Bars & cafés

If you want to enjoy a perfect day in Hamburg, why not start with breakfast on Lange Reihe? Here sun-worshippers can sit on the terrace of Café Gnosa or Kyti Voo and admire the colourful bustle on the Gay Village walkway from a distance. At Café Endlich in Neustadt women can enjoy female company.

With its Bellini Bar, Generation Bar and the M+V public house, St. Georg is the ideal place to warm up before a long night of partying.

Here is a listing of the best places to go:

Cafés

Café Gnosa
Hamburg’s gay coffeehouse, famous for its excellent cakes and pastries. Daily lunch menu, exhibitions and events including Bingo with Ricardo M.

Café Spund
The oldest gay daytime café in the city centre. Snacks menu and attractive outdoor area with gardens. Mostly frequented by older people.

Kyti Voo
Gay/lesbian café on Lange Reihe, with an extensive terrace where you can both see and be seen. An ideal position from which to observe the busy doings on Lange Reihe.

Top Ten Bars

Bellini
Small gay bar, and a popular place to hang out after work.

Daniels
Authentic red light bar in Western style. With cult DJ Matthias on Fridays and Saturdays. Generally thronged between midnight and early morning.

Frauencafé Endlich [Endlich Women’s Café]
Bar of the associated Hanseatin Women’s Hotel. A varied programme including singles dates and group get-togethers.

Generation Bar
Popular bar on Lange Reihe, with a youthful and mixed public. Regular parties, including karaoke, Disco Night etc.

M+V public house
Popular meeting place after work.

Olivia Jones Bar
Nocturnal bar with naughty St. Pauli charm, Olivia Jones as proprietress and plenty of curious guests – ranging from rustic tourists to celebrities.

Slut Club
Fetish club with full features and facilities, regular events and cruising area.

Tom’s Saloon
Popular meeting point with cruising area. The bar shows original drawings by Tom of Finland, for whom Hamburg was a springboard before he took off for the USA.

Toom Peerstall
Authentic red light district bar with a long tradition. A place where everybody meets up. Large trendy public from St. Pauli, motto parties, frequent live music with DJs.

Willi’s am Rathaus [Willi’s at the Town Hall]
Bistro, café and bar in the city centre. Regular round tables and parties. A venue for the Hamburg Leather Convention.

Wunderbar
Luxurious bar and discotheque in a street off the Reeperbahn. Generally thronged, especially at weekends, by all ages from very young to rather older.