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Ottawa
- Vietnamese Cuisine
- Cafe Indochine, 105 Clarence Street, Ottawa,
phone 613-241-6378.
- Excellent Vietnamese food. Very different from the
typical Pho restaurants.
- Co Cham, 780 Somerset Street West, Ottawa,
phone 613-567-6050.
- A very small and excellent restaurant. They serve
authentic Vietnamese food. Try the Bun Bo (Vermicelli
with beef and pork in a spicy soup).
- Vietnam Palace, 819 Somerset Street West, Ottawa,
phone 613-238-6758.
- Excellent, large and busy restaurant. A large variety
of very good dishes.
- New Mee Fung, 350 Booth Street, Ottawa, phone 613-567-8228.
- Excellent and busy restaurant. A very large variety
of very good dishes.
- Pho Thu Do, 781 Somerset Street West,
Ottawa, phone 613-235-7116.
- Nice and busy restaurant. A very good place for
Vietnamese beef rice noodle soup. Try the shrimp
spring rolls.
- Pho Bo Ga La, 784 Somerset Street West,
Ottawa, phone 613-230-2931.
- Nice and busy restaurant. A very good place for
Vietnamese beef and chicken rice noodle soup.
Don't forget the shrimp spring rolls.
- Indian Cuisine
- Cafe Shafali,
308 Dalhousie, Ottawa, phone 613-789-9188.
- Excellent Indian restaurant.
- Indian paintings by a Canadian artist are being
sold.
- Ceylonta,
403 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, phone 613-237-7812.
- Excellent Sri Lankan and South-Indian food.
- Here you can eat dosa.
- Coconut Lagoon,
853 St. Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa, phone 613-742-4444.
- Excellent South-Indian food.
- Here you can eat dosa.
- Host India, 622 Montreal Road, Ottawa, phone 613-746-4678.
- Large restaurant, excellent food.
- Chinese Cuisine
- Yangtze Dining Lounge, 700 Somerset Street West,
Ottawa, phone 613-236-0555.
- Large and excellent Chinese restaurant,
specializing in Cantones cuisine.
- Mandarin Ogilvie, 1137 Ogilvie Road, Gloucester, Ottawa,
phone 613-749-8838.
- Large and excellent Chinese restaurant.
- All day Dim Sum, authentic Szechuan and Thai
cuisine.
- Try the stewed fish fillet with white wine.
- Beijing Tianrun, 1947 Bank Street, Ottawa,
phone 613-521-3868.
- Excellent Chinese restaurant, good place for
Szechuan cuisine.
- Try the Peking duck.
- But: there is a huge TV screen in the dining room.
- Buffet YangMing, 1547 Merivale Road, Nepean,
phone 613-228-0840.
- Good place if you like all-you-can-eat buffets.
- Du Barry Chinese Buffet, 33 Selkirk Street, Vanier,
phone 613-749-2088.
- Good (and huge) place if you like all-you-can-eat
buffets.
- May's Garden Restaurant, 122 Preston Street, Ottawa,
phone 613-234-6437.
- Excellent and cheap food, Beijing and Szechuan style.
- Japanese/Korean Cuisine
- Festival Japan,
149 Kent Street, Ottawa, phone 613-234-1224.
- Good place for shabu shabu and sushi.
- Try the salmon and tuna sashimi.
- Japanese Village,
170 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, phone 613-236-9519.
- Excellent place for Japanese food, which is
``skillfully prepared before your eyes in the famous
Japanese Teppan style''.
- Sushi 88,
690B Somerstreet West, Ottawa, phone 613-233-3288.
- Good place for Japanese food at a reasonable price.
-
Hokkaido Sushi,
272 Dalhousie Street, Ottawa, phone 613-860-9898.
- Good place for all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet.
- Unlimited salmon sashimi (and many other dishes).
- 168 Sushi,
1651 Merivale Road, Ottawa, phone 613-228-0168.
- Good place for all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet.
- Unlimited salmon sashimi (and many other dishes).
- Miga, 399 Bank Street, Ottawa, phone 613-230-0084.
- Korean and Japanese Cuisine, good food at a reasonable
price.
- Le Kim Chi,
420 Preston Street, Ottawa, phone 613-233-2433.
- Alirang,
134 Nelson Street, Ottawa, phone 613-789-2224.
- Chahaya Malaysia, 1690 Montreal Road, Ottawa, phone 613-742-0242.
- Excellent Malaysian and Indonesian food.
- Thai Cuisine
- Aiyara, 1590 Walkley Road, Ottawa, phone 613-526-1703.
