In Berlin, the best place to get cheap cocktails is at your local Indian restaurant. At the place down the street from me, it goes from about 6pm-9pm, or 18-21 in European time, which I now prefer, and provides cocktails for 3.90, an unreasonably amazing price. Now, you do get what you pay for, but for those of us who just want to drink something sweet and not worry about a price point, it is absolute perfection. In other neighborhoods in Berlin where Indian restaurants are more prolific, there can be a variety of happy hours. Some restaurants provide the cheapest price from 9-12, others only from midnight on, and even others restrict it to lunch. If you're a very lucky duck, you can simply go from one Indian restaurant to the next, getting more and more drunk on cheap, and probably low liquor, cocktails.
Start with a mojito and continue onto a cosmopolitan, served here in a tall glass, not as a martini, and before you know it, you'll be screaming for a long island iced tea and enjoying your Berlin weekend quite thoroughly. For those of us with a fairly low tolerance and a certainly small pocketbook, this is an ideal way to spend the day. After all, in Berlin, it is completely normal and even expected to start your Saturday drinking with a glass of something libatious at a late lunch, and keep on trudging along until you are pleasantly drunk at midnight, right in time to go clubbing and get hit on by the usually very reserved, but currently plastered, German boys. Only in Berlin!
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