Essen Restaurants

Where to go when in a special mood (eg 'Gotta get away from all these walls!') or in a special condition (eg went shopping all day, now feet hurt like hell)?
Choose wisely:
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Merlin : Very remote pub - the Merlin is up on a woody hill in the district Kupferdreh. The design: a mixture of medieval (eg the sword in the stone) and modern items (eg cocktail bar). Take your car or even better, find yourself a chauffeur. Seats inside (e.g. Round Table) and outside (aka Biergarten).
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Café Extrablatt : Colourful and young. Very centrally located, go here after shopping, cinema or failing your driver's license test. Often crowded, especially in the evenings and in winter, when it's too cold to sit outside on Kennedy Square.
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Café Bar Celona : The Extrablatt's younger sibling. Only a few meters away from it, too. So the inside information is about the same, only the Bar Celona is designed in meditarrenaen style.
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Han Guk Gwan : I know it as the traditional destination in all cases of family celebrations. This is where to take your b/f or g/f to. Where to invite your parents on their wedding day to (or let them invite you). This is where to go for a last meal with the crowd of Americans and Ozzies your brother brought home from a camp site in France. This is a restaurant where they provide cloth napkins. It is very good.
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Dampfbierbrauerei : If you want to take out your whole bureau crew, but you don't want to hear your boss talk all the time, just take a seat about 2 meters away from him, should be enough on crowded evenings. Thank your stars (or rather your good ears), if you're able hear your own words. Imagine five skat societies, football fan clubs (seniors) and complete bureau crews in one room. Loud? It'd better be.
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Fährhaus Rote Mühle : This lovely restaurant with its Biergarten lies on the very banks of the river Ruhr, and since it's a little way off the main street, it's pretty calm and the perfect place to relax after a walk along the river or a cycling tour.
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Type of foods offered are...
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...in Merlin : snacks, baguettes, salads, pizza, schnitzel, fish, breakfast... only they name the stuff a bit different...
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...in Café Extrablatt : again snacks, baguettes, salads and so on, but also a range of usually spicy, somewhat mexican potatoe-variations + wraps and of course the breakfast buffet on weekends.
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... in Café Bar Celona : about the same as in the Extrablatt, but I can prove it this time, as they have their own webpage (http://www.cafe-bar-celona.de/essen.html) with the menu on it =0D
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... in Han Guk Gwan : Very good Korean Food - not snacks, this is a real restaurant, real tables, real plates, those funny little plate warmers and on demand you can try to eat with chopsticks (oh, come on, it's mandatory, no?)
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... in Dampfbierbrauerei : A mixture of plain fare (Bratwurst, Kartoffelsalat) and crème de la crème (walnut sorbet with maple sirup). And beer - they certainly have their own brew.
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... in Fährhaus Rote Mühle : Not sure about the food offered there, I went there a couple of times with my parents on cozy evenings to have a hot chocolate and maybe an ice cream. But writing this, I realize I have to go there again this summer! The Biergarten is really lovely... but here is not the place to write this ;oP

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