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Will biergarten / restaurants be opened on Good Friday 6 April in Munich?
shouldn't be a problem. Shops will be closed but restaurants and biergartens should be open for business.
Nymphenburg area, Munich
The only one I would recommend within walking distance is Acetaia, which is both upscale and Italian. If you are willing to hop on the 17 tram, it's a 5 minutes ride to Augustiner Keller on Arnulfstrasse, which meets all your other criteria.
[Germany] Munich - short itinerary - critique requested
i like Brenners for the occasional meal, but would hardly steer people there if they are only in town for a couple of meals. What other places in town did you try?
[Germany] Munich - short itinerary - critique requested
Just to make your life harder, Geisel's Vinothek is close walking distance to the Charles. They always have interesting fish and fowl options on the menu. You'll definitely need a reservation for that one.
Dallmayr is fun to visit, but Munich isn't really a destination for oysters and champagne (or for vegetarian food, really...)
Spaten will definitely have fine duck and fish options on their menus. Brook trout (bachsaibling) is a very typical local thing, and good matjes is hard to get in the US.
Haxenbauer would be difficult for someone who doesn't want meat... the only thing worth eating there are the knuckles, which you can get decent version of at most places anyway.
Please report if you go to Blauer Bock, that's been one I've been meaning to try for ages.
Wine shop in central munchen.. S
For German and Austrian wines, Retters are friendly, carry smaller producers and give good advice:
RETTERs Weinschmecker
http://www.retters.de/weinschmecker.php
Frauenstrasse 12
I would also check out Geisel's Weingalerie at Stacchus:
Karlsplatz 25, 80335 München
(Here is their price list online: http://www.geiselsweingalerie.de/Preisliste.html)
For Italian wines, Garibaldi is the major importer, and this is a good store:
http://www.garibaldi.de/home/index.php
GARIBALDI Marienplatz
Burgstraße 2
Chow Sleuths -- Help me remember the name of a Munich restaurant
you've pretty much described every single German restaurant outside of Marienplatz. Do you remember a part of town/subway station/local landmark?
Munich in Nov - Goose & Game meat
Most places will have at least one or two venison dishes on the menu at that time of the year. Certainly Spatenhaus and Halali would be good places to try.
Goose is a little harder. There are usually a few weeks in October where it shows up on menus (it's traditional for church "Erntedankfest" celebrations...) Hard to predict when and where though. On the other hand it is pretty much the exact same preparation as for duck -- roast with potato knödel and red cabbage. The duck version is available just about everywhere that has a traditional menu, especially at that time of year.
Good online food shops in germany?
Since nobody else has jumped in...how good is your German? Dallmayr is sort of like the Austro-Hungarian Fortnum & Mason, based in Munich. They have an online store I've ordered gifts from a few times. Good quality and reliable.
http://www.dallmayr-versand.de/
Another one to check out (also based in Munich) is Feinkost Käfer:
http://shop.feinkost-kaefer.de/
I haven't ordered from them online but do occasionally shop in their store.
German Food
I think the ice (or ice water) is typical..the meat apparently needs to be close to freezing to get the texture right. Don't know anyone who would bother to make it at home though. For parties you would just buy an unbaked loaf from a butcher.
I guess the better description would be like the inside of a hotdog. That doesn't sound too appealing either though..
German Food
Leberkase has absolutely no liver in it, by the way. I guess the closest thing I can come up with for comparison is spam, but don't let that put you off! ;-)
Hamburg good quality cheap eats
Hamburg isn't as much about the traditional german stuff as other parts of the country, but these places are very good (I think if you do a search on Hamburg you'd come across all of them):
great beer, great kassler: http://www.groeninger-hamburg.de/index-Dateien/Page1687.htm
fun and offbeat, very good labskaus: http://www.oberhafenkantine-hamburg.de/
If you're looking for trad north german seafood: http://www.danielwischer.de/
As for knives, the internationally known brands are of course Henkels and Wüsthof. But the WMF store line is easily the same quality. You can get them at any department store (try Karstadt) or there is a WMF store right on Mönckeburgstrasse. Another store worth checking out is Manufactum (Address: Fischertwiete 2, 20095 Hamburg). they tend to be quite expensive but their knives are pretty reasonable. Could be because they are older less well advertised brands. http://www.manufactum.de/Kategorie/172034/Messer-und-Zubehoer.html
Munich - looking for approach to eating there
Türkenstrasse gets more lively a block further, between Schellingstr. and Adalbertstr. Lots of antique bookstores, cool clothing stores and cafes. Basically the university area. In terms of recommendations, there is really good gelato at Ballabeni across from the Brandhorst museum. Further up, Alter Simpl is very historic and worth a visit. Atzinger (same owners now) is also an old student place that's been recently nicely renovated. Actually I think that is on Amalienstr, one block down. As I said, there are a bunch of good cafes, and some nice little Italian places. Terrine (Michelin one star) is in a little courtyard between Türkenstr. and Amalienstr. Probably my favorite MIchelin place in town, even though there are fancier ones.
