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Authentic Taverna Experience?
Athene's real problem isn't authenticity, it's that it's on the ground floor of a building where half the neighborhood has been priced out, so the room skews older and wealthier than the food deserves. What you actually want is a place that's been there since before the Wall came down and never changed the sign, and for Greek food that mostly means the spots clustered around Bayerischer Platz and down toward Schöneberg. The older owners there came as Gastarbeiter in the 60s, kept the recipes from their villages, and never bothered to redo the interior for Instagram. Ask for the krassi by name, not the menu wine, and see what happens.
the "authentic" thing people chase in Berlin greek food is kinda backwards anyway. the taverna as a concept is a communal village thing, and what you actually get in a city is a restaurant doing a stylized version of it, which Athene does well enough. if the grandma shot is what you're after, look at the time of day. lunch service at these places is often the family eating at the next table, dinner is the show. rock up around 2pm on a tuesday and youll get a totally different room than at 8 on a saturday.
Everyone fixates on the food and the yiayia moment, but what actually makes Athene feel off to me is the timing of the room itself. Greek tavernas in Greece are loud and a bit chaotic in a specific way, whole families talking over each other, kids running around, someone arguing about politics two tables over, and that's the texture you can't fake. Athene is too well behaved for that, the acoustics are soft, the tables are spaced for couples. My advice: book nothing, walk into a Greek place in Wedding or Neukölln on a Friday around 21:00 and let the noise decide for you. If you can't hear yourself think, you're in the right spot.
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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.