- Excellent Thai food. Elephants are throughout this
place, even on the dishes and cutlery. The teapot is
elephant-shaped.
- Nokham, 747 Richmond Road, Ottawa, phone 613-724-6135.
- Excellent Thai food. The restaurant is very nicely
decorated, the food is served in beautiful bowls.
- Green Papaya,
256 Preston Street, Ottawa.
- Khao Thai,
103 Murray Street (ByWard Market), Ottawa,
phone 613-241-7276.
- Siam Kitchen, 1050 Bank Street, Ottawa,
phone 613-730-3954.
- "Authentic Thai Cuisine"
- Excellent Thai food, within walking distance from
Carleton University.
- Chang Thai
Kitchen, 3740 Carp Road, Carp, Ottawa,
phone 613-470-8888.
- Topkapi,
484 Preston Street, Ottawa, phone 613-230-8828.
- Excellent Turkish cuisine.
- Fish restaurants
- The Whalesbone Oyster
House, 430 Bank Street, Ottawa, phone 613-231-8569.
- Best place for oysters in Ottawa.
- Try the Coast-to-Coast Oysters Sampler!
- Small and busy restaurant.
- If you want to go for real beer:
- Royal Oak,
many locations in Ottawa.
- Very nice pub. My favorite beers:
Fullers (UK), Creemore, Goose Island IPA.
- Lobsterfest in June.
- The Manx Pub, 370 Elgin Street, Ottawa, phone 613-231-2070.
- Very nice and busy pub, good selection of Canadian
micro-brewed beers on draught, good selection of
whisky. The food is very good as well.
- Pub Italia,
434 1/2 Preston Street, Ottawa, phone 613-232-2326.
- This is the best place in Ottawa for Belgian and
German beers.
- La Trappe (brewed in my hometown) available.
- My favorite beers in this pub: Rochefort 10,
Aventinus Weizenbock.
- The Keg, 75 York Street, Ottawa,
phone 613-241-8514.
- Excellent and busy steakhouse and bar.
- Good place to have lobster.
- Vittoria Trattoria, 35 William Street (ByWard Market), Ottawa,
phone 613-789-8959.
- The Rainbow,
76 Murray Street (ByWard Market), Ottawa, phone 613-241-5123.
- Ottawa's legendary home of the blues.
- Swiss Hotel,
89 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, phone 613-237-0335.
- This is not a restaurant, but a very nice hotel, right in
downtown.
- Dutch Groceries and Imports, 1400 Clyde Avenue (Bleeker Mall),
Ottawa.
- This is not a restaurant.
- If you are looking for Dutch delicacies such as
kroketten, aged Gouda cheese,
hagelslag and dubbelzoute dropjes, this is
the place to go. In November, they sell
chocoladeletters and banketstaaf.
Around Ottawa
- La Pataterie Hulloise, 311 Saint-Joseph Boulevard, Gatineau,
Quebec, phone 819-778-1659.
- Here you get poutine the way it is meant to be.
- Close to the Casino.
- Le Pot au Feu, 489 Rue Notre-Dame, Montebello, Quebec,
phone (819) 423-6901.
- ``The first authentic French restaurant in the Outaouais.''
- Excellent French Cuisine. Good place to have dinner after a
visit to Parc Omega.
- On your way there, do not forget to visit the
Chutes de
Plaisance.
- If you want to make a longer trip, you should combine
Montebello with
Mont Tremblant.
- La Maison Earle 1880, Wakefield, Quebec,
phone (819) 459-1028.
- Good place to have lunch when you visit beautiful Wakefield.
- They offer a Sunday brunch.
Montreal
- Red Thai, 3550 Saint-Laurent, Montreal, phone (514) 289-0998.
- Buffet Maharaja, 1481 Rene-Levesque West, Montreal,
phone (514) 934-0655.
- "Indian cuisine at its finest, sumptuous 100-item buffet".
Toronto
- Pho Hung, 350 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, phone (416) 593-4274.
- Excellent Vietnamese food.
Rest of Canada
- Curry
Village,
169a Princess Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 1A9,
phone 613-542-5010.
- Curry Village, 5677 Brenton Place, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1E4,
phone (902) 429-5010.
Magdeburg
- TajMahal, Schönebecker Straße 16, 39104 Magdeburg,
Tel. 0391/4019778.
- Indisches und griechisches Spezialitätenrestaurant;
hört sich komisch an, gell?
- hier muß man gewesen sein.
- Maharadscha Palace, Halberstädter Straße 49, Magdeburg,
Tel. 0391/5614105.
- Und auch hier muß man gewesen sein.
