Good Times - Teltower Damm Branch

Style:
Pan Asian, Indonesian-Thai

More:

Reviews: Jacinta Lodge writes in "Planet Eye" about this small local chain of Pan Asian restaurants, that it has: "Excellent food, conscientious staff and a fantastic atmosphere. [...] Unlike many pan-Asian restaurants, the meals here haven't suffered from a generic blanding. While the menu is large, each dish is still individual and delicious. This REALLY isn't a "pick your meat and chuck it in a sauce"-type establishment. "

The Basics:
Teltower Damm 46, 14167 Berlin-Zehlendorf (S Zehkendorf)

URL:
http://www.goodtime-berlin.de/
+49-(0)30-84591852

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
Could be integrated with customised Berlin tours.

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

5 *****

4 ****

3 ***
Hotel Landhaus SchlachtenseeAparthotel Residenz 2000Clipper Garden Home
2 **
Hotel Morgenland
1*
Apartment-Hotel Dahlem
Hostels:

Good Times - Chausseestr. Branch

Style:
Pan Asian, Indonesian-Thai

More:

Reviews: Jacinta Lodge writes in "Planet Eye" about this small local chain of Pan Asian restaurants, that it has: "Excellent food, conscientious staff and a fantastic atmosphere. [...] Unlike many pan-Asian restaurants, the meals here haven't suffered from a generic blanding. While the menu is large, each dish is still individual and delicious. This REALLY isn't a "pick your meat and chuck it in a sauce"-type establishment. "

Another review here: "Goodtime Restaurant on Chausseestrasse 1 serves piquant curries, spicy soup broth, and all the other Thai favorites you’ve been craving, but unlike other “Thai” restaurants, this one doesn’t scrimp on the flavor and spiciness. The prices are also reasonable. Oddly enough, they serve Indonesia rijstaffel as well."

The Basics:
Chausseestr. 1, 10115-Berlin, Mitte (U Oranienburger Tor)

URL:
http://www.goodtime-berlin.de/
+49-(0)30-28046015

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
Could be integrated with "Jewish Berlin - the "Classical" Tour" (a tour of Berlin's most important Jewish heritage sites), and with customised Berlin tours.

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

5 *****
The Westin Grand Berlin
4 ****
ARCOTEL Velvet BerlinRAMADA Hotel Berlin-MitteHSH Hotel Apartments Mitte
3 ***
Hotel Aquino, TagungszentrumHotel Zarenhof
Hotel Augustinenhof
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Hotel
2 **
Hotel Taunus
1*
baxpax downtown Hostel Hotel
Hostels:
baxpax downtown Hostel Hotel

Good Times - Hausvogteiplatz Branch

Style:
Pan Asian, Indonesian-Thai

More:

Reviews: Jacinta Lodge writes in "Planet Eye" about this small local chain of Pan Asian restaurants, that it has: "Excellent food, conscientious staff and a fantastic atmosphere. [...] Unlike many pan-Asian restaurants, the meals here haven't suffered from a generic blanding. While the menu is large, each dish is still individual and delicious. This REALLY isn't a "pick your meat and chuck it in a sauce"-type establishment. "

The Basics:
Hausvogteiplatz 11, 10117-Berlin, Mitte (U Hausvogteiplatz)

URL:
http://www.goodtime-berlin.de/
+49-(0)30-20074870

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
Could be integrated with "Berlin's Top Sites" (a tour of Berlin's most important sites), and with customised Berlin tours.

