If you’ll be hitting the international arts and culture circuit in 2013, there’s one name you need to know: Pret a Diner. Now in its third year, the innovative pop-up dining experience looks forward to its most international year yet in 2013 with stops in Rio and Sao Paolo for their Fashion Weeks, at the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, in London for Frieze, and at Art Basel Miami Beach. As always, the focus is on bringing Michelin Starred chefs together with an immersive dining environment that vanishes before it has the chance to get stale (or for those slow to reserve to get a taste at all).

The circuit started last Friday in Berlin to put a cap on Fashion Week and look ahead to the Berlinale. For its fourth Berlin venture, Pret a Diner founders KP Kofler of the centuries old German catering firm and London-based artist Olivia Steele present a Backstage themed restaurant in an abandoned opera and theater prop factory. Renowned chef Michael Kempf of the Mandala Hotel’s restaurant, Facil, served a simplistic yet remarkably well executed, spice-themed menu on Friday, featuring a main course choice of arctic char with buttermilk and kale or followed by a braised cut of ox cheek with quinoa and pomegranate — filet of sturgeon or duck are also available on the full menu. At €55 for three courses, it’s not exactly a bargain for Berlin, but well worth it when experience and quality of ingredients is considered.

As in it’s last Berlin edition, Pret a Diner has teamed up with Steele’s gallery, Circle Culture, for an exhibition featuring artists such as Shepard Fairy, XOOOOX, Aaron Rose, Stefan Strumbel, and Andre Saraiva. Titled “Ephemeral,” the exhibition was curated by the gallery’s co-owner Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer.

See pictures from the opening night in our slideshow.

Pret a Diner, “Backstage” is in Berlin through February 28th. Reservations can be made here.