PADELLE d' ITALIA is the classiest Italian Restaurant in Nuremberg. Come for the exotic presentation of these amazing Italian dishes from chef Donato & hopefully with a bottle of wine chosen from Antonio's collection, you can have a chance to help him decide which new wines to keep! He says he always asks the guests!                              THEATERGASSE 17 in the Heart of Nuremberg
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      Capos Antonio & Donato with their family; although they both said to say that they each have 4 children & only 2 & 2 are present here! "It is very nice to have the family visit everyday. Some of the children only come in for about 15 minutes to say hi, yet when I am here from 9:00am to 12:00am Midnight everyday, it helps me to balance my life. It is very important to have family present in my life, " says Antonio & Donato agrees as he runs out to bring his 1/2 of the family home. Later, in about 30 minutes, he says that he shall come back to start the evening preparation. I loved seeing the laughter & affection of the families. It makes you feel as if you are at their homes & feel very comfortable here. Yet, the Italian Restaurant has been named the best in Nuremberg from many of its guests, so the food is exceptional, too. Donato is from Basilicata, where Francis Ford Coppola has his vineyard, & Antonio is from Sicily. 
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  They actually met when Lika, who is Antonio's wife & her sister, Anna, who is Donato's wife introduced them to each other! The women are from Georgia, formerly Russia, & the children speak 4 languages, so I feel a little bit out-numbered with the little Capos & Capolettes! 

    "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.

  Donato is a master in the ktichen & his team loves, & I mean absolutely loves learning from him. He is a very nice person, as is Antonio. They stayed open during the lockdown for deliveries & they say that is very important as the people of Nuremberg remembered them, appreciated them & are now loyal guests! Antonio does the Dusseldorf Wine festival every year that rivals even the number 2 VinItaly in terms of numbers of vendors. "We attend 3-4 days, from 9:00am til 6:00pm drinking wine constantly. We choose some great wines, but wow we taste a lot!" laughs Antonio. 
          The Vegan joke could start out,"The Host, the Bartender & the Cook walk into a bar..." Meet Hamzeh, Nico & Soeren.
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  Okay, everybody knows how much I love VEGAN & VEGETARIAN, having 5 of these on my Verona, Rome & Florence Italy categories. Now, I have found one of my favorite restaurants, ZEIT & RAUM, time & space, has converted to totally Vegan & Vegetarian the last year after Covid. "Yes, we lost some guests, who said that they miss the meat & fish entries, yet it is a very good & very healthy menu that we have & most of the time when they try the new dishes they love it," says my host of the night last night, who along with the very young cook & bartender, pictured here, served me a lovely Vegan Gyro salad & some great wine!May be an image of food and indoor
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  Sweety Hamzeh treated me on the invite of the owner of Zeid & Raum to dinner & wine & the young very talented cook Soeren gave me a huge salad named MamaZeiti! The wine came from my Model Gorgeous bartender named NICO.

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                       MULLIGAN'S IRISH PUB located at: Königstraße 71

     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!

