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Best Burgers in Berlin: 10 Top Spots for 2026

Where to eat the best burger in Berlin in 2026: 10 spots from Goldies Bar's €36 dry-aged burger at KaDeWe to Burgermeister's U1 kiosk, with addresses.

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Burgermeister burger kiosk in a former public toilet under the U1 viaduct at Schlesisches Tor in Kreuzberg, one of the best burgers in Berlin

Photo: Burgermeister Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0

The best burger in Berlin in 2026 is the Dry Aged Burger at Goldies Bar, on the sixth floor of KaDeWe. It ranks No. 47 on the World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list, the highest German entry. Grindhouse Burgers in Prenzlauer Berg (No. 52) and the original Goldies smash burger counters in Kreuzberg (No. 95) follow, and no other German restaurant made the list. On a budget, or for the most Berlin burger setting there is, go to Burgermeister: a kiosk built into a former public toilet under the U1 viaduct at Schlesisches Tor.

I cover Germany for Burger Breton, and I built this ranking from the people who track Berlin’s burgers most closely: the World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list, Berlin Food Stories (its 2024 burger ranking and its April 2026 steakhouse burger list), Time Out, tip Berlin and visitBerlin. Then I checked addresses and prices against each restaurant’s own pages where they exist. Every source was checked on October 29, 2026. Where I have an opinion, I say so. Where a fact is missing, I say that too.

The 10 best burger restaurants in Berlin at a glance

The 10 best burger restaurants in Berlin are spread across six neighborhoods, from Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg down to Lichtenrade on the Brandenburg border. Prices run from a kiosk classic to a €36 dry-aged burger.

# Restaurant Neighborhood Signature burger Style
1 Goldies Bar Schöneberg (KaDeWe) Dry Aged Burger, €36 with fries Steakhouse
2 Grindhouse Burgers Prenzlauer Berg Steak au Poivre Burger, €19.90 with fries (weekends) Steakhouse
3 Goldies Smashburger Kreuzberg Smash cheeseburger Smash
4 Burgermeister Schlesisches Tor Kreuzberg Meisterburger Classic
5 The Bird Prenzlauer Berg Steakhouse Burger, €17 with fries Steakhouse
6 ALL IN. Prenzlauer Berg Cheeseburger Smash
7 Golt’z Burger Lichtenrade Smash burger on a Martin’s Potato Roll Smash
8 Gully Burger Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Tavern Lamb Burger, €16 Indian-American
9 Kumpel & Keule Kreuzberg (Markthalle Neun) Dry-aged beef with Deichkäse Butcher’s burger
10 Berlin Burger International Neukölln Avocado Bacon Creative independent

Map of the 10 best burger restaurants in Berlin: Goldies Bar (KaDeWe, Schöneberg), Grindhouse, The Bird and ALL IN. (Prenzlauer Berg), Goldies, Burgermeister and Kumpel & Keule (Kreuzberg), Gully Burger (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf), BBI (Neukölln) and Golt’z Burger (Lichtenrade). Embedded iframe, 800×600, loading=“lazy”; place numbered markers at the addresses in the table. Placed after the summary table. (Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)

Prices come from Berlin Food Stories’ steakhouse burger list of April 16, 2026. Where I could not confirm a 2026 menu price, I left it out rather than guess.

Where to eat the best burger in Berlin: the ranking

1. Goldies Bar (KaDeWe, Schöneberg): the best burger in Berlin

Goldies Bar serves the highest-ranked burger in Germany: No. 47 on the World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list. It is the steakhouse spin-off of the Goldies smash burger counters, and it opened in fall 2025 (early October, according to the press) in the sixth-floor gourmet hall of the KaDeWe department store.

The Dry Aged Burger costs €36 with fries. You get a 250 g patty of dry-aged Angus beef seared in beef fat, with American cheddar on a brioche bun. That is the top of the Berlin market and almost twice Grindhouse’s weekend burger. My advice: treat it as a splurge for an occasion, not as the benchmark for what a good Berlin burger should cost.

