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Restaurants and Bars in Frankfurt

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Frankfurt’s diverse culture and multicultural ethos gets attracted by the various restaurants that offer cuisines and dishes in different taste and varieties. Below are mentioned some of the popular restaurants mentioned in Frankfurt that offers continental to Indian food in enormous taste and appetite.

•  Apfelwein Wagner:
It is a very big wood-panelled old apple wine restaurant that produces as well as feeds tasty German dishes. It is situated at the famous Sachsenhausen area. Dishes like the pork shoulder with sauerkraut, and liver dumpling one can enjoy here with a slow glass of apfelwien, or a choice of beer or cider. There too is a Menu of the Week that has a special dish of the day each day. The atmosphere there is filled with fun, boisterous and it is even crowded too.

•  Erno’s Bistro:
It is one of the most popular restaurants in town and known for offering classic French cuisine like as lobster broth, quail spit and fresh fish dishes. There is one can have an excellent wine list which makes the meal even more memorable and tasty. It also provides some sensational and tasty desserts too.

•    Restaurant Français: This restaurant is primarily is stated for and retaining the high standard of five-star hotel culture. It is an ideal venue for a formal, discreet occasion having a quite and sophisticated atmosphere, elegant furnishings, attentive service and high quality food which is beautifully prepared and presented to the guest and customers of the restaurants.

•    Opéra: The restaurant is situated over the first floor of the Old Opera House, and thus it shows that opera house has provided its name to the restaurant.  The restra is decorated with historic and ornate design and offers exciting and traditional cuisine. It has become one of the most popular restaurants in Frankfurt. Here diner can sample and savor delicious Asian fare such as the Teriyaki from Yellowfin tuna on fried vegetables with Asian egg noodles or a traditional German Milchkalbrücken wiener schnitzel that is served with fried potatoes or potato salad and fresh leaf salad.

•    Jewel of India:
It is one of the famous Indian eating joint and the traditional Indian food here would be loved and liked by everyone to the core of one’s heart.              Its interior includes the warm interior with burnt orange and yellow tapestries decorated on the walls with cream linen tablecloths there make a warm and   cozy   dining environment in the restaurant. It has the chicken mango curry, Rogan Josh and lamb Vindaloo.

•    Bombay Gate:
It is one of the finest Indian restaurants in Frankfurt. It uses the freshest ingredients and spices and thus it creates a mouth-watering aroma that is enough to transport diners to Mumbai itself. In an exotic atmosphere of the restaurants the diners can relax and enjoy authentic and inventive Indian dishes. It remains open from Monday to Friday for lunch and dinner.

•    Alte Kanzlei:
Situated at the Westend, the Alte Kanzlei is one of those famous restaurants which keep arouses the feeling of history along with romantic ambience represented by the crisp linen tablecloths and fine silverware that creates a sophisticated, yet romantic ambience. One can enjoy there spaghetti with prawns and lobster sauce or the veal fillet in pepper crust provided with a chive sauce.

•    Mirador:
It is a famous spanish eating joint and has earned massive reputation being one of Frankfurt’s most popular restaurants popular amidst between young as well as old.  The terrace affords patrons the opportunity to dine al fresco and its waiting staff is helpful enormously. Taps served here are delicious to the core of one’s heart. The Spanish omelette for breakfast or the tagliatelle with mozzarella and parma ham one would definitely relish at the restaurant.

Bars in Frankfurt

•    Jimmy’s Bar: Situated at the Hessischer Hof Hotel, it is an American-style piano bar that attracts a good number of crowd regularly, especially as they are crowd of regulars and as well as business executives for after-hours drinks and being socializing. It becomes very crowded on weekends and during trade fairs and business conventions.

•    Casablanca Bar:
The bar is decorated with a good number of plush leather chairs, Morroccan lamps and movie memorabilia as you will get them as like raising a glass. You here can look at the Casablanca Bar. Delved into the casual atmosphere and booze yourself with interesting piano music.

•    Club Voltaire:
It is a best spot for poets, musicians, activists, and other liberal types, Club Voltaire and offers daily readings and other activities for events, plus hearty traditional food and a good range of beer and apple wine. They can do it in a reasonable prices and a cordial atmosphere so customers regularly keep on coming to the restaurant.

