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Skopik & Lohn

www.skopikundlohn.at
Skopik&Lohn, Leopoldsgasse 17, 1020 Vienna, t +43-1-219 89 77

In the heart of Vienna's 2nd district, near Karmelitermarkt. The interior looks a little bit like an exploded zebra, but in summer the garden is wonderful. Untypically for Vienna, tables are set outside on the sidewalk under some trees.

Small and constantly changing menue. The kitchen is combining Viennese classcis with modern and lighter elements, for example filets of samlet ('Saibling', an Austrian sweet-water fish) with thyme risotto was a revelation.

Gastraum Experiment

www.gastraum4experiment.de
Gastraum 4 Experiment, Karolinenstrasse 32, 20357 Hamburg-St. Pauli, t +49 40 43188432

Three experienced chefs open their own restaurant in their neighborhood St. Pauli, rotate between kitchen and service and offer creative cuisine with local and seasonal ingredients. Gabba Gabba Hey!

Advance booking a must.

P.S. They also produce their own web TV show: 4X-TV.

Love Saves the Day

www.lstd-wear.com
Love Saves the Day, Urban Retro Wear, Siebensterngasse 28, A-1070 Vienna

Unique fashion: Sixty-seventy-ish clothes, designed and produced by the shop owners in small numbers.



Open Monday through Friday 11:00 to 19:00, Saturday 11:00 to 17:00.

M-Ars

www.m-ars.at
M-Ars, Westbahnstr. 9, 1070 Vienna, Austria

Vienna's art supermarket. Paintings, photography, dioramas and much more to take-away. In differing quality, though.

In general, Westbahnstrasse and Siebensterngasse are worth a stroll if you are fed up with the huge department strores.

Open Monday-Wednesday 10-19, Thursday & Friday 10-20, Saturday 10-18.

Küchenwerkstatt

www.kuechenwerkstatt-hamburg.de
Küchenwerkstatt, Hans-Henny-Jahnn-Weg 1 (Eingang Hofweg), Hamburg, t +49 40 22 92 75 88

Very nice location in Hamburg near the Alster river. Modern creative cuisine combined with seasonal food and very friendly service in nice surroundings make you feel welcome and very much at home. Chose 3 to 7 courses from the changing menu for moderate prices.

Weingut Tesch

www.weingut-tesch.de
Weingut Tesch, Naheweinstr. 99, 55450 Langenlonsheim, Germany, t +49 6704 930 40

Serious Riesling - unplugged.
Nice and dry Rieslings from Rheingau. Give it a try. A winemaker quoting AC/DC on his website can't be wrong.

Zur Kanzel

www.zurkanzel.de
Grebenstraße 4, 55116 Mainz-Altstadt, t +49-6131-237137

A cosy and familial restaurant with modern German cuisine and very friendly and heartily service. You feel very welcome. One of the better restaurants in Mainz, not easy to find something similar there. Prices are moderate, booking is an advantage. Try the Weissburgunder from Tesch they offer.

Weingut Frank

www.weingutfrank.at
Kellergasse 5 & 11, A-2171 Herrenbaumgarten, t +43-2555/2300

Vineyard in Herrenbaumgarten, in the Weinviertel near the Czech border and only an hour drive north of Vienna.

Very good Austrian red(!) wines, try those from the oak casks. Plus very nice traditional whites, for example the Weinviertel DAC Gruener Veltliner.

Harry, the wine maker, is offering very friendly and informative wine samplings. It's worth going there and stay overnight at one of the B&B's in Herrenbaumgarten or in the wellness and golf hotel Veltlin just outside the village.

Together with other young wine makers from the region Harry also maintains a blog: www.winzerblog.at (German)

Cafe bar XL

Cafe bar XL, Svetog Križa bb, Rovinj, Croatia, t +385 (0)98 814 445
N 45º05,1' E 013º37,5'


One of the most peaceful and nicest places I have been to in a long time. Positioned in a beautiful garden with cypresses just underneath the church Sv. Eufemija the XL cafe offers great coffee, loungy music and a fantastic view on the Adriatic see. Defnitely a time trap. Once you sit down you will never want to leave again.

