The 10 best restaurants on the waterside in Berlin

Head chef Sebastian Frank primarily uses first-class vegetables for his experimental Austrian star cuisine. This results in unforgettable dishes such as "Celery, ripe and young".

Marco Müller cooks reinterpreted Berlin dishes in the listed customs house on the Landwehr Canal in Kreuzberg. Down-to-earth ingredients and recipes as well as exquisite wines round off the concept.

Cool ambience, modern art, view of the water, cosmopolitan service. Plus no-frills cuisine with the finest dry-aged meat from the grill, as well as seafood and vegetarian dishes. This is what Berlin is like.

Three menus are cooked in the copper and brick-dominated ambience of the former transformer station. After a decade as head chef, owner Matthias Gleiß is handing over the reins to his young team.

Veal liver, potato soup or pike-perch: Berlin cuisine classics are served in this historic inn right on the lake. The beer garden and sun terrace are also a popular destination.

Bertold Brecht was a regular at this brasserie on Schiffbauerdamm. The interior is imposing with stucco and café furniture, while outside there is a laissez-faire summer holiday feeling with coq au vin, steak frites or oysters.

Historic, quiet Meierei site with views of Gründerzeit buildings on the other bank of the Spree. Chef Martin Höse interprets old-Berlin cuisine in a modern way and bakes excellent bread. Primarily German and Spanish wines. Great lunch menus!

Directly on the banks of the Spree River next to Oberbaumbrücke, one of the most beautiful waterfront locations. Refined cuisine with a Mediterranean focus and a good wine list. Tel-Aviv schnitzel joins dorade with heart of palm and pea falafel. Elegant interior in former catacombs.

Popular country-style café-restaurant in the middle of the Tiergarten. Berliners and tourists alike sit in the beer garden under tall trees. The menu is rather secondary, but solid: Bavarian dishes, pizza, pasta and tarte flambée; pancakes and egg dishes for breakfast.