  • Address: KaDeWe, 6th floor, Tauentzienstraße 21-24, 10789 Berlin (Schöneberg)
  • Signature: Dry Aged Burger, €36 with fries
  • Why it stands out: No. 47 worldwide in 2026, the best German result on the list
  • Sources: Berlin Food Stories, FIZZZ

KaDeWe department store on Tauentzienstraße in Berlin-Schöneberg, home of Goldies Bar and its dry-aged burger on the sixth floor KaDeWe department store at Tauentzienstraße 21-24 in Schöneberg, home of Goldies Bar and its €36 Dry Aged Burger on the sixth-floor food hall (exterior view, 2013). 3505×2369, loading=“lazy” decoding=“async”. (Photo: Jörg Zägel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin,\_Schoeneberg,\_Tauentzienstrasse\_21-24,\_KaDeWe.jpg)

2. Grindhouse Burgers (Prenzlauer Berg): the best steak au poivre burger

Grindhouse Burgers in Prenzlauer Berg ranks No. 52 on the World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list, second in Germany. Its Steak au Poivre Burger costs €19.90 with fries: two 120 g patties of US Prime beef under a French-style peppercorn sauce.

It is served on weekends only. A top-two burger in Germany for just over half the price of Goldies Bar is, to me, the best value at the top of this list. If you can only fit one serious burger into a Berlin trip, make it Saturday lunch here.

3. Goldies Smashburger (Kreuzberg): the best smash burger in Berlin

Goldies makes the best smash burger in Berlin, and it is the name that put the city on international burger lists. It ranks No. 95 on the World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list. In 2024, Burgerdudes ranked it No. 25 on its World’s 25 Best Burgers, the only German pick, calling it “arguably the best burger in Germany”.

The founders are chefs Vladislav Gachyn and Kajo Hiesl, who both cooked at Aqua in Wolfsburg, a three-Michelin-star restaurant. Their motto: “Best bad food in town”. Berlin Food Stories dates their switch from fries to burgers to around 2019, and the Graefestraße counter, Goldies Smash Burger, opened in 2021.

  • Addresses: Oranienstraße 6, 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg), the original Goldies; Graefestraße 93, 10967 Berlin (Kreuzberg), Goldies Smash Burger
  • Website: goldies-smashburger.de
  • Why it stands out: fine-dining chefs making a smash burger, ranked in two international lists
  • Sources: visitBerlin, Burgerdudes 2024

Want to try the technique at home? Our ShackBurger copycat recipe shows how to smash a thin patty for a crisp, lacy crust.

4. Burgermeister Schlesisches Tor (Kreuzberg): Berlin’s most famous burger

Burgermeister is Berlin’s most famous burger joint because of where it is: a listed former public toilet under the U1 elevated railway at Schlesisches Tor. It opened in 2006. According to the company’s own story, the founder spotted the building in 2003 and spent three years getting the permits.

The Cheeseburger comes with cheese, iceberg lettuce, tomato, pickle, red onion, ketchup and mayo. The Meisterburger adds bacon, caramelized onions, barbecue sauce and mustard. Time Out recommends the double-patty Fleischermeister with cheese fries, plus the vegan Waldmeister, and still calls the original kiosk “the very best in the city”. I rank it fourth for the setting as much as the burger: eating under the viaduct while the U1 rumbles overhead is something no steakhouse can sell you.

5. The Bird (Prenzlauer Berg): a New York steakhouse burger

The Bird is a New York-style steakhouse bar facing Mauerpark that grinds its beef in-house every day. Its Steakhouse Burger costs €17 with fries, plus €1 for a brioche bun, and the patty weighs more than 250 g. A potato bun has recently replaced the English muffin the bar was known for. Older guides still quote prices “from €9.50” and the muffin: both are out of date.

  • Address: Am Falkplatz 5, 10437 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)
  • Hours (official site): Monday to Thursday 5 pm to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 4 pm to 11 pm, Sunday noon to 10 pm
  • Website: thebirdinberlin.com, Instagram @thebirdberlin
  • Signature: Steakhouse Burger, €17 with fries
  • Sources: The Bird, Berlin Food Stories

6. ALL IN. (Prenzlauer Berg): a cheeseburger-only counter

ALL IN. is a cheeseburger counter that opened in 2023 on Schönhauser Allee. The menu is short on purpose: cheeseburgers, crinkle-cut fries and milkshakes. The inspiration is 7th Street Burger in New York, and the dining room is red from floor to ceiling. A menu this short leaves a smash counter nowhere to hide, and I like that.

