Dortmund

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Dortmund Restaurants

Affordable (57)

Incontro

The staff are known to break into song at Dortmund's best Italian restaurant, one of the most fashionable places in town. Excellent food and good service. read more
Fine dining (30)

George Fine Dine

One of Germany's best chefs, Sascha Heitfeld, serves inspired dishes to a small group of people at this restaurant. Expect a varied menu, with delicacies such as crawfish burger, T-bone steak and... read more

Dortmund Nightlife

Chilled (34)

Firebowl

Hidden on the top floor of a city-centre shopping mall, this fun 24-lane bowling centre has a bar, restaurant, billiards and is open very late at weekends. From �2.90 per game. read more
Clubbing (40)

Domicil Jazzclub

A converted 1950s' cinema offers a phenomenal range of acts every week, from jazz to Balkan beats, rock and soul. There's a good caf� and bar, too. read more

This Month in Dortmund:

By By Jeroen van Marle, dortmund.inyourpocket.com

Shopping: Shop for fresh produce, flowers, snacks, live chickens, geese and rabbits at the Hansamarkt, Dortmund's main market, held until about 2pm every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on Hansaplatz.

Key areas: Go to any bar in town during the DFB Cup final (held in Berlin on 12 May), when local team BVB - Germany's best football club with the best fans - plays against either Borussia M�nchengladbach or Bayern M�nchen. If BVB wins, it'll be the party of the year.

Dortmund News & Gossip

World Cup Predictions

DORTMUND

A scientist at the University of Dortmund has (optimistically) calculated that his national football team will be the ones lifting the golden World Cup trophy this summer. Professor Metin Tolan used a complicated trigonometry formula to analyse Germany's previous World Cup results, and concluded that the German team should win the title every fourth or fifth tournament. The last time they won was in 1990, so by Tolan's calculations, the Germans are due victory this year, but we'll have to wait until the final on 11 July to see if his predictions come true. Tolan also gave managers a strategic top tip for those all-important penalty shoot-outs - let the weakest player take the first penalty, then the second-weakest take the next, and so on. Watch this summer to see if the world's best managers take note.

Dortmund Trivia

May: The historical Adler pharmacy (4 Markt, tel: 0231 722 3606) sells off surplus items from its small museum collection; your chance to buy enema syringes, glass vessels, opium pipes and other antique medical instruments.
April: The huge LED screens on the Dortmunder U tower show quirky short movies, with a group of pigeons pecking around at the top of each hour. The screens are see-through; just behind is the View restaurant.
March: The Dortmunder U tower is nicknamed the Leuchtturm ("lighthouse") by locals. It used to have a massive rotating light mounted on the top.