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 "When Nuremberg has the exhibitions(which to us Americans is the conventions), it is so crazy in here. Every table is reserved & it is wall to wall people. People sitting at the bar & standing at the bar. We were so overwhelmed at first, and now we just know that every night it is going to be that way!" says Mattia as Monu smiles & nods his head & says, "IT WAS CRAZY."Photo
 The bar is a beautifully designed & custom crafted glossy wooden gleaming work of art, the lights are gorgeous, the chairs & barstools designed for look & comfort & they even have a VIP seating of a 2-person intimate space in front of the central fireplace that is the focal point of the back dining seating area. You kind of have a feel of sitting in a ski lodge at the fireplace. 
  First of all, I am very happy that they have Fish & Chips, & if my father, who loved Guinness & Black& Tans were here today, I am sure he would order one or two. My sisters love Guinness & so here I have heaven for them! They have amazing food. You know the real healthy stuff like huge burgers & huge fries. The good stuff! And please make a reservation as they are "CRAZY BOOKED" says both Mattia & Monu who just nod their heads when they tell me that. Photo
 "If you look around the room now, you see how packed it is. We don't even have any exhibitions, yet they all come here!" laughs Mattia & Monu. Monu is a very quiet kind person & I ask how he ever got involved in Irish Pubs because they are typically (the reason we all love em) very loud & always full of laughing wild people wanting to drink Guinness & tell Irish stories! "I just really liked the Irish Pubs I worked in & I really liked the people." he says. The exhibition directors just really like them! They recommend Mulligans to all of the guests & all of the guests make reservations at Mulligans! They have the World Cup Football on, they say when I ask & they both start laughing saying, "O yes it is crazy when that happens, too!" So, basically it is crazy here ALL THE TIME! 
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  "O, it gets even crazier here, " says Mattia as Monu laughs at the story. One night we had kind of a open mic night where a guy was singing on a Saturday & 3 guys from Spain said that they would love to sing. So we let the Spanish singers sing, thinking Ok it is open mic. They got up there & we all looked at each other & me & Monu said immediately to each other, "Let's book them for Saturday nights. Now it is wild because every Saturday night we have live Spanish music in our Irish Pub in Nuremberg & people are dancing Salsa in the back. It is crazy fun. Yet it works & I think that maybe we have so much fun because our guests are International & yet so is our team. Monu is Indian, I am German, the bartenders & kitchen & wait staff is a mixture of Greek, Scottish, English, Irish. They all speak English, which I believe helps us with hiring teams & we all make it work in a very fun way." 


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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. 

  How to make a 1/2 & 1/2 of Guinness & Smithwick's. 
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 "It's a young party atmosphere at Kilian's where we have drinks. A typical Irish Pub. I managed the Pub when it was The Dubliner, & the guests are there to drink & have fun. I went a little outside my comfort zone with Mulligan's. I loved the name, I designed the very upscale bar & I decided the menu. You can eat here, if you wish, & drink all night at Kilian's. It has the sports tvs that a typical Irish Pub is known for. Good sports & good conversations," says Monu.
  So, let's see what is Ireland famous for? The Irish Whiskey, of course & the amazing Irish Beers. I personally love my Smithwick's beers, & actually went to Kilkenny, Ireland a couple of times to try the beers & tour the factory. The Guinness beer is famous & a favorite of people around the world, of course, me included, yet I love my Smithwick's. Now, the Irish Whiskey is so diverse that a very good friend of mine, Ali, has the Whiskey Museum both in Kilarney & in Dublin. You can do whiskey tastings at the Whiskey Museum, along with sitting in the very fancy PUB that is styled similiar to Mullligan's, yet let's face it: the fact is whiskey is just darn special whether at a fancy Pub such as Mulligan's or a very real local Pub as is Kilian's & of course my favorite; the outside whiskey taster! 
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                             Sangam Indian in Nuremberg is playful and traditional 
     The very friendly capo and much deserving of award, Babbu, of Sangam Indian restaurant and LeBar. located at: Königstraße 87.
  "Alright, let´s see, we´re from North India, me and my team including my cook and I love my culture which is why I have the traditional furniture and the very beautiful paintings on the walls, which gives my guests feelings of being at home. The food is traditional North India which is mild yet we have the ability if you want spicy on your food we can put spicy. We have fun here. We come to every table and we listen to the guests." says Babbu. The vegetable sticks melt in your mouth they are so tender, soft and very chewy.Bildergebnis für sangam indian restaurant in nuremberg
                   http://www.restaurant-sangam-nuernberg.de/ 
  "It´s 10 years since I opened here. You know at first people are curious because it is a luxurious beautiful restaurant, yet once they try the Indian food with it´s very Indian presentations, they love it. Mine here is friendly and fun and a little formal atmosphere, yet not formal or stiff in it´s attitude. I personally have a great time with my guests. I chat with each table, all of my waiters do. We meet people from every country in the world and we here there stories and my hope is that when they are somewhere else in the world they tell the story of Sangam and the Sangam food they had here," says Babbu. 
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          Both at Le Bar and Sangam, "We have the same recipes and food, maybe at LeBar you can try Indian appetizers which people call finger food, yet we do only Indian remember, and you can try such fun entrees as Duckie Duck A roasted duck breast with various vegetables ala season in a mild spicy sauce, or fish tikka avocado salmon filet marinated in indian drawer and grilled in a clay oven served with sweetbread and avocado chutney...