•    Luna Bar: It is said to be the best cocktail bars in Germany, situated at narrow space with a beautiful curved bar having deep red walls and intimate seating arrangements. The crowd here at the bar try to mix up with things as to make up it more interesting. And one can have live band on Mondays and the DJ there keep spinning till the rest of the week. More, Luna there has an amazing cocktail menu.

•    Dauth Schneider: Stating at a cobble stoned street, it has a 150 year old cellar with an excellent selection of regional and national beers as available there.  Come ready to take your place at one of the long tables to drink and sing along with the locals. In summer one have outdoor drinking garden as open for sipping under the stars.

Frankfurt shopping experience, a visit to Paradise!

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Frankfurt is known for its cosmopolitan culture and vibrancy in attitude and behavior of people living out there. And other addition to the culture of metros that prevails as well as exists for the city is influx of tourists from within Germany as well as neighboring European countries. Thus the mixture of cosmopolitan culture and huge number of foreign tourist visiting city regularly makes it a shopper’s paradise.

In Frankfurt, there exist shops for all the international labels in Frankfurt. One can have all things there from luxury articles like as perfume or jewelry to fashion goods as supported by the world’s top designers. One can have in Frankfurt a good number of designer items to handicrafts and pieces of art offered by a good number of galleries. In addition to small shops, there are also located Big department stores and outlets of all major German retail chains as well as shops selling produce from the Frankfurt area as well as from Germany to add up to real shopping experience of the place.

  • Zeil: It is a Frankfurt’s most popular shopping street that has highest gross income in Germany. There around and more than 500.000 clients are being served here every day. At Zeil, there is situated Europe’s largest “Douglas” beauty store. And all the possible big stores in Frankfurt are situated in this street from “Galeria Kaufhof” and “Karstadt” to “Peek&Cloppenburg”. A Good number of branded shops and items over here make it rather difficult to shop here at Zeil as it becomes very difficult to make out an appropriate and proper choice for buying a commodity of goods.

  • Zeil Gallery: The Zeil Gallery is a shopping mall situated on Zeil. Not only you enjoy there its futuristic interior, but also you can visit there a good number of trend shops that attract young people towards it. However, there is a nominal fee for touring Zeil as in form of roof tariff.
  • My Zeil: It is Frankfurt’s premier shopping experience. Situated in around eight floors it offers the spectacular, light flooded architecture.  MyZeil is place where one can enjoy mixture of retail as well leisure. MyZeil combines popular brands, regional store and international labels, some of which are quite new to Frankfurt.  There one can enjoy comprehensive mix of stores that brings you fashion, accessories, jewellery, shoes, handbags, restaurants and groceries, home electronics and a variety of services.
  • Fressgass: It is a Frankfurt’s culinary mile, the so-called “Fressgass’.  Here, you can have an exhausting shopping outing in many cafes, lunchrooms and snack bars. There exists a wide variety and diversity of restaurant with a single street.
  • Goethestraße: It is Frankfurt’s most luxurious street where one can get exclusive shops along with high-end products. It is situated close to Fressgass. It is much popular for exclusive fashion brands like as Cartier or Tiffany’s.
  • Kleinmarkthalle: It is Frankfurt’s most popular indoor grocery market, which offers the best collection of fresh fruit, vegetables, fish and meat as well as other specialties like as  herbs and spices from all around the globe.
  • Kaiserstraße: This particular street is some of places in Germany where you can visit find authentic 18th century buildings which were not been destroyed in WWII. The part of the street which leads to the main station is now has erotic shops and for its nightlife, the other end of Kaiser Street. In Kaiser Street you can also found out expensive jewelry shops and furriers.
  • Shopping Berger Strasse: At Berger Street there exists a small-town atmosphere that coexists peacefully with the buoyant bar and restaurant scene around the city.     There a good number of people live in the four-storey townhouses of Berger Street and there shops are food shops and small corner shops as run by immigrants.  And it is after that decision depends upon whether you like to eat at one of the numerous restaurants out there.
  • Leiziger Straße: Situated at the heart of the student area of Bockheim, Leipziger Street it presents colourful and multicultural mixture of small shops. Speciality shops like as small shops providing jewelry and accessories created by young upcoming designers and shops for esoteric books can be found there. Alongside Turkish Fruits’n’Vegetable markets there are many shops that are located at the backyard of the house, for example a traditional coffee-roasting establishment and a wine shop. Whoever is looking for a unique present can find the objects at this street.
  • Shopping malls: There many a good number of shopping malls exist there in and around Frankfurt as they all are mostly outlets of all major German retail chains.  Some smaller malls provide free-of-charge parking facilities.