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

5 *****
Hilton BerlinRocco Forte Hotel de RomeSofitel Berlin Gendarmenmarkt
4 ****
Adina Apartment Hotel BerlinCity Partner Cityhotel Am GendarmenmarktCourtyard Berlin City CenterNovotel Berlin Mitte
3 ***
Halong Hotel
2 **
Hotel M68
1*
Hotel PutinnCity Hostel Berlin
Hostels:
City Hostel Berlin

Good Times

Style:
Pan Asian, Indonesian-Thai

More:

Reviews: Jacinta Lodge writes in "Planet Eye" about this small local chain of Pan Asian restaurants, that it has: "Excellent food, conscientious staff and a fantastic atmosphere. [...] Unlike many pan-Asian restaurants, the meals here haven't suffered from a generic blanding. While the menu is large, each dish is still individual and delicious. This REALLY isn't a "pick your meat and chuck it in a sauce"-type establishment. "

The Basics:
As mentioned before, three locations:
(1) Hausvogteiplatz 11, 10117-Berlin, Mitte (U Hausvogteiplatz); 030-20074870
(2) Chausseestr. 1 , 10115, Berlin-Mitte (U Oranienburger Tor); 030- 28046015
(3) Teltower Damm 46, 14167 Berlin-Zehlendorf (S Zehkendorf); 030-84591852

URL:
http://www.goodtime-berlin.de/

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
See entry for each individual restaurant

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:
see individual entries

Mirchi

Style:
Singaporean

More:
Two branches, one in Kreuzberg, one in Mitte; You can find it in our recommended restaurants in Berlin page.

Reviews:

Unfortunately, we haven't been to Singapore yet and I must admit that this Asian fusion is not what I hear about Singaporean food - but it is still good food, a mixture of Indian, Malaysian and Chinese, which also means something for (almost) everybody: vegetarians and carnivores, those who like their food drowning in coconut milk and those who'd prefer a Chinese style dish or a grilled Tandoori style dish. The prices are fair, especially during business lunch hours (called "Mittag Menu" in German), when you can get a whole meal for 10 EUR or less. The service is a bit lacking (as usual in Berlin), with the Oranienstrasse (Kreuzberg) branch slightly better in this devision (and in our opinion, in general).


The Basics:
Two branches:
Oranienburger Strasse 50, 10117 Berlin-Mitte (S Oranienburger Strasse),
+49 (0)30 28 44 44 82

Oranienstrasse 204, 10999 Berlin-Kreuzberg (U Goerlitzer Bahnhof),
+49 (0)30 61 62 99 93

URL: Mirchi

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
For the first restaurant, Mitte, Tacheles, the gallery district ; for the second, Kreuzberg

The first could be integrated with a gallery tour or with the classic Jewish Berlin tour.

The second could be integrated with the Kreuzberg Tour, the Cold War Tour or with customised Berlin tours

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

5 *****
The Westin Grand Berlin (branch I)

4 ****
ARCOTEL Velvet Berlin (branch I)
Artist Riverside Hotel & Spa (branch I)
NH Berlin Heinrich Heine (branch II)

3 ***
Hotel Aquino, Tagungszentrum (branch I)
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Hotel (branch I)
Hotel Augustinenhof (branch I)
Hotel Zarenhof (branch I)
Best Western Hotel Berlin-Mitte (branch I)
Best Western Euro-Hotel Berlin (branch II)

2 **
Hotel Taunus (branch I)
A&O Mitte Ostbahnhof (branch II)

1*
baxpax downtown Hostel Hotel (branch I)

Hostels:
baxpax downtown Hostel Hotel (branch I)

Nu

Style:
Asian Noodle

More:
EatDrinkManWoman

Reviews:
Sheila Wolf writes in her blog: "It doesn’t matter if you are a nuclear physics nobel price winner, nutrition company CEO, news anchorman a nudist camp leader or a drag Queen. As long as you’re here for the finest Asian noodle dishes in town [...] my alltime favourite main dish of this wonderful Restaurant - 1 kg Black Tiger Prawns with spicy-lime-ginger- & homemade Aioli-dip, Myxao-noodles, thai-rice & wok vegetables. You have to start with canapé platter with Tuna fish kebab, vegetarian spring roll, marta bak, Fried won ton, shrimp ans sweet potato tempura - its unbelievable. After meal you can relaxing and chilling with good sound and a huge light panel at the bar"

The Basics: Schlüterstr. 55, 10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg (S Savignyplatz)

URL: Nu

+49 30 88 70 98 11

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
Savignyplatz, the KuDamm

Could be integrated with a tour about Jews in West Berlin; a tour about Berlin in the Weimar Period; a tour to Berlin's most important sites and other customised Berlin tours

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

5 *****
Hotel Q!

