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Eating
LE PETIT GOURMAND €€
( 03 89 41 09 32; 9 quai de la Poissonnerie; menus €23-26; Tue-Sun)
Just a few
lucky, lucky diners can eat at this Lilliputian
winstub
, which has a pontoon on the
river for warm nights.
Alsatian
RESTAURANT LE STREUSEL €€
( 03 89 24 98 02; 4 passage de l'Ancienne Douane; mains €11-16)
Dig into good
old-fashioned Alsatian cooking, from
fleischnacka
to
choucroute
with stubby pork
knuckles, at this beamed 16th-century farmhouse turned restaurant.
Alsatian
Information
Tourist office
(
03 89 20 68 92;
www.ot-colmar.fr
; 4 rue d'Unterlinden;
9am-6pm Mon-
Sat, 10am-1pm Sun)
Getting There & Away
TRAIN
Colmar has train connections to the following:
Basel SNCF
€12, 43 minutes, 25 daily
Mulhouse
€7.50, 18 minutes, 38 daily
Paris
Gare de l'Est; €74, three hours by direct TGV, 17 daily
Strasbourg
€11, 35 minutes, 30 daily
Route des Vins destinations from Colmar include Dambach-la-Ville (€5.50) and
Obernai (€7.50), both of which require a change of trains at Sélestat (€4.50, 11
minutes, 30 daily).
If You Like...
Alsatian Villages
Fallen for the chocolate-box charm of Colmar? Then don't miss visiting some of the other
picturesque locations dotted along the 170km Route des Vins d'Alsace, one of France's
most-popular driving routes. For online info, see
www.alsace-route-des-vins.com
.
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