The customer reviews for Cafe Berlin are a fun read - too many to harvest here. There are some strong positives - "best place for brunch" and long lines of people waiting to get in - but among the frequently cited negatives are poor service and filth.
Poor service is attributed to anti-work philosophy, devotion to texting, and chatting at length with friends seated in servers' sections. Wrong food served and cold food served attributed to absent staff, inattentive staff, and resentful staff.
Waitress's armpit hair, servers' dirty fingernails, host's stringy ponytail, hippies, hipsters, discriminating against people waiting to be seated in favor of seating friends, and staff deliberately antagonizing customers all come up in reviews spread across many years.
The cafe doesn't keep to posted hours, turning back customers because they've decided to close early or not opening at all so that staff can attend one protest or another.
A perfect haunt for DaveTheShe.