¡Don't Miss The Biggest Pizza In Town! and other Nürnberg, Germany Restaurant Reviews

Restaurant Name: L'Osteria

This restaurant is most famous for it's pizzas: big as a wheel with thin dough and an unforgetable flavour! The restaurant itself is little and noisy, but that's part of the flair. Prices are ok for what you get.

Favorite Dish: If you go there, please try pizza with mozzarella, garlic and basil, it's called Pizza Cagnona, I think.

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Theme: Pizza

Address: Pirckheimer Straße
Directions: There's a tram leaving the Hauptbahnhof stopping right in front of the restaurant. You have to get off at Wurzelbauerstraße.

Restaurant Name: L'Osteria Toscana

This restaurant is fairly unknown, as it is located outside the city center. This doesn't mean any negative, maybe exactly the opposite:
Meals are quite big, usually you can take away the part of the pizza that's too much. The ambience is very familiar: Gianni and Giuseppe, who own the restaurant are brothers. They are a real quite tip!

Favorite Dish: My favorite dish there is ... surprise surprise ... pizza! Unbeatable is pizza with rucola, grilled chinese mushrooms and fresh parmesan.
For desert you should ask for the unique Tiramisu.

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Theme: Pizza

Address: Celtisplatz
Directions: If you're searching for "something near the station", you're almost there:
Just take the southern exit, then turn right and diagonally opposite of the exit there you are!

Restaurant Name: Barfüßer

Barfüßer is a brewery and a restaurant located in a historic building from the 15th century. In the middle of the restaurant they have huge brewing equipment.
Opening hours are daily from 11 to 1. In summertimes it's a great oportunity to sit outside and enjoy the warm weather. It's ideal for groups.

Favorite Dish: The food they sell is typical franconian, like Nürnberger Rostbratwürste ... you just have to taste these little sausages! and ... Sauerkraut.

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Theme: Local

Phone: 0911-204242
Address: Hallplatz 2
Directions: Just step outside the Central Station direction "city center" ... following almost EVERYBODY ... pass the Handwerkerhof, Burger King and you are there.

Restaurant Name: Gasthaus Pegnitztal

There's a beergarden.

Favorite Dish: They also offer vegetarian food.

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Theme: Local
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter
Address: Deutschherrnstr. 31

Restaurant Name: Heilig-Geist-Spital

Highly frequented by (American) tourists, they know why: the food is great!

Favorite Dish: Besides typical Franconian dishes there's a great offer of wine from Franconia, like Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau, Bacchus and many more.

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Theme: Local

Address: Spitalgasse 16
Directions: Just hopp off the metro at Lorenzkirche and head direction Hauptmarkt and you'll see it on the right hand side.
Website: http://www.heilig-geist-spital.de/

Restaurant Name: At the corner

A bratwurst is a fried sausage. Usually eaten with mustard and bread, it is a popular snack in in the city which is sold at various fast food outlets and is often consumed while standing.

It is also part of a traditional dish served at restaurants. It includes fried sausages - "Drei auf Kraut", Sauerkraut, and potatoes.

The original, small Bratwurst was invented in Nuremberg.


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Theme: Local
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: amongst others: buy Bratwurst in Handwerkerhof
Directions: Down On The Corner, out in the
street ... but also in the named restaurants

Restaurant Name: .

Lebkuchen are traditional German Christmas cookies similar to gingerbread, which were probably invented by Medieval monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century. Lebkuchen bakers were recorded as early as 1296 in Ulm, and 1395 in Nuremberg, but today, the most famous Lebkuchen come from Nuremberg, from where they are exported all over the world.

Sometimes Lebkuchen are packaged in richly decorated nostalgic tins and boxes which have become collectors' items. Lebkuchen range in taste from spicy to sweet and come in a variety of shapes with round being the most common. The ingredients usually include honey, spices and nuts, almonds or candied fruit. Salt of Hartshorn and Potash are often used for raising the dough. The Lebkuchen dough is often placed on a thin wafer base called Oblate. This was an idea of the monks who used communion wafers to prevent the dough from sticking.

The forerunner of today's Lebkuchen was called 'honey cake' and its history can be traced back to the Egyptians, the Greek and the Romans. They believed honey, the only widely available very sweet food, was a gift of the gods and had magical and healing powers. Honey cakes were also worn as a talisman in battle or as protection against evil spirits. Teutonic peoples used honey cakes for the same purpose especially around the winter solstice, which might be the reason Lebkuchen became associated with Christmas.

Favorite Dish: Since 1808, Nuremberg gingerbread of the best quality is called Elisenlebkuchen. It is uncertain whether the name Elise refers to the daughter of a gingerbread baker or the wife of a margrave. Since 1996, Nürnberger Lebkuchen is a Protected Designation of Origin.

Lebkuchen are usually soft, but a very hard and generally inedible type of Lebkuchen is used to produce Lebkuchen hearts, usually inscribed with icing, which are available at many German fairs and the witch houses made popular by Hansel and Gretel. The closest German equivalent of the gingerbread man is the Honigkuchenpferd (honey cake horse).

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Theme: Local
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: In supermarkets
Directions: Around Christmas time

Restaurant Name: The city's absolutely #1 fast food

A pretzel is a baked snack that is ordinarily twisted into a unique knot-like shape. The pretzel is usually made from wheat flour with yeast; the dough is briefly dipped in lye water before baking, and usually (though not always) salted.

Sources differ as to the time and place of the pretzel's origin. Many sources say it originated in southern Germany (where it remains very popular and is known as Bretzel); others say it comes from the French region of Alsace on the border between France and Germany. Some say it originated in Medieval times, others that it dates back to Ancient Rome or even Celtic times.

There are also several stories about the origin of the pretzel shape. One legend holds that a baker accused of larceny was offered the opportunity to cancel his sentence if he could make a bread through which the sun could be seen thrice; the ingenious baker twisted his dough into a pretzel before baking. Another common story says that the shape represents the position of arms of a monk in prayer. Another story says that the three holes represent the Christian Holy Trinity. A sign with three rings was an old symbol to mark a bakery in Germany, but sources differ as to if the signs were made to imitate the pretzel or the pretzel was made to imitate the signs. However, stories told of the pretzel are likely apochryphal, and the actual origin of the pretzel seems to be a mystery.


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Theme: Local
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: Brezen stands all through the city, can't missem!
Website: http://www.brezen-kolb.de/animation.htm

Restaurant Name: Cubano

This is a Cuban restaurant with an excellent selection of cocktails - Staff is not only professional but sympathic.
There's a club "Hausverbot" coming with the restaurant and bar.


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Theme: Other

Address: Innere Laufer Gasse 13

Restaurant Name: Goldener Reiter



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Theme: Other
Prices: US$31-40  » Currency Converter
Phone: 0911-28 78 286
Address: Austraße 102