The Q

I don’t know why this mall is getting a bad rap from other Unilocalers. It has clean toilets (but you pay 50 cents to use), free wifi and when we walked by on a cold Friday December evening, at the entrance, the mall was offering free gluhwine (pretty decent tasting imo). We went downstairs to the Rewe store and grabbed some water (19 cents for 1.5 liter) and then sat on the seats and rejuvenated in a warm place, with free wifi before going out to brave the winter wind and visiting the nearby Christmas market. All in all, it was a sweet deal!

The Q is a small shopping center located at Gendarmenmarkt. We accidentally came across it after having lunch at Fassbender & Rausch, hoping to find some interesting stores to shop in. The most exciting thing in The Q is probably the centerpiece art sculpture of squashed scrapped metal stacked atop another. Come here if you need to kill time, otherwise, it’s not worth visiting.

Ein Einkaufscenter in das wir nur zufällig gestolpert sind. Es werden gerade noch neue Shops gebaut bzw. erst eröffnet. Vielleicht ist dann etwas mehr Publikum vorhanden. So waren in den Geschäfte fast keine Künden, überall gähnende Leere.

If I could sum this place up in one word… I don’t know. Janky?
We came in here to kill some time before our reservations at nearby Cookies Cream. The inside had this giant piece of garbage art in the middle (you know, the kind where someone collects old scrap metal or something and builds a «sculpture» or whatever?). Um, OK.
The stores themselves are a strange mix. H&M, a cute little store with clever kitchen gadgets… those were nice. The art market was also kind of cool, although maybe not really my taste. But then there was DOM (less like a cathedral and more like sub/​dom) with its mixture of totally bizarre stuff a la Spencer’s Gifts and other perhaps cool looking but ultimately useless and/​or kitsch-​y belongings. There were some other places too but we weren’t interested enough in exploring.
All in all, a good place to kill time, and maybe even a place to find something new or interesting, but The Q is certainly not a destination location.