You are going to discover some great places to eat in Heidelberg, Germany, from one end
of the old town to the other.
Starting out at the center of the Marketplatz, the market square, the most popular place
for casual outdoor dining and drinking.
Then we will walk all over the center, visiting many eateries ranging from the casual sidewalk
café to the high-end gourmet, along with rustic taverns, cheap takeouts and stellar
wine bars.
As in many small or medium-size European cities, the marketplace is the center of town, usually
nestled right next to the Cathedral, as we have here, and with City Hall on the other
side of the square.
It's one of those important and fun community spaces where you have a lot of activity all
around the edges with the restaurants and the waiter service, and the takeaway service
with an imposing Gothic church towering high above, and all the tables in the middle where
people can gather and have a meal or drink or just talk.
There is even a restaurant and a crêperie snack bar sheltered by the walls of the church.
Walking along past the church to the corner of the market square you will find Zum Ritter,
it's in the Hotel Ritter.
Some of the best restaurants in town are tucked away inside of the main hotels Zum Ritter's
excellent restaurant has gourmet food equal to any of the other great restaurants of town,
offering the highest level of service with the European flair to the presentation, and
a historic setting because it's the oldest nonreligious building in town, dating from
1592.
One block south, slightly out of the way, more fine dining.
Simplicissimus is one of the top gourmet restaurants of Heidelberg featuring French cuisine.
A three course meal here will set you back about €70 and well worth it.
Located on Ingramstrasse.
A two minute walk brings us back to the Marktplatz once again,, a location you will no doubt
return to repeatedly during your visit to Heidelberg.
It's the happiest place in town surrounded by historic buildings, most of which date
back nearly 4 centuries.
A budget Italian choice on the square is Roma.
This is a good time to show you a map of the old town and explain the route we' re taking
as we explore the restaurants of Heidelberg.
Starting from the market square we will head east and loop for a few blocks and then back
to the market square and down Steingassse to the bridge and then through some lovely
back lanes and working our way up to the Haupstrasse, the main lane.
Walking to the end where we hit the modern town and then back again to the Haupstrasse
and ending up where we started at the Marketplatz at night.
Let's go eat.
Stepping east for a couple of blocks we get to one of the famous bakery cafés of town
Gundel, highest quality with normal prices offering an amazing choice of cakes and tarts
and cookies as well as sandwiches.
Earning a it five-star rating in Trip Advisor with table seating indoors and out located
right on Karlsplatz, one of the major squares and yet tourists often miss it, a few minutes
walk from the marketplace.
Well there's two famous student pubs located just adjacent to this Karlsplatz.
One of them is the Red Ox and the other is Sepel and they both offer traditional bar
meals, and lots of beer and occasional nighttime music.
The Red Ox was featured in that classic operetta of the Student Prince.
And now return back to the Market Square and continue to the short street called Steingasse.
It's only one block long and it's chockablock with places to eat, drink and shop, connecting
the market square with the old bridge.
This is one of the most popular streets in the city.
A seat at one of the many outdoor tables gives you a good view of the passing parade of people.
In the morning and it's very quiet but by midday it gets very busy and then later in
the evening it quiets down again.
This is my favorite streets in the city for eating and drinking because it's got a lovely
mix of locals and visitors, with a couple of great bars and restaurants.
One excellent dining choice is Hackteufel, with traditional cuisine.
They've got indoor and outdoor seating, excellent beer.
It's a typical local restaurant and you'll find rustic wooden interior.
They've got pork tenderloin with dumpling or spetzel, Vienna veal scallop, sausage with
sauerkraut and dumpling.
They also run a hotel upstairs with 12 rooms.
There is also brewpub nearby.
And these restaurants along Steingasse are generally open throughout the day and into
the evening.
You'll find the workers here are quite friendly, making this a great place for a stroll at
night.
Restaurant Goldener Hecht is so conveniently located right at the Old Bridge, so you have
nice outdoor ambience, that Steingasse street runs next to it, the river nearby, and featuring
Austrian cuisine along with German, or just sit at the bar and have a beer.
Our hotel Hollander-Hof is right next door, conveniently located in the Old Town next
to the bridge.
A good breakfast is an important meal for the traveler to give you that early morning
energy that'll get you through the day.
A buffet breakfast is generally included with the price of the room in Germany.
So let's have a look and see what's on offer.
You just help yourself, as much as you want.
There's always a good variety of fruits and cheeses meets, cereals, yogurts, breads, croissants,
juices – all sorts of great food here to get you going for the day.
There is so much to see and do in Heidelberg with so many great restaurants to experience
such as those in the program, which makes it worthwhile spending at least two days here
in your visit.
Especially at a centrally located hotel like this, seemingly surrounded by restaurants
including a traditional tavern that shares the same building restaurants Spreisel, a
popular local spot where I enjoyed the beef roulade with the homemade's spetzel
Our group enjoyed one of the best meals of the visit at Schnookeloch, also near the bridge
facing the river.
A typical local tavern with traditional wood interior.
Just great service, wonderful atmosphere, and such delicious authentic local food – sliced
veal with spetzel and mushroom.
We each had something different so there was a big variety on our table for us all to enjoy.
Looking and sharing.
Love that spetzel, it's a pasta dumpling.
Weiserbach is one of my favorites.
