Travel to Germany should include tasting the local food and drink. Discover German cuisine through regional specialties or national favorites.
Background of German Cooking
Read a number of short articles from the Global Gourmet for a background of German cuisine, including customs, Oktoberfest feasting, and changes to diet. Recipes are included.
Eat Germany
The frame requires you to click on the "English" link. From there, you can search for restaurants all over Germany, according to price, accessibility, cuisine, and other criteria.
Frankfurt Restaurant Guide
Choose a restaurant from a cuisine category and get information on prices, location, and specialties. Links are included to the restaurant's home page.
German Cuisine Description
This article written for Asiatour.com gives a good, brief overview of the staples of German cuisine.
German Recipes
This collection of traditional and favorite German recipes has English measurements.
Munich Restaurant Guide
Find restaurants in Munich from Triptool, most of them not specializing in German cuisine. The restaurant guide runs alongside the left side of the page, and provides price and location information.
Ordering Food in German
For those not familiar with the German language, this BBC practice site helps you with key words and phrases. It even has an audio segment to help you learn to recognize words.
Regional Specialties
World Travel Guide provides these short descriptions of main regional dishes, as well as a social profile of how and when Germans eat.
Wines of Germany Best of the Net
Germanwine.de provides this excellent site describing the various types of German wines, basic guidelines for matching German wines with foods, and a map of the wine region in Germany.