LeBAR Indian Cocktail bar and Restaurant

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    While at Le Bar try Murgh Malai Tikka Chicken Pieces with paprika and tomatoes and onions in a yoghurt cream cashew kernels marinade served with naan bread, or Lamb Vindallo with tender lamb and malabar parotta bread hot, or try Tandoori Lollipop which is rooster marinated in a spicy sweet marinade and tandoori refined iwth coriander...yum yum and more yum.Bildergebnis für le bar nurnberg
                           https://www.lebar-nuernberg.de/

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     The cocktails are great, by the way, although last night I only had Johnny Walker on the rocks, which I ususally do, the director Marta I absolutely loved, although at night when it is busy good luck having a conversation with the waiters, who fly by each place with a smile as they whiz your drinks and food to you during happy hour. O YES THEY HAVE HAPPY HOUR COCKTAILS FROM 6.00pm to 8.00pm!Ähnliches Foto
           "The feel of the Le Bar is to give the guests a place to have a couple of drinks in a elegant lounge atmosphere with the opportunity to enjoy and learn about the indian food culture. The young people walk in thinking it is a bar and stay hours finally eating the Indian food. They find that they love it and they make it the place to be seen and to see in Nuremberg," says Babbu who has such a cute name that I keep mispronouncing it just to hear him correct me, "BABBU"!
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    Each section is named for a room in a home, such as a living room, or the beach room or the office or the bathroom, yet LeBar gives a new image of a Bathroom and most people reserve here since it is located in the privacy of the restaurant hidden from the front view and funky and fun. The coolest item about LeBar is that you can stay a couple of hours, enjoying happy hour cocktail and Indian treats and decide later to eat dinner. It is more of a swanky upscale cocktail lounge feel than a restaurant. "Yes, I know, I designed the concept and I designed the Le Bar," says Babbu, when I talk about the beautiful space. "I thought of doing something more modern and approachable for younger people who want to go out for drinks at night instead of formal dinners. The idea to do a great eclectic and modern design along with the same Indian kitchen as Sangam formed and now we have 3 of these!"
        The three best things to say about the lovely traditional restaurant Zum Albrecht Durer Haus is the location, which is literally at the left side of the castle´s base, the fun and young owners, Stefan and Ellen and team, and the food which is innovative, traditional and modern. 

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   "The restaurants in Nuremberg all have these items which are famous, the bratwurst nurembergers, the Traditionelles Schäufele mit Kloß und Sauerkraut vom Spitzkohl  Traditional Schäufele (roasted piece of pork shoulder) with potato dumpling and kraut, you know the traditional dishes which is, of course why people come to Nuremberg, to try the food. Yet we decided and we have added a new recipe using the traditional bratwurst the last couple of years. In addition to the food, we always have the regional wine. I want my guests to experience Nuremberg," says Stefan. May be an image of outdoors
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   "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.