Just go to the end of Unterstrasse and take a right on Rosamantlegasse.
You can sit indoors or outdoors at this fine restaurant, serving one of the most delicious
lamb dishes you'll ever have.
Like many of these restaurants they operate a small hotel.
Do some walking and you'll discover some other the good restaurants in the blocks all around
Weiserbach such as Backmulde, a small hotel and gourmet restaurant with meat, fish, and
vegetarian dishes – pork belly, steak, tuna, tagliatelle, ravioli, dumplings and spretzel.
Finally, we are bringing you to the Hauptstrasse, Heidelberg's main pedestrian lane.
It's certainly the most popular destination for hungry tourists looking for some food
and there are many fine possibilities along this street.
But that's why we showed all of those other restaurant locations to you first to encourage
you to get out away from the main popular drag and into the side streets where you might
find a little bit more of the local cuisine and perhaps higher quality.
However, Hauptstrasse also has a lot of great food to offer as we will be showing you right
now.
It's a wonderful street.
It's one of the great pedestrian lanes of the world, no doubt, and has a lot of good
eating choices.
If you know where to look.
And sometimes you'll get lucky and get some free food.
In this case it was some delicious dried apple crisps, wow they were tasty, healthy and free.
And the locals also shop and eat here so the prices are going to be fair.
You'll find some real food bargains here as well.
You can get a simple meal like a kebab.
Turkish or Greek in origin.
The gyros, the revolving meat going around on a spit.
The Wine Atrium on Hauptstrasse is not only a wine shop.
It's a wine bar.
You can sit down in their cozy cellar or out in their garden and enjoy a glass, sample
it before you buy a bottle.
Don't think that main street tthe Hauptstrasse is just for tourists.
Take a closer look and you'll see that there are some marvelous local restaurants such
as the White Swan, with a historic tradition going back 450 years, serving traditional
cuisine in a rustic wooden setting.
There are dozens of places to eat along the Hauptstrasse.
Many of them just simple outdoor casual cafés, a great spot for people watching with that
endless passing parade of characters from breakfast till midnight.
The University of Heidelberg has a main campus in the center of the old town right along
Hauptstrasse and provides a little-known food bargain for the visitor inside the Student
Union..
One of their cafeterias is right on University Place and has reasonable prices with pretty
good food, open to the public and a very sociable spot if you're interested in meeting some
local students and having a chat about life in Heidelberg.
This could be a place to do it.
Or if you just want a coffee or a light snack, help yourself.
Another part of the campus is a few blocks away, down by the river and there you'll find
a much larger cafeteria which is in a former Arsenal that's called the Marstall.
Built 500 years ago, and this is the Marstall Café also called the Zeuthausmensa in the
stables– a little-known fact it's open to the public.
Student sit outdoors in nice weathe at a big collection of picnic benches.
It's a great socializing place for these young people to rendezvous with their friends, meet
some new friends have a chat, swap tips.
Bring the kids.
You can also sit indoors at this cafeteria, and there is quite a selection.
There's a hot table with cooked foods, you can get sandwiches or just a light bite or
drink.
There is a very good salad bar.
Students pay less than the general public but still this is a very reasonably priced
place to eat.
It's a bargain and they won award as best college cafeteria in Germany.
The bar's open till 11:30 at night it's a pub, a café, a restaurant and a beer garden
all in one.
Let's recap on the map the restaurant route that we've already taken and point out where
we' re going next.
Starting from the market square, went down by the river, around those little side lanes,
up to the Hauptstrasse, and the University campuses and back to the Hauptstrasse where
we continue along to the end of the street.
When you're back on the main pedestrian lane, the Hauptstrasse, if you'd like to sit down
for a light meal or a snack, a great choice would be the famous bakery and Café Schafheutle.
You can sit outdoors in front on the street, or in the back garden, maybe in their lovely
greenhouse-type room that gives you the feeling of being outdoors with the comfort of being
inside.
This Konditorei offers a full service menu all day for a nice lunch or dinner.
But they're most famous as a pastry shop.
Check out the front counter.
It's just loaded with cakes and pies, tarts, breads, rolls, muffins, croissants, it's pastry
heaven.
Located in the heart of the old town near the University.
You'd never realize from the outside of the bakery on Hauptstrasse that there is such
a wonderland and garden inside.
Keep walking to the end of the pedestrian zone and there you will reach the busy downtown.
That's the modern part where you'll find the Galleria Kaufhof which is a big department
store, and they've got everything inside, including a very nice bakery and sandwich
bar right out front.
Café Rossi is a very popular spot just off of the main square.
You can sit outdoors or inside at the coffee bar.
Now were taking you back to the Hauptstrasse for an evening stroll and we will end up where
we began the program at the Marketplace.
There are so many food options along this street that it will easily take you a whole
month to eat your way from one end to the other.
You're going to find many nice temptations to sit down and have a drink or have a meal,
maybe just a snack.
It's like nonstop eating when you walk along the street, it seems, have dinner, some beer,
go to bed wake up and have breakfast.
There are many inexpensive and casual places to eat here.
It seems like every third shopfront is another restaurant.
They've got Mexican, Chinese, Thai, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and yes German.
You name it.
Many also serve pizza.
Do yourself a favor and skip the exotic ethnic foods and pizza and have some authentic German
food.
And there are some cozy little pubs and bars to finish off the night.
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