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...celebrated opera house is just across the Bebelplatz from the hotel. As for the tough task of securing seats at sold-out performances, Raber managed that even when Russian soprano Anna Netrebko was singing the lead in Manon last month as well as reservations for supper afterward at Borchardt, Berlin's power restaurant. Behrenstrasse 37, 10117 Berlin; tel. + 49 30 460 60 91121; concierge.derome @roccofortehotels.com...
What do Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mick Jagger and Otto von Bismarck have in common? They've all dined at Borchardt's, a Berlin classic situated between Gendarmenmarkt and the Brandenburg Gate. Opened in October 1853, the fashionable restaurant was nearly destroyed in World War II, then left to decay during the reign of East Germany's communist government. But under new management, Borchardt's gained a new lease on life after the Wall fell, and it's now a magnet for Berlin's political and social ?lite...
...guest at Borchardt's could bump chairs with German Cabinet Ministers, the Rolling Stones, Leonardo DiCaprio or Cameron Diaz. Hillary Clinton dined here in July 2003 with Stefan Aust, editor of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. "It's very central and the food is good," says Ursula von Langermann, head of the North American division at the German Foreign Ministry. "Whenever I have an international guest I take them here, and if Chancellor (Gerhard) Schr?der or Foreign Minister (Joschka) Fischer walk in, they're just floored...
...worst, the scene could have looked like something out of American Movie, a documentary in which amateur filmmaker Mark Borchardt and his listless Midwestern friends try to make a full length feature with no budget, no cast and no prospects for getting a hold of either...
...block from Galeries Lafayette is the Gendarmenmarkt, perhaps the most beautiful square in Berlin. Heavily damaged in the war, it was rebuilt by the East German authorities. The square is ringed by fine restaurants, such as Lutter & Wegner and Restaurant Borchardt, where government ministers dine with their aides. Further down Friedrichstrasse is Checkpoint Charlie, the main cold war crossing point from east to west. A guard house marks the entrance to the old American sector in Berlin...