Must-see restaurants in Germany

  • Berlin, Germany - July 29, 2019: Markthalle Neun, Market Hall Nine. It is a historical market with street food in Kreuzberg borough; Shutterstock ID 1560630479; GL: 65050; netsuite: Online ed; full: Berlin POIs; name: Claire Naylor
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    Markthalle Neun

    Kreuzberg

    Eat well at Markthalle Neun, a 19th-century market hall and community hub in Kreuzberg.

  • Schwarzwaldstube

    The Black Forest

    Schwarzwaldstube commands big forest views from its rustically elegant dining room. Head chef Torsten Michel performs culinary magic, carefully sourcing…

  • Restaurant Bareiss

    The Black Forest

    Claus-Peter Lumpp has consistently won plaudits for his brilliantly composed, French-inflected menus at Restaurant Bareiss. On paper, dishes such as…

  • Restaurant Faubourg, Restaurant

    Restaurant Faubourg

    City West & Charlottenburg

    At this Sofitel hotel's château-worthy French restaurant, head chef Felix Mielke applies punctilious artisanship to top-notch regional ingredients,…

  • Weisses Brauhaus Kelheim

    Schneider Brauhaus

    Munich

    One of Munich's classic beer halls, this place is charged in the evenings with red-faced, ale-infused hilarity, with Alpine whoops accompanying the rabble…

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    Kleinmarkthalle

    Frankfurt am Main

    Aromatic stalls inside this bustling traditional market hall sell artisan smoked sausages, cheeses, roasted nuts, breads, pretzels, loose-leaf teas,…

  • Restaurant am Steinplatz, German

    Restaurant am Steinplatz

    City West & Charlottenburg

    The 1920s get a 21st-century makeover at this stylish outpost with an open kitchen, where chef Nicholas Hahn and team create dishes with technique and…

  • Horváth

    Kreuzberg

    At his canal-side restaurant, Sebastian Frank performs culinary alchemy with Austrian classics, fearlessly combining products, textures and flavours. The…

  • Auerbachs Keller

    Leipzig

    Founded in 1525, Auerbachs Keller is one of Germany’s best-known restaurants. It’s cosy and touristy but the food’s actually quite good and the setting…

  • Coda Dessert Bar

    Neukölln

    Hidden between graffiti-scrawled apartments in edgy Neukölln, Germany’s first dessert restaurant serves six-course tasting menus of modern desserts…

  • Günderode Haus

    Rhine Valley

    Hidden sky-high up a steep vineyard-striped hillside, Günderode Haus' flagstone terrace with sweeping views over the Rhine is an incredible spot for…

  • Fraunhofer

    Munich

    With its screechy parquet floors, stuccoed ceilings, wood panelling and virtually no trace that the last century even happened, this wonderfully…

  • Urgestein

    German Wine Route

    For a gastronomic extravaganza, book a table at Benjamin Peifer's Michelin-starred, vaulted brick cellar restaurant within a half-timbered house in the…

  • Tulus Lotrek

    Kreuzberg

    Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a bon vivant who embraced good food and wine, which is exactly what owner-chef Maximilian Strohe and owner-mâitre…

  • Salon Schmitz

    Cologne

    Spread over three historical row houses, the Schmitz empire is your one-stop shop for excellent food and drink. Greet the day with a lavish breakfast in…

  • Rebers Pflug

    Swabian Alps Region

    Hans-Harald Reber presides over the stove at this 19th-century country house, one of Schwäbisch Hall’s Michelin-starred haunts. He puts an imaginative…

  • Gretchen's Cafe & Restaurant

    Weimar

    Located on the ground floor of the Familienhotel, and thus family-friendly, this passionately locavore cafe offers great alternatives to the Thuringian…

  • Gaststätte St Bartholomä

    Berchtesgaden

    Perched on the shore of the Königssee, and accessible by boat tour, this is a tourist haunt that actually serves delicious food made with ingredients…

  • Weinhaus Becker

    Trier

    Within the Becker’s hotel complex, 3km southeast of the centre, this supremely elegant wine-house serves sublime internationally influenced dishes like…

