Bizarre Restaurants Near Berlin Hotels

While many Berlin hotels have their own on-site restaurants, if you want a slightly less conventional eating experience then we recommend visiting one of these quirkier outlets, just be warned that whilst all the establishments serve up fantastic home-cooked food, we wouldn’t recommend visiting any of the places on a first date, or even a second for that matter…
What could be a better business idea then a restaurant for people that don’t like eating? Well actually quite a lot, which is probably why Sehnsucht, a restaurant exclusively for anorexics, closed its doors last year. The restaurant was the brainchild of a former anorexic, and as all the staff including the Chef were previous anorexics, the restaurant was considered therapy to both the staff and the clientele it attracted. Items on the menu were given names like Hello and Pirate’s Eye, none of the items on the menu contained either names of food or words associated with food, so as not to confront anorexics with the fact they are about to eat. One of the more unusual items on the menu was entitled Thieves Platter and simply consisted of a plate, knife and fork which were supposed to facilitate sharing.
If eating your meal on a porcelain toilet has never appealed to you, then you might want to give Klo a miss, a German toilet-themed restaurant that attracts more visitors than Charlottenburg Castle. Guests are served traditional German sausages and sauerkraut in enamel potties and beer comes delivered in urine sample bottles. Guests can choose whether they wish to enjoy their meal on a toilet seat or a coffin. The restaurant is described in the guide books, as a cross between a zoo and a theme park; the resident boa-constrictor, iguana and bird-spider are extremely popular with guests. While the theme park element comes from the various surprises guests encounter while they’re dining, whether it’s a papier mache hammer swinging close to their heads or the rotating bar-stools.
Tourists who visit Knoblauch Restaurant while in Berlin, while probably find themselves walking back to their hotels alone. This is because the restaurant specialises in food containing garlic, or knofel, as it is known in Germany. For their starter guests can try a whole tuber of garlic, baked and served with a buttered baguette, or the restaurant’s special garlic soup. 40 cloves chicken is one of the more popular main courses and features a chicken cooked with a whopping 40 cloves of garlic. All this can be washed down with garlic beer or garlic-flavoured red and white wine. So while visitors who choose to end their meal with the garlic and mint may be heading back to their Berlin hotels alone at least they’ll keep vampires at bay!