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Food & Drink
Sausages with foaming wheat beer in rollicking Munich beer
halls, snowball- sized dumplings with an avalanche of
sauerkraut and roast pork in the Alps, black forest gateau
slathered in chocolate, cream and cherries - everyone has a tale
of calorific excess when it comes to dining in southern Ger-
many. And the rural
Gaststätte
(pubs) you've heard about do in-
deed exist; brimming with low beams, old-fashioned bonhomie
and dirndl-clad fräuleins dishing up enormous platters of solid
home cooking.
But while the classics still star on many a country menu, in
the cities things are changing fast. In the blink of an eye, Munich can switch from pig trot-
ter-chomping rusticity to the retro-chic surrounds of two Michelin-starred Tantris, where
chef Hans Haas works culinary magic with clean, bright Mediterranean flavours. Here and
in other bigger cities like Nuremberg and Freiburg, menus go way beyond the obvious,
with a world of street food, vegetarian menus with oomph and new generation chefs wow-
ing critics with their avant-garde take on German fare.
In many restaurants here today, chefs take great pride in carefully sourcing the finest re-
gional and seasonal ingredients to create dishes that sing with natural, integral flavours.
Dishes that may well surprise you.
Opening Hours
» Restaurants & Gastsätte:
11am-11pm
» Cafes: 8am-8pm
» Bars: 6pm-1am minimum
Regional & Seasonal
Classic Mains
The Chinese say you can eat every part of the pig bar the 'oink',
and Bavarian chefs seem to be in full agreement. No part of the
animal is spared their attention as they cook up its
Schwein-
shaxe
(knuckles),
Rippchen
(ribs)
, Züngerl
(tongue) and
Wam-
merl
(belly). Pork also appears as
Schweinebraten
(roast pork)
and the misleadingly named
Leberkäse
(liver cheese), a savoury
meatloaf that contains neither liver nor cheese. The Black Forest contributes the famous
Schwarzwälder Schinken
- ham that's been salted, seasoned and cured for around two
weeks.
Price Ranges
For one main course:
» € - Under €8
» €€ - €8 to €15
» €€€ - More than €15
