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Regional products
in Oberhafen
Leaving slick HafenCity eastwards through Lohsepark, next up is the Oberhafen – Upper Port - and then the for- mer Hanover Railway Station. Artists and musicians have settled there, along with Hobenköök, or Port Kitchen. Mainly offering regional and seasonal pro- duce, this is a blend of restaurant, covered market and catering. The mix of post-industrial chic and glimpses of an abandoned station features not just fruit and veg, but meat, fish and groceries, to wine,
beer and rum, everything a shopper could wish for cooking at home. Anybody not wanting to cook can taste dishes based on regional produce here on the spot. Whatever later reaches the table or the larder, here its origin and production history can easily be identified.
‘Burning Finger’ and ‘Stormy Barracuda’
If a haunt is more exciting than the patrons, then at some stage boredom creeps in – such is the thinking behind ‘Club 20457’ in HafenCity. The district’s ‘living-room’ has defied that notion for eight years now with a colourful clientele. Antonio ‘Toni’ Fabrizi has run the bar on Osakaallee since 2012. The Maritime Museum is across the street. A small stage for concerts, stand-up comedy and readings makes the place somewhere special. Drinks are served from Mondays to Saturdays between 6 pm and 2 am, ris- soles banish any hunger. Lined up with traditional long drinks are two highlights: ‘Stormy Barracuda’ and the insider’s tipple ‘Burn- ing Finger’. The atmosphere can be best be described in two
words: relaxed and laid back.
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Strictly regulated fish cuisine
Fried fish belongs in Northern Germany as much as white sausage down in Bavaria. The top address for these in Hamburg is not some chic res- taurant with a view of the Elbe, but the Veddel Fish Pub on Tunnel- strasse. Barely anything has changed since the 1950s in this modest flat-roofed building squeezed between motorways and main rail lines. Anybody wishing to eat here at lunchtime needs to obey the lady in charge and heed the rights of her regulars. Free choice of seats, des-
serts, espressos: Forget them! Instead, you’re guaranteed crisp batter and potato salad just as good as mother made.
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© Club 20457