- Hier schmecken die Samosas am besten.
- Hier gibt es griechischen Wein; äußerst
merkwürdig.
- Mykonos, Sieverstorstraße 3, 39106 Magdeburg (Alte Neustadt),
Tel. 0391/5440717.
- Wie der Name schon vermuten läßt, dies ist ein
griechisches Restaurant.
- Es hat mit sehr gut gefallen; viel Fleisch, aber nicht
so viel wie in den meisten griechischen Restaurants.
- La Bodega,
Domplatz 10/11, 39104 Magdeburg, Tel. 0391/5432959.
- Das beste (und einzige?) spanische Restaurant in
Magdeburg.
- Flair, Breiter Weg 21, 39104 Magdeburg, Tel. 0391/5618955.
- Gut und Gern, Wallonerberg 5, 39104 Magdeburg,
Tel. 0391/5313315.
- "Ihr Bier- und Weingasthaus"
- Hier habe ich Straußensteak gegessen; war lecker.
-
Wenzel Prager Bierstuben,
Leiterstraße 3, 39104 Magdeburg,
Tel. 0391/5446616.
- "Böhmische Biere und Speisen".
- In Vino Veritas,
Sternstraße 24, 39104 Magdeburg,
Tel. 0391/4015378.
- Sehr gutes italienisches Restaurant
- Ausführliche Zigarrenkarte
Berlin
- Kashmir Palace, Marburger Straße 14, 10787 Berlin,
Tel. 2142840.
- Excellent Indian restaurant; close to the
Gedächtniskirche.
- Sachiko Sushi, Grolmanstraße 47, Savignypassage,
10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg,
Tel. 3132282.
- Deutschlands erste Kaitensushi-Bar.
- Small restaurant, great place for
sushi; floating-boats sushi bar.
- Die Zwölf Apostel,
Bleibtreustraße 49, 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg,
Tel. 3121433.
- Great pizzas.
- Next to the Savigny S-Bahn station.
- Tapas,
Grolmanstraße 52, 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg,
Tel. 31809170.
- Great place for Spanish tapas.
- Pesetas, Unter den Eichen 112a, 12203 Berlin,
Tel. 030-84319161.
- Another great place for Spanish tapas.
- Close to the Botanischer Garten.
- Brandy is served in a warm glass.
- Mar y Sol,
Savignyplatz 5, Berlin-Charlottenburg,
Tel. 030-3132593.
- And yet another great place for Spanish tapas.
Braunschweig
- Zum Löwen, Schadt's Schlemmerstube,
Waisenhausdamm 13, 38100 Braunschweig,
Tel. (0531) 124511.
- Brewpub and great restaurant.
München
- New Delhi, Ismaninger Straße 69b, 81675 München,
Tel. 089/98104343.
- Excellent restaurant; only six tables.
Konstanz
- Siam, Thailändische Spezialitäten;
Fischmarkt 1, 78462 Konstanz,
Tel. 07531/189598.
Saarbrücken
- Especial, Mexican Restaurant Cantina, Am St. Johanner
Markt, 66111 Saarbrücken, Tel. 0681-3906619.
Frankfurt
- Lam Freres,
Vietnamese restaurant, Weserstrasse 12, 60329 Frankfurt/Main,
Tel. 069-234779.
Amsterdam
- Mogul, Pak-Indian Restaurant, Rokin 107,
1012 KN Amsterdam, Tel. 020-6242416.
- Whisky Cafe
De Still,
Spuistraat 326.
- Bar specialized in whisky.
- In de Wildeman, Kolksteeg 3, 1012 PT Amsterdam.
- This is the place to go for good beer.
- No music.
- Close to the central station.
Eindhoven
- Bali, Keizersgracht 13, 5611 GC Eindhoven, Tel. 040-2445649.
- Indonesian restaurant, great place to have a rijsttafel.
London
Besides from being the most exciting city in the world, London is
the best place for good food. Good restaurants come and go,
so below you find a selection of those where I have been
in (not so) recent years, and which I liked.
- Malabar Junction, 107 Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3NA.
- authentic South Indian cuisine
- close to the British Museum
- Royal China.
- 13 Queensway, London W2 4QJ.
- 40 Baker Street, London W1M 1DA.
- Unit 2, Matrix, Coronation Road, Park Royal, London,
NW10 7PQ.
- Probably the best places for Chinese food in
London.
- Golden Dragon, 28-29 Gerrard Street, London W1V 7LP.
- in China Town
- good place for Dim Sum, served from heated
trolleys.
- New World, 1 Gerrard Place, London W1.
