• Shade under old chestnut trees, including a horse chestnut more than 150 years old, so the garden stays cooler on hot afternoons
• Walk in without booking when you are fewer than 20 people; bigger groups reserve ahead
• Kitchen closes at 9pm in the restaurant and earlier in the beer garden, so plan an early family dinner

Zollpackhof is a Bavarian beer garden and restaurant on the Spree, run with Munich's Augustiner brewery. Long tables sit under old chestnut trees, one of them more than 150 years old, facing the tour boats and the Chancellery across the river.

Groups under 20 can walk in and sit down. It suits a shady family lunch near Hauptbahnhof more than a day built around the kids.