Kastanienalle

This long street starts as Weinbergsweg where it runs from Rosenthalerstr. U-bahn up an actual hill (!) into Prenzlauer Berg at the Eberswalderstrasse U-bahn. Along the way, it manages to include painfully hip coffee shops (like Galao at the bottom, where the “galao” coffee and Portugese pastries are great), decent Mexican food (Speedy Gonzalez), and one of the biggest rip-off cafes around (Einen Sontag im August, sure the all-you-can-eat brunch is only three euros, but so’s a small coffee). Der Imbiss (its logo is the McDonald’s M upside down) serves cheap pizzas on fresh Indian naan bread. We’ve found nice wedding and thank-you presents at Peg’s, a good gift shop at the corner of Weinbergsweg and Fehrberlinerstrasse.