Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Mercato Metropolitano is a wonderful food court at Elephant & Castle, London. You can sit inside or outside and get drinks and food from numerous small shops. From burgers via Spätzle and burritos to gyoza. Everything that your heart might desire – and as a surplus they claim to be sustainable.
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If you’re bored by the standard junk food of the big burger chains you might give the Marivos Burger-Lounge at Kassel, Germany a try. It is located inside an old gas station from the 1950s at the Kohlenstraße near Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe. Two brothers and a friend opened the burger restaurant because they knew from bigger cities that buns, patties and fries can be much better when they are home-made.
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The Burgernah at the city quarter Linden-Nord of Hannover, Germany is a vegan burger restaurant with a very nice style and atmosphere. It is located at the Offensteinstraße, has limited seats and is neither a fast-food restaurant nor a high-class restaurant – it is rather a superior quality eatery.
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If you need a good meal or a drink in the evening, the Blaues Haus might be a good option for you. It is easy to find as nomen est omen: the house is coloured in blue and it is located in the Kreuzstraße at the city center of Münster in Westfalen, Germany which is busy at night and full of nice places. It was opened in 1970 as a hippie bar.
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Getting delicious Indian food at Hann. Münden, Germany is quite an issue. During the last years there was a very good restaurant called Bollywood Palace that set the bar pretty high – but is now closed again. Then there is an Italian restaurant (the Rialto) that offers some Indian dishes. One restaurant that we’ve simply not seen before is the Taste of India in the Lange Straße, the pedestrian zone.
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Well, yes: the ALEX at Kassel, Germany is only a local branch of a coffee bar and restaurant chain. But it has a very good location as you will find it in the pedestrian zone directly next to the Friedrichsplatz which is full of hustle and bustle – even outside of documenta times.
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The restaurant ‘Pizza Mia Da Carmelo‘ at Hann. Münden, Germany can be found near the beginning of the pedestrian zone in the Lange Straße – on the side with the Rotunde. It is inside a building that has seen continuously changing usages during the last years. It was the Turkish restaurant Lokanta and afterwards the local Subway sandwich restaurant. Now a friendly guy with Italian roots sells pizza there.
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The restaurant Anadolu (meaning Anatolia, a region of Turkey) at Kassel, Germany is a mix of a Turkish restaurant and eatery. They serve pretty good original Döner and many other nice dishes. The restaurant is located at the Fünffensterstraße close to the city center.
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A visit to the restaurant ‘Kleine Konoba‘ (‘small konoba‘) at Kassel, Germany is a short trip to the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. The owners have their roots at Zadar, Croatia and serve the typical cuisine of this region: delicious fish and meat, risotto, pasta, cevapcici (‘cevapi‘), special ham (‘prsut‘) and cheese (for example ‘marinirani ovcji sir‘). Continue reading “Kleine Konoba”
It is a coffee bar and restaurant chain I always had ignored in the past: the Cafe Del Sol. They offer good breakfast, typical drinks and nice food. The restaurant architecture follows the design of southern US-American ranches. And they are always placed near motorways – that is why a passionate user of public transport like me never got close to them.
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