  "Me and Ellen love to be creative. We enjoy the fact that we are the owners, almost 6 years in November now since we can do that and or this. We own the restaurant and if we want to be creative with keeping with the traditional dishes of the Nuremberg region, it is up to us. We own Zum Albrecht Durer and we can play with the menu," says Stefan, who funnily to admit, yet they are such a perfect Barbie and Ken couple. They look the same as 5 years as when I first met with the couple and I ask how they keep in such perfect shape. Ellen laughs, "We run up and down the 15th century house on 3 levels bringing food and drink everyday. That is how we do it!" https://www.zum-albrecht-duerer-haus.net/contact/?lang=en  

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  As Ellen runs up and down the stairs in her totally cool outfit of red and white checkered blouse which matches Stefan´s, and her jeans which resemble lederhosens, Stefan says, "Me and Ellen love to say that we don´t make mistakes here, we make happy accidents. The accidents turn into lovely items that we love to present to the guests. The lasagna was a suggestion and we tried it just for the staff and we loved it and added it to our totally traditional menu. And now the guests actually make a special trip to come here and try it." 
             Call for reservations at:
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      Ahmet has probably worked with more 4 star generals than I have, hahaha, yet I might have the winning story of being carried over the threshold in Spring Break in Florida by the "SILVER FOX" Rear Admiral of the John F. Kennedy Naval carrier to the private party of his wife & officers of the ship. But you never know, these guys work hard & play harder & maybe they were silly enough to do that! 

                                                        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.

   As a normal person, you would never want to have to use Martial Arts on the street late at night walking with your friends home from out dancing. Yet, if you have to, you should know how to defend yourselves & make it home safely! PLUS, it is very amazing to say that you trained with the guy who trains the police forces around the world to protect you. Totally cool.Image
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 I tell Ahmet it is time to do modeling & acting & to train stunt doubles in the Hollywood Movies now. He admires the "Rock" & I say that I do too. He has trained with the protegees of Bruce Lee about 5 years in California, & has gone to competitions in Las Vegas. He looks like your normal average 6foot totally buffed American male, right? Til he takes off his shirt & you think Why in the world would anybody ever want to mess with that guy! Yet, if they do, beware. He trains the very best in the world to defend their themselves. If you want to train with the best come take some private & class classes with Ahmet at Fight Mentality. Call first because he is often away a couple of months at a time training special forces around the world.
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  Here the two great Martial Artists, one the protegee of Bruce Lee, who Ahmet trained with in California many years, having fun. You know, normal guys! However, as here, "Ahmet has trained with the best, as you see around his studio. He has 367 years of experience and trained and fought with the Turkish army in Syria. His fighters don't go into the UFC fighting matches because his style has no rules. Every hit of his is a knockout. Every one. Yet some ring fighters do come and learn from him. For instance they to Las Vegas in June of 2019 and with him bringing the small boxer  their he said he is going to be in the cage fighting. He is training with Ahmet. They visited the protege of Bruce Lee, Dan Inosanto, who is 85 and trains with Ahmet. Studio is Germany 49.175.12 37 140 and the facebook is https://www.facebook.com/Fight-Mentality-PFS-1796372487568…/and the email is info@fightmentality.net
   Ahmet's teacher, Paul Vunak, of 6 years, who taught FBI and DEA and many others many years was in Las Vegas & they got to chat with each other again & I guess goof around a little in Las Vegas & Los Angeles. 

  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.Image

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   The father, Willy, & the son, Leon of the table games in the "Dungeon", hahaha, of the very big 4 level Comic Store in Nuremberg. Ultra Comix Logo Font 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 2Image"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! 

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   The very cool Playmobil StarTrek Enterprise. If you happen to be in Nuremberg, Germany, or you are a Trekkie & plan on coming here soon to see it & buy it, here it is! Love IT!
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               Rostrommel Specialty Coffees and Specialty Master Coffee Roasters
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  The three amigos of the Rostrommel Specialty Coffee Roasters in Nuremberg, along with the very cool and funny trainee capos who took a little class in the coffee roasting business today, make the two locations of Rostrommel fun to find. One a little easier as it is in the center of the city near the Castle on 
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                                                             Ill  Amore cafe Nuremberg
                Christina is lovely. She reminds me of "Scarlett" in the movie "Four Weddings and a Funeral", all sweet and funny and sincere and honest. She in her own words, "Alright, I was a graphic designer, I grew up near Stuttgart, moved to Hamburg and Berlin where I worked as a graphic artist and finally came here to Nuremberg 5 years now. I came to Nuremberg because I didn´t really like being a graphic artist and since I loved food and loved being around people, I thought that opening my own cafe is better for me. Being couped up in a small office looking at a computer screen is not for me." she says and when I ask if she opened her cafe here, Ill Amore, literally translated to Love Sick, 5 years now?

