Hotel Orania Berlin

Experience the authentic beat of Berlin at the Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg. An oasis of calm & serenity in a grand yet intimate Retreat. Casual luxury & timeless elegance in spacious rooms.

Outstanding food & service in a restaurant for locals & cosmopolitans. A spectacular salon & digital boardroom for exclusive events & meetings. A trendy bar & lounge featuring concerts with great artists living in Berlin.

In this beautiful historic building dating from 1913, which has been restored & rebuild from 2014-2017, the legendary Oranienpalast Café, as it was known at the time, offered its guests not only great food, but also outstanding concerts.

Reviving this identity, the Orania.Berlin does not only feature timeless beauty & the ultimate in modern comfort in 41 intimate rooms & spacious suites, but also a huge living room featuring a restaurant with open kitchen & bar, two open fire places and a concert stage with a Steinway D Piano for concerts with great artists living in Berlin.

The Literary Salon on the top floor not only offers breathtaking views of the skyline of Berlin, but also another Steinway Piano for concerts, a library, open fire place, bar & kitchen. The Salon which is equipped with digital boardroom technology, can also be booked for exclusive dinners, events, meetings, book presentations and record releases.

The Interior Design embraces contradiction, understatement & complexity to create an open & relaxed atmosphere where local residents as well as traveling aesthetes & cultural cognoscenti from all parts of the world will feel equally welcome.

A unique mix of local craftsmanship, subtle oriental influences, casual elegance, furnishings designed by Antonio Citterio & Patricia Urquiola, warm lights from Enzo Catellani & precious natural materials from Europe, Africa, Asia & the Americas showcase a cosmopolitan creativity & nonconformist individuality, just like Kreuzberg itself.

ROOMS
Enjoy a liberating sense of space & privacy in 41 spacious suites & intimate rooms blending timeless Italian elegance & subtle oriental influences with warm lights & natural materials from around the world.

RESTAURANT
Orania.Restaurant in Berlin Kreuzberg welcomes you in a charming and cosmopolitan way at Oranienplatz square. This is a place where the kitchen is also a meeting spot, the restaurant becomes a living room, and the bar turns into a concert hall.

Surrounded by warm colours, atmospheric lighting and high-quality materials in the middle of the Kreuzberg community, regular guests from Berlin and international foodporn lovers, Orania.Restaurant focuses on the essential and helps you enjoy every little moment. Let us surprise you with unusual compositions such as our Peking Duck.

Philipp Vogel is the living contradiction that adds the spark to his cuisine: as Culinary Chef and Managing Director he runs Orania restaurant and luxury hotel in Berlin’s vibrant neighbourhood of Kreuzberg, always acting with enourmos cordiality and the highest degree of professionalism.

His style was formed by his time with three star chef Dieter Müller, growing up with Italian family, and the experience he gained in China and Great Britain, and in Vienna he was rewarded with his own Michelin star.

His compositions are reduced to three main ingredients of only the best quality, as well as high standards in terms of social and environmental matters. His menu is sophisticated, yet informal. Innovative, yet authentic.

Restaurant Manager Kai Gilly unites a relaxingly unconventional team of highly qualified hosts and hostesses. They share a passion for outstanding cuisine and extraordinary moments with lots of charm and humour as well as professional expertise.

BREAKFAST CLUB
Clubbing weekend in Berlin and you couldn´t get past the doorman? In this club you can come as you are and decide whether to start the day with steak, champagne or smoothie.

This club has the best opening hours of all. Breaking your fast with a Caesar’s Salad and Kurkuma Shot at 6:30 am after your first jog? Bircher Muesli, Pancakes and Strawberry Milk after sleeping in at 11:30 am? Or do you prefer a business lunch in a fast break having a quick Steak Frites with a glass of iced tea?

Breakfast Club foundress Isabel Espinoza knows all the scientific facts to the latest food trends. She can tell you whether one hour more in your intermittent fasting break can outweigh the second serving of waffles and why our Ruby Chocolate has its beautiful pink colour.

BAR
Enjoy an eclectic selection of the artisan brands as well crafty compositions of exotic ingredients mixed by our Bar Manager and his team and experience live Jazz Concerts performed by great artists living in Berlin. The Orania.Bar is not only one of the most beautiful & lively bars of the city, but also the ideal overture for visiting the most exciting clubs of Kreuzberg & Friedrichshain.

DRINKS & DIVERSITY
The Orania.Bar drinks are just as versatile as the bar team. Cooperations with some local distilleries work perfectly. But there’s also a wide range of international beverages waiting for you. Not depending on fixed contracts with major brands is important to the bar manager, in order to allow all of the team members full creativity.

