Berlin · Friedrichshain · Germany

Café Sibylle

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easy

8/10

best: morning, afternoon

nostalgic, cultural, Cold War

A local would say...

Order a coffee and read about the boulevard outside from posters that were displayed when Stalin still had a moustache and a statue around the corner.

One of the most popular cafés in East Berlin before the Wall fell, now run by a nonprofit and operating as both a coffee bar and a growing exhibit on the history of Karl-Marx-Allee. The interior has sober early-1960s charm, with portraits of the boulevard's architects and period artefacts including a piece of Stalin's moustache from a nearby statue torn down in 1961.