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Hannover Dining
When you are visiting Hannover you should - indeed you must - take the opportunity to have a good meal. The restaurant scene is a colourful one, with 1,500 establishments offering every type of cuisine from the good hearty meal to the exquisite delicacy. In summer it is the beer gardens and street cafés that lure passers-by, in winter the cosy pubs and "in scene" bars around the station and Raschplatz.
Those who want to try out typical Lower Saxony dishes will find hochzeitssuppe ("wedding soup") and Calenberger pfannenschlag (a kind of thick stew with sausage meat), followed by Welfenspeise (Guelph pudding) as a dessert; in the cold months there is braunkohl mit bregenwurst (kale and sausage) accompanied by a beer and chased down with a clear schnapps. If you prefer international cuisine, you have a wide choice: an alphabetical list running from A for Afghan to Z for Zypriotisch (Cypriot) fills 40 pages of the Hannover Yellow Pages, taking in the familiar and the unfamiliar on the way: Arab, Indonesian, Israeli, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, Thai, with the countless Italian, Greek, Spanish and Chinese restaurants occupying a lot of space in between. If you happen to be taking a stroll through the city centre, you should call in at the railway station. Yes indeed, the railway station. Since it was rebuilt for the World Exposition Expo 2000, it has been far more than a purely architectural highlight. This paradise for shoppers and gourmets occupied second place in a survey of 23 European stations carried out by the German motoring organisation ADAC. The atmosphere is fabulous, and the cash tills ring.
And then there is the Market Hall, the "belly of Hannover"! Here people meet for a capuccino at an Italian stall or for lunch at a Turkish one, here there are fresh vegetables and freshly squeezed fruit juices of every variety. Fish delivered in the morning is cooked at lunchtime under your very eyes. A glance at the market stalls will get even the least culinarily minded going on a spending spree.
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