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Eating and drinking
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There's no shortage of good
restaurants
in Salzburg, many of them dishing out traditional Austrian meat-based fare in atmospheric medieval town houses. Most of these are open for lunch and offer good-value two-course
Mittagsmenus
as a way of attracting tourist custom - though, as is often the case in Austria,
ethnic restaurants
are best for an inexpensive midday meal. On the whole, prices are not unduly exploitative: an evening meal in Salzburg need not be any more expensive than in any of Austria's other urban centres. Phone numbers of restaurants where you may need to make a reservation are included in the listings. Remember that good sit-down eating doesn't just take place in restaurants: many cafes and bars provide full meals. Restaurants and cafes tend to close at around 11pm-midnight, while bars often continue serving food until 2am or beyond, although there's no hard and fast rule.
For takeaway snacks , the best Wurstelstand in town is bang in the centre on the Alter Platz, though there are others on F-Hanusch-Platz, and Platzl on the right bank of the river. Trzesniewski , Getreidegasse 9, has delicious, if dainty, open sandwiches, and is also the best place in town at which to pick up pastries; there's a small sit-down section at the back. Nordsee , with branches at Getreidegasse 11 and 27, is a reliable source of takeaway tuna sandwiches and other seafood. Billa, Griesgasse 21, is the handiest central supermarket. Daytime drinkers and pastry nibblers are well catered for by Salzburg's many elegant cafes , which usually offer a sumptuous range of teas, coffees and alcoholic drinks, as well as snacks and full meals. They're often the best place at which to sample the two specialities for which Salzburg is famed - Salzburger Nockerl , a mound of sugary egg-whites and raspberries which has to be tried at least once, and the ubiquitous Mozartkugeln , the locally-made balls of chocolate-covered marzipan which are piled high in virtually every shop window in the town centre. Most of the Mozartkugeln sold in boxes and presentation packs are the gold-wrapped, mass-produced ones; connoisseurs prefer the silver-wrapped, handmade variety which are much richer in marzipan, and can be bought loose from Salzburg confectioners for around oS8-10/€0.58-0.73 each.
Night-time drinking
venues are scattered throughout the town, although there are two well-travelled strips which traditionally attract sybaritic Salzburg youth. The Rudolfskai on the left bank is the main weekend boozing area for teen and twentysomething drinkers, with a string of bars pumping out loud techno music to a beer and tequila-sloshing crowd - great fun if you're in the mood for high-octane drinking and flirting. However bars here go out of fashion - and business - with alarming regularity. The area around Giselakai, Imbergstrasse and Steingasse, over on the right bank of the Salzach, has a clutch of designer bars attracting a slightly older clientele. Other useful information
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