Hamburg > Hamburg Restaurants

Advantages: Fresh and very tasty food; creative use of cabbage!
Disadvantages: Small menu may not have something for everyone

...have good news - a restaurant so good that I really wouldn't tell you about it (for fear I'd not be able to get a table) if it wasn't in another country. This week found me once again in Hamburg and Monday night brought an invitation for dinner out in one of the city's many restaurants. This one was chosen by a local colleague who claimed, despite all our protestations of how good it was, that it was just one of many great places. There were six ...
...~ The Location ~ Restaurant Schauermann is at 136-138 St Pauli Hafenstrasse, overlooking the harbour. First thing you need to know is that it's not that easy to find - our taxi driver pulled off some dramatically un-Germanic driving with creative interpretation of the rules of the road in order to get us there (reversing up one way streets, driving over pavements and other things liable to get you ostracised from Hamburg society or a job replacing ... Read review

Advantages: Great tasting food, friendly
Disadvantages: expensive

I ate at the Block House in Harburg. This is just south of Hamburg near the Harburg Rathaus. I ordered a New York Cheese Burger and this drink they have here that is a mixture of Fanta and Coke. Both were quite tasty especially the burger. They have this special coarse pepper for steaks that was very good. The service was fast and friendly, and the bathrooms are clean. The burger was 8 Euro and the drink was 2 Euro. As a student that is a lot but ...
...in Germany. The waiters, chefs, and manager all appear to be German but the atmosphere is quite American. You can get by fairly well with English plus they have an English menu upon request. I really enjoyed this restaurant. It was more expensive than just buying fast food but it was worth it. ... Read review

Advantages: Great food at very good prices.
Disadvantages: Bit drab and not an easy place to find

Karen Carpenter probably had one of the best voices of her generation but it's such a shame she got to sing so many songs with crap lyrics. That was never more so than with the song 'On the Bayou' from which I've taken my title. For years I've been singing along and making up the words. So I decided to look them up before writing the review and found that my made-up version was no less stupid than the real thing. So hum along to "Jumbalaya, crawfish ...
...dining experience in - of all the unlikely places - Hamburg. When someone suggests a restaurant it's always a good idea to find out why they chose it before you make ANY comment about the place. I live in fear that I'll burst out laughing and launch into a witty but rather cutting assassination of a restaurant only to discover that the place is A - owned by an uncle/sister/close friend of my host or hostess; B - the place they held the wake for ... Read review

Advantages: Pleasant setting, interesting menu, good service
Disadvantages: Some weird flavour combinations.

...me any clues that the Turnhalle had been a gym or sports hall - I had 'turn' and 'turm' muddled ant thought it meant a tower-hall or something like that. However the logo of a gymnast in a pike positing on a set of rings tipped me off very quickly. It's an imposing building that looks - once you've seen the connection - like the old sports hall that it is. It's housed in a late 19th Century red-brick building with giant floor to ceiling arched windows ...
...on a Monday but the Turnhalle was not only open but also heaving with people. Always a good sign but I hate to think how busy it might be on weekends. I have read a review on a German review site that said the service can be horribly slow at weekends but we didn't experience any problems. The Turnhalle is laid out as one really big room - imagine your old school gym, remove all the crash-mats and wall-bars and convert it into an open-plan restaurant ... Read review

Advantages: Filling, good value for money options - lots of choice
Disadvantages: Lots of choice - but almost all of it pancakes

...with, fancied the sound of Ti Breizh and couldn't be persuaded out of her choice. I got my way the time before so I shut up and agreed to go along with it - knowing that if it was awful, I could blame her afterwards. If I have to eat pancakes, I'll need to be a bit drunk Earlier in the evening we'd been invited for cocktails by a bunch of students who'd been working with us for 6 months. They'd found a bar with a two hour long 'Happy Hour' ...
...- because from the outside Ti Breizh doesn't look like a restaurant at all and that's because the restaurant is only one side of the Ti Breizh 'coin'. In the mornings it's a shop - mostly selling Breton French things like, predictably, striped T-shirts and jumpers. At 11 am the shop closes and the restaurant comes on-line at noon. Clearly the early bird catches not only the worm but the nautically-inspired knitwear as well. The restaurant ... Read review