekdays from 6pm, on Saturday evenings from 8pm and closed on Sundays.
Marietta (Stargarder Straße 13): A queer bar, Wednesday evenings are very popular for gays. Open daily from 2pm, in weekends from noon, til the night.

Gay cruising bar¶

CLOSED: Greifbar (Wichertstraße 10)
CLOSED: Cocks (Greifenhagener Straße 33): Closed as the rent period ended, and so far not reopend elsewhere.

Gay sex club¶

CLOSED: Stahlrohr 2.0 (Paul-Robeson-Straße 50, close to Bärenhöle)

Other districts¶

Gay bar¶

Zum Schmutzigen Hobby (Revaler Straße 99, Friedrichshain): Managed by a drag queen Nina, in a former fire brigade station.

Gay sex club¶

Lab.Oratory (Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Friedrichshain): Sex club with rather limited opening hours it seems, but they are very busy. In the Berghain building where there is also a hetero nightclub, see www.berghain.de for the hetero club) which still holds a wild gay evening twice a year in memory of the gay club from which it originated.

Gay fetish club¶

Quälgeist Berlin e.V. (Lankwitzer Straße 42/43 - used to be on Mehringdamm 51): SM association and club, organizes theme evenings. Not all evenings are gay only.

900m from the U-bahn station Alt-Mariendorf. You have to enter the gate towards the courtyard, but the door is on your right before the courtyard. Ring the bell and take the stairs all the way up.

Gay disco¶

SchwuZ (Neuköln, Rollbergstraße 26, close to metro line U7): Gay discotheque, check the website for parties. As a rule, there is always something to do from Wednesday to Saturday.
GMF (Neuköln, Karl-Marx-Straße 34 or has it moved?): Not clear if it still exists as the web page is dead in early 2024 and the Facebook account also shows no action since late 2022. Used to be an LGBT party on Sunday evening at Café Moskau – Avenue Club.
Die Busche (Warschauer Platz 18, a bit further from the city centre but close to the S-Bahn): Gay discotheque. Activities used to be on Friday and Saturady night.