LAWRENCE berlin mitte in Berlin

Völlig überteuert, Essen nicht frisch, kein Geschnack! Gläser schmutzig, laute und überhaupt nicht passende Musik durch einen „DJ“. Das war wirklich enttäuschend.

Schönes Ambiente. Geschmacklich solides Essen. Der Service war zu Beginn etwas unaufmerksam, obwohl wir der einzige besetzte Tisch waren. Muß man nicht hin, man macht aber auch nicht wirklich etwas falsch, wenn man es tut. Dank netter Gesellschaft hatten wir einen schönen Abend.

I really liked the atmosphere of the restaurant, delicious cocktails and pleasant service. I highly recommend to visit

**Edited after response from owner** Dear LAWRENCE team, Unfortunately, your response to my 1-star review only confirms the poor impression I had of your service and professionalism. Instead of asking why I was so dissatisfied, I was simply told to "leave you alone." This is not how you deal with constructive criticism! The reason for my rating was that the food was not tasty and the excessive use of "cilantro" made the dish inedible. When I mentioned this very nicely and quietly to your staff on site, I wasn't even offered a solution - instead they just said: "This is what we have prepared for you". This is how you leave a restaurant hungry and disappointed. You also mention that you “don’t pay to have bad reviews on Google deleted.” Don't worry you have to spend money on it, I will remove my review myself after you get this message. I would have liked you to be open to feedback and respond appropriately to legitimate criticism. A professional answer would have been a first step. Best regards, Masoud Aqil

Quiet ambience with pleasant, quiet lounge music. I was served very friendly. The staff speaks several languages. The food (matzo) was very tasty and I was also able to drink a mocha there. I can highly recommend the restaurant and will come again when I am in Berlin again.

The idea, even the recipes could be good. But.. the cook is afraid to use the typical herbs.. the food tastes VERY flat and the meat was dry as hell 🙃

Randomly popped in on a Sunday evening. The ambience, decor and soft backround piano music makes it a place you can unwind and recharge after a hectic week. I’ve had a Middle East Burger - it was ok, and perhaps a bit pricey, next time I’ll probably try some other dish. Staff is super nice:)

We would like to thank the entire team for the kindness shown for our wedding anniversary. The venue is amazing, and the atmosphere is wonderful.

An environment where you will feel the warmth and sincerity thanks to the employees. They made a wedding anniversary gesture, it was very nice. Cocktail live music is great.

UPD the only goal of this review is for you to update the opening hours here so others will not end up staying at the closed door at 12 pm or having no food till 3 pm. People should be informed here (where they read that) and not by emailing you. --- It says "open from 12:00" but it's not. Our company of 7 people came at 12:00 and it was closed When we sent an email to book a table, answer was "kitchen is open from 15:00” Update info in Google maps to avoid misleading the people

Amazing food, and a lovely atmosphere!

The food was super tasty. Great service, pleasant atmosphere We had a really nice evening!

LAWRENCE berlin mitte service quality is really very good.

We ate and drank in Lawrence with 50 (registered) people. After 5 draft beers there was no beer at all! With the result that only long drinks and wine were available at “Berlin prices”! The service was simply overwhelmed by the number of people (as a reminder: they had been registered for weeks). The food was okay, but here too it took a while until EVERYONE had their food. Overall disappointing - based on the previous very good reviews. Recommendation: Better preparation because it can be planned.

Please save your hard-earned money and go elsewhere. Awful service, despite being the only person in the restaurant. Worst (and most expensive) hummus + pitta I’ve ever had. Such a pity because it is well located and the decor is beautiful!

Ottima cucina libanese. Posto bello e curato. Servizio impeccabile. Prezzi onesti. Lo consiglio vivamente a chi ama la cucina mediorientale.

Did not meet our expectations. Quality of ingredients was mostly really good. Service lacked attentiveness. Atmosphere and presentation absolutely fabulous. Size of portions acceptable but really on the lower end. If you want a great place to meet with friends it really can impress (but you better take the bill).

The food was incredibly good, definitely a must-try in Berlin! Also super nice interior and very friendly staff. Make sure to try the falafel.

beautiful cozy place with great and interesting food and lovely service

Nice, oriental restaurant in Berlin Mitte. Enjoy your meal. You couldn't pay with a card, only with Apple Pay, you should have known that before ordering

Terrible service. Empty cafe and yet a 20-minute wait. They offered a table only in the far corner because supposedly everything was reserved. I really don't recommend it.