The three take their inspiration from these very special Kreuzberg vibes, the evenings at legendary club Berghain, their last vacation, upcoming events like Pride Day and sometimes a melody they pick up from the Orania.Stage.

What’s especially nice about the Orania.Bar is that those preferring non-alcoholic beverages can be sure to enjoy their drink just as much, be it shaken or stirred.

SNACKS & SOUL FOOD
Those in need of a solid base for their stomach can count on the friendly support of the Orania kitchen. One hundred percent soul food, classic dishes served with a wink, simply everything you can’t pass by anyway. And you don’t even have to pretend you want to.

ORANIENSTRASSE BAR WITH A HISTORY
The Orania.Berlin building has its origins in 1912, when it was already being used as a restaurant and dance hall. In 2014, Dietmar Mueller-Elmau redesigned it as a luxury hotel.

Since 2017, the Orania.Berlin has been at home amidst the Kreuzberg bars. Experience elegance and live music in a large space with a kitchen, restaurant, bar, and concert stage with a Steinway grand piano.

CONCERTS
The Orania.Stage and Orania.Salon feature regular concerts excusively with artists living in Berlin. The program is curated by the the acclaimned Jazz Pianist Matti Klein. An innovative mixture of soul, jazz, pop & world music are the essence of his programming.

EVENTS.MEETINGS.CONCERTS.
The Orania.Salon is the ultimate event location in Berlin and features a bar, kitchen, an open fire place, great library as well as an incredible score library at the disposal of musicians, a Steinway B Piano, projector & screen, state of the art digital boardroom touch screen system, floor to ceiling windows & balconies offering breathtaking views of the Berlin Skyline and the Oranienplatz.

The Salon accommodates up to 100 persons and may also be booked for exclusive meetings, events, film presentations, record releases and many more. The Salon can also be booked as a loft including the adjoining suites Orania.45 & Orania.60.

THE VIBRANT NEIGHBORHOOD
The Orania.Berlin is directly located in the centre of Kreuzberg at Oranienplatz. As anyone from the neighbourhood will tell you, this district is the most exiting in Berlin. Kreuzberg has long been famed for its cultural diversity as well as its experimental & alternative lifestyles attracting especially young people from around the world.

The borough is a stage and home for creativity – not only when it comes to music. Here, artists create free spaces for their work not only in the numerous ateliers but also on the streets and in backyards, which you can admire on Street Art Tour. Kreuzberg also has more mainstream offerings

You can find some of Berlin’s most outstanding museums, including the Berlinische Galerie, showing art from 1870 to the present day, the Gropius Bau with temporary exhibitions, the Jewish Museum and the German Museum of Technology.

Or you can spend an exciting evening of contemporary dance, theatre and performance at one of the three Houses of the Hebbel am Ufer stages. The neighbourhood also houses the English Theatre Berlin, the city’s only English-language theatre.

If you prefer things a little bit more casual, especially in the summer season, there is a great number of open-air cinemas and events just around the corner. Kreuzberg is also famous for its street fairs like MyFest and Carnival of Cultures.

Creative energy and space is shared and used together. For example in Berlin’s start-up scene, which is buzzing around Moritzplatz or for urban gardening in the Prinzessinnengärten. Or in Markthalle Neun where great street food outlets come together on a Thursday evening – your taste buds will just love it!

In general there is a lot of culinary to discover in Kreuzberg, of course besides the wonderful Orania.Restaurant and Orania.Bar. On the one hand you can have an exclusive dinner in Michelin star-rated like Nobelhart und Schmutzig, on the other hand you can have the iconic Currywurst at the legendary Curry36 food stall.

There are also a lot of opportunities for a drink after dinner, just like the Würgeengel bar around the corner. And if you want, you also can go for a little dance in one of the clubs anytime – because Kreuzberg never sleeps!

If you need space to breath, the Görlitzer Park, the Viktoriapark and the Park at Gleisdreieck are just close by. Grab a blanket, some cool drinks and enjoy the sun on one of the large, relaxing lawns as everyone does in Kreuzberg during the summer season.

Or you stroll to the river Spree and the Landwehr Canal, which are just a few walking minutes away from the hotel and watch kayaks and canoes, rubber dinghies and stand-up paddleboards gliding by. Kreuzberg is more than just adrenalin and nightlife – and it’s well worth slowing the space to discover the borough’s more relaxed sides.

Rooms: 41

Price: from 146 EUR per night

Source: www.orania.berlin