november-2010

128 | DESTINATION GUIDES
Dortmund
Germany
DIALLING CODE +49
CURRENCY €
FLY FROM
Barcelona,
Budapest, Krakow,
London (LTN),
Majorca, Thessaloniki
FROM THE
AIRPORT
TAXI
SINCE
2004
Pre-book your taxi
at easyJet.com.
A local taxi costs €22.
The Airport
Express bus leaves
every hour. Tickets: €6.
Visit the Europcar
desk for special
easyJet rates.
BON APPETIT
UP TO €30 Nuragus
(1 Goebenstrasse, tel:
0231 533 7088) A taste
of Sardinia in Dortmund
– sit in a nicely lit and
elegant dining room to
sample excellent island
food. Try pasta, ham and
sausage, and the wines.
EXCLUSIVE View
(Leonie-Reygers-Terasse,
tel: 0231 7208 4124)
Dortmund’s newest
and most spectacular
restaurant recently
opened in the 15-metre
high top fl oor cathedral
of the Dortmunder U.
By day a bistro and café,
at night it’s a trendy
restaurant with Euro-
Asian dishes. The terrace
also has fantastic views.
AFTER DARK
LOW KEY Spanish
Blue (12 Essener
Strasse, tel: 0231 121
112) Great breakfasts
served in a young-atheart
café in the funky
Kreuzviertel district.
Drop by on Sundays
for an extended – and
affordable – brunch.
LATE & LIVELY Balke
(127 Hohe Strasse, tel:
0231 280 8944) Loved
by both football fans and
“civilians”, trendy Balke
rocks during matches.
There’s a good vibe on
weekend nights, too.
THIS MONTH
SEE Germany’s best
club with the best fans is
right here. In November
BVB Dortmund face two
rival teams, promising
good matches (bvb.de).
NO WAY!
Dortmund has a hanging
monorail system, the
H-Bahn, connecting the
university campus areas.
Jeroen van Marle/
inyourpocket.com
PARADORES
SHOP For delicious
Mediterranean food
and wine take a visit to
Paradores, a deli with
a mouth-watering
selection of olives,
wines and spirits (17
Freistuhl, paradoresdortmund.de).
Düsseldorf
Germany
DIALLING CODE +49
CURRENCY €
FLY FROM
Basel-Mulhouse,
London (LGW), Rome (FCO)
FROM THE
AIRPORT
TAXI
SINCE
2009
Pre-book your taxi
at easyJet.com.
A local taxi costs €20.
Trains to
Hauptbahnhof
leave every 10 minutes.
Tickets: €2.30.
Visit the Europcar
desk for special
easyJet rates.
BON APPETIT
UP TO €30
Münstermann’s
Kontor (11 Hohe
Strasse, tel: 0211 130
0416) The prices
are moderate and
the quality high at
Münstermann’s
Kontor, an offshoot of
Düsseldorf’s best-known
delicatessen that’s also
one of the most popular
lunch spots in the city.
EXCLUSIVE
Monkey’s West (15
Graf Adolf Platz, tel:
0211 6496 3726) The
décor is as fresh and
original as the creative
modern cooking at
Monkey’s West, a slick
and stylish business
favourite in Düsseldorf’s
banking district.
WWW.ONDINERESTAURANT.CO.UK
AFTER DARK
LOW KEY
Meuser 1853 (75 Alt-
Niederkassel, tel: 0211
551 272) With its stained
glass and villagey
ambience, Meuser 1853
is like an old country
pub just minutes from
the city centre.
LATE & LIVELY
Löwenburg (64
Ludenberger Strasse,
tel: 0211 663 787)
Sensual, traditional
Argentine tango meets
the racy contemporary
electronic version
on the sprung
dancefl oor of the
Löwenburg ballroom
for Tango Lounge.
THIS MONTH
SHOP On Saturday
13 November, a boxing
gym in the east of
the city is the quirky
setting for the monthly
Mitternachtsmarkt
where, from 6pm to
midnight you can
browse for antiques,
clothes and bric-a-brac,
and enjoy a drink
(5 Flinger Broich,
mitternachtsmarkt.de).
SEE Nam June Paik
was the pioneer of video
art, and now, nearly fi ve
years after his death, his
work is on show again in
a major exhibition at the
Museum Kunst Palast
as part of the Düsseldorf
Quadriennale art
festival, until 21
November (smkp.de).
NO WAY!
Düsseldorf has a
nationwide reputation
in Germany for cabaret
and biting political satire.
Neville Walker
Edinburgh
UK
DIALLING CODE +44
CURRENCY £
FLY FROM
Alicante,
Amsterdam, Basel-
Mulhouse, Belfast (BFS),
Bristol, Cologne, Cyprus
(Paphos), Geneva, Krakow,
Lisbon, London (LGW,
LTN, STN), Lyon, Madrid,
Milan (MXP), Munich,
Majorca, Nice, Paris (CDG)
FROM THE
AIRPORT
TAXI
SINCE
1995
Pre-book your taxi
at easyJet.com.
A local taxi costs £15.
The Airlink 100
service goes to
the centre. Tickets: £6.
Visit the Europcar
desk for special
easyJet rates.
BON APPETIT
UP TO €15 Dean
Gallery Café (73 Belford
Road, tel: 0131 624
6200) Let your taste
buds catch up with
your other senses while
visiting this autumn’s
Surrealist exhibition.
Soups and light mains
are served at lunchtime,
otherwise there’s a great
cake selection, making
afternoon tea a real treat.
UP TO €30 The
Basement Bar and
Restaurant (10A
Broughton Street, tel:
0131 557 0097) The
laidback ambience,
even in the slightly more
formal dining area, is
put to bed by some
seriously good food.
The reasonably priced
lunch menu stays
constant but the dailychanging
evening mains
are well-constructed
combinations.
UP TO €50 Sweet
Melindas (11 Roseneath
Street, Marchmont, tel:
0131 229 7953) A small
restaurant that rises high
above its neighbourhood
status and is worth
crossing the Meadows
to fi nd. The focus is
on the freshest fi sh,
sourced from Eddie’s
Seafood Market next
door, and prepared with
a sensibility to subtlety
and texture. But equal
attention is paid to detail
throughout the menu.
Booking essential.
EXCLUSIVE The
Tower (Chambers
Street, tel: 0131 225
3003) The Museum
of Scotland’s rooftop
restaurant boasts
an extensive menu
featuring the best
seasonal, Scottish
ingredients, prepared in
a relaxed, unfussy style.
Add a serious wine list,
attentive service and
spectacular cityscape
views across to the castle
and you have a unique
destination worthy of
any celebratory meal.
AFTER DARK
LOW KEY The Blue
Bazer (2 Spittal Street,
West Port, tel: 0131 229
5030) Often winning
CAMRA’s Pub of the
Year award and
SCOTTISH SEAFOOD RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR. SPECIAL LUNCH MENUS 12.00~3.00PM & PRE-THEATRE 5.30-6.30PM.
2 GEORGE IV BRIDGE, EDINBURGH EH1 1AD TELEPHONE: 0131 226 1888 OPEN 7 DAYS.