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GERMAN FOOD AND BEER, CITY BY CITY

Pick a city.
Know what to order.
Find the right beer.

Restaurant guides for German cities, the local dishes to order, breweries and beer gardens, cafés and cake, food markets and food landmarks, with sources beside the facts.

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City restaurant guides. Local dishes. Breweries and cafés.
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26 citiesEach with its own restaurant guide

411 food and beer guidesRestaurants, dishes, breweries, cafés

108 Germany-wide guidesDishes, bread, cake and beer styles

55 food landmark pagesBreweries to market halls in 10 cities

CHOOSE A CITY

26 German cities, one restaurant guide each

Start with where to eat, then what to order there, the local breweries and cafés, and the food landmarks where a city has them.

BEFORE YOU ORDER

German food and beer, explained

108 Germany-wide guides to the dishes, bread, cake and beer you will meet in every city, and how eating out works.

German FoodGerman food is a set of regional tables, not one national menu. Here are the dishes travelers meet most often, what each one actually is, which beer to order alongside, and how the Imbiss counter differs from the Gasthaus dining room.Read the guide German Beer GuideGerman beer is mostly lager, brewed under a 1516 purity law, and served in styles that change with the region. Here is what to order in a beer hall, brewery tap or beer garden, how to read the chalkboard, and which food goes with each glass.Read the guide German Restaurant EtiquetteWalk into most German restaurants, pick your own table, and expect to pay for the water. Here is how seating, menus, drinks, fork language, and the bill actually work.Read the guide

FOOD LANDMARKS

Brewery taverns, coffeehouses and market halls

One page per place: what it is, what to order, and what to check before you go.

All 55 food landmarks in 10 cities
BambergSchlenkerla BambergRegensburgHistorische Wurstkuchl RegensburgHeidelbergZum Roten Ochsen HeidelbergDresdenBierkeller DresdenLübeckCafé Niederegger in LübeckAugsburgStadtmarkt Augsburg

Food landmarks by city

Food market guides

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Every guide, sorted by what you are after

Each topic page collects the city and Germany-wide guides on one subject.

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