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Eating, drinking and nightlife
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Luxembourg City's Old Town is crowded with
cafAŠs
and
restaurants
from inexpensive places where a filling
plat du jour
will cost you a reasonable a?Ŧ8.70 through to lavish establishments with main courses costing twice as much - occasionally more. French cuisine is popular here and traditional Luxembourgish dishes are found on many menus too, mostly meaty affairs such as neck of pork with broad beans (
judd mat gaardebounen
), black sausage (
blutwurst
) and chicken in Riesling (
hahnchen im Riesling
). Keep an eye out also for
Gromperenkichelchen
- potato cakes usually served with apple sauce - and in winter, stalls and cafAŠs selling
GlA?hwein
, hot wine mulled with cloves. One of the great Luxembourg traditions is
coffee and cakes
in a salon or one of the city's numerous patisseries -
Oberweis
, at Grand Rue 19 (closed Sun), is as good as any - and here, as in Belgium, pavement cafAŠs are thronged in the summertime, with place d'Armes being the place to head for. Multilingual menus are the norm. Recommended
restaurants
include the
Restaurant Club 5
, rue Chimay 5 off place d'Armes, offering traditional, straightforward dishes at inexpensive prices; and the pavement cafAŠ of the
HA?tel Francais
, which serves tasty salads and a wide-ranging menu including several Luxembourgish favourites. Otherwise,
Giorgio's Pizzeria
, rue du Nord 11 (closed Sun), is a sociable and eminently fashionable place that serves delicious pizzas from a?Ŧ8.70; the
Maison des Brasseurs
, Grande Rue 48 (closed Sun) is a long-established, reasonably priced restaurant providing delicious Luxembourgish dishes, with sauerkraut the house speciality; and
Restaurant
Club 5
, rue Chimay 5, has long been one of the city centre's trendier hangouts, with an excellent restaurant upstairs and a cafAŠ-bar down below. At both, the speciality is
carpaccio -
thin slices of air-dried beef served with fries and salad.
Most visitors are content to drink where they eat, but there is a lively
bar
and
club
scene spread around the various parts of town, with bars in the Old Town, Grund and Clausen, and clubs mostly west of the train station in Hollerich. Opening hours are fairly elastic, but bars usually stay open till around 1am, clubs till 3am. While you're out on the tiles, try one of the local pilsener ales such as Mousel or the tasty
Bofferding
brews, which are the most widely available. Good
bars
to try include the funky
Chiggeri
, rue du Nord 11, which attracts a lively, youthful crowd to its groovy Old Town premises and - catering for a slightly older crowd - the
CafAŠ des Artistes
, MontAŠe du Grund 2, a charming cafAŠ-bar close to the bridge in Grund with piano accompaniment and Luxembourg singalongs. For clubs, there's
Didjeridoo
, rue Bouillon 31, Hollerich, a boisterous club west of the train station offering a wide range of sounds (Wed, Fri & Sat) and
Melusina
, rue de la Tour Jacob 145, Clausen, with varied sounds plus live jazz and folk music nights. Other useful information
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