Unusual Restaurants Near Berlin Hotels

German food isn’t all sausages and sauerkraut; in fact you’ll find a wide range of unique restaurants near Berlin hotels . These restaurants range from the traditional where waiters in Leiderhosen serve schnitzels and steins, to the downright bizarre – we’re talking garlic ice-cream and menus printed on toilet rolls here!


Klo, German for loo claims to receive more tourists than both Charlottenburg Castle and Museum Island, and while we’re not sure what to make of these claims, the restaurant has been around since 1971 so it must be doing something right. 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.
Visitors may find themselves heading back to their hotels alone if they visit Knoblauch Restaurant on a city break. 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. Visitors who choose to end their meal with the garlic and mint may be heading back to their Berlin hotels alone but at least they’ll keep vampires at bay!
Nocti Vagus and Unsicht Bar are two restaurants that serve their food in complete darkness. However, this is more than just a gimmick; the waiting-staff in both the restaurants is visually impaired and from experience have found that by taking away sight all the other senses are heightened. Therefore guests can fully concentrate on the taste of the food rather than the other stimulus. With jazz nights, cultural evenings and poetry readings, both restaurants are excellent places to take a date – just be warned that wearing white may not necessarily be a good idea.
A restaurant for anorexics doesn’t sound like the most solid business plan, but Sehnsucht in Berlin provided a unique therapy to clientele with eating disorders before it closed last year. 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.