Cake-Club, Kreuzberg, Berlin

definitely not for me. They should call this place, Panorama-light. Where you go when you feel like a boogie but aren’t dressed to impress or willing to wait two hours in line and shell out €12. I’m sure it’s good for somebody, but for me, it’s just too small and too smoky to get away with charging at the door, even if it is only a euro. I mean, I get it, it’s better to charge a euro in attempts to weed out already drunk people from just going in there and dancing for free, but on the other hand, that dance floor is really nothing to be paying for and neither is the sound. The bathrooms are located in such a way that in order to get to them from anywhere in the bar, you must struggle through the press of sweaty drunk people rave-dancing on the too-small dance floor.

Like I said, good if you need a club atmosphere but aren’t willing to pursue a real one. If I owned Cake, though, I would take out the dance floor and put in some more chairs, how are you supposed to make money off booze if your customers can reach neither the bar nor the toilet?

All in all a touristy joint that will probably not be affected one way or the other by online ratings as I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of their custom comes from Spanish and English tourists in their early to mid-twenties.

Cake is often a great alternative to going to a club, there is almost always people dancing, even if it is not very busy. The music is eclectic with anything from 60's to modern times, depending on the day of the week. When my friend asked the DJ on one weekend to play some "English" music, she happily obliged playing tonnes of UK indie music for us to jump around too.

Its one of the few bars/clubs in Kreuzberg where there doesn't seem to be this "I'm to cool for this" attitude, which I love. Everyone just always seems to be having a good time and a laugh with their friends.

I agree that they put a lot of work into the cocktails and thought the place was cool, but even seated at the bar, we were ignored for quite a while. And that was even with a friend of the bartender trying to help us out get our drink. That said, the drink did have some style and I thought the music was fun, kind of 60’s swinging stuff.

Cozy cocktail bar in Kreuzberg with awesome staff and a slightly dodgy DJ! This place was fairly quiet when we rocked in at 2300 but it certainly gets busy later on, although I’m not really sure if it was the music (bizarre South Pacific themed), or the drinks that draws the punters. Anyway, if you’re sat at the bar, you’re sorted (when isn’t that true I wonder?)

Excellent selection of cocktails for around €5 each, and they put a fair bit of work into each. Check it out.