Romeo und Romeo

Neighbourhood bar on Motzstraße in Schöneberg, the heart of Berlin's established gay quarter. A low-key local spot on one of the city's most concentrated strips of gay bars.

Motzstraße and the surrounding streets in Schöneberg have been the centre of Berlin's gay life since the 1970s, and Romeo und Romeo sits squarely in that tradition. The name is a straightforward signal — this is a bar for gay men, without the club-night trappings of the city's more famous venues. It's the kind of place that fills a different function from the Berghain circuit: a neighbourhood bar where you can actually have a conversation.