Sale e Tabacchi

One of the restaurants adding to Kreuzberg’s revival from its once predominantly newspaper driven industry.

Sale e Tabacchi offers a casual and elegant experience in Italian style. The restaurant is located in the Rudi-Dutschke-Haus with its large windows at the bar/cafe giving guests some great street scene views.

Meals are served in the rear part of the narrow yet high-ceilinged guest room, as well as the Mediterranean courtyard garden.

A note about the building: The space was designed by Max Dudler, a Swiss contemporary architect. The house belongs to the alternative newspaper the “tageszeitung” and was named after Rudi Dutschke on the 25th anniversary of the assassination attempt on the student leader.

To make matters more interesting, the building lies in tense proximity to Axel Springer’s publishing house, which produces the main tabloid newspapers of the city—whose tabloids spearheaded the campaign against the Student Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s.