Hamburg

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Around train station Hammerbrook one stop from central station, you find a couple of lunch places offering a wide variety from sandwiches, Spoon's (http://www.spoon-s.de/) soups, pasta, and German main courses. Open only during lunch time since this is an office area. Prices from €3-8 per meal.

In central station, you can get all kinds of snacks, including the fast food chains. But also fresh fish — Hamburg or Sushi style.

Vegetarian/vegan food.

Every day, you can get vegetarian food for donation €1.50 in different places check out on this site: (http://www.nadir.org/nadi...).

In the Hauptbahnhof Central Station, there are a lot of snack bars to have a quick meal.While there are probably not many vegetarian snack bars, there is a fairly decent selection of veggie food to be found, such as croissants with brie cheese and meat-free pizza slices.

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Restaurant Cox

Trendy restaurant with consistently good international cuisine, often local German dishes. It has a very good value lunch deal two course menu for €11, close to the Central Station.

 

If you want to relax and drink a coffee in some coffee Bars go to:

Lange Reihe

Many bars, cafes and restaurants all along the street. although the lange reihe is the heart of the gay community, most places are jointly visited by straight and gay people of any age. all places are gay-friendly, many are gay-owned or gay-run, but not all of them. especially restaurants of ethnic background are mostly not gay-owned.

cuisine

Original Hamburg dishes are Birnen, Bohnen und Speck Low Saxon Birn, Bohn un Speck, green runner beans cooked with pears and bacon, Aalsuppe Low Saxon Oolsupp, often mistaken to be German for “eel soup“ (Aal/Ool translated ‘eel’, however the name probably comes from the Low Saxon allns [ʔaˑlns], meaning “all”, “everything and the kitchen sink”, not necessarily eel. Today eel is often included to meet the expectations of unsuspecting diners.), Bratkartoffeln Low Saxon Brootkartüffeln, pan-fried potato slices, Finkenwerder Scholle Low Saxon Finkwarder Scholl, pan-fried plaice, Pannfisch pan-fried fish, Rote Grütze Low Saxon Rode Grütt, related to Danish rødgrød, a type of summer pudding made mostly from berries and usually served with cream, like Danish rødgrød med fløde and Labskaus a mixture of corned beef, mashed potatoes and beetroot, a cousin of the Norwegian lapskaus and Liverpool's Scouse (food, all offshoots off an old-time one-pot meal that used to be the main component of the common sailor's humdrum diet on the high seas).

Alsterwasser in Hamburg a reference to the city's river Alster with two lake-like bodies in the city centre thanks to damming, a type of, a concoction of equal parts of beer and carbonated lemonade Zitronenlimonade, the lemonade being added to the beer.

Hamburg is also home to a curious regional dessert pastry called Franzbrötchen. Looking rather like a flattened croissant, the Franzbrötchen is somewhat similar in preparation but includes a cinnamon and sugar filling, often with raisins or brown sugar. The name may also reflect to the roll's croissant-like appearance – franz appears to be a shortening of französisch, meaning "French", which would make a Franzbrötchen a “French roll.” Being a Hamburg regional food, the Franzbrötchen becomes quite scarce outside the borders of the city; as near as Lunenburg Lüneburg it can only be found as a Hamburger and is not available in Bremen at all.

Ordinary bread rolls tend to be oval-shaped and of the French bread variety. The local name is Rundstück “round piece” rather than mainstream German Brötchen, diminutive form of Brot “bread”, a relative of Denmark's rundstykke. In fact, while by no means identical, the cuisines of Hamburg and Denmark, especially of Copenhagen have a lot in common. This also includes a predilection for open-faced sandwiches of all sorts, especially topped with cold-smoked or pickled fish. The American hamburger seems to have developed from Hamburg's Frikadelle: a pan-fried patty usually larger and thicker than the American counterpart made from a mixture of ground beef, soaked Staling, egg, chopped onion, salt and pepper, usually served with potatoes and vegetables like any other piece of meat, not usually on a bun. Many Hamburgers consider their Frikadelle and the American hamburger different, virtually unrelated. The Oxford Dictionary defined a Hamburger steak in 1802: a sometimes-smoked and -salted piece of meat, that, according to some sources, came from Hamburg to America.