I was looking through my Germany archives on the blog [helpful hint if you didn’t already know: my blogposts are categories with the links up the top, according to some of the places I visit the most!] and I simply CANNOT believe I haven’t […]

  Eating out for breakfast still isn’t a huge thing in Germany. You’re hard pressed to find a cafe that opens before 9am, which is tough when you’re suffering from jetlag and have been up since 5am. Maybe it’s just not part of the German […]

  DS and I are always on the hunt for a good currywurst. For those who don’t know what that is, here’s the Wikipedia page. It’s kind of Germany’s answer to fast food, and the perfect late night snack. We found that they’re on every […]

  Sometimes you don’t want complicated food for breakfast. Sometimes you just want something simple. When we feel like that in Hamburg, we head down the road to our little local French cafe – CAFÉ PAR ICI.         I love that you can […]

  I was a bit sceptical when we decided to go to CARLS AN DER ELBPHILHARMONIE because it’s literally right next to Hamburg’s current biggest tourist attraction – the Elbphilharmonie. It’s been years in the making and finally Hamburg has a brand new concert hall, which looks suspiciously […]

  Ahhh German breakfasts – my love! Click through to have a look at what we ate for breakfast at Frohlein in Hamburg.     Yes, breakfast cafe culture isn’t huge in Germany yet but that doesn’t mean German breakfast isn’t great! It just means that […]

My my it’s been a busy start to the year – so much so that I’m only getting round to posting about our trip to Europe in December 2016! talk&spoon was also down for a few days, so apologies to those who tried to access […]

Sorry, did I say I’d write about some German food next? Whoops – here’s a cute little Swedish cafe we went to in Hamburg called Hejpapa!

There is one reason that Gallo Nero is my dad’s favourite restaurant and I go there every single time I’m in Hamburg – the home-made pasta with parmesan and fresh truffles. No words can describe the wonder of this dish, and I have never tried […]