"Berlin's most thrilling two-star: Tim Raue bends Asian flavour to fine-dining precision, and the Wasabi Langoustine alone justifies the table."
Restaurant Tim Raue holds two Michelin stars (retained for 2025) in a pair of spare, design-forward rooms a step from Checkpoint Charlie in Kreuzberg. Tim Raue, Berlin-born and self-taught, built the place on a deliberate idea: European technique driven by the flavours of Japan, Thailand and China, with no bread, no butter and no classic dessert convention.
It is the apex of Berlin fine dining alongside vegetarian two-star Cookies Cream and dessert-led Coda.
The signatures are famous: the Wasabi Langoustine — tempura-fried under wasabi mayo over a fish-sauce-and-mango vinaigrette — and the Peking Duck served "Marie-Anne," both available as a supplement. They anchor the "Kolibri x Berlin" and "Koi" set menus, priced at €188 for six courses and €218 for eight. This is some of the most precise tasting-menu cooking in Germany.
The two dining rooms are calm and modern — muted tones, generous spacing, art on the walls — designed to keep attention on the plate. Service is polished and fluent in the menu's logic. For the cooking on offer, the set-menu pricing reads as fair by two-star standards.
Restaurant Tim Raue is a landmark anniversary or proposal table, and its precision and prestige make it a powerful way to impress a client who knows their food.
Not for diners who want generous, classical European fine dining — there is no bread or butter service, and the Asian-driven menu is its whole point.
Restaurant Tim Raue holds two Michelin stars, retained in the 2025 guide, making it one of a small handful of two-star restaurants in Berlin.
The Wasabi Langoustine — tempura langoustine under wasabi mayo on a fish-sauce mango vinaigrette — and the Peking Duck "Marie-Anne" are the famous signatures.
The set menus run €188 for six courses and €218 for eight; the Wasabi Langoustine and Peking Duck are available as supplements.
At Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26, 10969 Berlin, in Kreuzberg, just around the corner from the historic Checkpoint Charlie.
Well ahead — two-star tables here book out weeks in advance, so reserve as early as your dates allow.
Two-star tables book out early — reserve weeks in advance.
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