Verōnika

If you’re looking for a great bar or high-class restaurant at Berlin, the Verōnika at the Oranienburger Straße is a very good option. Apart from good food and drinks this place offers a very special atmosphere which is created by murals, graffito and the historic architecture the restaurant resides in. Berliners know this place as the Tacheles-Gebäude, a cultural center created by the artist group Tacheles by occupying the building in 1990 before it could be torn down. At lasted in this place until 2012.

But the building has a much longer history, it was created in 1907 as a passage between the Friedrichstraße and the Oranienburger Straße. The building was a shopping zone with a large cupola made of reinforced concrete. Beginning in the 1930s the Nazi party NSDAP started to use it; after the war it belonged to the Soviet occupation zone and the trade union federation FDGB moved in. Today it is a good example for gentrification – there is not much left of the former cultural activities; but at least you can find an outpost of the Swedish photography museum Fotografiska there.

Verōnika
Oranienburger Straße 56
10117 Berlin
Germany

https://www.veronikaberlin.com