4 ****
Hotel Mondial

3 ***
Pension Ariane
City Pension Al Vita

2 **
Hotel Pension Elegia
Hotel-Pension Gudrun

1*
Hotel Waizenegger

Hostels:

le lamian

Style:
Chinese

More:
Traditional Chinese noodle soups

Reviews:
There are somewhat mixed reviews about this place. On the one hand, there are several such raving reviews that Le Lamian managed to become ranked as the third best Chinese restaurant in Berlin on QYPE. On the other, a recent review warns that much of the ado is because people do not know "real" Chinese restaurants, only the mum-and-pap fast food joints, and in comparison with these it ranks good, but in general, its food is disappointing (in German, a long and good - mostly negative - review on Qype).

The Basics:
Simon-Dach-Straße 2, 10245 Berlin, Germany (S/U Warschauer Strasse or U Frankfurter Tor)
+49 (0)176 227 30 491

URL: Lamian

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
Friedrichshain
Could be integrated with a Cold War Tour and Berlin Wall Tour, or with customised Berlin tours

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

Hotel Klassik Berlin

Hotel 26 (3 ***)
Juncker´s Hotel Garni (3 ***)

Hotel Friedrichshain (2 **)

All In Hostel / Hotel Berlin (hostel/ 1 *)

Pagode Thai Kitchen

Style:
Thai

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Reviews:
Qype ranks Pagode as the best Thai restaurant in Berlin. A user in Qype writes in German, that the food was just like in his trip to Thailand, and the Aquarium added to the nice atmosphere.

The Basics:
Bergmannstr. 88, 10961 Berlin- Kreuzberg (Mehringdamm or Gneisenaustrasse)
+49 (0)30 69 126 40

URL: http://www.pagode-thaifood.de/

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
In Kreuzberg, not far from Tempelhof Airport; also not far from the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum)

It could be integrated with the "The Spirit of 1968" Tour, with the Kreuzberg Tour; and with customised Berlin tours

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

Hotel Riehmers Hofgarten (3 ***)
Meininger City Hostel Hallesches Ufer (3 ***)

Hotel Columbia (2 **)
Meininger City Hostel Tempelhofer Ufer (2 **)
aletto Jugendhotel (2 **)

Pan Asia

Style:
Asian/Pan Asian

More: This quite famous restaurant has received several very bad reviews, be warned.

Reviews:
Pan Asia is a quite famous Asian fusion restaurant in Mitte, in a lovely courtyard. Despite or perhaps because of this trendiness, there are some very negative reviews on it: apparently, it applies a door policy that might be befitting a cool New York club, but not a Berlin restaurant. Anke from Banana Skirt, for example, complains that she came to Pan Asia after reserving a spot for her and two friends of her parents' (aged about 65). Anke says the "hostess" told them there is no reservation (without even looking at her lists). Then, the hostess lied and said that there is another restaurant called Pan Asia in Friedrichshain, which sometimes gets their calls and that she is terribly sorry, but despite the fact that the restaurant was empty at the time, she would not sit them. Anke looked at home: she has called the "right" Pan Asia (perhaps there isn't even any Friedrichshain Pan Asia, only an fragment of the "hostess"' imagination), and moreover, that there are several other reviews about arrogant and bad service at Pan Asia (German again). Apparently, there was ageism or another type of discrimination here.


