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.