Hamburg

Germany

Things to do in Hamburg:

View the Gallery Street scene

Hamburg Restaurants

Cheap (29)

To'n Peer Stall

Located in the countrified Klein Flottbek quarter, this German restaurant and bar serves up hearty fare (think goose and pork) in a rustic setting. read more
Affordable (40)

Lutz und K�nig

The brainchild of chef Lutz Reppegather, this unassuming eatery in Niendorf features homely cuisine as well as more upscale offerings popular with the city's foodies. read more
Good quality (37)

Harms und Schacht

The incomparable location of this modern bi-level eatery - canalside with a water's-edge terrace - is only matched by its simple but perfectly executed pan-European fare. read more

Hamburg Nightlife

Chilled (37)

Juli

Head to this retro corner spot for quality cocktails and a surprisingly good menu covering everything from vegetarian specials to fish and pork. read more
Live Music (24)

Grosse Freiheit 36

A local institution, this intimate music hall features a packed schedule of nightly acts, ranging from Beatles cover bands to reggae, metal and hard rock. � read more
Clubbing (50)

Uebel & Gef�hrlich

In a massive and unsightly World War II bunker in St Pauli, this always-buzzing club features everything from house and techno to indie and electro, all spun by adept DJs. read more

This Month in Hamburg (March):

By Farhad Heydari

Shopping: One of the city's most alluring passages, Levantehaus features haute jewellers, bespoke shirtmakers and a handful of caf�s and restaurants. Its dramatic entrance features blazing open flames, gargoyles and a bronze centaur, which hovers menacingly above (levantehaus.com).

Sightseeing: One of Europe's best farmers' markets, with dozens of stalls peddling everything from rare cheeses and exotic roe to fresh fruit and vegetables, the twice-weekly Isemarkt stretches for a kilometre beneath the elevated tracks of the U-bahn in leafy Eppendorf.

Key areas: With its white arches and wrought-iron balconies, the Venetian-inspired Alsterarkaden was built following the Great Fire of 1842. Today, the waterside gem is home to luxe boutiques, shops and caf�s.

Day trips: Tucked into the pretty hillsides of Holsteinische Schweiz (little Switzerland), an hour from Hamburg, Pl�n is an attractive cobbled market town, complete with a turreted 17th-century chateau overlooking a crystalline lake.

Hamburg News & Gossip

Walking With Dinosaurs

Budding palaeontologists all over Europe are in for a treat this coming holiday season and beyond. Following a gigantic tour through North America, the spectacular Walking with Dinosaurs has travelled across the Atlantic and will thunder through the European continent until May next year.

Featuring 15 lifesized dinosaurs, including a terrifying T rex, a heavily armoured Stegosaurus and two giraffe-necked Brachiosauruses, the show arrives in Berlin on 10 December to unleash its prehistoric giants made out of tonnes of steel and rubber, some of which cost �1 million to make. Puppeteers known as "voodoo operators" will control the massive monsters, while performers from athletics and ballet backgrounds will don 50kg "dino-suits" with mechanical heads to play the smaller Liliensternus and Utahraptors. The narrator's academic spiel, which covers the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, may be lost on the younger members of the audience, but they'll be entranced by the inflatable jungle, the screeching, flying Ornithocheirus and the fighting Torosauruses that are the highlights of the show. Jeroen Bergmans

10-13 Dec Berlin
23-27 Dec Paris
7-10 Jan Cologne
11-14 Feb Hamburg
17-20 Mar Munich
24-28 Mar Vienna
www.dinosaurier-live.de

Hamburg Trivia

March: The city's 1,300-seat Deutsches Schauspielhaus is one of Europe's largest theatres. Lavishly restored to its 19th-century rococo magnificence, it features busts of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing and Kleist.
February: Despite being laid out completely haphazardly, getting lost in Hamburg is virtually impossible thanks to a unique house numbering system that sees the lowest house numbers on each street point in the direction of the city centre. So if you're out walking and notice the numbers increasing, you're moving farther from Hamburg's hub.
January: The Airbus aircraft you're flying on today wasn't assembled in Toulouse as many are led to believe but in Hamburg, home to the company's second-largest facility.