Whether Michelin, Gault-Millaut, Varta- or Aral Guide: in terms of gourmet cuisine and feasting Hamburg ranks at a top position. The clichés of fish, labskaus (a seafarer's meal of mashed meat, potatoes, onions, salt gurkens and beetroot) and red berry compote have been a thing of the past for a long time already.
Long the Hamburg cuisine has reached top standards but, of course, you can get a simple pizza everywhere and in addition there is a number of restaurants which are devoted to the traditional Hamburgian cuisine without serving you indigestible food. The "Haerlin" at the Hotel "Vier Jahreszeiten" and the "Landhaus Scherrer" as well as "Louis C. Jacob" at Elbchaussee count among the gourmet temples in Hamburg.
But sometimes the view from the window is more important than the Michelin Star. Therefore, several posh restaurants and bars have settled along the Alster and the river Elbe which invite the guest to stay.
