This may be one of the city’s eastern party districts, but it also has summer beach bars on the shores of the Spree, Karl-Marx-Allee with its run of imposing, classic Soviet architecture, a fantastic big park, Volkspark Friedrichshain, and a great little one, buzzing Boxhagener Platz, which has a farmers’ market on Saturdays and a fleamarket on Sundays. Theater der Kleinen Form (Gubenerstrasse 45) has a cafe and puppet shows at the weekend (German only, but little ones may still enjoy the visual extravaganza).
Friendly young couple Annika and Daniel run Knilchbar (Krossnerstrasse 8) – three smart, refurbished rooms are brimming with toys, games, beanbags, playmats and low tables. Knilchbar’s designer credentials are high, and it has a shop selling handmade baby goods.
Children`s artwork from caroletta on the walls are also for sale ( Caroletta deserves her own post which will bw coming tomorrow).
The menu offers delicious cakes, famous buttermilk waffles, homemade soups and on sundays they do an excellent brunch.
Knilch, in case you were wondering, is the German equivalent of “young scamp”.