Everything was perfect, the food, the service, and also the restaurant itself. As expected and even exceeded (especially in terms of service)

Absolutely terrible. DON‘T EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING HERE - it‘s expensive and a rip-off: really bad food. What a disappointment

This place is sooooo beautiful. The design of the space and all the staff alone make the experience wonderful.

Despite a reservation, the restaurant was closed. No cancellation was made. Awkward!!!

Very nice place, nice service, positive atmosphere

We were looking for a place to have drinks after Silent Disco Tour. The atmosphere is amazing, the staff professional and caring, making for a delightful moments. Will come back for the food!

The service was friendly, but only one person and very slow. Drinks came not at the same time. The start-up platter was nice, but nothing special The main courses were Small portions and not very tasty. Overall, totally overpriced tourist trap

We were there with a group - service & drinks took forever. The drinks for the group came 10 minutes apart. Shared matzah plates were delicious - it didn't give the impression of homemade pastes. Main courses lukewarm-cold, small portions, gave the impression of convenience ingredients. Overall, a proud bill and disappointed guests. No recommendation!

Thank you for the very good service, the staff is very, very pleasant, everything is at the highest level, I will come here again, the food is very tasty, I recommend it!!!

I really liked everything, a large selection of cocktails and delicious food, I will come here more than once

Entering the restaurant, I immediately got a pleasant impression as the atmosphere of the restaurant is captivating, the food was brought quickly enough and the staff was also very pleasant, very sociable, positive and professional🫡

A wonderful restaurant and excellent cuisine, we will definitely come again and recommend it to friends. Special thanks to the guy Nikita for the good service.

I really liked the atmosphere of the restaurant, the friendly waiters and the delicious food and was pleasantly surprised

A good place not only to relax with friends, but also in a pleasant atmosphere with delicious food and drinks

Very good atmosphere, nice staff, I recommend this place

Very nice atmosphere in the restaurant, delicious food, nice staff and good location

Perfect late night food place, great vibe and service

Can just be recommended! Super nice and generous staff. The fruit salad was a 10/10 and the falafel wrap was also great. Thank you again

Rarely have we eaten so well - in a pleasant atmosphere with very attentive and unobtrusive service. The S1 stops right in front of the door - very good and convenient transport connections.

Dry and boring food. Not worth the money. There were some good messes but overall not great. In any case, the venue was cozy and the staff pleasant.

An excellent evening with live music from Pedro André Bahia. The food and service was also brilliant with lovely staff

A wonderful place! Great live music!

Very very tasty and very friendly staff!!

Was very tasty and very nice staff

Unfortunately a bit disappointing. Unfortunately, for the prices and the tempting-sounding dishes, the result wasn't that great. The quality of meat, hummus or even just the bread as a side dish is much better at cheaper prices. A pity!

Low quality for a high price. There are much much better places in Berlin to get such kind of food

expensive, bad service, ok food

Great drinks. Live music was amazing!!!!

A friend introduced me to this restaurant, which is one of his favourites. It is owned and run by a Syrian refugee and focus a number of Syrian and other Arab dishes with which I'm unfamiliar. My appetizer was Muhamara, Paprika paste made from sesame, black cumin, walnuts, pomegranate molasses and couscous. My main course was Fete Al-Magdous, baby eggplant filled with minced lamb, yoghurt sauce and tomato sauce. Both were excellent. The location is good; the service friendly and competent.

Very nice restaurant, a wide variety of dishes with great taste, very friendly service. Beautiful

Cash only under 10euros?! Is this the 90s? Please inform such cheap rules before I order my beer… Can’t recommend a place with such unprofessional way of handling payments.

fantastic, delicious food, good & varied! You can get full at a good price. Fascinating ambience, clean and nice service. The terrace is cozy, outside or inside. Suitable for family, friends, groups, couples and.....etc I recommend everyone to go there for lunch, dinner, not only food but also beer, wine, cocktails without and with alcohol 😋 Have fun in Lawrence 🎉

We spontaneously chose this restaurant, attracted by its visually appealing exterior and an interesting menu. Knowledge of the day? Appearances aren't everything! What can I say? The portion of my main course seemed to have settled on a secret diet - small enough to pass as an appetizer. Unfortunately, the quality lacked the wow factor to justify the price of 20 euros. Our waitress was very friendly and even sat near us during her smoke break.

Tourist trap. They even charge you for tap water! It's written on the menu, but of course I do not check the entire menu before ordering a glas of tap water along with the wine. And then the waiter started a long discussion and insisted on paying.

Lovely vibe. Great live music. Will come again

Amazing atmosphere and fabulous live music! My go to spot when I’m in Berlin!