       "NO!, I came to Nuremberg and I worked as a graphic designer 4 years!" CHRISTINA! 

"The fun thing for me is that we ordered our own cakes from a cool bakery and while I would love to be able to bake my own cakes, we do 30 per weekend! Okay I am not baking 30 cakes every weekend, so we now have our own bakery that does that and they are delicious. O, and make sure you say that in January! we are doing breakfasts, great ones too.Bildergebnis für ill amore nürnberg The food here is European. We have Quiche, which I love the most, and cakes and cannoli and you know fattening things. I am excited everyday to think of things to add. The coffees and the teas and the refreshments are for you to come, have a lovely sit down and relax chat and try the food. My guests are real, you know. It is fun for me. I love to meet people everyday and MOST of the time they are real nice.!" says Christina. She is a real kind person and I guess people are kind to kind people! 

Ähnliches Foto"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!" 

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Bildergebnis für ill amore nürnberg"You know, it is a shabby chic cafe, a European Cafe, so to speak. You say shabby chic, we say European, " she says when I ask her to describe her cafe. "I love to decorate and I love to choose each item. If I want to do graphic design, since I own the cafe, I can bring my computer here and I can design a logo for instance. It is mine. The last 5 days when I open the door yes, I do smile and I do say, "wow it is mine. That is real cool!" she says laughing

    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. 

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               Sven, along with Simon the partners who owns S.wie Optik in Nuremberg and team...
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                   In times liike this, words are not needed, as the point of glasses is to make a tale of your inner voice...Bildergebnis für s.wie optik

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                                                located at  Innere Laufer G. 24, 90403 Nürnberg                                                  S: wie Optik • Nürnberg, Innere Laufer Gasse 24 - Öffnungszeiten & Angebote
Entering the Fairytail Boutique 4 star in Nuremberg, The DREI RABEN, the three Ravens, in English with my favorite superstar Ralf as the Director! 

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     

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                                  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.Image result for suite rabenspiegel at the drei raben 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, Image result for drei raben nuremberg


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  Since each room is themed and has a story that represents a legend and physical location in Nuremberg, many of the guests take a little time out of their vacation to discover "the room!" 
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                                                                    Ill  Amore cafe Nuremberg
                      
Christina is lovely. She reminds me of "Scarlett" in the movie "Four Weddings and a Funeral", all sweet and funny and sincere and honest. She in her own words, "Alright, I was a graphic designer, I grew up near Stuttgart, moved to Hamburg and Berlin where I worked as a graphic artist and finally came here to Nuremberg 5 years now. I came to Nuremberg because I didn´t really like being a graphic artist and since I loved food and loved being around people, I thought that opening my own cafe is better for me. Being couped up in a small office looking at a computer screen is not for me." she says and when I ask if she opened her cafe here, Ill Amore, literally translated to Love Sick, 5 years now?

       "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! 

