Hamburg: Speicherstadt Food Tour, 7+ Tastings & Labskaus
Eat your way through Hamburg's historic Speicherstadt and old town, tasting Franzbrötchen, Fischbrötchen, Labskaus and a mystery Secret Dish with a local guide.
Raw seasoned ground pork (Mett) piled on a sliced Brötchen with rings of raw white onion and a turn of black pepper. The North German butcher-counter snack, eaten at room temperature.
Mett (raw seasoned pork) has been a German butcher's staple since at least the 18th century, regulated under modern food law: the pork must be processed and chilled the same day, and contains less than 35 percent fat. The Mettbrötchen is a Northern German butcher-counter and bakery snack rather than a Hamburg-specific dish, but Hamburg butcher counters and St Pauli Imbiss windows serve it the same way; Erika's Eck in the entertainment district is the cult late-night Mett stop.
2 editor picks for Mettbrötchen in Hamburg, ranked by editorial score. All Hamburg signature dishes · Mettbrötchen across every city.
Also in: Cologne.
Fischmarkt Altona ★ 4.7
altona · Grosse Elbstrasse 9, 22767 Hamburg
Fischmarkt Altona on Grosse Elbstrasse in Hamburg has run every Sunday morning since 1703 and is the city's defining harbour market, with 70,000 weekly.
Erika's Eck ★ 4.0
sternschanze · Sternstrasse 98, 20357 Hamburg
Erika's Eck on the corner of Sternstrasse and Kampstrasse in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel has cooked oversized Schnitzel and Imbiss plates from a wood-panelled.
Learn to cook it, or eat it with a guide
Mettbrötchen makes more sense with someone from Hamburg explaining it. These are the classes and tours we have checked, with booking links.
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