Mostly though it is just a nice laid back university neighborhood.
Munich - looking for approach to eating there
"a place with a Polish (?) name on the corner of Baringstr and Thereisenstr across from the Neue Pinakothek."
Cafe Tresznewski, probably. I used to stop by there for a cappucino sometimes, but the one time I had a meal there it was pretty bad. Ever popular though.
Someone told me the restaurant inside of Neue Pinakothek is very good. Real restaurant though (high end, specialize in seafood), not a cafe.
Place are thin on the ground right near the museums, but for next time, nearby Türkenstraße is charming and has a lot of good options.
Quick Munich round up - very short
This was Paulaner at Kapuzinerplatz? I'm sorry the service was so bad. I've had some decent meals there (sure, not spatenhaus but also considerably lower price point), and I really love the unfiltered Helles (Thomaß Zwickl) they brew onsite. The atmosphere really depends on where they seat you. I like the front room if I'm with a big group of people, but then being in a big German crowd maybe has a positive effect on the service.
I have to admit that as much as I love their beer, my meals at Weisses have been worse & more expensive than anything I've experienced at Paulaner, and the service has been pretty indifferent to rude regardless of what nationality people I've been with.
Bavarian cuisine: What is it and where can I read up on it?
Pretty much all the nicer German places that change their menus regularly. They post their menus outside so you can see what the daily specials are (look for pfifferlingen on the menu.)
Franziskaner, Spatenhaus would be good bets. Possibly Dürnbraü as well.
Munich - looking for approach to eating there
I like Halali, usually try to get there at least once in October for the game menu. Haven't spent much time near Nymphenburg but I've heard good things about both those places. Geisel's is great but at some point the word got out and it gets unbearably crowded.
Of the Germans, Dürnbraü and Franziskaner are reliable. Bratwurstglöckl has the absolute best Nürnberger bratwurst in Munich. (I've never bothered with anything else :-) Wasn't crazy about Hackerhaus, and Weisses has been a disappointment every time I've been there.
I don't think I've ever seen a street vendor in Munich!
Haven't been to Atelier Gourmet either but it has gotten very good reviews.
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Halali
Schönfeldstraße 22, Munich, BY 80539, DE
Bavarian cuisine: What is it and where can I read up on it?
I can't believe I forgot about this. After asparagus is chanterelle season. There are pfifferlingen menus all over the place right now :-)
Bavarian cuisine: What is it and where can I read up on it?
Yup, that's the Spaten I was thinking of. The first floor is more traditional, the second floor fancier stuff. I would stick with the first floor if I were just visiting.
The tail end of asparagus season is right around now I'm afraid, but July is a great time for really good berries and stone fruits. I con't think of any specifically "summer" traditional Bavarian dishes. Maybe Marillenknödel?
ctually, I am rather fond of sülze in the summer (cold beef in aspic) on hot days. Sounds gross, I know, but somehow good Bavarian restaurants do a great job of it, with salad and pumpkin seed oil...
Bavarian cuisine: What is it and where can I read up on it?
For anyone interested, Süddeitsche Zeitung (the local newspaper) publishes a little book listing good countryside inns:
http://www.amazon.de/Genießen-entdecken-besten-Ausflug-Tipps-Südbayern/dp/3866156251
Really useful for quick weekend jaunts.
We liked Sprengenöder Alm in Eurasburg. It's out of the way, set on a farm and run by a family, which sounds like exactly what you are looking for. Not much to do right around there but its a close drive to alpine hiking, and the food is very good. They have decent rooms to stay, breakfast included. (We stayed once but stopped by for meals on a few occasions.) They have a really beautiful terrace with tables, heavily visited by locals. The Kaiserschmarrn is probably one of the best I've had. I should mention we spotted the head of the CSU there at least once. Whatever you think of their politics, those guys are pretty picky about Bavarian food...