Martin Pescador

Vl. Vlacic Patrik, Trget 20, Trget, Croatia, t 052-544 976
N 45º01,4' E 014º03,4'



Nice restaurant in the small town of Trget with a great view on Trget fjord. Sail up the fjord and after a few tacks and jibes you will find the restaurant at the end. There are some anchor buoys and a small mole that is mostly used by excursion boats.

Service is friendly, fish is fresh and will be brought to your table on ice to chose from yourself, prices are moderate. Try the mussels they are coming from Martin's own mussel farm in the fjord.

Euro Visions

www.expo-eurovisions.be/
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles

© Lise Sarfati / Magnum Photos

On the occasion of 50 years EU and 60 years Magnum photo agency, twelve Magnum photographers were travelling to the new EU16-27 countries for a month and brought back pictures, slides and videos. Some of them very nice and interesting, others unfortunately a little bit dull and depressing. Nevertheless worth a visit if you are in Bruxelles.

© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 to 17:00.
Until 1 July 2007.

Velvet

www.arcotel.at/velvet.htm
Oranienburger Strasse 52, 10117 Berlin, t +49 30 2787 53-0

Stylish design hotel in the middle of Berlin. All rooms have a complete glass facade at one of the rooms' walls which offers a great view.

The bathroom is in the middle of the room next to the bed, just separated by a transparent curtain. A very open atmosphere. (The toilet is in a separate room, though.)

I haven't tried the breakfast buffet, but there are plenty of places nearby that offer everything from coffeee to bagels and everything else.

The higher up you stay, the more you can enjoy the view out of the glass wall without anybody seeing you... Book a suite here if you take your girlfriend to Berlin.

A Small Guide to Lisbon

A Small Guide to Lisbon

A small but very nice guide to Lisbon by Delaranja. A very personal guide on how to get around Lisbon, where to go and what to eat. And I agree with everything Andre writes.

Monsieur Vuong

www.monsieurvuong.de
Monsieur Vuong, Alte Schönhauser Str. 46, 10119 Berlin-Mitte

You cannot book a table in advance at Monsieur Vuong and long queues on weekend nights make it easy to guess why. Also you will be placed at tables together with other people you don't know.

The menu offers only a small vareity of Vietnamese dishes. The main attration, however, is a menu with a choice of one starter and two main courses that is changing every other day and prepared freshly for you.

If you don't mind this concept, you will enjoy excellent Vietnamese cuisine in a vibrant atmosphere and for moderate prices.

Gartenbaukino

www.gartenbaukino.at
Parkring 12, A-1010 Wien, t +43 1 512 23 54

Movie theatre in the heart of Vienna. Nice 60-ish architecture and great movies. Seats more than 700 in only one theatre. Home of the 'Viennale' festival.

Jeu de Paume - Site Sully

www.jeudepaume.org
Hôtel de Sully, Place des Vosges, 62, rue Saint-Antoine, 75004 Paris

Changing photo exhibitions. Access through a small alleyway from the Place des Vosges, one of the most beautiful squares of Paris.

Until 14 January 2007: 'Joel Meyerowitz: Out of the Ordinary, 1970-1980'

From 30 January to 9 April 2007: 'Viva, a photographic agency'

Budapest

Never take a taxi at the platform of the train station. Let your hotel order one for you. The driver will be waiting for you on the platform holding a sign with your name on it. Prices from Kelety Station to the city center should be HUF 2,500 (EUR 12.00, December 2006).

Hotel Parlament

Hotel Parlament Budapest
Kalman Imre utca 19, HU-1054 Budapest,t +36 1 374-6000


Opened 2005, centrally located near the Parlament, moderate prices. Pleasantly minimalistic and stylish interior, small but nice area with sauna and Jacuzzi. Breakfast buffet also small but nice. Free internet in all rooms and two internet terminals in the lobby.

Café Kör

www.cafekor.com
Sas ut. 17, 1051 Budapest, t 311-0053

Modern traditional Hungarian cuisine, nice atmosphere, very moderate prices, very friendly service. Reservation highly recommended.