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Acqua Osteria
For a special experience, head to these converted waterworks beside a quiet stream and the club Kuppel. The atmosphere is a heady mix of glam and industrial, with brown leather banquettes, candles and chandeliers - one over the open kitchen made from cooking utensils - inside bare concrete walls and floors. The food is Tuscan and the fact the ever-changing chalkboard menu is written in Italian might be more pretentious if this weren't multilingual Switzerland. Staff will explain all, but do book if you want a table. Basel's beautiful people drink in the attached lounge bar.
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Balthazar
Popular, upmarket Mediterranean restaurant, with fine wines and delicately flavoured dishes.
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Bruderholz-Stucki
Gault Millau-rated haute cuisine in the suburbs.
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Café de L'imprimerie
This converted print shop makes an unpretentious bistro, with chalky walls and heavy wooden tables. Filling meals at affordable prices mean it's a fond local haunt.
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Eo Ipso
Lip-smackingly fresh produce underpins a menu ranging from Italian to American to Japanese at this trendy bistro.
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Erlkönig
It's a bit of a schlep to reach Erlkönig, but you know you're off the tourist trail. Located in the nt/Areal, it's a very cool merger of squat bar/restaurant and formal dining room, serving Basler and modern international cuisine. Take tram No 1 or 14 to Musicaltheater or the No 33 bus to Mattenstrasse.
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Gleich
This vegetarian restaurant is quiet and rather ascetic, but it's not bad for a healthy bite.
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Parterre
Unusual dishes such as pork chop marinated in beer with apricot chutney, or green curry in tortilla shells over fried sweet potato, mostly come off in this slightly alternative place overlooking the Kaserne park. There's an array of newspapers and magazines, some English, to read over coffee and cake.
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Susu's
Downstairs is good for everyday coffee or a casual lunch of spicy corn soup, while the stylish bar/restaurant upstairs is suitable for everything from a romantic tete â tete to a company get-together. The seasonally changing menu innovatively mixes Asian and Mediterranean influences, but usually finishes with Schoggiträume (chocolate dreams) - four shades of delicious chocolate mousse served in a line of shot glasses.
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Weinstube Gifthüttli
It's received wisdom that this is the best place to sample local cuisine, although - if you're like us - you might find that, despite the ornate interior and impressive menu of various cordon bleus, it's slightly a victim of its own success.
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Zum Schmale Wurf
Delicious smells and an air of intergenerational bonhomie waft over this Italian antipasto, pasta and carne heaven on the river. Lunchtime menus also occasionally branch out into global cuisine, with merguez sausages or jambalaya.
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