Restaurants close to the Circus Hotel

I%26#39;m going to stay four nights at the Circus Hotel in mid november. And if anybody can give good hints for good/special restaurants close to the hotel and of course around Berlin (like Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer berg and Friedrichshain). They can cheap or expensive as log as the food is good...and wine. What I have search are Monsieur Vuong, Al Contadino sotte le Stelle, Kuchi and of course Konnopke, or these Weinereis? Or anything else? Any tips are very welcomed.

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The area immediately around the Circus is full of small restaurants. Gorky Park, on Weinbergsweg close the The Circus, is renowned for its Russian specialities.

Catch an M1 tram or walk up the hill, and you%26#39;ll be on Katanienallee, which is full of small eateries.

Right at Zionskirchplatz is the Imbiss W, run by Canadian Gordon W., which features his tasty inventions like nan pizza at snack bar prices. (Gordon is a Canadian food artist ie a conceptual artist whose artistic expression involves the preparation of food. No kidding.)

For Old Berlin flair, walk toward the church, turn right, turn right again, then left and you%26#39;re on Wolliner Strasse. At the next corner is the Altberliner Kaffeestuben with stick-to-your-ribs Berlin specialities. http://www.altberliner-kaffeestuben.de/

Back on Kastanienallee, walk up the street and turn right on Oderberger Strasse. This street is packed with restaurants. American foodies have discovered the Oderquelle, a small restaurant featuring inventive treatments of regional food items. http://www.oderquelle.de/ I%26#39;ve found it interesting, but not memorable. There%26#39;s also a good, solid, inexpensive Indian restaurant on this street called Indian Village, and a new Turkish eatery which is good. There are two %26quot;Thai%26quot; restaurants on Oderberger Strasse. Avoid them. If you want Thai, go to Kamala on Oranienburger Strasse, which really has food equivalent to what you get in Bangkok. There%26#39;s a new French restaurant there which I%26#39;ve never tried, La Gavroche.

Back on Kastanienalle, walk up the the junction with Schönhauser Allee, cross Eberswalder Strasse, and there%26#39;s a good, solid Italian in the next block, Trattoria del Popoli.

If you like good beef, there%26#39;s a truly extraordinary restaurant at Falkplatz 5 (nearby but too complicated to explain) called The BIrd, which claims to have Berlin%26#39;s best steaks and burgers. It%26#39;s run by a New Yorker who says he learned to cook on a boat off Alaska. They claim they don%26#39;t have any can opener or microwave because they don%26#39;t need them. Everything is fresh and freshly made and of the finest quality. http://www.thebirdinberlin.com/index.htm

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Thank you very much for these tips. Have to check out these.

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Thank you very much for these tips. Have to check out these.