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German Food Berlin
33 Reviews Located on a quiet, tree lined avenue that is the was a main road to the Charlottenburg Palace, the cafe as a front garden eating area facing the street. The staff were very pleasant and enjoying a...
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Hofbräuhaus Munich
70 Reviews The Hofbräuhaus has been called the best and worst beer hall in the world. Many of us as "tourists" complain that a place that is too "touristy." I have been guilty of that myself, many times. I want...
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Adolf Wagner Frankfurt am Main
8 Reviews Great place to eat typical German food and very good prices.. BUT smoking is allowed in this restaurant and unfortunately the chain smoking group at next table did spoil our meal a little. Wiener...
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Essen und Trinken Hamburg
10 Reviews Hamburg has a long city partnership with Shanghai. In 2004 the building of an intercultural center was started. When it was finished it was the famous Yu-Garden teahouse of shanghai rebuilt in...
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Na Ni Wa Düsseldorf
12 Reviews I like Japanese food and there are lots of Japanese restaurants in Dusseldorf. I always take my friends who visit me to one of the Japanese restaurants here ... kind of an excuse to eat Japanese food...
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Swabian Food Stuttgart
12 Reviews This is a nice brewery with a great view of the river and a biergarten/beer garden. The beer garden is self service. You go up and order and pick up your food. You take your dishes up to the table...
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Lehner's Wirtshaus Karlsruhe
14 Reviews Lehners was a very popular place to meet during the VT Euro meet this year. Its location and also the reasonably priced food were a bonus. The other good thing was that there were many places to eat...
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Restaurants / City Center Hannover
8 Reviews One of Hannover’s oldest Italian restaurant is still a renowned place for Italian food. Its location in the old town, with a view onto river Leine. Although it is popular with politicians and other...
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around Goerres Platz Koblenz
8 Reviews Coffeeshop, bar, restaurant. Excellent outdoor sitting. Just relax and watch the people. Reasonable prices, not expensive! Einstein is new in Koblenz. It opened im April/Mai 2001. Try the coffee...
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Restaurant with German Cuisine Leipzig
12 Reviews This place is filled with history, having been built in 1899 and was once just one of many Goseschenke. These pubs specialized in serving Gose, a sour lactic beer that was peculiar to Leipzig and a...
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Eisgrub Mainz
8 Reviews Eisgrub-Brau is one of the best brewery-pubs in Mainz. I heard of this pub before I ever got to Germany and it was one of the first places I ate at once here – and I’ve been going back ever since!...
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Snacks (Döner, Currywurst, etc.) Berlin
55 Reviews Another topic of conversation which came up during our excellent dinner at Tiergartenquelle was the origins of "currywurst" which it so happened I was the leading authority, explaining that it was a...
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Augustiner Bierhalle Munich
31 Reviews The Augustiner is part of a big complex complete with hotel and function facilities. The Bierhalle is huge and loaded with atmosphere. We stopped in for lunch and were really impressed. The place was...
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Chicago Meatpackers Frankfurt am Main
7 Reviews Sadly when walking around downtown this place caught our eye after stopping to see the Eurobank building and the opera. Of all the places we saw that night this was one of the more lively as this is...
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Alster Pavillon Hamburg
2 Reviews THIS WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST DINER THAT I VISITED IN HAMBURG. ITS A MORE KIND OF MEETING PLACE FOR PEOPLE (MOSTLY YOUNG) THAN IT CAN BE REFERRED TO AS A RESTAURANT, THIS FOR THE REASON THAT...
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Zum Schlüssel Düsseldorf
7 Reviews Zum Schlussel is yet another Dusseldorf institution on the busy Bolkerstrasse. Though a bit more upscale than the city’s other brewpubs it is nonetheless a traditional and noisy affair. Oddly enough...
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Calwer-Eck-Bräu Stuttgart
4 Reviews The ambience is very casual. We went to the buffet on Sunday and there was a large variety of choice, a salad bar, dessert area, hot dihses, cold dishes, breads, and such. Beer is extra and is good...
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Klenerts Karlsruhe
4 Reviews As a surprise for me in July, Bernd and Andrea organised a meal in this fantastic restaurant overlooking Durlach just outside Karlsruhe. 7 of us enjoyed good company, good food and the great views...