The Basics:
Rosenthaler Str. 38, 10178 Berlin-Mitte (S Hackescher Markt or U Weinmeisterstrasse)
+49 (0)30 279 088 11

URL: Pan Asia Berlin
(must say I was tempted to link to Anke's review of Pan Asia again, though)

Accessible? yes, according to their site (I remember small stairs all over the place)

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
The restaurant is located near the Hackescher Markt/Hackescher Hoefe

It could be integrated with "Berlin's Top Sites" tour; with the Berlin Jewish Tour; and with customised Berlin tours

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:

Radisson SAS Berlin

Hotel Alexander Plaza
Hotel Hackescher Markt Berlin
Lux 11
Park Inn Berlin-Alexanderplatz

Hotel Augustinenhof
Hotel Taunus

Flower's Boardinghouse Mitte (apartment hotel, 2 1/2 **)

Am Scheunenviertel Hotel garni

Samadhi

The Basics:
Wilhelmstraße 77 , 10117 Berlin-Mitte (near S-Unter-den-Linden or U-Mohrenstr)
+49-(0)30-22 48 88 50

URL: Samadhi Vegetarian

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Style:
Asian/South Asian-Fusion

Related Tours/Sites:
Mitte: the "Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe", Brandenburg Gate, The British Embassy, etc.
Could be integrated with the "Berlin's Top Sites" Tour, with Third Reich Berlin tour or with customised Berlin tours

More:
Vegetarian South Asian restaurant

Reviews:
Jul writes on "Veggie Chic": "I had a great meal at Samadhi on my last trip to Berlin. This vegetarian restaurant specializing in Southeast Asian cuisines is very centrally located, not far from the Brandenburger Tor. The menu was extensive - so much so that I had trouble deciding given how many choices I had. I settled for tofu grilled in lop leaves (pictured), while my friend chose pad thai. We started the meal with some summer rolls.

The food was tasty and reasonably priced (main dishes are about 10 euros each). The service was friendly, if a little slow, and the decor was nothing to write home about, but I didn’t mind a bit - the food was definitely worth my time. I think Samadhi will be earning a place on my must-visit list for future trips to Berlin, as well.

Samadhi is closed Mondays, but open for lunch and dinner every other day of the week."

Shiro i Shiro

Style:
Asian-Fusion

More:
Stylish and well designed restaurant with Asian-European fusion and celebrity factor. Priced accordingly. Located in the The Lux 11 Hotel (but you will not feel as if this is a hotel-restaurant).

Reviews:
Catherine Hickley writes an excellent review on Bloomberg's, summarising with 3/4 stars ("First-class of its kind"). She mentions, among others, the stylish design, the amazing sushi (and other fusion dishes), the celebrity factor (Judd Law, Mick Jagger and Sharone Stone, among others), and the good - but Berlin-slow - service. Read it and drawl.

Another review refers mostly to the design, in an article titled cool restaurants around the globe

The Basics:
Rosa-Luxembourg-Strasse 11, 10178 Berlin-Mitte (near Alexanderplatz/The Lux 11 Hotel)
+49-(0)30-9700-4790

URL: Shiro i Shiro

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Related Tours/Sites:
Mitte: the "Jewish Quarter", The Volksbuehne
Could be integrated with the Jewish Berlin Tour, the Roaring 1920s Berlin Tour, or with customised Berlin tours

Nearby Hotels/Accommodation:
As already mentioned, it is located in Hotel Lux 11 Berlin

Other nearby hotels:
Radisson SAS Berlin

Hotel Alexander Plaza
Hotel Hackescher Markt Berlin
Park Inn Berlin-Alexanderplatz

Hotel Augustinenhof
Hotel Taunus

Flower's Boardinghouse Mitte (apartment hotel, 2 1/2 **)

Am Scheunenviertel Hotel garni

Shima

The Basics:
Schwäbische Straße No. 5, 10781 Berlin-Schöneberg (U Eisenacher Straße)
+49-(0)30-211 19 90

URL: Shima

Accessible?

Child-Friendliness?

Style:
Asian-Fusion, good wine/cocktail bar

Related Tours/Sites:
Schöneberg
Could be integrated with the Jewish West Berlin Tour, the Roaring 1920s Berlin Tour, or with customised Berlin tours

More:

Reviews:
On Been There, JudyGermany writes: "The Shima restaurant is a place with excellent Asian food and a lovely atmosphere."