GRACE Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Berlin

We stopped by the restaurant before heading to the rooftop. The interior design is incredible, which got us excited, hoping that the food would match the decor. We opted to sit outside, but the first disappointment was the cheap metal chairs with barely any cushion—30 minutes in, I wanted to leave.

My cod arrived, along with a side of rice. The marinated salad was quite unpleasant, and the rice had an odd taste, like plain rice cooked in a dirty pot. The fish itself was just okay. For €45, I expected much better. My girlfriend's crunchy avocado salad, on the other hand, was pretty good.

The service was very poor: dirty knives were not replaced, plates were not changed, service was slow, and the overall experience felt far from high class.

Next, we had a reservation upstairs in the lounge. When we reserved, we were informed that the minimum spend was €120, which we figured was nothing between six people. However, after an hour and a couple of drinks, around 11 pm on a Thursday night, we wanted to go home, only to be told that the minimum spend was €120 per person, not per table. This felt like a scam, so be cautious about the lounge.

Out of the four high-class places I visited in Berlin, this was by far the worst. Very disappointed, we ended up spending €150 in the restaurant and another €100 for just two drinks in the lounge due to the misleading...

Until a while ago, I was a loyal customer of Grace Hotel but after a recent disappointing experience, I will never again come to Grace Hotel bar or restaurant. Another day in October, I came with two friends; all European men dressed in black tie, Berlin residents. All of us were constant guests of Grace bar and restaurant, always ordering champagne. To my huge surprise, when we arrived, the selector by the door asked us whether we had reserved our seats. Being known to the hotel, we never had to reserve seats before and have always stood by the bar stand with orders of many champagne bottles. Shockingly, the selector denied us from coming in the bar for whatever obscene reason, making strange, disrespectful and provocative remarks about us. The selector was a young black man, who I think had some kind of personal issue with us. The security near him had said they had no issues with us but that everyone had to be regulated by the selector. A question to the management of Grace Hotel; why do you hire a selector who lets in people with rucksacks but not those dressed in black tie and constant customers of your establishment? This selector makes a disservice to Grace Hotel and gives a bad reputation. Because of this treatment, I will never come to Grace Hotel bar or restaurant again and will make sure that all my acquaintances know about my terrible...

You’ll love it or hate it, depending on what you’re looking for and how you present yourself.

If this bar wouldn’t judge on appearance and attitude, it wouldn’t be a hotspot in Ku’damm. If you don’t want to be judged, you’ve got Neukölln, Kreuzberg, Wedding, Friedrichshain.... That being said, the environment inside, on each of my very multiple visits, has always been an absolute blast. It’s got a chic, grungy (but classy) LA vibe to an extent, and if you want a place with pretty people to get wild with, this is definitely the place. It’s always a party here on the weekends, and the male staff is always very pleasant, happy, and quick to serve (I say male because I barley recall a single female waitress ever attending to me or even paying attention to me all the times I’ve been here).

The drinks are ok. I believe the cocktails themselves are good, however they seemingly use cheap/low quality ingredients. I would rather opt for getting a few bottles, rather than go crazy on the cocktails - the latter can result in a very very nasty hangover, which is incredibly uncommon for myself.

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