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Moving to Mahlrsdorf, no cafes/restaurants nearby. Am I missing something?
Yesterday my boyfriend and I signed a contract for an apartment 2-3 min from S-Mahlrsdorf. We really like the apartment and the area is very nice and chill. Gyms, supermarkets, pharmacies, doc… Hello,
Yesterday my boyfriend and I signed a contract for an apartment 2-3 min from S-Mahlrsdorf. We really like the apartment and the area is very nice and chill. Gyms, supermarkets, pharmacies, doctors etc. are within 5-10 min walking distance. Most of our friends live between Ostbahnhof and Ostkreuz, meaning that several of our social activities will be around there. This is not too bad, because it's just an S-bahn ride of 25-30 min.
But we were thinking that when it's just the two of us we could hang out around our Kiez. We decided to spend yesterday morning there exploring the area. To our surprise we found 1-2 bakeries/cafes, 1 restaurant and a few fast food places. The nature is really nice and during the summer we could go for walks, but I am afraid during the winter there will be nothing there and we would have to take the S-bahn for everything. Are we missing something? Of course we do not expect to have the choices we have inside the ring, but we thought we could have 2-3 cafes and restaurants within walking distance.
You are not missing anything, but you might be overlooking the spots that are actually there. The restaurant near the S-Bahn, Alte Schule, does solid German food and is open year round. For winter, I would stock up on things from the Rewe at the station and rely on the S-Bahn for the rest. It is a trade-off for the quiet and the nature, and most people in that area just accept the 20 minute ride to Friedrichshain when they want more options.
You should check out the area around S-Bahn station Friedenau, it's a 10 minute bus ride and has a totally different vibe. There's a handful of decent Italian places on Rheinstraße and a couple of cozy cafes that stay open past 6pm, which is rare out here. For winter evenings, the bar at Restaurant Regenbogen on Hauptstraße is warm and has good wine, it's not fancy but it's reliable. Honestly, the quiet is part of the appeal once you get used to it, you'll appreciate having the forest so close for weekend mornings.
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What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.