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Restaurants / List Hannover
2 Reviews Trendy Self service Cafe where you can get Bagels, Muffins, Brownies, Coffee and Drinks basically. Everything can be ordered for take away, too. Or you can buy plain bagels for your breakfast at home...
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several cafes Koblenz
3 Reviews The Pegelhaus is situated in the old house, where the water levels of the Rhine are marked over years. These days there is a lovely cafe inside. It´s a lovely place, especially upstairs. My friend and...
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Coffe Baum Leipzig
6 Reviews Coffe Baum is the second oldest coffee house in Europe after "Café Procope" in Paris! It opened in 1694 by Heinrich Schutze. I wanted to go inside just to check the small coffee museum on the top...
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Augustinerkerller Mainz
3 Reviews We’ve eaten here several times and have always come away satisfied. The restaurant is in the middle of the Old Town and it has an old tavern look about it on the inside. The staff has always been...
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Café Einstein Berlin
17 Reviews On a cold February day, after visiting Brandenburger Tor, Café Einstein helped me recharge my batteries and regain some body warmth hehe. This is a big café with plenty of room, and even tho they have...
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Ratskeller Munich
19 Reviews The Ratskeller resturant is housed in the vast basement of the Neues Rathaus (new town hall) building which dominates the Marienplatz. Although the Neues Rathaus is relatively young (about 100 years...
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Liebieg Haus Cafe Frankfurt am Main
6 Reviews The Liebieghaus is a museum for ancient sculptures. They have a lovely little café in what used to be the kitchen of the Villa Liebieg. You can sit inside or outside in the very romantic...
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We dined here on two occasions and both meals were delicious. The room is small and you might have to wait, but it is worth it for two reasons: the food is good, and there is not much else in town. Try the Spaghetti Alla Marinara (in Marinara sauce with seafood) for 6,20 Euros, or, the Lasagna Della Casa al Forno for 6,20 Euros
I like German restaurants when traveling they have one of the best services for food and always good service as well like clean toilets and showers.On the last trip home from Lviv to Holland i was very happy to see the first oneHad some yammy cappucino and food.On the way from Utrecht-to Budapest by Eurolines Bus i took some pictures of some of these roadrestaurants its not only a restaurant but also a motel, but since we didnt stay overnight i can say nothing about the motel. Enough parkinspace here.
The Hofbrauhaus serves traditional German cuisine which means great big hunks of meat with dumplings. There is almost constant entertainment going on with Bavarian ompah bands banging away attempting, and usually succeeding in getting everyone to sing along. The atmosphere is so corny that it actually is close to being a tourist trap but all in all one cannot help but be ultimately charmed by the place.
Most probably, Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is the best known cake from Germany. But the variety is much bigger and also varying from region to region. In addition to Kuchen (cake), the general term, we also have delicious Torten (Torte being the singular term), which are made of several layers of flat cake, filled with cream or marmalade. One of the many typical delicious cakes from middle Germany is Frankfurter Kranz, baked in the typical ring shaped dish with butter cream and red marmalade inside and covered with ground nuts. A cake, similar in shape is Marmorkuchen (marble cake). Other famous German cakes are: Bienenstich (no useful translation), Käsekuchen (cheesecake) and Stollen. The latter is mostly sold during Christmas time and is a speciality from Saxony. Another result of our sweets obsession is the variety in very delicious pastries. At this point in time I only mention one,...
This is another famous dish you will find in many traditional German restaurants, especially in the south (= anything south of Frankfurt). Sometimes it is translated as “beef olive”, which I find funny since I have no idea where this term comes from. It shall be prepared with beef (= Rind, so it can be called Rinderoulade on the menu), but if you are in doubt, ask the waiter. Sometimes it is prepared with veal (Kalb => Kalbsroulade). The thin sliced meat is covered with several ingredients, usually these are sliced cucumbers, bacon and onion and spiced with pepper and mustard. Then it is rolled, fixed and stewed in a pan until the meat is soft enough.Traditionally it is being served with red cabbage (called Rotkraut or Rotkohl, depending where in Germany you order it) and a dark gravy.Another dish which is called “Roulade” is Kohl-Roulade. This one is with white cabbage and a filling...
