"We have typical dishes from both Sicily & Basilicata, which me & Donato talk about the menu & recipes & all the dishes are a little bit mixture combination of both of our regions. Yet we have risotta, which is very important to the Italian culture of the Northern regions. It is a very mixed Italian menu & Donato loves to experiement with good quality products such as the cheese from Parma, for example. A lot of times the guests come in & say that they have never seen such a menu & love to try his specialities of the week!" says Antonio.
"If it is a passion & you love the kitchen.You love the guests. You love to be a host. You love the wine & the learning of the wine, such as me as a sommelier, it is a career for you. It is my life. I love it & so does Donato & we love our family. You see the next generation of all of us here!" says Antonio.
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I had so much fun meeting Monu, the owner of Mulligan's Irish Pub in Nuremberg today. Along with Monu's very good friend, Mattia, who helps him out bartending whenever he is needed, which according to Mattia is a couple times per week. They filled me in on the process of owning a successful Irish Pub in the historical city of Nuremberg. Alright, Monu is Indian, yet spent 1/2 of his life in Italy. Bari to be specific & the last 7 years in Nuremberg running his friend's Irish Pub named The Dubliner. About 1-1/2years since, Monu bought the Dubliner & made it Kilian's Irish Pub. A cool Irish pub that is a party bar for tourists & locals; students & visitors. Mostly the younger party crowd. Whereas here at Mulligans it is a "classy" joint! Upscale & beautiful. The way a respectable Irish Pub should be!
KILIANS IRISH PUB
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Kilians is right around the alley, opposite the Ultra Comix store, so if you're in Ultra Comix on a Friday night on the 3rd level paying a MAGIC game with your friends, at 10:00 pm you can walk to KILIANS & the winner can buy his friends a pint of Guinness or Smithwick's from Kilkenny, Ireland. KILIANS is exactly the way that American Irish Pubs are designed except that very cool architecture outside is a dead-giveaway of a Historic European city. Hey, I'm trying to help the Marketing/Social Media team, which is Mattia, come up with some metaphorical puns on KILIANS. Yet, I am sure that Mattia is a very good bartender, where he says that he helps out at both places these days, & so he probably would say that he believes his guests come to both because of the great drinks & Pub atmosphere.
LeBAR Indian Cocktail bar and Restaurant
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Obere Schmiedgasse 58
"These are the three specialties that you can only find here at our restaurant. We wanted to use the bratwurst instead of pork in the stews and lasagna. The lasagna noodles we make handmade especially here, too, just to let you know. All With Bratwurst!" says Stefan.
Unsere Bratwurstspezialitäten Our Bratwurst specialities (Lasagne mit Tomatensugo, Bratwurstbrät, selbstgemachten Lasagneblättern und Gruyere Käse) (Lasagne with tomato sugo, bratwurst meat au gratin with Gruyère cheese
Chili con Fränki1,2 (Chili mit fränkischer Bratwurst, Kidney Bohnen, Mais, Tomaten, Zwiebeln und Paprika) (Chili with franconian sausages, beans, corn, tomatoes, onions and peppers)
Bratwurst-„Döner“1,2
(Gefülltes Ciabatta mit Nürnberger Würstchen, Blaukrautsalat, Zwiebeln,
Tomaten und einer hausgemachter Sauce)
(stuffed bread with Nuremberg sausages, red cabbage salat.
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FIGHT MENTALITY & AHMET KAYDUL
Ahmet Kaydul & FightMentality Club Nuremberg
Ahmet, wearing the "Las Vegas" tshirt, is the director of the Martial Art's Defense Training in Nuremberg, Germany. He trains on a consistent basis the Nuremberg Police, the Turkish Military, & with Special Forces of Russia(past), Turkey & recently the special forces of Brazil. I ask Ahmet, who has been my personal friend many years if he has ever lost? Even when he is training the very best special forces around the world. Has any trainee ever won a lesson? "NO," he says. The very Best in the World.
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Ahmet, the owner and reality trainer of Fight Mentality in Nuremberg and a couple of his very real videos. Ahmet is Kurdish and is born in Germany. He has had his studio in Nuremberg for 25 years. If you are a adventurous traveler and would take a class with Ahmet call or facebook in advance and arrange to do that.