  • Address: Schönhauser Allee 173, 10119 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)
  • Signature: the cheeseburger with crinkle fries
  • Sources: Berlin Food Stories, Map the Meal

7. Golt’z Burger (Lichtenrade): the smash burger worth the trip

Golt’z Burger is a smash burger spot at the city’s southern edge, right where Berlin meets Brandenburg. Patties go on Martin’s Potato Rolls with a smoky, mayo-based house sauce. No ketchup, no mustard. It is the farthest address on this list from the center, and the only one I would cross the whole city for on a smash burger alone.

8. Gully Burger (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf): an Indian-spiced diner burger

Gully Burger crosses the American diner burger with North Indian spices. Founder Sachin Obaid builds it around a spiced shami-style patty, chili onions and green chutney mayo, and serves it inside The Hoxton hotel in Charlottenburg. The Tavern Lamb Burger costs €16.

9. Kumpel & Keule (Markthalle Neun, Kreuzberg): the butcher’s burger

Kumpel & Keule is a craft butcher inside Markthalle Neun, and its burger shows off the meat counter. Dry-aged beef meets Deichkäse, a German semi-hard cheese, with tomato and lamb’s lettuce in a bun from the Sironi bakery. It is the most German burger on this list.

  • Address: Markthalle Neun, Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
  • Signature: dry-aged beef burger with Deichkäse
  • Sources: tip Berlin, Burgerdudes

Kumpel & Keule butcher’s counter inside Markthalle Neun in Kreuzberg, where its dry-aged beef burger is made Kumpel & Keule butcher’s counter inside Markthalle Neun, Eisenbahnstraße 42/43 in Kreuzberg, where the dry-aged beef burger with Deichkäse is made (photo from 2016). 2560×1920, loading=“lazy” decoding=“async”. (Photo: Fridolin freudenfett, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzberg\_Markthalle\_IX\_Kumpel\_%26\_Keule.JPG)

10. Berlin Burger International (Neukölln): the sticker-covered favorite

Berlin Burger International, known as BBI, is a small counter covered in stickers, five minutes’ walk from Hermannplatz station. Its most quoted burgers are the Avocado Bacon and a vegetarian halloumi burger. visitBerlin also mentions port-wine shallots, a fig-mustard sauce and truffle mayo.

  • Address: Pannierstraße 5, 12047 Berlin (Neukölln)
  • Signature: Avocado Bacon burger; halloumi burger for vegetarians
  • Sources: top10berlin, visitBerlin

Smash burger vs. steakhouse burger: how Berlin’s burger scene changed

Berlin’s burger scene is moving from the cheap smash burger to the thick, premium steakhouse burger. In September 2025, Berlin Food Stories called it “the end of the smashburger era”, putting a smash burger at around €9 against €15 to €25 for the new steakhouse burgers.

Berlin burger prices in 2026, in euros: smash burger about €9, Mogg €12.50 (no fries), Gully Burger €16, The Bird €17 (with fries), Grindhouse €19.90 (with fries), Goldies Bar €36 (with fries). Data: Berlin Food Stories, 2025-2026. Render it as a local SVG/WebP at 800×450 with lazy loading and localized labels. (Chart: Burger Breton, original work; data: Berlin Food Stories (2025-2026))

This ranking reflects that shift. Three of my top five (Goldies Bar, Grindhouse and The Bird) serve steakhouse patties of 240 g or more. My take: Grindhouse and The Bird are where the trend makes sense for the money, while €36 at Goldies Bar is the outlier. For how prices are moving on the chains’ side, read our coverage of the 2026 burger value wars.

Worth a detour if you are in Neukölln: Mogg, Paul Mogg’s New York deli, opened in Mitte in 2012, closed in 2023 and has reopened in the Kalle Halle at Karl-Marx-Straße 101, 12043 Berlin. Its Truffle Steakhouse Burger costs €12.50 without fries, the cheapest steakhouse burger I found in the 2026 lists.

