Berlin at Night: From Potsdamer Platz to the Cocktail Bars in Mitte

This tour takes you through Berlin's historic center in a single evening – first on foot past illuminated sights, then to the table, and finally to the bar. It's perfect if you want to experience something after a day in the city without much planning, and if you appreciate a good cocktail.

You start at Potsdamer Platz, where a seasonal market is set up between the high-rises in winter. From there you walk along the Tiergarten to two memorials that are often overlooked: the Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism and the Soviet War Memorial. Along the way you pass the floodlit Brandenburg Gate and then stroll down Unter den Linden to Gendarmenmarkt.

There you have dinner at Augustiner, before heading just a few steps further to the Newton Bar. For your last drink, you take the subway a few stops north to the Spandauer Vorstadt, where Mr. Susan rounds off the evening. The distances are short, the pace stays comfortable, and you can linger longer at any stop or skip one entirely.