  • Landgrafen Jena

    Thuringian Forest & the Saale Valley

    High in the hills with stunning views over Jena, this smart multipurpose restaurant serves genuinely interesting food such as potato-wasabi soup with …

  • Kalinski

    Frankfurt & Southern Rhineland

    Saarbrücken's hippest hang-out is this Wurstwirtschaft, which sizzles up street-food-style Currywurst (including a fabulous tofu and wheatgerm vegetarian…

  • Zu den 12 Aposteln

    Frankfurt am Main

    Glowing with sepia-toned lamplight, the 12 Apostles has ground-floor and cellar dining rooms serving traditional German dishes: Matjes (herring) with sour…

  • Al-Dar

    Hanover

    This popular Syrian restaurant a stone's throw from the Hauptbahnhof features hushed, candlelit dining and attentive service within a pleasant, minimalist…

  • Druckwasserwerk

    Frankfurt am Main

    Dating from 1899, this neo-Romanesque pump house in the rapidly rejuvenating industrial area of Westhafen, on the Main 1.2km southwest of the Hauptbahnhof…

  • Restaurant Burg Landshut

    Moselle Valley

    Opened in 2018 in the ruined castle Burg Landshut, this state-of-the-art restaurant is worth the steep climb (or shuttle-bus ride) for modern German…

  • Gollner's

    Wiesbaden

    Above the pretty village of Sonnenberg, 4km northeast of Wiesbaden, this sublime fine-dining restaurant occupies a 1201-built hilltop castle, Burg…

  • Kin Dee

    Schöneberg

    One of most buzzed-about new restaurants on Potsdamer Strasse is Dalad Kambhu's lair Kin Dee, where she fearlessly catapults classic Thai dishes into the…

  • Zenkichi

    Berlin

    Romance runs high at this lantern-lit basement izakaya (Japanese pub), which serves faithfully executed gourmet Japanese fare and premium sake in cosy…

  • Cafe Jacques

    Neukölln

    Like a fine wine, this darling French-Mediterranean lair keeps improving with age. Candlelit wooden tables and art-festooned brick walls feel as warm and…

  • Weinrefugium

    German Wine Route

    Inside a charming mustard-coloured, charcoal-trimmed building, Weinrefugium serves exquisitely presented dishes incorporating locally grown flowers, herbs…

  • Mrs Robinson's

    Prenzlauer Berg

    When Israel transplant Ben Zviel and his partner Samina Raza launched their minimalist parlour (white-brick walls, polished wooden tables) in 2016, they…

  • Brauerei im Füchschen

    Düsseldorf

    Boisterous, packed and drenched with local colour, the ‘Little Fox’ in the Altstadt is all you expect a Rhenish beer hall to be. The kitchen is especially…

  • Orania.Restaurant

    Kreuzberg

    Punctilious artisanship meets boundless creativity at Orania, where a small army of chefs fusses around culinary wunderkind Philipp Vogel in the shiny…

  • Wolfshöhle

    Freiburg

    With tables set up on a pretty square, Wolfshöhle is a summer-evening magnet. The menu whisks you off on a gastronomical tour of the Mediterranean, with…

  • Stadtpfeiffer

    Leipzig

    Petra and Deflef Schlegel give deceptively simple-sounding dishes the star treatment, and were deservedly the first in Leipzig to get the Michelin nod…

  • Prinz Myshkin

    Munich

    This place is proof, if any were needed, that the vegetarian experience has well and truly left the sandals, beards and lentils era. Ensconced in a former…

  • Vlet in der Speicherstadt

    Hamburg

    Right by the pedestrian bridge, Vlet has three different menus (plus a children's version) and the recurring theme is the intersection between…

  • Clouds

    St Pauli & Reeperbahn

    Arguably St Pauli's most prestigious table, Clouds, on the 23rd floor of the Tanzende Türme, is an elegant space with marvellous views out over the city…

  • Vietal Kitchen

    Hanover

    Pale-green louvres and bamboo lanterns set a French-colonial vibe for this trendy new Oststadt restaurant offering a modern-fusion take on traditional…

  • Weinhaus Neuner

    Munich

    This Munich institution has been serving Bavarian-Austrian classics and a long wine list for well over 100 years. Take a break from the hop-infused frenzy…

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