ALSACE - France 2014 - page 1464

Poêles de Carottes offers vegetarians respite from porky Alsatian cuisine and has a
small terrace in front (€12-15 big salads and stir-fries, €21 three-course menu , closed Sun-
Mon, 2 Place de Meuniers, tel. [phone]).
Near the Cathedral
(See “Strasbourg” map, here . )
For a real meal, skip the touristy restaurants on the cathedral square and along Rue du
Maroquin. Consider these nearby places instead; both are one block behind the TI (go left
out of the TI, then take the first left through the passageway and keep walking).
Chez Yvonne (marked S'Burjerstuewel above windows), right out of a Bruegel
painting, has a tradition of good food at fair prices. Try the coq au Riesling or choucroute
garnie (€17 each) or the €12 salade alsacienne (reservations smart on weekends and hol-
idays, dinner served from 18:00, open late daily, 10 Rue du Sanglier, tel. [phone],
www.restaurant-chez-yvonne.net ).
The very cozy Le Clou Winstub is half a block left down Rue du Chaudron at #3.
Thisplaceoftenlooksclosedfromtheoutside,butdon'tbeshy(€8-11salads,€13-20 plats
du jour, closed Wed lunch and all day Sun, dinner served from 17:30, tel. [phone],
www.le-clou.com ).
Strasbourg Connections
Strasbourg makes a good side-trip from Colmar or a stop on the way to or from Paris.
From Strasbourg by Train to: Colmar (2/hour, 35 minutes), Reims (12/day, 2
hours, change at Gare Champagne-Ardennes), Paris ' Gare de l'Est (1-2/hour, 2.5 hours),
Lyon (5/day direct, 4-5 hours), Baden-Baden, Germany (TGV: 1/day direct, 30 minutes;
non-TGV train: roughly hourly, 70 minutes, change in Appenweier or Offenburg), Karls-
ruhe, Germany (TGV: 4/day direct, 40 minutes; non-TGV train: hourly, 1-1.5 hours, most
with change in Appenweier or Offenburg), Vienna, Austria (TGV: 7/day, 9-11 hours, 2-3
changes; non-TGV train: 7/day, 9-13 hours), Basel, Switzerland (TGV: 4/day, 1.75 hours;
non-TGV train: about 2/hour, 1-2 hours).