The father, Willy, & the son, Leon of the table games in the "Dungeon", hahaha, of the very big 4 level Comic Store in Nuremberg. has the bottom level that is role-playing, card games such as Magic, table games, models, Star Wars, Playmobil, & lots of fun action figures. Leon, who amazingly made the entire scene you see below, was very patient with my questions of a kindergartner. I knew very little when I started asking him questions about the games, & just a little bit more when leaving the store one hour later. There is so much detail & technique in the playing of the games, let alone the months it takes to paint all the models & actually create the scenes that you need to do before you ever even start playing these! But Leon, with his blonde & green long hair, is a perfect role model of the game player of today. No more just for the analysts & nerds, says Leon, the games are for all. PHONE: 0911 289966
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90402 Nuremberg, Vordere Sterngasse 2"We have the only model of the Star Trek playmobil in all of Europe in our store. Playmobil is a German company & chose our store & only one other in the world in America to have these. It is really amazing that they chose us & everybody wants one for the holidays," Leon says. When I ask how much one of these complete playmobil babies goes for he says that it is only 500 euros to start playing! O Okay!
The second level is where all the Comics are. They have Comics from around the world & when I ask Will if they know every comic ever made, he says that probably not everyone, but very close! And every role-playing game? Same. Unless it hasn't been discoverd yet! I tell Leon to contact QuestBourne of Mathew Mecoli to order some game pieces & he says that he shall certainly check these out!
Leon's father is Will, who has been having a young student the last 18 years as Leon says he has grown up in the store & around the games his entire life. The card game, MAGIC, now has Friday night playing in all of their stores that carry their product & Leon says that they have many people that come here, play on the 4th floor where competition & tournaments of all sorts take place, then after 10:00pm, they head out to the clubs for dancing & partying. That is a long way from the nerd image that the games used to have even 10 years ago says Leon. HEY! Leon called you all nerds, not me!
"NO!, I came to Nuremberg and I worked as a graphic designer 4 years!" CHRISTINA!
"Alright and I didn´t like it again so I opened the cafe here with my partner, who left 6 months ago. She said that she couldn´t stand the stress! Me? I love it. I am not stressed at all. I love the people, I love that I can pick my own decorations and my own team and my own cakes and my own hours. I love owning my cafe. The hardest part of owning the cafe has been the first time we had to choose the name! That is the hardest thing to do!" she says laughing and I say that is the way with choosing baby names . Hmm...what do we name it!
https://www.facebook.com/IllAmoreNuernberg/Christina has a love couples night, and she features Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love (of course) and she features Princess Diana and Prince Charles! instead of Camilla! Let me give you a little hint, Christina is HILARIOUS! O and here is my version, "!Candle in the wind!"
I love her laugh the most, which is hesitant. She holds her laughter til she finds you funny or something that you say funny and after awhile you just try to make her laugh! I only love real people. That means that if you are lazy or kind or funny or smart or silly, as long as you are you, I love you. I don´t like fake people. Of course actors are playing parts. I love actors. Yet, Christina is a baby doll. Loved her.
LOCATION. Obere Wörthstraße 10
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The one and only Modern room in the Drei Raben is the Soccer Room depicting Nuremberg's soccer teams and including a fussball table to give you the feeling that you too can be a soccer star. I guess the Spice Girl Victoria and David Beckham, the Super Star Soccer player would love the room. http://www.hoteldreiraben.de/english/hotel/index.html
reservations: Telefon 0911 27 43 80 Königstrasse 63
Suite Rabenspiegel at the Drei Raben in Nuremberg of Drei Raben, who graciously showed me about 10 rooms as his eyes sought with intense detail to each one of these. http://www.hoteldreiraben.de/english/mythical-theme-rooms/index.html. The Coolest Item in the hotel? Hmm...Maybe the shellacked stories on each wall telling a famous Nuremberg fable, or the Replica of the only globe designed by Martin Behaim, or the Cool Soccer Room complete with the fussball table, or the Princess room, or the Train room complete with the matching wooden(light cherry wood from Nuremberg)breakfast table with the enclosed glass train, or the nightly wine and cheese for the guests, or the entire overall feeling of entering a Fairy Tale Playground while you stay in Nuremberg. I asked if the guests tended to find their fable when they ventured out into the city of Nuremberg..."Yes that is the idea. To encourage people to learn about the history of Nuremberg through the fables of each room. They often times go to find that piece of history that is portrayed in their rooms." he says. I love it. From the minute you enter the acclaimed 4 star which has "received the top 20 hotels in it's class in Germany the last 5 years and the number one hotel in Nuremberg the last 7 years" says Ralf, you feel as if you are entering a Fairy Tale Storybook.