Tourist trap. Meals are very expensive and felt like frozen convenience products. Would not recommend to anyone. For the 30€ you'll end up paying you can easily get a lunch menu at an upscale restaurant. Don't go here.

If you appreciate a fine and authentic arabic cuisine, et voilà, you are in the right place. A well chosen mix of syrian, lebanese and kurdish cookery. You‘ll love it!

Lovely waiters, really great service but the cocktails are not recommended. Margarita was too sweet and dirty vodka martini was half empty and not made correctly.

Quiet, cozy atmosphere. Tasty hummus and good drinks.

Lovely restaurant with excellent food. Not too busy when we were there, but reservations were coming in. We also liked the peaceful decor and atmosphere.

why doesn't Google ask about the price-performance ratio? Ambience very pleasant, Arabic in appearance, service friendly, open, food well rounded in taste, Arabic tasting, fresh vegetables and herbs. Price: catastrophe, for the Arabic plate: a few vegetables, orientally seasoned with fresh coriander 4€ more than online: 22.50!!! Cheapest wine: €10.50 for 0.2l Antialk: 0.15l mint with hot water €5, beer: cheaper at DB If you want to make a living from passing tourist customers: there you go. For regular business trips to B: no thanks, for Berliners I don't even want to ask

The falafel plate was tasty, but still a bit too expensive.

Unfortunately, service was very slow, with some language barriers, and zero attentiveness, even though it wasn't really full. The food, on the other hand, was terrific, as was the musician 👌🏻

We found the atmosphere and the musicians to be very pleasant. The food was fundamentally solid, the starters were very good (Syrian potatoes & hummus), but one of the main courses was already cold (warm dish) and the chicken in the other dishes was very tough and dry. What we really had to complain about was the service... Not particularly friendly and extremely slow & inattentive. You had to spend at least 30 minutes each time. Waiting for the drinks, empty glasses were only cleared away when asked and no one asked if you would like to order anything else. The restaurant was about 1/3 full throughout the evening and there were enough staff. And there's also the request in the menu that you should reward the service staff generously with tips... Yes, we are generally very happy and very generous, but the service has to be right! Especially because the prices are so reasonable. Conclusion: Nice restaurant, but with a lot of room for improvement in the service

Waiter was rude, inattentive and forgot a drink, 3 desserts, overall lackluster experience with staff and food being bland. Not worth the expensive price tag $$$. Wouldn’t not come back.

Terrible experience, worst possible service, atrocious and insulting replica to this culture and their cuisine, lack of seasoning used on the food, absolutely positively unacceptable dry rice, and the arrogance behind this failing restaurant is astonishing. I give it maximum two years before is fails, best of luck.

I got the Shish Touk! Let me tell thats not it. Absolutely zero marination on chicken. Very very very dried out chicken. The only flavour was in the garlic sauce! Price does NOT make sense.

The food is very good, the environment and atmosphere are also very good quality, I would definitely like to stop by if I come to Berlin again.

Nice restaurant just had a drink

The starter plate for two people costs an unbelievable 74.50 euros, which cannot be justified under any circumstances. In terms of content it was okay, but nothing more. The crowd was good but not huge. No wonder the place was empty - total baggage on the tourist mile. The waitress also didn't want to bring us fresh cutlery with the main course.

Staff was incredibly friendly. They even let me practice my German with them which was very kind. Food and coffee was great. I would go back.

I wish I could give 1000 stars, the resteraunt is the best I've ever been to🥰

Super tasty, very friendly and with a great view of the synagogue!

Wonderful Syrian restaurant with the best Eastern-Mediterranean food in town. Great flair!

Wonderful food and a very pleasant atmosphere!

Very nice ambiance, cozy interior, quiet and relaxed environment with good music, clean and very friendly and pleasant female waitress. Food also excellent.

Very cozy place! Loved the live music and the vibe

Very beautiful atmosphere, great food and lovely service. The live music was a beautiful addition to a great evening. We enjoyed it!

A restaurant that I have enjoyed going to so far: interestingly prepared meals, unusual ambience, mostly tasty. Unfortunately, it has always been quite expensive. This time totally disappointed: only English-speaking service, prices increased again (hardly a main course under 25 €), wine extremely expensive), service inattentive, small portions, incredibly loud groups, so that a quiet conversation was not possible. Highlight: when paying, I gave a €3 tip, whereupon the waitress (again in English) asked me to pay one more euro. I have never witnessed anything like this. It's a shame, Lawrence won't see me again.

