While Italian restaurants and two-Euro mini pizza joints abound in Berlin, most don’t quite hit the mark. At Pappa e Ciccia all your past disappointments are thrown out the door. Whatever time of day you choose to dine here—be it breakfast for a perfectly steamed latte macchiato and fresh pastry; lunch for beautifully composed fresh pastas and salads; dinner for a bottle of interesting Italian red wine and hand-made pasta; or Sunday brunch where your eggs are made to order and the salads of grilled artichokes, watermelon and arugula, and roasted eggplant and pine nuts overflow.

Sit down at the large communal table and bask in the crowd of beautiful Prenzlauer Berg denizens. If it’s too crowded and nice outside, stop by their take-out counter for freshly made sandwiches, olives, salami, pastries and much more.