"You know, it is a shabby chic cafe, a European Cafe, so to speak. You say shabby chic, we say European, " she says when I ask her to describe her cafe. "I love to decorate and I love to choose each item. If I want to do graphic design, since I own the cafe, I can bring my computer here and I can design a logo for instance. It is mine. The last 5 days when I open the door yes, I do smile and I do say, "wow it is mine. That is real cool!" she says laughing

    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

             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!" 
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"The fun thing for me is that we ordered our own cakes from a cool bakery and while I would love to be able to bake my own cakes, we do 30 per weekend! Okay I am not baking 30 cakes every weekend, so we now have our own bakery that does that and they are delicious. O, and make sure you say that in January! we are doing breakfasts, great ones too. The food here is European. We have Quiche, which I love the most, and cakes and cannoli and you know fattening things. I am excited everyday to think of things to add. The coffees and the teas and the refreshments are for you to come, have a lovely sit down and relax chat and try the food. My guests are real, you know. It is fun for me. I love to meet people everyday and MOST of the time they are real nice.!" says Christina. She is a real kind person and I guess people are kind to kind people! 
                                  Elegant, Cool, Sophisticated, Comfy, B1 Cocktail Bar near the Castle
   As I am walking near the Castle of Nuremberg at 8.00pm at night, I see a gorgeous elegant sophisticated alley down to a cool Ski-Lodge bar named B1. It is located on Bergstraße 1, henceforth the B1. "Yes it took us a little while to name the Bar, and we finally thought that B1 is perfect since it has many meanings. We wanted our theme of the bar to be the traditional and the modern mixed. The young and the old. The 15th Century Stone Walls with the modern custom designed bar. Although my friend took 3 weeks to design the bar and it has 1/2 wood and 1/2 golden lights, which exemplifies the mood of the bar with a mixture of textures. All you see in the bar me and David did with the help of 10 of my friends in 2 months!" says Steffen, who along with his partner had the bar 5 months now. 
  Bildergebnis für B1 Cocktail Bar nuremberg David makes the cocktails and just out of the blue he says,  "It is a great cocktail bar. I make great cocktails and in 10 years when I have hired a bartender on my days off I am coming in here everyday to drink the cocktails!" he says and me and Steffen start giggling! OKAY! Ã„hnliches Foto
"The design of the bar is from my father, who is a architect. We told him our vision and he designed it for us. Then we looked at his plans and said alright, we want a bar here, the leather couches here, the tables here. The rafters we painted a dark wooden color and the tables match. The floor is a mixture of the old stone of which we washed and washed to clean these up and the designs that we added. I, for right now, am the cook and having been a chef in a 4 star hotel, where I met David, who was the bartender, for two years I know how to cook. The food is very good here and I love the cooking although I hope to hire a cook in the future since I love being out talking to my guests more." says the very enthusiastic and friendly Steffen.   "The food reflects the traditional German food such as the homemade or "Hausgemachte Flammkuchen" , which is the German version of a pizza yet very thin and the original has only bacon and onions. Of course, since we mixed the traditional German recipes with modern you can pretty much add anything you want onto your Flammkuchens!" he says. 
   "We want the people to come in and have a very comfortable evening and that is why we have the what you call the Cigar Elegant Sofa Leather Couches. It does give a sophistication to the tables, yet they are very comfortable and usually the people come straight to the couches." says Steffen. The inside decor is rustic and elegant, the mixture they were trying to achieve and has a high class sophistication, yet very comfy. Loved it!   And the location? "It is right on the way to the castle, which is perfect for us since the tourists find us easily and the locals have been coming back, they love it." he says.              0911 953 2 31 51            Bergstraße 1 
                                       The Happy Team at their New Bar in Nuremberg 
                                              ...and for the internationals, the families,  the independents, 

