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Café Engel
Housed in a former pharmacy, this is a popular hang-out that matches black-and-white tiled floors with dark wood furniture. In summer, tables spill onto the pavement.
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Casablanca
The emphasis is on the 'Casa' in this homey Bremen institution, where goths, grannies and particularly students while away the hours within scuffed walls painted to look like marble, and under a ceiling that's a trompe l'oeil jungle canopy.
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Delano
The black wood furniture, fat columns, ringed black-and-white lampshades and high density of men in shirt collars give this Italian brasserie a sophisticated air, but you can eat very cheaply here. Each menacingly large pizza (around €7 to around €10 ) comes in an elongated oval shape and is meant to be eaten between two.
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Energie Café
A delightfully upbeat café run by a local power company, this serves delicious cut-price lunches and solid early-evening meals. Amuse yourself while waiting by watching the model surfer on the wave-motion display, or whatever is their latest energy-related gimmick.
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Katzen Café
This Moulin Rouge-style restaurant opens out into a rear sunken terrace bedecked with flowers. The menu runs the gamut from Alsatian to Norwegian, with seafood a strong theme.
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Luv
A friendly, upbeat atmosphere reigns in this large bistro with comfy cushioned banquettes arranged on staggered levels. The menu criss-crosses the globe, from Texas burgers to Wiener Schnitzel and back.
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Piano
Another enduringly popular café, this serves pizza, pasta, steaks and vegie casseroles to a broad neighbourhood mix, from ad types checking proofs to young mums. Breakfast can also be ordered until .
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Restaurant Flett
Come here for local specialities like Labskaus (a hash of beef or pork with potatoes, onion and herring) or Knipp (fried hash and oats) or try the Schweinhaxe or Alsatian, pizza-style Flammkuchen . Touristy it might be, but it's hard to dislike the photo-bedecked room, featuring first-hand snaps of celebs from Elvis to Clinton to Gerhard Schröder.
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Salomon's
This designer restaurant in a former law courts building is smart enough to impress a business partner or date, but there are a few bench seats where you won't feel alone dining on the Eurasian cuisine. A bar, courtyard and club are found in the same complex.
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Schnoor Teestübchen
If you can ignore the hint of twee tourist shop about it, this is a great place to indulge in Frisian tea-drinking rituals - putting huge crystals of sugar into your cup with tongs, or twirling honey into your char. Some local blends are wonderfully smooth, too.
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Schröter's
A modern bistro, with artful decoration, Schröter's is known for its antipasti and has plenty of Mediterranean mains, from risotto to fish. The Toulouse-Lautrec room upstairs, decorated with plenty of copies of the painter's pictures, is more formal.
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Stromburg
This retro restaurant is relaxed and chilled, with pink, purple and beige overtones, plus tasty international cuisine. Try the king prawns on Asian greens with mushrooms, mint, coriander and lime sauce, or see if they're still offering the Sunday evening 'surprise' menu, where you can pay only what you think their invention was worth.
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Überfluss
Fibre-optic curtains glow in the background as you savour skilful Eurasian dishes under low-hanging, silver globe lights. Yet, despite such cutting-edge chic, kids are obviously welcome here, particularly on the cowhide chairs of the informal lounge area. Toilets are divided into men, women and children's - the last appropriately downsized!
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