Besides Wine and Cheese nightly for the guess, on the left is the matching themed wooden cherry tables that enhance each fable in each of the storied rooms, the coolest to me is the long hair trailing from one of the tables that matches the sculpture in one of the rooms, and the little minature glass encased train for the train foom. "The guests can sit at any of the tables, yet they usually try to find the ones that match their rooms," says Ralf.
"The only modern themed room of the Nuremberg Story Fable Hotel is the Soccer Room," says the owner Ralf,
"NO!, I came to Nuremberg and I worked as a graphic designer 4 years!" CHRISTINA!
"Alright and I didn´t like it again so I opened the cafe here with my partner, who left 6 months ago. She said that she couldn´t stand the stress! Me? I love it. I am not stressed at all. I love the people, I love that I can pick my own decorations and my own team and my own cakes and my own hours. I love owning my cafe. The hardest part of owning the cafe has been the first time we had to choose the name! That is the hardest thing to do!" she says laughing and I say that is the way with choosing baby names. Hmm...what do we name it!
I love her laugh the most, which is hesitant. She holds her laughter til she finds you funny or something that you say funny and after awhile you just try to make her laugh! I only love real people. That means that if you are lazy or kind or funny or smart or silly, as long as you are you, I love you. I don´t like fake people. Of course actors are playing parts. I love actors. Yet, Christina is a baby doll. Loved her.
LOCATION. Obere Wörthstraße 10
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The Australian can be found at Obstmarkt 26, Nuremberg.
Richard, "I at first opened the Cubano having gone and lived in Miami and experienced that culture over 15 years ago, and at the time I was a tennis coach who coached, my now wife in the US Open. Now we have a little daughter and we spend time doing my restaurant, The Australian. However, my first UnGerman food restaurant was Cubano since I loved the food and the culture. My next venture was Stockholm Bar, which is on your website, and I initiated that culture with photos of the Princess Victoria and Bjorn Borg and people got to know a little bit about that country, too. Yet, I sold Stockholm and I started Australian Bar and Restaurant about 4 years now. The Australian is my baby and the one I intend to not only keep yet to franchise in the future, perhaps in America." says the entreprenuer who has now successfully introduced the German people to 3 totally foreign cultures.
When I ask Richard if he would say he is a risk taker or a visionary he says, "Well I am definitely a risk taker. It was a huge risk to open the Australian, yet I am happy that I took that risk now." he says laughing. "I have been to Australia many times now and it is funny what we think of as Australia and the realities. For instance the kangaroo meat that many people eat here is rarely eaten in Australia. Of course it is the only place that kangaroo is found natively, yet they hit cars and do so much damage all the time that the Australians try to avoid the kangaroo as much as possible. It is a very healthy meat, though, hardly any fat since it jumps all the time." he says.
Or how about some chocolate pasta!
