One of the best-known gay bars in Berlin and a Motzstraße institution since 1989, Hafen draws a mixed, sociable crowd and stays busy most nights of the week. It is more pub than club — a place to stand at the bar and talk rather than dance — and the famous Monday-night pub quiz is a neighbourhood ritual.
The decor changes with the seasons and the owners' sense of humour, the music leans pop, and the welcome is warm. Together with the bars opposite, it forms the dependable core of the Nollendorfplatz nightlife.