Berlin’s Top 10 : Shops & Markets

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  1. Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe)

    Whatever
    you are looking for, you will find it here, in Europe’s largest temple
    of consumption. On eight floors, the venerable KaDeWe (department store
    of the West) offers more than three million products. On its gourmet
    floor, West Berlin’s former “shop window”, you can choose from 1,800
    cheeses, 1,400 breads and pastries and 2,000 cold meats. The window
    displays and inner courtyards are also worth a visit in themselves .

    • Tauentzienstr. 21–24

    • 030 21 21 0

    • 10am–8pm Mon–Thu, 10am–9pm Fri, 9:30am–8pm Sat




    The KaDeWe

  2. Galeries Lafayette

    This
    small French department store specializes in classic women’s- and
    menswear on one level, and young fashion upstairs. French delicacies are
    sold in the food department.




    Food department Galeries Lafayette



    The famous glass cone at Lafayette

  3. Antik- und Flohmarkt Straße des 17. Juni

    Berlin’s
    largest art and antiques market specializes in antique furnishings and
    fittings, cutlery and porcelain, books, paintings, clothing and
    jewellery. The traders are professionals and demand high prices, but in
    return you are assured of buying something splendid. With its street
    artists and buskers, the market is an ideal weekend spot for a bit of
    browsing, dawdling and people-watching .

    • Straße des 17. Juni

    • 10am–5pm Sat, Sun

  4. Department Store Quartier 206

    This
    fashion store is one of the most exclusive in town. Here, the
    man-about-town can purchase his Gucci or DKNY ties, while the lady tries
    on Versace or Calvin Klein gear on three floors in the
    Friedrichstadtpassagen .

    • Friedrichstr. 71

    • 030 20 94 62 40

    • 10:30am– 7:30pm Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm Sat




    Inside Quartier 206

  5. Stilwerk

    Style is writ large in this trendy shop. Stilwerk
    is not a department store, however, but a shopping centre, specializing
    in designer furniture, lamps and fittings – basically anything good and
    expensive.

    • Kantstr. 17

    • 030 31 51 50

    • 10am–8pm Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm Sat




    Façade of the Stilwerk shopping centre

  6. Gipsformerei Staatliche Museen

    If
    you fancy a Schinkel statue for your home or an elegant Prussian
    sculpture from the palace gardens, you’ll find moulded plaster
    reproduction in all shapes and sizes here.

    • Sophie-Charlotten-Str. 17–18

    • 030 326 76 90

    • 9am–4pm Mon–Fri, till 6pm Wed

  7. Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)

    Prussia’s
    glory and splendour to take away – traditional KPM porcelain for your
    dining table at home. Apart from elegant porcelain dinner services,
    figures and accessories made in the Berlin factory are also on sale.

    • Unter den Linden 35

    • 030 206 41 50

    • 10am–8pm Mon–Fri, 10am–7pm Sat

  8. Markt am Winterfeldtplatz

    The
    trendiest and also the most attractive weekly food and clothing market
    in Berlin has developed into a hotspot of the Schöneberg crowd. This is
    the place for meeting up on Saturday mornings.




    In Winterfeldtplatz

  9. Türkenmarkt am Maybachufer

    Berlin’s largest weekday Turkish market lures visitors with its smells and dishes from A thousand-and-one-nights. Bartering is expected .

    • Maybachufer

    • noon–6:30pm Tue–Fri

  10. Berliner Antik- und Flohmarkt

    Numerous
    antique and junk shops are hidden underneath the S-Bahn arches at
    Friedrichstraße Station. Much of it is overpriced, but occasionally you
    will find a bargain.

    • Friedrichstr., S-Bahn arches

    • 030 208 26 45

    • 11am–6pm Wed–Mon