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Cubano Restaurant and Bar in Nuremberg has "been here about 16 years yet it is a brand new owners with me and Anil," says Orhan. . "We have a cool Cuban concept here. A lot of bars offer Tapas or Burritos you know but ours is 100% Cuban. We got rid of the Burgers. We only do authentic Cuban food and we have 50 brands of Rum. From Jamaica and Domincan Republic and of course Cuba. We have the signature Hemingway and Che drinks of course and I have a funny story to tell you about the Mai Tais." he starts telling me Cuban stories. Funny guy is Orhan and Anil shows me a picture of Che and Orhan together and says they are the same! "During Prohibition, everyone from America came to Cuba to drink. It's true. The society especially high society wanted the nightlife and the drinking and they came to the then glamorous Cuba. Two Thai girls came into a Cuba bar and they ordered a drink from the bartender. He mixed the drinks up and gave it to them and they made their own original drink and named it Mai Tai. It literally means from another world." he says. I say that the Kennedy's made their fortune off of bootlegging during the Prohibition and maybe got the liquor from Cuba and maybe that had something to do with JFK. Maybe. https://www.facebook.com/pg/CubanoBarNbg/about/…"We have Salsa dancing a couple of times already and some Cuban singers that the people of Nuremberg really liked. I see in the future more Latin LIve music and dancing. I want to make it a place people know about and associate with Cuba. O and here is real Cuban Cigars. We don't sell the cigars although they're about 11euros each, yet when you buy some real good rum we give you the cigars with the rum. That is the treat from Cuba that we do." he says. I really liked the Authenticity of the Bar. It has a worn wooden talbes teel to it and dusty type walls of muted colors. "The music is Cuban and I know you say you love it yet if you are here like we are 12 hours a day you 're mind starts going in circles. They used to play electro music in here and now we did away with anything unless it is real Latin Mjusic. That is why people come here." he says. It is GREAT food I had the fajitas and one order is plenty for two people. HUGE, Loved the bar and the food and the atmosphere and it is a great place to sit and have a great mellow night with friends.
I ask Ahmet where he met his wife who is American and he says, "I met her at a Disco." Haben Sie sich auf den ersten Blick in der Disco verliebt "Sie verliebte sich auf den ersten Blick" Above for the ones who need to speak English with the German, I asked if his wife fell in love at first sight? He laughs and smiles and says, "My wife fell in love with me at first sight!" O okay! He is a funny guy!
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Say hi to Cafe Mexx in Nuremberg next time you travel to that cool location...it is a huge sand beach shisha party bar...the Party Entertainment director, is Ahmet who is the owner. Cool! Right opposite the Central Train Station opposite side of the city...take number 23 exit out the side opposite away from the city. Above is Esin and she takes lessons at the Fight Mentality Club which is right around the side of MeXX. "I love working with Ahmet because he is my brother." Yuna? is he fun? I ask.
What is fun for you Ahmet? At the Club? Why is it a lovely place to own? "I love the people and I love young people and because Nuremberg is a history city and when I am a child I live in Istanbul and the city here is a little Istanbul for me! and it is international here."
The above group, students at Nuremberg on the way home from the Christkindles, "Yes we all study and we love the Christkindle Markets so we can meet friends." They say. the third one says, "I am a model student..." and he poses for me..."I am..." and I write the response in phonetic English..."Ich Munster Ich vera Hackenfolo" which translates to I am totally drunk as fuck!...I guess and that is my new German phrase that I learn the day. Usually it is Gutoon Tag or Good Morgan or Bitte but tonight is a funny night... The three guys say that they study hair and cosmotology laughing and the girl says that she is an engineer! (i assume they´re kidding!)
More Glub winers..."We´re students and WE LOVE GLUB WINE"
"I´ve owned the restaurant now about 21 years. I am 44." Udo says when I ask how someone so young can own a restaurant that big and cool in Nuremberg 21 years! "I am old. 44 is old." he says...um okay..."It is typical Bavarian of course. The reason that people come here all the time is that it is Bavarian yes but it is Old Style Bavarian food from 50 years. The majority of people that come is the people that live here. Yes we have a lot of people from international countries the tourists. But it is a lot of people that live and make their lives here. I love the little Huts...that is what I call these little sections. " O I say that is the cabins. "Yes I wanted little huts and little cabins for people to feel comfortable in. That is why each of these is made to look like a little hut. The wood floors and the seats come from cabins that had been there about 300 years. The woman before me brought these in about 45 years ago. And the musical instruments. I brought these." he says a little shyly. I kind of like the little musical instruments. Thre is even an accordian hanging from the ceiling pictured here. http://huettn-shop.de/ +49 (0)911 2019 881http://www.huettn-wirtshaus.de/home/
Bergstrasse 20 Nuremberg near Castle:)
When I ask Udo if the benches above in the little Cabins come from Church he starts laughing, "I don´t know a lady brought these in before I came and they came from Huts and Cabins. I loved the huts and that is why I named the Restaurant Huttin. My brother has a farm and it is a vineyard and we have our own wine. It is from the Meyer family. That is the name." When I ask if I can try it. he gives me a little taste. Yum:)
Here...the wine. It is really good and strong!:)
Samson is an artisit himself and on the walls you will see in addition to the art and sculputures that he collects a variety of his own paintings beautiful, haunting and intriguing.