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                           It is a nice fun place where I have met people of great variety, Germans and  Americans, French, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, England, Cape Town, Canada, you name it. They´re all talkative and nice and when the Soccer, Oops! Football Matches are on they have a big television where everybody watches the games together.  For a hostel it is very nice and the most important is the team, super friendly and help you all the time. 
                     Bahnhofstrasse 13-15
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  Giovanni is with his team below! "The most important for me is my team," he says. "The people follow me from restaurant to restaurant because I am restless and need new adventures. Yet the same quality of Italian food is always the best!" he says. The new location is beautifully rustic and peaceful and can be found at Innere Laufer Gasse 35...
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   "I love the people and I love honesty. You know when people find me they like to eat great Italian food yet they want the entire package. The atmosphere and the team here to make people feel real comfortable and they trust me. That is why they come to my restaurants. They love Tony´s cooking and they love me!" he says laughing. When I ask him about Padelle Italian Restaurant on the site he says graciously, "Great Restaurant. Great people and great food!" Tony says that they all used to work with each other and are still great friends. That is a true test of a good person.  Tony says, "You must come back and I shall cook for you." Aah...the people that know me know that is a dangerous thing to say! I LOVE EATING ITALIAN FOOD!
       
         I ask Giovanni, is being honest most important or is being polite? "Honesty," he says. "I don´t joke the way politicians do yet I am honest. That is why people come here." he says. 
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"The people follow Giovanni for my cooking and his 
great personality!" says  Tony the cook!  He is from,
"near Calabria and me and Giovanni go to Italy every 
year to see what new recipes we can find from the Northern Italy to Calabria. We have a good time and
 we try the new ones when we come back here." If you would love make reservations please call to 
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Giovanni has a new idea everyday." he laughs. "It is more fun in lif to try new recipes. Everyday we change the specials and we try to enjoy life. That is important. Giovanni wants to say that here is a great Italian restaurant in terms of food. The best!" says Tony the chef! And the others agree eating his food as they laugh. "Yet Giovanni wants to say that it is the entire atmosphere of a place that is important. The people. The way it makes you feel. You must feel good about a place.! he says. The restaurant is lovely. Image result for osteria bellavista innere laufer nuremberg
                                

                          The Australian can be found at  Obstmarkt 26, Nuremberg.   

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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.

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"On the menu we have ostrich, kangaroo, crocodile, grasshoppers..."! Wait! What did you say? He laughs., "Yes we have grasshoppers. I wanted a exotic menu. I wanted the people of Nuremberg, Germany, and around the world to experience the great culture of the land down under. I even named my nightclub downstairs, "Down Under" and it is a real nightclub with people coming to party. When I do the franchise it is only the restuarant since that is special and you can have nightclubs not so special, "he says. 


     Or how about some chocolate pasta!

                       http://australianbar.de/bar-kitchen.html
"The Kangaroo, Crocodile, Ostrich platter is expensive since the meats are exotic and imported to us, yet let us say 27.00 euros you can taste all of these and I don´t think honestly that is too much. That is perfect 27.00 euros to taste food you have never tasted before plus a couple of cool cocktails and you can have a great dinner and night out." he says. And as we talk a HUGE burger goes zooming by as the waitress brings it to the table...yes they really look that way. Anybody for a Kangaroo Burger?


