Gay bar berlin friedrichshain

Gay visitors to Berlin are spoilt for choice: gay bars with delicious drinks tempt you everywhere in the gay. Our author Florian knows them all - almost all, anyway! He presents his berlin favourite bars For Place2be. This bar is heaven for queer millennials in the middle of the Simon Bar neighbourhood, which is often considered over-gentrified.

Under stucco and flickering candles, you can lounge on cocktail chairs, sip long drinks, smoke in the smoking room, or people-watch on the large terrace, which closes around midnight. It also gets crowded here during the week. Since Corona, the bar team has erectedsmall, suspended, Plexiglas screens in a sensual Bordeaux red.

Although this detracts somewhat from the open space of the interior, the bar hasn't lost any of its cosiness: to the contrary actually! Berlin's newest gay bar, The Capture, was established in It is located just around the corner from Himmelreich. From the outside, with its glass front, black tables and simple chairs visible through the windows,the bar may not appear very cosy at first.

But the impression is deceptive, which becomes apparent when you enter the bar. Seated under wood-panelled ceilings, on leather benches, and beneath glass chandeliers, punters can savour the drinks, which are particularly good. Perhaps the great atmosphere is also down to the good music, which ranges from Cold Wave to Turkish songs.

Or it could be due to the political statements scrawled on cardboard, or to the entrance area where the friedrichshain case with the underpants of friends of bar owner Mehmet Balikci is located.

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It is this attribute that the mixed bar crowd senses with every sip. The fact that everyone here has fun and enjoys life under one roof is evident, particularly when the guests spontaneously get up to dance! If unicorns had built a State, the Kumpelnest would be their headquarters. It is as if you were entering the inside of a disco ball.

Since then, the diverse clientele has remained as eclectic as the music line-up, which ranges from Schlager to 90s pop. It gets packed gay, especially on weekends. Perhaps friedrichshain Sofia Bar will go down in history as the pub with the ugliest logo font of all times. It looks bar something from another berlin, with its spidery black lettering on a white background.

The decor seems to have been designed by an interior designer with ADHD: the mud-green reliefs of women by the river adorn the walls, and penis lanterns and crumpled aluminium foil are suspended from the ceilings. It's a sea of kitschy-cool clutter as far as the eye can see. In short: everything here is so wonderfully ugly that it's become somehow quaintly chic again.

Since the gay founders sold up, the crowd is not quite as queer as it once was, but it remains welcoming and charming. Old Kreuzbergers, left-wingers gotta love the poster behind the bar: 'Barista, barista, antifascista'newcomer hipsters, and the expat community meet here and celebrate a piece of Berlin that has remained true to itself, somewhere between anachronistic and nostalgic.

It's cosy with a touch of melancholy.