Cologne dialect Blutwurst served with raw pickled onion (the Musik), rye bread and mustard. A Brauhaus snack staple and the canonical bar food alongside cold Kölsch.
Flönz is the Kölsch dialect word for Blutwurst (blood sausage), and 'Musik' is the city's polite way of describing what the raw onion does in the stomach afterwards. The combination became a Brauhaus snack staple in the 19th century working-class quarters, and stayed on the menus through the 20th century even as the wider Cologne food scene gentrified. Today it is the standard mid-morning second-breakfast and the cheapest order on most Brauhaus snack lists.
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Brauerei Päffgen ★ 4.5
friesenviertel · Friesenstrasse 64-66, 50670 Köln
Brauerei Päffgen in Cologne's Friesenviertel is the last independent house brewery in the city, founded by Hermann Päffgen in 1883; still hand-brewing.
Haus Töller ★ 4.3
altstadt-sued · Weyerstrasse 96, 50676 Köln
Haus Töller on Weyerstrasse in Cologne occupies a 14th-century building and serves Sauerbraten, Halve Hahn and pork knuckle in a genuinely historic Altstadt.
Brauhaus Sion ★ 4.2
altstadt · Unter Taschenmacher 5-7, 50667 Köln
Brauhaus Sion in Cologne's Altstadt has served Kölsch at Unter Taschenmacher since 1318; lovingly renovated in 2012, one of Germany's most atmospheric.