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          Bildergebnis für the australian restaurant nürnberg                              and for that Kangaroo that dares to actually come and HIT YOUR CAR!
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                     Yes Chongs American Diner is still in Nuremberg...you just need to trek a couple more meters from the original place... to find it...call: for directions at Telefon:+49 911 2349997   Beckschlagergasse 6
  "Yum!"  I say. Here is the monster burger of Chongs American Diner. Thilo laughs, "You know I don´t know how it is going to sound, however, we only use beef from cows that are treated fairly. They are free to walk around and have a good life before you know..." I say that before we eat you! Here cow, we´re going to treat you great and then we´re going to eat you. However, I know what he means. No caged cows for us. "We use only the finest ingredients in the food. We use local farmers and a 2nd generation butcher. We care about the products. It took a little while for the Germans a long time ago to accept Burgers, honestly. They thought that a burger is from McDonalds and is only fast food. We introduced that you can sit down and have a family meal here. And yes you can bring your dogs with you!" he says when I say O I love that Bernese Mountain Dog as it wanders into the Diner. "Yes and we have a child´s burger for the children because children love burgers." 
Just some of the great food items you can find is the Blueberry Pancakes with "Maple Syrup...only the Canadians and the Americans have ever heard of both of these. Now everybody asks if they can  have the Maple Syrup on the Pancakes. Mostly Saturdays and Sundays. We had Canadians in here that said they vacationed in Nuremberg for 4 days. They came here 3 of the 4 days! Once they found us they kept coming back! Canadians are real nice." he says.  And I ask if he is going to have a DONALD TRUMP milkshake in the future. "Maybe. We are all hoping he just has a great sense of humor!" 
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What about roller skates in the Diner ala Pulp Fiction? "I would love to have the team wear these yet it is very difficult to do that do to insurance. I mean seriously what if they go flying with a plate of food into somebody´s table!" he says. Yes I hope I am catching that food I think! 
I meet Thilo´s mom, Trudi, who says, "My name is spelled the way that the singer, Sting-you know Gordan Summer, the way his wife Trudi´s name is spelled."  She tells me, "I am 79 years old and me and my husband who was Chinese owned a couple restaurants here at Nuremberg before we opened the American Diner about 20 years now." She is a delight. "The problem with the German young people today is because the German government pays lazy people instead of the young people working." 
    When I meet Thilo, the owner, he says laughing,  "Yes I am very aware of my mother´s view of the world! Yet you know when I am young, I too said that I would never ever want to work in restaurants since you work all the time and when your friends are out having fun you´re at the restaurant. Yet they come when I am here. Now I see my restaurant and honestly the only thing I would rather be in life is a Golf Pro!" 

"In the summer I am here and at the Golf Course. My wife, Caroline is the franchise owner of Marco Polo in Nuremberg and Regensburg and a couple other cities. Me? I golf 3 times a week, okay I shall admit I golf 5 times a week!" he laughs. And in the winter? "I found a new Golf Store named Clubhouse near Nuremberg and we can simulate golfing! Funny!" he says.Ähnliches Foto
                                                                                   
        
                                                  Great Cuban Bar named Cubano in Nuremberg.Bildergebnis für cubano bar in nuremberg

                                  Innere Laufer Gasse 13                                Reservations: Call 49 09 11 99 289 60

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.  

   The Number One ShiSha Beach Bar in Nuremberg with its Charismatic Owner, Ahmet Ozturk
                                                MEXX the cool swanky sophisticated bar.

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! No photo description available.

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       Bistro Café MEXX Nürnberg   •  Nelson Mandela Platz 18  Nürnberg  • 
                                                    Tel.: 0911 / 44 50 98
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."No photo description available.

The two people that were involved in the Mexx were from Turkey...the older brother owns Mexx and now the younger brother owns The Loge which is about a 5 minute walk from Mexx...pretty cool. Ahmet Öztürk is the older brother, "O I speak only a little English!" he says the first time we met! Now I speak a little German! "I owned it only 3 years and in the summer at the beach bar you can smoke shisha. I brought the shisha with me. Before it was just a bar and now the people come for the atmosphere and fun and the shisha. They love it."Bildergebnis für mexx night club nuremberg

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"Is it true that Yuna is a famous Turkish fashion designer," I ask Ahmet of his young brother.  "Yes he is in Turkey. I, however am the owner of the Shisha and I know nothing about Fashion." he laughs and makes it clear he is the party guy! Yet as I walk in you see that Ahmet is in his Fur hat and I ask if he is now into fashion! He smiles shyly. He is VERY shy. 
"Biggest ShiSha Beach Club in the City...and the team is amazing. You know they had the number one director of Mykonos in Greece which is known world-wide as one of the top 5 Party Destinations in the world...how much bigger can  you get!" says Yuna. "Yuna is the joke of my mother who since 30 years! I think when Yuna comes it is a joke!" says Ahmet,"I am just kidding. I love my brother Yuna, " he adds quickly, "yet my mother makes jokes all the time and my father is the serious one. I have the best father and mother." he says. No photo description available.

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!:) 

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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! 

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 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!