- in China Town
- Also a good place for Dim Sum, served from heated
trolleys.
- Malaysia Kopi Tiam, 9 Wardour Street, London W1D 6PF.
- Malaysian restaurant in Chinatown, good for a quick
lunch or dinner.
- Wong Kei, 41-43 Wardour Street, London W1D 6PY.
- Chinese restaurant in China Town. Notorious for its
rude waiters.
- Cafe Pacifico, 5 Langley Street (opposite Covent Garden tube
station).
- Good and busy Mexican restaurant.
- Diwana, 121-123 Drummond Street, London NW1.
- Good Indian vegetarian restaurant.
- Close to Euston station; in this street, there are
several good Indian restaurants.
- Khan's Restaurant, 13-15 Westbourne Grove, London W2 4UA.
- Good and busy Indian restaurant.
- Belgo
Centraal, 50 Earlham Street, London WC2H 9LJ.
- Great and very busy Belgian restaurant, close to
the Covent Garden tube station.
- My favorite dish here: one kilo of mussels with
Belgian fries.
- Great selection of Belgian beers.
Scotland
- Tippoo Sahib, Indian Restaurant, 129a Rose Street,
Edinburgh, Tel. 0131-2262862.
- Shapla, Tandoori Restaurant, 2 Castle Road, Inverness,
Tel. 01463-241919.
- Spice Hut, Exotic Indian Cuisine, Bayfield Road, Portree,
Isle of Skye, Tel. 01478-612681.
Denmark
- Indian Corner, Norrebrogade 59, 2200 Copenhagen,
phone 31392802.
- Nam's Kusine, Strandlinien 49, 2791 Dragør,
phone 32 53 18 88.
- A wonderful Malaysian restaurant, close to Copenhagen.
- Reservations required.
Philadelphia
- Independence Brewpub, 1150 Filbert Street (across from Reading
Terminal Market), phone (215) 922-4292.
- Good brewpub in downtown Philadelphia; good food.
- Monk's Cafe,
16th Street/Spruce Street, phone (215) 545-7005.
- Large and impressive selection of Belgian beers; located
in downtown Philadelphia.
San Francisco
- New Delhi, 160 Ellis Street, near Union Square,
San Francisco, phone 397-8470. (Closed on Sunday.)
- If you are in San Francisco, you should definitely visit
Sushi Bune Restaurant at 389 Geary Street, phone
(415) 781-5111; or at 181 O'Farrell Street, phone
(415) 392-5111. Sushi bar with floating boats.
Memphis
- Delhi Palace, Nouvelle Indian Cuisine,
6110 Macon Road, Memphis, TN 38134,
phone (901) 386-3600.
- Sekisui East, 50 Humphrey's Blvd., Memphis,
phone 747-0001.
- When you are in Memphis, don't miss
Miami
- Tap Tap,
819 Fifth Street, Miami Beach, phone (305) 672-2898.
- Colorful Haitian restaurant.
- Moon,
1118 S. Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, phone (305) 668-9890.
- Excellent Japanese and Thai cuisine.
- Tropical Chinese
Restaurant, 7991 Southwest 40 Street, Miami,
phone (305) 262-7576.
- Excellent place for Dim Sum.
- Lung Gong Restaurant, 11920 Southwest 8 Street, Miami,
phone (305) 553-4644.
- Good Chinese restaurant.
- Try the lobster covered with red chili peppers.
- Imlee, 12663 S. Dixie Highway, Pinecrest,
phone (786) 293-2223.
-
India South Cuisine, College Plaza, 7855 Pines Boulevard,
Pembroke Pines, phone (954) 322-8353.
- Vegetarian restaurant, "pure and authentic South Indian".
- Excellent Indian food; try the very large dosa.
- Titanic Brewery and Restaurant, 5813 Ponce de Leon Boulevard,
Coral Gables, phone (305) 668-1742.
- This is a brewpub with excellent beers.
Minneapolis
- Brasserie Zinc, 1010 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis,
phone 612-904-1010.
- Nice French restaurant, on Nicollet Mall.
- small selection of good Belgian beers; La Trappe on tap.
- Ichiban Japanese Steak House, 1333 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis,
phone 612-339-0540.
- Big restaurant, with a good floating-boats sushi bar.
- Bloody expensive.
- Lotus Restaurant, 313 Oak Street, Minneapolis, phone 331-1781.
- Good Vietnamese restaurant, on the University of Minnesota
campus.
- Loring Pasta Bar, 327 14th Avenue South, Minneapolis,
phone (612) 378-4849.
- Large restaurant in Dinkytown, close to the
University of Minnesota campus. Beautiful building.
