Restaurant in Berlin, Germany
Two Michelin Plates. Easy to book. Worth it.
The Casual at Das Stue earns a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, making it one of Berlin's more reliable options at the €€€ price point. It is the right choice if you want serious, consistently executed International cooking without the full commitment of Berlin's starred tasting-menu circuit. Booking is easy, the format is flexible, and the 4.5 Google rating across nearly 2,000 reviews is a strong consistency signal.
Yes — with one important caveat. The Casual earns a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025), which means it clears a meaningful quality threshold without demanding the full ceremony or price tag of a starred room. At €€€ pricing, it sits one tier below Berlin's €€€€ creative tasting-menu circuit, making it a practical entry point if you want serious cooking without committing to a four-hour dinner. For first-timers to the city's restaurant scene, it is one of the more sensible places to start.
The restaurant sits inside Das Stue, a design hotel on Drakestraße in the Tiergarten district, which tells you something about the room before you walk in. Hotel restaurants at this level in Berlin tend to run international menus with a polished but slightly neutral execution — The Casual fits that profile. The cuisine is listed as International, which in practice means the kitchen is not locked into a single regional identity. That is a strength if you are travelling with guests who have strong preferences; it is a mild limitation if you came to Berlin specifically for a focused expression of modern German cooking.
With a 4.5 rating across 1,932 Google reviews, the consistency signal here is strong. That volume of feedback at that score is harder to sustain than a smaller sample, and it suggests the kitchen is not having off nights with any regularity. For a first-timer trying to calibrate expectations, that track record matters more than a handful of critic quotes.
A Michelin Plate is not a star, but it is not nothing. It means Michelin's inspectors found the cooking worth noting , technically sound, ingredients handled well , without the full precision and creativity required for a starred award. In Berlin's context, where the starred restaurants largely run €€€€ tasting menus with mandatory formats, the Plate designation at €€€ represents a genuine price-quality gap worth considering. You are not paying for the full theatre of a starred evening, but you are getting food that passed the same inspectors' scrutiny.
For comparison: restaurants like Rutz or FACIL operate at €€€€ with Michelin stars, and the gap in both price and formality is real. If you are building a Berlin dining itinerary and want one serious meal without a full fine-dining commitment, The Casual slots in sensibly before or after a more ambitious booking elsewhere.
The Casual's positioning inside Das Stue , a hotel restaurant with International cuisine and Michelin Plate recognition , does not naturally point toward off-premise dining. Hotel kitchens at this level are built around the in-room experience: plating, temperature, the ambient context of the dining room. The practical reality is that the details that justify €€€ pricing (service cadence, room atmosphere, how the food looks when it arrives at your table) do not survive a delivery journey in any meaningful way. There is no database record confirming a takeout or delivery offer here, and the structural logic of the venue argues against it. If convenience is your priority on a given evening, the Tiergarten neighbourhood has strong alternatives. But if you are already staying at Das Stue, room service from the same kitchen is a different conversation , that is the one off-premise format where hotel restaurant cooking can still make sense, because the distance from kitchen to table is negligible.
Booking at The Casual is rated Easy, so you do not need to plan weeks ahead the way you would for Nobelhart & Schmutzig or Horváth, where demand regularly outpaces availability. That accessibility is part of the value proposition. Reserve a few days out rather than walking in, particularly if you want a specific table configuration or are coming on a weekend evening when the hotel dining room will be fuller.
For a first-timer, the International menu format works in your favour , you are not required to commit to a set tasting structure, which gives you more control over the pace and cost of the meal. Come with an appetite for cooking that is polished rather than radical, and calibrate your expectations to a hotel dining room that takes the food seriously without performing high-concept ambition.
The Tiergarten location is central and well-connected, which means The Casual works as an anchor for a broader Berlin evening , drinks before at one of the area bars, or onward to other parts of the city after. If you are looking to extend the dining exploration, Loumi, Crackers, and GRACE are all worth knowing across the city, while Matthias and MaMi's represent different points on the Berlin dining spectrum.
For the wider picture on where The Casual sits in the German fine dining conversation, restaurants like Aqua in Wolfsburg, JAN in Munich, Schwarzwaldstube in Baiersbronn, Vendôme in Bergisch Gladbach, ES:SENZ in Grassau, Restaurant Haerlin in Hamburg, Haubentaucher in Rottach-Egern, and Marcel von Winckelmann in Passau mark the range. The Casual is not competing at those levels of ambition, but it is not trying to. It occupies a different, more accessible tier , and does so with enough consistency to earn the recommendation.
Expect a polished hotel dining room with an International menu, not a high-concept tasting experience. The Michelin Plate (two consecutive years) signals solid technical cooking and consistent quality , the 4.5 score across nearly 2,000 Google reviews backs that up. Booking is easy, the price sits at €€€, and the format is flexible enough for mixed groups. Go in knowing you are paying for reliability and comfort rather than creative risk-taking. If you want Berlin's more experimental end of the market, Nobelhart & Schmutzig or CODA Dessert Dining are the better calls.
The name signals the intent: this is not a jacket-required room. Located inside a design hotel, the atmosphere leans smart-casual , think neat, put-together, but not black-tie. At €€€ in a Tiergarten hotel setting, you would be underdressed in activewear and overdressed in a suit. Standard Berlin dining attire , clean, considered, not overly formal , is the right call. No confirmed dress code is listed, but the venue's positioning makes smart-casual the safe default.
An International menu format is generally the most accommodating structure for dietary restrictions, since the kitchen is not locked into a single regional or tasting-menu framework. That said, specific dietary accommodation details are not confirmed in our data. Contact the restaurant directly before your reservation to confirm , the address is Das Stue, Drakestraße 1, 10787 Berlin, and booking is rated Easy, so getting a response ahead of time should not be difficult. Do not assume accommodation without confirming, particularly for allergens.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Casual | International | €€€ | Michelin Plate (2025); Michelin Plate (2024) | Easy | — |
| CODA Dessert Dining | Creative | €€€€ | Michelin 2 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Rutz | Modern European, Modern Cuisine | €€€€ | Michelin 3 Star | Unknown | — |
| Nobelhart & Schmutzig | Modern German, Creative | €€€€ | Michelin 1 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| FACIL | Contemporary European, Creative | €€€€ | Michelin 2 Star | Unknown | — |
| Horváth | Modern Austrian, Creative | €€€€ | Michelin 2 Star | Unknown | — |
Key differences to consider before you reserve.
Booking is easy — no weeks-in-advance scramble the way Nobelhart & Schmutzig or Horváth require. The Casual sits inside Das Stue hotel on Drakestraße and holds a Michelin Plate for both 2024 and 2025, which signals technically sound cooking without the pressure or price ceiling of a starred room. At €€€ pricing, it positions itself as a serious but accessible option in Berlin's mid-to-upper dining tier.
The name is a genuine signal: this is a hotel restaurant with Michelin Plate recognition, not a starred tasting-menu room, so business casual fits the setting without being overdressed. Avoid full-formal — that reads better at FACIL or Rutz. The venue data does not specify a dress code, so when in doubt, call ahead or check their website before arriving.
No specific dietary policy is documented for The Casual, but a Michelin Plate-level kitchen serving International cuisine at €€€ is typically equipped to accommodate common restrictions with advance notice. check the venue's official channels before booking — the address is Das Stue, Drakestraße 1, 10787 Berlin — to confirm what they can accommodate for your group.
The Casual is primarily known for International in Berlin.
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