  • Weekly Markets: Frankfurt shopping experience is also exquisite for variety of weekly markets. These weekly markets occur at different areas of the city. At these weekly markets one can procure and buy fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, cheese and dairy produce, flowers and many other products.  Some of the prominent weekly markets are Kaiserstraße, where organic bakeries, food, flowers and many such snacks are sold out in unhurried markets. Bornheim is the market that is popular for its nice atmosphere and it takes place around the small clock.  The flower market at the Hauptwache building converts the entire city into a colourful garden. Erzeugermarkt Konstablerwache in the center of shopping street of Zeil is a bustling market. There Farmers from the rural areas around Frankfurt offers wide range of produce.

Know about some exciting places to travel in Frankfurt

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Frankfurt is gateway to Europe for many travelers and in Frankfurt other than Frankfurt International Airport there are many other attractions including its skyscrapers and the river Main, Frankfurt is also been known as Main-hattan. Here are mentioned some of the great center of attractions in Frankfurt.

•    The Main Tower: It is a 200 metre skyscraper in Frankfurt. It is named after river Main. And over the building there is mounted a 40 meter communications tower. The building contains five underground floors along with two towers for public viewing. It is the fourth tallest building in Frankfurt and the only one with public viewing observatory. Its main tower was made between 1996 and 1999 and contains the Landesbank of Hesse and Thuringia (Helaba), the German Office of Merrill Lynch and a television studio of the Hessischer Rundfunk, among other enterprises. Its first tenants moved into the building in November 5, 1999, and its official inauguration held on January 28, 2000.

•    The Goethe House:
Located in the old town of Frankfurt am Main it was the residence of Goethe family and most prominently of Johann Wolfgang Gothe till 1795.  Johann Wolfgang lived at this place along with his sister Cornelia until 1765. When he was of sixteen years old he moved to Leipzig to learn law, returning sporadically thereafter. Displaying a extraordinary talent   Goethe wrote Götz von Berlichingen (1773) and his first substantially acknowledged novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) here as well as laying the foundations for his celebrated interpretation of Faust. Even today a visitor moving to his home can see the writing desk that Goethe used to pen his early treatise.

•    The Römerberg: It is a medieval building in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and considered as one of the important landmarks of the city. The Römer merchant family sold it together with a second building, the Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan), to the city council on March 11, 1405 and it was transformed to be used as the city hall. The Haus Römer is actually the middle building of a set of three located in the Römerberg now a plaza. It is used by citizens for many purposes and usages like civil registration office; the wedding rooms and others.

•    Paulskirche – St. Pauls Church: It is a church in Frankfurt with very basic and important political symbolism in Germany. It was started as a Protestant church in 1789 and passing through the days of French revolution it became the seat of the Frankfurt Parliament as the first publicly and freely elected body of Germany. The construction of the church began with oval shaped central church building in 1989 and was completed during 1829 to 1833. Due to its centralized form and dome it was selected as the meeting place for the Frankfurt Parliament in the course of German revolution of 1848.

•    Museumsufer – Museum Embankment: This is embankment to the south of the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany and is thus called Museumsufer or Museum Embankment due to large concentration of museums over there. These museums are Ikonenmuseum, Icon Museum, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Museum of Applied Arts, Museum der Weltkulturen, Ethnological Museum, Deutsches Filmmuseum, German Film Museum and others.