The owner of the Mount Lavinia, a Ceylon and Thai Restaurant in Nuremberg, is a nice guy. He let me try a beef and curry dish and the food is really really spicy! "You said you wanted a 6 and here is the spiciest that we have." He laughs as I wave my hand in front of my mouth and say, "water water water..." Yes it is SPICY yet is totally good too. The family comes from Sri Lanka. "I opened my first restaurant here almost 25 years now. The first 10 years awful. People especially the German people didn´t see the need to try Sri Lanka food! Yet they´ve come to appreciate it and now they love it. The international tourists of course love Thai food. And since I am a interpreter and go back and forth to the big city and still do interpreting it helps me with my business contacts..." Yes o hey would you love to try Thai food at my own restaurant...make a lot of friends that way:)
Now my favorite couple...these two you should save your last penny and if you only have enough to buy one Irish beer at Molly Malone´s or one English pint at The King´s Arms come and chat with Bettina and George. I liiterally could chat with Bettina forever a woman to woman chat of "o wow you did that? I am so impressed." " O cool you did that ? wow that is so cool!" Loved love love her and her soulmate and funny parnter is George. A investor and world traveler who settled in Nuremberg since the 8 years that he has met Bettina. "I walked into the pub one night. You know wanting a little English language and culture and after a couple of pints I kept noticing this woman. I thought...I bet she owns the pub just by the way she talked to the guests and the way she held herself. And Yep she of course does. We´ve been together ever since. She is an incredible woman." And she is. https://www.facebook.com/thekingsarmsnuremberg if you would love to chat and introduce yourself send her a facebook. George is a happy person that travels back and forth from The King´s Arms helping his life partner Bettina and to Molly Malone´s the Irish pub helping his friend Tony. He himself is in investments.
"I don´t have people that work for me," says Bettina, " I have people that work with me. There is no such thing as an employee in here. We´re involved in the community. When it is slow here at the pub I involved myself in the Christkindles where I work from morning to night everyday and here at the pub at night. " I admire that and say that as a Quaker we are community involvement first and to thine own self last!
http://www.molly-malones-nuernberg.de/
MOLLY MALONES
Tony is a CHARACTER... that is all you can say...he talks a mile a minute in that Irish Brogue and has 1,000 stories to tell you in about one minute.
The pub has dart champiionship tournaments and live music downstairs in the huge rooms. In addition the famous song writer singer that wrote the Irish song, "Sick Note" comes here to sing. "Yes he just walks in whenever he feels like it. He comes in. Says mind if I sing tonight and of course we all stare gallywagged at him and say Yes!"
George says, "I am the guy that brings Bettina her chairs from a friend of a friend that is redoing a hotel and has free chairs..." George laughs, "You know I am useful in these kinds of ways!" He is a great guy and lovely conversationalist.
I say that I love the little book corner and Bettina says, "Yes that is the place where people can come in an relax and read a book and they can bring in a book and take a book home with them..." Wow a free library that lets you drink English pints...hmm cool idea.
"You must come for Christmas Dinner, " Tony says, "Every year I have Christmas Dinner here and I cook it myself. It is a way to say thankyou to all of the loyal friends that I have. And of course if you are in the Bavarian section please come..." Tony invites me about 50 times during the conversation which is totally sweet since a reporter away from home is rarely with family on Christmas. "The pub is many memories...you see Micheal Collins picture here, and here is the family of an Irish farmer being evicted from his home about 126 years ago and here is what happens to these families...they´re harvesting potatoes...it was really hard growing up in Ireland..." he says as we walk from picture to picture to see the lives of the spirits of the people that make Molly Malone´s Molly Malone. I say that I do all I can to help the potato farmers and me and my friends eat as many baked potatoes at the Christkindle mercatos as we can... Which is of course all that we can afford.!
"Tony is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. He is the manager of the Pub and has been with it the last 15 years. He is always here and has so many friends you wouldn´t believe. I am his silent behind-the-scenes friend that tries to help him whenever he needs it, " says George. You know, George is a good friend to have!