Tausend Cantina

Spend twenty-four hours in Berlin and the phrase "this is so Berlin," will become part of your lexicon. Tausend Cantina would qualify as an über-cool, speakeasy-style bar and restaurant, and its cuisine of Japanese/Spanish fusion helps with the cool-factor. Dishes, be they tapas, sushi or a morph of the two are as delicious as they are inventive.

Diners enter the space by knocking on an unmarked door under a bridge and are led into a very dark and very cool space. The bar is in a spacecraft-type long and narrow room (outfitted in all black, of course). Through the club-like area is the open-plan kitchen and dining area. Tables are set close together encouraging intimate conversation with your dining companion and neighbors. And the hipster wait staff adds to the panache.