- Shuang Cheng, 1320 4th Street S.E., Minneapolis,
phone (612) 378-0208.
- Chinese restaurant in Dinkytown, close to the
University of Minnesota campus.
- Close to
Wales House,
a nice Victorian Guest Residence.
- Jewel of India, 1427 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis,
phone (612) 339-0002.
- Lunch buffet, all you can eat!
- Close to the University of Minnesota campus; just
across the Mississippi River
- Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, Seven Corners, Minneapolis,
phone (612) 339-town.
- Brewpub, great beers!
- Close to the University of Minnesota campus; just
across the Mississippi River
- Good Earth, 1901 West Highway 36, Roseville, phone 636-0956.
- If you are sick of burgers, this is the place to go.
- Outside of Minneapolis, so you need a car to go there.
- Sawatdee, Thai Cuisine,
607 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis, phone 338-6451.
- Excellent Thai food.
- In the Warehouse district, in downtown Minneapolis
(118 4th Street N.), you should visit Sawatdee Bar and Cafe.
- Rock Bottom Brewery, 800 LaSalle Plaza, Minneapolis,
phone 332-7350.
- Brewpub, in downtown Minneapolis.
- California Cafe, and Napa Valley Grille.
- These are the places to go for lunch, in case you visit the
Mall of America.
Sydney
- The Lord Nelson Brewery, Sydney, phone (02) 9251 4044.
- In The Rocks.
- Excellent brewpub.
- Heritage Belgian
Beer Cafe, 135 Harrington Street, The Rocks, Sydney,
phone 9241 1775.
- Good place to go for Belgian beer.
- Tommy's European
Beer Cafe, 42 Kellett Street, Potts Point, Sydney,
phone 9368 0898.
- Excellent place for Czech beer and food.
- Close to the Kings Cross station.
- Hikaru, rear of 134-140 King Street, Newtown, Sydney,
phone 9516 5959.
- Nice Japanese courtyard restaurant.
- Marigold, 683-689 George
Street, Sydney, phone 9281 3388.
- Excellent Chinese food.
- Close to the Central Station.
Gold Coast, Australia
- Moo Moo, 2685 Gold
Coast Highway, Broadbeach, phone (07) 5539 9952.
- "Queensland's Best Steak Restaurant".
- Try the Master Kobe Beef!
- Try the Moo Moo Signature Dish: Spice Rubbed 1KQ Wagyu
Rump Roast!
Hobart, Tasmania
- Drunken Admiral, 17-19 Old Wharf, Hobart, phone 6234 1903.
- Best place for fish in Hobart.
- Many and interesting decorations that are related to the
fishing industry.
- Mures Upper Deck, Victoria Dock, Hobart, phone 6231 2121.
- Excellent place for fish.
- Pier One, Wrest Point Hotel, Hobart, phone 6221 1701.
- Excellent and interesting food, if you don't mind dining
in a casino.
Tokyo
- In de Bourgondische Hemel,
Sakamoto Building B1F 2-16-8, Dogenzaka Shibuya-ku Tokyo,
phone 03-5918-6939.
- Excellent selection of Belgian beers.
- Close to the Shibuya station, Hachiko exit.
- Belgo,
Shibuya Ichigo-Kan BLD. B1F, 3-18-7, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo,
phone 03-3409-4442.
- Excellent selection of Belgian beers.
- Close to the Shibuya station, New South exit.
- Hotel Mets
Shibuya.
- Nice hotel, located near the New South exit of the
Shibuya station, easy to find.
- Public House.
If you stay in Hotel Mets, you will get breakfast here.
Nice place to have a beer in the afternoon, free wifi.
Kyoto
- Hotel Vista
Kyoto.
- Nice hotel, located next to the train station. Take the
exit opposite from the one taking you to the Kyoto
tower.
Tehran, Iran
- Saadabad Original Traditional Restaurant, next to the North door,
Darband Square, Tajrish Square, Tehran, phone 009821-22754100/3.
- A beautiful place to enjoy a cup of tea and smoke a
water pipe.
- Khayyam Traditional Restaurant, opposite Emamzadeh Seyyed
Nasreddin, Khayyam Street, Tehran, phone 009821-55800760.
- A beautiful restaurant located in a 300-year old historical
building. A very nice place to enjoy a kebab and smoke a
water pipe.
- Aghigh Palace, Traditional Tea House and Restaurant,
Jamaran Street, Niyavaran Avenue, Tehran,
phone 009821-22283755.
- A beautiful place to enjoy a kebab and traditional Iranian
live music.