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The European Men's Football Championship 2024 starts on Friday! At BATA at Alexanderplatz, we are fully on board and will be showing all the matches live on our 85-inch TV on our stylish terrace at BATA at Alexanderplatz. The match times can be found in our calendar,...

It was really hard for us to keep quiet during the last months while we negotiated the details. But now the time has come, we can finally announce it to you: We are opening a new Bata on May 20th, 2023, right at Alexanderplatz!The new Bata will be a special project:...

We organize a great Christmas party in Berlin for you and your employees with food, drinks, music and billiards. Talk to us, we are happy to meet your wishes and are open for all ideas. exclusive billiard bar with 8 pool tables, shuffleboard and 2x darts, directly at...

When Achim Gharbi of the Touch German Tour called us in October 2017 and offered to bring Efren “Bata” Reyes, Earl “The Pearl” Strickland and Francisco “Django” Bustamante to the Bata, we had to think for exactly 13.5 milliseconds to come to the conclusion that we as...

Straight Pool is a difficult game. The Diamond 10ft table at Bata Bar & Billiards is a difficut table. If you put both together, even two of the best players in Germany struggle. At our first 10ft Straight Pool Shootout at Bata Bar & Billiards the reigning...

Of course you know that you can walk the streets of Berlin virtually with Google Street View. Not everybody knows though that you can also do this with various businesses. We just had it done for the Bata, so you can walk through the Bata from your computer or...

Often we have arguments about the proper rules at the pool table: Do you have to shoot the 8-ball in the same or opposite pocket? What happens when you sink the cue ball? And why are the guys at the next table playing with only 9 balls? We're putting an end to these...

There's a new face in town! We've got great news: Ralph Eckert, well-known coach, professional player and trickshot world champion is moving to Berlin. And he chose the Bata Bar & Billiards as his place to practice. Ralph's becoming our house pro. He's gonna...

We didn't think about it too long when we got the chance to host the only european qualifier for the prestigious World Tournament of 14.1. And so it came that 18 of the top european players met last weekend to fight for two spots for New York and 800,- Euro  each for...