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Drinking & Nightlife
With its well-deserved reputation as one of Europe's primo party capitals, Berlin
offers a thousand and one scenarios for getting your cocktails and kicks (or wine or
beer, for that matter).
Beer garden at Clärchens Ballhaus
JUERGEN HENKELMANN PHOTOGRAPHY/ALAMY ©
Bars & Pubs
Berlin is a notoriously late city: bars stay packed from dusk to dawn and beyond, and some
clubs don't hit their stride until 4am. The lack of a curfew never created a tradition of binge
drinking, which is why many party folk prefer to pace their alcohol consumption and thus
manage to keep going until the wee hours. Of course there's no denying that illegal drugs also
play their part…