Speaking of which, I think their clubhouse in town is the Unionsbraü, which is also pretty good.
For more refined but still traditional Bavarian food in town, Spaten an der Oper does a very good job.
Bavarian cuisine: What is it and where can I read up on it?
Two good bakeries:
Cafe Luitpold on Briennnerstr. 11 recently reopened historic konditorei, super fancy pastries and actually a very good lunch menu as well.
More traditional and homey is Cafe Arzmiller, in the courtyard next to the Theatiner church (big yellow church on Odeonsplatz.) Big plus is that you can sit outside, and the cakes are delicious.
Also worth trying: traditional donut-type things at Cafe Frischhut, which is adjacent to the Viktualienmarkt, right across the street from the big Hacker-Pschorr building,
Greek & Turkish food are pretty good in Munich. I haven't had as much luck with Vietnamese, but I am originally from Philadelphia which has some of the best Vietnamese restaurants in the US (oddly enough...)
As far as good countryside inns, take a look at the michelin website. Don't search for starred restaurants (fine but tend to be generic international), but rather look towards the bibendum or lower level, which tend to be more traditional. We've gotten some great finds that way.
Cheap eats in Frankfurt
A little off the mainline tourist path in Sachsenhausen, but very traditional:
http://www.apfelwein-wagner.com/htdocs/english/index_d.htm
Had the grilled Kassler w/ Sauerkraut here, and of course the "Ebbelwoi". We also tried the Handkäse and I forget what with Grüne Soße...basically all the Frankfurt hits. The food was very good and the atmosphere is a lot of fun.
Germany: Quality Storebought Ice Cream?
Rewe carries Mövenpick and Langnese. I think they're at least as good as Haägen Dazs...
Cookware shops in Hamburg
It carries more than just kitchen stuff but if you've never been to a Manufactum then it is really worth a look. Can be somewhat overpriced but they carry all these great traditional German kitchen tools as well as top of the line new stuff. I don't know about the one in Hamburg, but in Munich they also have a very good cheese shop & bakery. Anyway, here is their website:
http://www.manufactum.de/Kategorie/172018/Kueche.html
The Hamburg one is at:
Manufactum Warenhaus
im Chilehaus
Fischertwiete 2
(Eingang Burchardplatz)
20095 Hamburg
For more affordable basics, check out a department store like Karstadt, or any branch of WMF. (I believe there' s one of each on Mönckeburgstr.)
No Eggs in The Great Cuisines of India?
I would be really surprised if it took the British to introduce eggs into india, given the pervasiveness of eggs in Persian cuisine, and the great exchange of culture (culinary or otherwise) between Persia and India over time.
Chinese Food in OC
Just to report back, the duck at tri-village was really nice. Now I have to go back to try the regular menu. Thanks for the tip!
Frankfurt Germany airport dinning
Not my favorite airport, but looking at their website, it seems they have a Käfer (pretty reliable German), Terminal 1 Areas B Level 2, and Le Pain Quotidien (sort of a Belgian better Panera) Terminal 2, Area D, Level 3.
Chinese Food in OC
Apparently the former owners of Tri-Village went off to start Asian Tapas. From the Asian Tapas website:
"Our famous Peking Duck takes 24 hours to prep and 2 hours to cook to perfection. Therefore, 24 hour advanced notice is required. However, due to the limited seating capacity inside the restaurant, we are only able to serve the Duck in the heated patio or as a take-out item. Thank you for your understanding."
The really good reviews of Tri-Village were from before the change in ownership. I guess my question is whether Tri-Village has maintained the quality of their duck, or whether I should wait for warmer weather and try the Asian Tapas one instead. (Or more likely, just try both...though bad peking duck can be really bad...)
Chinese Food in OC
There was a post on yelp saying it was run by new management. Is it still good? I remember reading that the old owners decamped elsewhere and also do a peking duck but you have to either do take out or eat outside (which might be OK in a month or so.)
Chinese Food in OC
In town for a few months. I've seen some posts saying there is good Chinese food to be had in and around Irvine. Details, please? In particular, someplace that does a great Peking Duck would be grand. And, any hope of finding Sichuan-style food in the area?
