Vincent Vegan Hauptbahnhof is a vegan fast food restaurant in Altstadt, Hamburg.
Vincent Vegan at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof opened in 2021 as the chain's first transport-hub vegan fast-food counter, with burgers, kebab fries and milkshakes from a self-serve terminal.
Must order: The Vincent burger; the kebab fries.
Tip: Card payment only. Order at the terminal; you get an animal name called when your order is ready.
Address: Hachmannplatz 16, 20099 Hamburg
Oberhafen-Kantine on Stockmeyerstrasse in Hamburg's Oberhafen has cooked tavern food in a lopsided 1925 timber building since the harbour-worker era, leaning visibly off-true.
Order: The Currywurst; the schnitzel with Brathaehnchen sauce.
Tip: The whole building leans about 8.7 degrees after decades of tidal undermining; the floor is wedged. Closed Mondays; Sunday lunch service.
Deichgraf on the historic Deichstrasse in Hamburg's Neustadt cooks traditional Hanseatic dishes on the city's oldest canal-side street, rebuilt after the great 1842 fire.
Order: The Labskaus with Rollmops; the Aalsuppe with raisins.
Tip: Ask for a window table on the Nikolaifleet canal side. A single beam from the pre-fire building survives in the Fleetdiele dining room.
Gsellmanns in Hamburg Eimsbuttel runs an elevated bistro on Eppendorfer Weg. Marco Kruger and Laura Gsellmann took over the room formerly known as Brudigams in 2020, keeping the same address with a renamed kitchen and tighter focus.
Signature: Daily-changing bistro plates, Regional and seasonal mains
Bistro Carmagnole in Hamburg's Sternschanze cooks French bistro classics off a daily blackboard on Juliusstrasse. The side-street room has been running since around 2014 and still takes walk-ins only.
Signature: French bistro classics, Daily blackboard plats
Old Commercial Room opposite the Michel in Hamburg has cooked Hanseatic harbour food since 1795 and is the city's canonical Labskaus address.
Order: The Original Hamburger Labskaus with fried egg, herring, beetroot and gherkin.
Tip: Open daily; lunch tables more available than dinner. Cash welcome but cards accepted.
Tim Maelzer and Patrick Ruether's Bullerei in Hamburg's Sternschanze has cooked grilled meats and modern German in the old slaughterhouse since 2009.
Order: The dry-aged rib-eye and the seasonal handmade pasta.
Tip: Daily 12:00 to 23:00. Tables on the courtyard fill first in summer.
