The Best Dive Bars in Germany
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The best dive bars in Germany, according to the experts: Difford's Guide has weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. The Boilerman Bar comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Berlin and Hamburg.
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Rank 1. The Boilerman Bar
Dive Bar
The highball glasses here are 220ml, which is basically a tall person's thimble, and that's the whole philosophy in miniature. The Boilerman is a dive bar in Eppendorf run by the same person behind the very formal Le Lion, and the contrast seems deliberate. Bottled beers, American whiskey, and those precise little highballs fill the menu. Neighborhood regulars and cocktail nerds occupy the same barstools without anyone making it weird.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 2. Salut!
Dive Bar
Tiffany lamps, glitter balls, and oil paintings share wall space with mounted boxes of trinkets, and somehow the whole mishmash holds together. Salut! is a neighbourhood bar on a Schöneberg street where graffitied apartment blocks meet boutique storefronts. Silent retro film clips play on the wall behind the bar, VW Beetles and bell-bottomed couples, scored only by whatever's on the stereo. The kind of place that feels like it's always been there.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide 4 stars · Difford's Guide