Good old Currywurst, curry sausage. There is a huge dispute between the city of Berlin and the Ruhr region about where it was invented. But that is completely irrelevant when it comes to eating it. It is cult. Nothing for vegetarians of course. And not halal either since it is mostly prepared with pork meat, with the result of Bratwurst. The Currywurst is cut into pieces and served with a sauce of usually ketchup with curry. Often it is only ketchup and curry powder. And it comes with a bread roll. You will find these at kiosks, at train stations and at these Schnellimbiss booths or vans at popular places. It is good! The one in my photo is from the little kiosk at the Rhein ferry to Nierstein/Oppenheim (north of Worms). It came with a marvellous sunset while we had it on a sunny afternoon.Prices vary, but are usually in between 2 and 5 €.This Currywurst is so famous that German singer...
A very popular dish almost everywhere in southern Germany during autumn is Zwiebelkuchen (onion cake). It is usually served together with “new wine”. Or in other words: it is the one and only dish you should eat together with the new wine. This new wine has nothing to do with the French Beaujolais Primeur, which is real wine, finished in fermentation. Neuer Wein is more of a still fermenting grape must, rather sweet and available as sparkling or non-sparkling, but it contains alcohol. Depending on the grape, you can have Federweisser (white grapes) or Federroter (red grapes). The ones in my photos look quite different, but this has to do with the fermenting stage. The ones in the first two photos are higher concentrated and the fermentation has progressed more. We had these at the lovely terrace of Rheinstein Castle, on a beautiful sunny autumn day – highly recommendable to sample these...
Of course you can go to an ice cream parlour, when you crave for ice cream. But here in Germany we are lucky to have ice cream “stations” on wheels. These are simply vans equipped with a mini parlour in the back. Flavours are of course limited to mostly 10, but nowadays they also offer different mixtures with chocolate syrup or nuts as well, like in the parlours. Prices per ball is the same as in any other ice cream parlour (0,80 € as of summer 2010).They are usually near parks and recreation areas or just driving through neighbourhoods. You can hear them approaching when they ring a bell and shout “Eis” (= ice cream).© Ingrid D., April 2007 (text revamp Dec. 2010)
In summer one of the best drinks to quench thirst (apart from beer, but this is Richie’s task, haha) is Apfelsaft-Schorle. Actually there is no proper translation for it and even Wikipedia translates it as Schorle in the English sectionThe best drink though is Bionade, a magic liquid, but not every restaurant or café might have it on the menu.Schorle is the term widely used in Germany for what US Americans might know as Spritzer. We also use the term Gespritzter, however it might be better to remember the term Schorle. It is usually a 1:1 mixture of “something” with mineral water. The “something” can be wine, red or white, (= Weinschorle) or juice. If it is juice, the most popular is apple juice = Apfelsaftschorle. But when I met Mark, Sarah and baby Ryan in Bacharach this year, I learned to my utmost delight that restaurants in wine regions also serve grape juice schorle.If you don’t...
Usually, in late summer and early autumn, we have mushroom dishes in most of the restaurants. Mushrooms vary from all kinds of champignons, boleti, chantarelle and others. Mostly they are served with creamy sauce and bread dumplings, so they are very much filling!The best mushroom meal I had so far was once in Eltville (my suggestion as alternative to tourist trap Rüdesheim), in a tiny restaurant (first photo). The second best was in St. Martin, a cute small so typical Palatinate village. Depending on the meal and of course the restaurant, prices vary from 5 Euro to 10 and more Euro. But be warned: many restaurants, especially where the owners want quick money rather than customer satisfaction, would serve canned mushrooms. I would say that a good sign for fresh mushrooms is when the dishes are indeed announced on a special board outside of the restaurant.I should also mention the German...
Circus - The Hostel Berlin
7 Reviews and 710 Opinions Having previously stayed in the Central and Western Ku'Dam area I decided on my 3rd visit to stay in...
Kempinski Hotel Airport Munchen Munich
7 Reviews and 482 Opinions I stayed here one night when my flight was cancelled due to technical reasons. This hotel is a high...
Hotel Domstern Cologne
4 Reviews and 245 Opinions We stayed at the Hotel Domstern for two nights, based on online reviews. Always a bit hesitant when...
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Q: Is May a good time to travel down the rhine river? What is the best and most scenic stretch to travel along? How would you...
A: I would look at www.d-k.de. website. They have Great Boat Trips starting at Dusseldorf or Cologne all the Way to Mainz, passing Koblenz And Lorelei .... The strech...
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