•    The Senckenberg Museum of Natural History: This museum of natural history in Germany is very popular with children who love looking for the extensive collection of dinosaur skeletons.  It is said to be the largest exhibition and collection of dinosaurs in Europe. There it is a dinosaur fossil with unique, preserved scaled skin. The museum also has world’s largest and most diverse collection of stuffed birds with about 2000 specimens. In 2004, about 400,000 people visited the museum. The building which has the Senckenberg Museum was erected between 1904 and 1907 outside of the center of Frankfurt in the same area as the Johan Wolfgang Goethe University that was founded in 1914. The ownership of the museum is held by the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, that started an endowment by Johann Christian Senckenberg.

•    Shopping Street Zeil: The Zeil is a famous shopping street in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany. By the end of the 19th century, it is one of the most famous and busiest shopping streets in Germany. Prior to World War II it was too popular for its grand building and those buildings were destroyed during the war and later being failed to be reconstructed once again. The western section of Zeil is a pedestrian zone between two large plazas, Hauptwache in the west and Konstablerwache in the east. These two plazas works as major intersections for underground trains, trams and buses. The eastern part of the Zeil is termed as the “New Zeil”, connecting Konstablerwache with the Friedberger Anlage. The Zeil had undergone a major renovation from spring 2008 until summer 2009.

•    The Museum of Modern Art: Museum fuer Moderne Kunst (MMK) or Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt is a very attractive spot to look at and travel on a visit to Frankfurt.  With respect to its art galleries it is very new as opened in 1991. However in such a short span has earned massive international reputation and prestige. It is situated in a modern building that looks attractive in equal measure. Its collections are artwork from the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Liechtenstein, as well as making sure it exhibits work from local Frankfurt artists. To its entirety it is an interesting gallery to pass away afternoon and time in it.

•    Palmengarten – The Botanical Gardens: This 29 hectares botanical garden is one of two botanical gardens in Frankfurt. It is located in Frankfurt in the city district Western Nord and is the largest garden of its type in Germany. It was privately financed and implemented by the architect Heinrich Siesmayer. Its entire work was completed in 1871 and soon was opened to the public. In 1931, the Garden was taken over by the city of Frankfurt, however, was returned to American occupation authorities after World War II. When again Palmengarten returned to the city’s hands during the sixties, a massive reconstruction work started on. In 1992 the reconstruction finished entirely and the Palmengarten returned to its new form and style.

Frankfurt Overview

Monday, August 31st, 2009

3029688583_48cfa3c799Frankfurt is one of the most remarkable cities in Germany. You might not have made a stop over here; well, make sure that one of these fine days, Frankfurt will be on top of your list as the place to have a vacation.

Frankfurt has splendid hotels with exceptional facilities and hospitable customer services. The hotels are available in a wide range; from cheap to very expensive Frankfurt hotels, all with excellent services. Your selection will be determined by the amount of money you have but all the same, you will not regret making a stop over and subsequently booking for accommodation in Frankfurt. Hotel Zentrum Hauptwache is a recommendable hotel for you to enjoy your stay in the city centre. The rooms offer the most peaceful environment which is attributed to soundproof windows and doors.

There is also Hotel am Dom which has spacious rooms that are perfectly decorated. Customer service is very efficient and recommendable. Other hotels are the Steinberger Frankfurter Hof which was a spectacular spot in the 19th century and the Hessischer Hof which is very popular among the German citizens.

The numbers of guest houses have escalated over the past centuries thus it is very unlikely for you to be in Frankfurt and lack a peaceful place to spend your time. The type of choice one makes ranges from small guest houses ran by families to huge foundations which offer any kind of luxury you could think of.

Incase you want to save money; the Mondial in Nordend is the best place for you. You will spend less but at the same time get the opportunity to enjoy yourself. Alternatively, you can visit the Best Western Alexander am Zoo which is near to the Frankfurt Zoo in Bornheim. From its open air terrace, one is able to get a glimpse of the glamorous views of the city.

The district of Westend is an ideal place which has good accommodations. The Palmenhof, Florentina, Backer, Liebig are some of the hotels that can make your stay comfortable.

Frankfurt has convenient and reliable airport hotels that can be booked at a drop of a hat. This is possible even when you arrive late by air and would like to evade the hustles of looking for an accommodation in the city. The encounter may turn be a very rough one, thus available airport hotels at the blink of the eye make it convenient.