Best burger neighborhoods: Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg

Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg have the most top-rated burgers in Berlin, with three spots each in this top 10. In Kreuzberg, you can walk from Burgermeister at Schlesisches Tor to Goldies on Oranienstraße and Kumpel & Keule at Markthalle Neun. In Prenzlauer Berg, Grindhouse sits on Kollwitzstraße, ALL IN. on Schönhauser Allee and The Bird faces Mauerpark. Neukölln adds BBI and Mogg.

How I picked these Berlin burger restaurants

I ranked each restaurant on its position in independent rankings, its signature burger as described by recent sources, and how verifiable its details are. The World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list set the top three. Berlin Food Stories, Time Out, tip Berlin and visitBerlin decided the rest. I left out any place I could not tie to a current source, such as Smashy n’ Crunchy in Moabit, until I can confirm it is still open. No restaurant paid to be listed.

I could not confirm 2026 opening hours for Golt’z Burger, Kumpel & Keule, BBI and ALL IN., so check their Google Maps listings or Instagram before you go.

More burger guides in Germany and Austria

Berlin is one stop in our German-speaking burger cluster. See the best burgers in Hamburg, where Berlin-born Shiso Burger also shows up, and the best burgers in Vienna. For Germany’s biggest home-grown burger chain, read my visit to Hans im Glück in Leipzig and the Hans im Glück brand profile. Every Berlin guide we publish lives on the Berlin burger restaurants hub.

Five Guys also made Berlin Food Stories’ burger ranking. To make its cheeseburger at home, try our Five Guys cheeseburger copycat recipe.

Best burgers in Berlin: FAQ

Where can I eat the best burger in Berlin?

The best burger in Berlin is the Dry Aged Burger at Goldies Bar, sixth floor of KaDeWe (Tauentzienstraße 21-24), ranked No. 47 on the World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list. Grindhouse Burgers in Prenzlauer Berg (No. 52) and Goldies in Kreuzberg (No. 95) complete the German podium.

What is the most famous burger joint in Berlin?

Burgermeister at Schlesisches Tor is Berlin’s most famous burger joint. Since 2006 it has served burgers from a listed former public toilet under the U1 elevated railway, at Oberbaumstraße 8 in Kreuzberg.

How much does a burger cost in Berlin in 2026?

A smash burger costs around €9 in Berlin, while a steakhouse burger runs from €12.50 (Mogg, without fries) to €36 (Goldies Bar, with fries). Grindhouse charges €19.90 and The Bird €17, both with fries.

Which Berlin burger restaurants are on the World’s 101 Best Burgers list?

Three Berlin restaurants made the World’s 101 Best Burgers 2026 list: Goldies Bar at No. 47, Grindhouse Burgers at No. 52 and Goldies at No. 95. They are the only German entries.

Where can I find a good smash burger in Berlin?

The best smash burger in Berlin is at Goldies, on Oranienstraße and Graefestraße in Kreuzberg. ALL IN. in Prenzlauer Berg and Golt’z Burger in Lichtenrade are the strongest alternatives.

Where can I eat a burger late in Berlin?

The Bird in Prenzlauer Berg serves until 11 pm on Fridays and Saturdays and until 10 pm on other nights, according to its official site. Late-night times change often, so check each restaurant’s own listing before you go.

Are there good vegetarian or vegan burgers in Berlin?

Yes. Burgermeister serves the vegan Waldmeister, which Time Out recommends, and Berlin Burger International in Neukölln has a vegetarian halloumi burger.

Do I need to book a table for a burger in Berlin?

Book ahead at The Bird and Goldies Bar, the two steakhouse burger addresses on this list where a table is worth reserving, especially on weekend evenings.

Which Berlin neighborhood has the most burger restaurants?

Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg each have three restaurants in this top 10, and Neukölln has two strong addresses with BBI and Mogg.

Sources

All sources checked on October 29, 2026.

About the author

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Alex is the restaurants editor at Burger Breton: he sets the method behind every guide and ranking in the section, and covers Germany, Austria, Scandinavia and Central Europe himself, from Hamburg and Stuttgart to Vienna, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Ljubljana. Alex builds every ranking from menus, dated prices, local food press and review data, cross-checks that each venue is still open, and states the sources behind every pick so readers know exactly where each price and rating comes from.

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