European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Erlin Knighton the town  new York times w est Berlin s  night die has Cpl in Germany s most truly cosmopolitan City. Many of the traditional neighbourhood inc Penof prewar be Linare gone As Are the places where prominent cabaret performers artists and philosophers Olimb 1920 s met these Days berliners have adopted More egalitarian gathering places or locale. A word Berli tvs use to Reler to their favorite cafes restaurants or bars at the Best Lorvale artists writers and students Dunk and mingle with business people politicians journalists and a new class of Young Rich West Beelmers. On a Good night in a Good local an exhilarating warmth and chaos Lake Over. People change tables to Lalk to acquaintances or simply to join in interesting conversations they have overheard it is Nof unusual for someone Losi and on a chair and stad performing or Tor the entire place to become embroiled in a Laud and Lively discussion of Arl or Jfe or nuclear War. It is also absolutely acceptable to wander info any of Hose Al any Lime of nigh alone to Lake a Book or paper to read or Wale and slay alone and occasionally look up of listen in for amusement Nat Tang ago. At one of he most fashionable restaurants calico1 polls a Small Man in overalls Carne in seated himself at the bar placed a Clown style reef Huib on Liis nose then set up a rather elaborate easel and Canvas and proceeded to paint throughout fhe evening no one seemed to feel that this was anything bul Normal to gel the flavor of a Berlin night a visitor could go to a few places Over the course of an evening. A Good place to Start because in is a place to go Early is the rum trader Tasanen Strasse 40 Telephone 681 142b open 5 to 11 pm its owner even the oldest customers still Call him Herr Schroeder keeps his Liny cozy bar in barely holds 25 open until Aboul 11 every night and then goes Home he says to read. Schroeder a Dublin borr. Berliner whose favorite author is James Joyce turns people away As the evening grows later has customers. Predominance lawyers and architects Lalk to each other and to him As they drink his delicious and by Berlin san cards pricey in Kidd dunks made Horn 75 kinds of rum they Cost $9just Down the Sloet from he rum trader is Fofi s Fasan Estras a 70. 381 b765 7 p m. To 3 . In the Lillie drummer girl John e Carre Sena s one of his characters in a melancholy mood to Berlin scared of himself he hastened to a fashionable greek nig club he knew of. Run by a woman of cosmopolitan Wisdom " the woman is fair and although her name is Noj or Ajjie door instead you a ill see the greek word or Bistro Cotta lotto. Everyone carte her fashionable club t y her name. Fall s is tastefully decor Ald the food from a simple greek salad to scamps is delicious and one needs reservations or a Lale dinner but the True attraction of or e place Lor most be liners is the clientele in s is a place to Sec and to seen the crowd is More Gail cry Early in the evening and Wilder late a night John be Carro reported that his character. Gadi Becker having Al last succeeded in Geng drunk watched the guests smash the  Loo eagerly in the bes German greek Ira Diton an alternative is the Paris bar Kan Strasse 152, 313 8052 noon to 2  a few blocks away. The Paris bar is an institution in Berlin the food is sometimes Good and sometimes Only passable Buirl is always an interesting place to be. It was the hangout of that film maker Rainer Werner Fasser nor during his trips to Bertin and in is still a place frequented by people in the film Industry As Well As by journalists and business Peop a. In the Paris bar one often has the feeling that people have come there of have import land conversations to negotiate contracts plan futures discuss a political Allrun Exil Paul Quincke Ufer 44a612-70377p.m,fo3a,m, is a restaurant with a similar Aura. The restaurant was so named because its founders left Charlottenburg the area around Savigny Lal and Kant Strasse where so Many of die City s Good dubs and cafes Ara for the Bank of a cant in Kcruz Barq Berlin s version of the lower East Side of the 1060 s. Exil is As austrian As the Paris bar is French with heavy bul Well prepared meals. Exil draws theater people As Well As Many of Iri Osc who frequent the Paris bar and in the summer one can sit outside on the canal Bank which is quite s treat another example of viennese influence in Berlin is he cafe Einstein  58 261-5096 10 . To 2 . This spacious High Ceil need thoroughly pleasant Eale is packed Al night As Well As in the afternoon. One goes there for Apple strode with Vanilla sauce and hoi chocolate with rum. A Large selection of German american English and French magazines and papers hang on wooden tacks Al he front of the cafe and a Beautiful Telephone Booth carved Cut of heavy Musty Wood stands in a Corner. Cale Einstein has younger Artsy crowd. On any Given Day Here Miil be several pensive would be writers sitting before open notebooks looking out Al themselves in the Trie pre War cabaret image of Berlin is being replaced As Trio atmosphere of its sales change. Page 14 the stars and stripes tuesday