Zwiebelfisch

Zwiebelfisch is the literary-and-press bar on Savignyplatz Friedrichstraße corner in Charlottenburg that has run continuously since 1965 — the Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll generation's regular, the Tagesspiegel and Berliner Morgenpost journalism corps' regular, the format that has not changed: long bar, dark wood, the steak-frites-and-Sauerkraut canteen menu that fills the kitchen all day, the kind of late-1960s-West-Berlin room the audience inherits as a piece of the city's intellectual layer. The kitchen is competent rather than fine; the room is the booking.