A Berlin day through Kreuzberg from market to craft beer

An 1891 market hall in Kreuzberg. Breakfast at Sironi bakery inside — pan brioche, espresso. Turkish simit from the corner stall. Thursdays runs the famous Street Food Thursday evening if you want to come back.

Daniel Libeskind's zigzag building housing the Jewish Museum. Three allegorical axes through the exhibit — Exile, Holocaust, Continuity. The empty Voids cutting through the building are the architectural reward. Two hours.

A Turkish kebab counter near Mehringdamm station with a cult following. Grilled vegetables, feta, herbs, and chilli oil on lamb döner. Wait is thirty minutes midday but moves. Cash.

Walk from Görlitzer Park east along the Landwehr Canal — old industrial bridges, lilac trees in May, swans year-round. Locals sit on the embankment in summer with beer bottles and bread.

The block between Spreewaldplatz and Wrangelstraße has some of Berlin's densest murals. Look for the Space Invader mosaics and the Blu-painted giant man on the end-block wall. An hour at a wandering pace.

A 1920 former public-toilet building under the U-Bahn tracks, now a cult burger stand. Queue ten minutes, order the classic Burgermeister and sweet potato fries, eat standing at the shared tables. An east-Kreuzberg rite of passage.

A craft brewery in repurposed shipping containers on the edge of Gleisdreieck park. A flight of eight 0.1L house beers; outdoor tables in summer, barrel-vaulted interior in winter. Food from the Schikkeria trailer next door.