🇩🇪 Berlin
A walking time machine — from Prussian palaces to the techno underground.
Start a Berlin tour →What you can do in Berlin
CityCompanion has audio walking tours, scavenger hunts, 4 curated local food signatures, multi-day itineraries, and a daily morning briefing for Berlin. All free, no app store needed.
- 🎙️ AI-curated walking tours — coherent district-based routes (3h to 5 days)
- 🎭 Cultural scavenger hunts — narrative quests with questions, hints, rewards
- 🍽️ Local food signatures — 4 dishes with history and best places to try
- ☀️ Daily morning briefing — 1–5 min audio: weather, today's plan, a fresh story
- ♿ Accessibility routing — wheelchair-accessible, step-free, stroller-friendly
- 🗺️ Offline maps — cache for travel without data
Must-try local food in Berlin
2 signature dishes every visitor should try. Each has its own history and the best places to find it authentically.
🌭 Currywurst Must try
Sliced pork sausage, ketchup with curry powder, served in a cardboard tray with a plastic fork.
Invented in 1949 by Herta Heuwer in Charlottenburg — she traded spirits with British soldiers for ketchup and curry powder. There's a Currywurst Museum in Berlin and an annual Currywurst Day on September 4th. Some 70 million are eaten in Berlin every year.
📍 Where to try (2)
- Curry 36 — Mehringdamm 36, 10961 Berlin
Kreuzberg legend. Open till 5am. - Konnopke's Imbiss — Schönhauser Allee 44b, 10435 Berlin
East Berlin original, since 1930
🥙 Döner Kebab Must try
Spit-roasted lamb or chicken in flatbread with salad, sauce — Berlin's defining street food.
The modern German döner was invented in West Berlin in 1972 by Kadir Nurman — he put the meat in flatbread instead of a plate, perfect for workers. Today Berlin has more döner stands than Istanbul. Mustafa's Gemüse Kebap and Rüyam are the legends.
📍 Where to try (3)
- Mustafa's Gemüse Kebap — Mehringdamm 32, 10961 Berlin
The line is part of the experience - Rüyam Gemüse Kebap — Hauptstraße 133, 10827 Berlin
Schöneberg local favorite, no queue - Tadim — Adalbertstraße 98, 10999 Berlin
Kreuzberg classic, all about the bread
Also worth trying
🍲 Königsberger Klopse
Veal meatballs in caper-cream sauce — old Prussian comfort food, still a Berlin classic.
Originally from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) in former East Prussia. The recipe migrated west after 1945 with refugees. A national favourite in the GDR, now back on Berlin menus as a piece of edible history.
📍 Where to try (1)
- Marjellchen — Mommsenstraße 9, 10629 Berlin
East Prussian heritage menu
🍩 Berliner
Jam-filled doughnut, no hole, dusted with sugar. Locals just call it a "Pfannkuchen".
A Berliner is what the rest of Germany calls them — in Berlin itself, they're Pfannkuchen (which elsewhere means pancake). The famous Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech wasn't actually a doughnut joke — Berliners would have understood him fine.
📍 Where to try (1)
- Bäckerei Siebert — Multiple in Berlin
Traditional family bakery
Why CityCompanion for Berlin?
Most Berlin guidebooks send everyone to the same spots. Most apps charge per-city or only cover the basics. CityCompanion is different:
- Free, no in-app purchases
- AI-personalised, not a fixed playlist
- Real local stories, written by editors who know Berlin
- Adapts to weather — rainy day? Indoor cafés. Sunny? Best parks first.
- Daily concierge — a friendly companion who greets you each morning