Die Preise waren völlig überteuert, bei viel zu kleinen Portionen. Die Gerichte waren lieblos angerichtet und schmeckte keinem von uns. Nur Barzahlung möglich

A visually appealing store with live music, unfortunately the rest couldn't keep up at all. The falafel plate, for example, came without rice and consisted of 6 individual, dry falafels with a few vegetables (for €22.50). The prices generally made little sense. A wine spritzer cost €11.50, the same as straight wine. Overall, the portions were too small for the price. Paying at the end was also difficult.

Very nice service and delicious drinks

The place extremely overpriced compared to the service and food you receive! We ordered kabab and shisha taouk. Kabab didnt look like kabab but meatballs. It was not delicious, neither was shisha taouk. I am from the country of best kebabs and this was by far the worst! Waiter didnt bring bread with our orders even though it is in the menu and she said “oh I didnt know it was mentioned there. Other customers have never asked for it before”.. Come on.

There is a live show where you can sing along and there is a very good atmosphere

Delicious food and great atmosphere. Personally, I would put maybe two fewer falafels on the falafel plate and instead put more salad/vegetables on the plate.

Absolutely overpriced restaurant where the food doesn't come close to the price level! Example: a few unseasoned potato quarters €12! They also wanted to force us to pay in cash.

We had a very nice evening - staff is very attentive, food and drinks were excellent and really nice atmosphere with cool music. Will come again!

There were five of us all there for the first time and we ordered different dishes so we could try each other's food. Overall, the food was extremely disappointing and not comparable to oriental cuisine! My Arabic pan was served lukewarm, rather cold! Bad taste! I had thawed vegetables and they cost over €20, super cheeky! When I pointed out to the waiter that the food was lukewarm to cold, he disappeared into the kitchen and then came to our table with the waitress who had brought us the food and asked her if the food was actually cold? ! Apparently he didn't believe me. She didn't know how to answer and I realized that from this point on it would be pointless to argue with him since he didn't seem to have a clue about good service. He apologized casually and disappeared. There wasn't even a drink on the house, let alone the offer to choose something else from the menu. The others' food was also disappointing. Here you save on spices and good oil, the hummus tastes like nothing and is overall quite bland and bland. We also had to constantly call the service staff to order something else. The store was almost empty around 8 p.m. (now I know why) and yet the staff didn't see the need to check that everything was going. What kind of service is this?! Apparently it's a place that's supposed to attract unknowing tourists in Mitte who will probably never open it again anyway. Worst experience ever, therefore definitely not recommended.

The food is far too expensive, tastes bordering on a disaster and is not worthy of Arabic cuisine.

Very nice restaurant, food nothing exciting (chicken with dates very good but mezze starter was just a small plate of sauces that wasn't even presented to us). We have lived a lot in Neukölln and there are much more authentic restaurants offering Middle Eastern cuisine. I find it absurd that you STILL can't pay by card. Service: Despite the reservation for 5 with specification via email of the presence of children and stroller, upon arrival they were only waiting for 2 people...🤷‍♀️ We felt a little bit special because the children dropped some food on the floor (all of which we promptly collected) and the person in charge was clearly annoyed by our presence, so I would say the place is not really suitable for families.

Die Qualität des Essens war großartig. Kann das Lamm wärmstens empfehlen. Die Portionsgrößen sind groß genug, wir haben etwas zu viel Essen bestellt, da wir erwartet hatten, dass die Portionen kleiner ausfallen würden, und waren angenehm überrascht.

I was in a restaurant with friends. Great place for dinner or lunch. The staff is friendly and helpful, the food is delicious and the portions are large. I will definitely come back and recommend to friends.

It was a fantastic evening with delicious food and great service! We'd love to come back!

It was a wonderful evening in Lawrence. Food was delicious and beautiful, the atmosphere was calm, and the service team was friendly and attentive. It is a good place for business meetings, date or anniversary. I will definitely recommend Lawrence to my friends.

I had a terrible experience, staff not friendly at all, didn't explain the dish of the day and asked us to go out in the rain and read the sign. The food was bad, vegetables not well cooked, not tasty and very small. During lunch time most of the restaurants on that area are full, this was empty and now I get why. It's a shame because the place is cozy, I highly recommend the owner train better the staff and change the menu, Arabic food is good to be represented so poorly.

Good quality food, good red wine. Very good spotify playlist

I was here with a larger group and, apart from the starter, I was very disappointed with the taste of the food. I cannot recommend the restaurant.

We really enjoyed our meal here. The food is delicious, the staff are friendly and the the decor and atmosphere are lovely. Also, the staff all spoke English which was helpful as not everyone in our group spoke German. However the service and delivery of the food was very slow, especially considering the restaurant was quiet.