Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
INFORMATION
Tourist o
ce
In the train station (April-Oct Mon-Sat
9.30am-8pm, Sun 10am-4pm; Nov-March Mon-Fri
9.30am-6pm, Sun 10am-4pm) and at Brandenburger
Str. 3, by Potsdam's own Brandenburger Tor (April-Oct
Mon-Fri 9.30am-6pm, Sat & Sun 9.30am-4pm; Nov-
March Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 9.30am-2pm;
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0331 27 55 88 99,
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potsdam-tourism.com).
EATING AND DRINKING
CAFÉS AND BARS
Babette
Brandenburger Str. 71
T
0331 29 16 48.
Pleasant café with outdoor seating, in the shadow of the
Brandenburger Tor, that's a good place to rest weary feet
and have an indulgent
and pan-fried Iberian and South American food. Some
items and daily specials cost as little as €3.50.
Daily
noon-late.
Froschkasten
Kiezstr. 4
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0331 29 13 15,
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froschkasten.de.
One of the oldest and most authentic
inns in Potsdam serves good, traditional German food, with
several great fish dishes including a delicious grilled
salmon fillet (€19).
Mon-Sat noon-midnight, Sun
noon-10pm.
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Juliette
Jägerstr. 39
T
0331 270 17 91.
Cosy
gourmet place that's probably Potsdam's best restaurant
thanks to its French flair (and wines) and an unpredictable
range of dishes that might include the exotic likes of loach
with couscous and avocado puree or steak with tru
es and
foie gras. Expect to pay around €70/person including
drinks.
Daily noon-3.30pm & 6-10pm.
La Maison du Chocolat
Benkertstr. 20
T
0331 237 07
30.
Café-restaurant with outdoor seating on the pavements
of the pretty Dutch quarter. Good spot for breakfast or
regional and seasonal specialities (from around €9); but it's
the rich, indulgent, and frankly unmissable, hot chocolates
that really put the place on the map. Great cakes too. Cash
only.
Daily 10am-10pm.
La Madeleine
Lindenstr. 9
T
0331 270 54 00.
Smart
crêperie
with a good selection of delicous French crêpes
from €8 - the buckwheat versions are particularly good -
such as the Nordic, with salmon and radish, or the
ratatouille version.
Daily noon-10pm.
after trekking around
Sanssouci Park. The large menu, available in English,
features simple snacks (€7) and main meals (€10) though
the quality of both is fairly ordinary.
Mon-Sat 9am-late,
Sun 10am-late.
Drachenhaus
Maulbeerallee 4a
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0331 505 38 08.
Genteel little café in the grounds of Schloss Sanssouci,
housed in a pagoda-style building once used by royal
vintners. You can eat well here, with a choice of sturdy
Brandenburg specialities or just a piece of
Tor te
.
March-
Oct daily 11am-7pm; Nov-Feb Tues-Sun 11am-6pm.
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Hafthorn
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 90
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0331 280 08
20.
Hip and happening pub with snacks (€2-7) including
superb burgers, rösti and potato pancakes. A fashionable
but very mixed crowd packs the place out until late, even
when there's no live music, and there's also a busy beer
garden.
Daily 6pm-midnight.
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RESTAURANTS
Contadino
Luisenplatz 8
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0331 951 09 23.
The casual
surroundings overlooking a plaza and Brandenburger Tor
make this mid-priced Italian restaurant a perfect place to
eat before or after tackling Sanssouci. Along with pasta and
pizza there's a wealth of good alternatives: chops, steaks
NIGHTLIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT
Waschhaus
Schiffbauergasse 1
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0331 271 56 26,
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waschhaus.de.
Large cultural venue where there's
always something going on. It lies just off Berliner Str. on
the way into town from the Glienicker Brücke, and
incorporates galleries, an open-air cinema, beer-garden,
live music stages and Fabrik (
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0331 280 03 14,
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fabrikpotsdam.de), a theatre for contemporary dance
and music.
Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen
Str. der Nationen 22, Oranienburg • Daily: mid-March to mid-Oct 8.30am-6pm; mid-Oct to mid-March 8.30am-4.30pm • Free, audio
tour €3, leaflet €0.50 •
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stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/index.htm • Trains (hourly; 25min) from Berlin-Hauptbahnhof and S-Bahn from
Friedrichstr. (frequent; 42min) travel to Oranienburg train station; if you don't fancy the signposted 20min walk from just north of the
square beside the station, take buses #M804 and #M821 to the Gedenkstätte (BVG day-tickets valid for whole journey)
he former concentration camp of Sachsenhausen on the fringes of the small town of
Oranienburg, 35km north of Berlin, has been preserved as
the unremittingly miserable
Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen
(Sachsenhausen Memorial) to remind of the crimes of
two of the last century's most powerful and terrible regimes. his early Nazi camp was
a prototype upon which others were based. It was never designed for large-scale mass
extermination; nonetheless around half of the 220,000 prisoners who passed through
