"Berlin's power steakhouse: dry-aged beef, a riverside room and a guest list that does the bragging for you."
Since 2007, Grill Royal has been Berlin's steakhouse-as-stage — a low-lit room on the Spree at Friedrichstrasse 105b where politicians, artists and visiting film talent fill the late tables. The cooking is serious enough to back the scene: it appears on the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants list (No. 83 in 2025), with chef Florian Glauert sending out the beef.
It is the splashier counterweight to Berlin classics like Borchardt and natural-wine rooms such as Cordobar.
The draw is dry-aged beef, sourced widely and grilled hard: the Chateaubriand for two, a dry-aged ribeye, and a bavette finished with bone-marrow butter are the perennials, with Kobe priced by the 100 grams for the expense-account crowd. Oysters and a raw-bar overture open most meals. It is unapologetically a steakhouse, run at a level the celebrity room could otherwise coast on.
The space is a maze of art-hung walls, white linen and amber light along the river, busiest well after 10pm. Service is slick and used to VIPs. Value is not the point — the bill reflects the address and the audience — but the energy is genuinely Berlin's own.
Grill Royal is purpose-built to close a deal or impress a client: a confident, expensive room where the steak and the scene both signal intent. It also carries a celebratory team dinner.
Not for a quiet, intimate dinner or a tight budget — this is a loud, late, expensive scene where you are paying for spectacle as much as steak.
Dry-aged steak and spectacle — Chateaubriand for two, dry-aged ribeye, bavette with bone-marrow butter and Kobe by the gram, served in a celebrity-filled riverside room in Berlin-Mitte.
On the Spree at Friedrichstrasse 105b, 10117 Berlin, in the Mitte district near Friedrichstrasse station.
It is a top-end steakhouse: most steaks run €30–60 and up, with Kobe priced by the 100 grams, so a full dinner with wine climbs quickly.
Florian Glauert leads the kitchen, drawing on grand-hotel and European tradition; the restaurant has opened since 2007.
Yes — booking is essential, and the late, river-side tables are the ones to request for the full scene.
Ask for the river-side room; late tables are the scene.
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Grill Royal earns its place on any list of rooms that do persuasive work over dinner.
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