Exploring Regensburg

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The city of Regensburg, located in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, is well worth a visit.  The first settlements of the area date to the stone age, and it was the location of the Roman fort Castro Regina. It’s intact medieval old town is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Regensburg Cathedral

Here are my top tips for a visit to the beautiful city:

City Tours

  • Stadtmaus offers excellent basic city tours and a plethora of specialty tours.  The scheduled tours are held in German, but groups can book tours in other languages by emailing the office.
  • City Tours offers guided tours from the comfort of an enclosed train.
  • Segway Regensburg offers German and English Segway tours through the old town, but their site is only in German.
  • For more info on tours and sightseeing in Regensburg, see the Regensburg Tourist Office website.

Restaurants

These are Regensburg restaurants that I recommend.  If I don’t include a category, like Indian food, it’s because I don’t recommend any of the restaurants in town. Just because a restaurant isn’t included doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not good, I only recommend places I’ve eaten at. Guten Appetit!

German cuisine:

Fine Dining:

  • Rosenpalais, Minoretenweg 20 – Rosenpalais also offers cooking courses

American food:

Asian cuisine:

  • The Thai, Rote Hahnengasse/Haidplatz 3 (Authentic Thai cuisine)
  • Sushihaus, Wollwirkergasse 2 (decent sushi)
  • KOREA, Dr Geissler Str 2

French cuisine:

  • Orphee, Untere Bachgasse 8
  • Mirabelle, Drei-Mohren-Strasse 11
  • Hagen’s Auberge, Badstrasse 54
  • Vitus, Hinter der Grieb 8

Italian cuisine:

  • L’Osteria, Watmarkt 1 (great pizzas and pasta, pizzas big enough to share)
  • Pam Pam, Haidplatz 5
  • Il Pescatore, in the Hansa Apart Hotel, Friedensstrasse 7 (authentic Sicilian)
  • Pizza und Pasta, Paracelsusstraße 1 (good pizzas, big enough to share)

Swiss cuisine:

Breakfast:

Coffee and Cake:

  • Aran, Gesandtenstrasse 5
  • Conditorei Opera, Drei-Mohren-Straße 3 or on Prüfeningerstrasse

Ice Cream:

  • Aran, Gesandtenstrasse 5 (my favorite, try the dark chocolate ice cream, it’s to die for)
  • Diba, Drei-Mohren-Strasse 13 (lots of delicious, unusual flavors)

Shopping

Groceries

  • Edeka in Donaueinkaufzentrum and in Köwe Center (good international selection)
  • Real in Regensburg or in Pentling
  • Globus in Neutraubling
  • City Biomarkt, Kumpfmühler Strasse 8
  • Markthalle Regensburg in Dachauplatz
  • Asian supermarket on Hartinger Strasse in Burgweinting (best prices on Asian supplies)
  • Hong Kong Store on Obermünsterstrasse (best selection of Asian supplies, has some American/British staples as well, like baking soda and self-rising flour)

Furniture

  • IKEA, Sulzfeldstrasse 7
  • Hiendl, Sulzfeldstrasse 1
  • Möbelum, Friedenstrasse 18 (solid wood furniture)
  • Kare, Wahlenstrasse 17 (hipper stuff)
  • Möbelhof, Lindlbergstrasse 26 in Parsberg
  • Möbel Gassner, Riedenburger Strasse 14 in Kelheim

Do you have any recommendations for tours, dining, shopping or accommodations in Regensburg?

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1 Suzanne March 16, 2010 at 2:48 pm

I would definately recommend Dicker Mann for Austrian/German cuisine. Kona also has a bit of a strange policy regarding prams. Hong Kong shop on Obermümsterstr. is also a good source for some “English” supplies such as self-raising flour as well as a wide variety of ingrediants for Indian cooking.

2 Christina Geyer March 18, 2010 at 6:09 pm

@Suzanne: All good points. Dicker Mann is delicious and the pram policy is strange at Kona. I don’t go there any more, but thought it worth a mention since they at least have a play area. I’m going to update the information with your suggestions.

3 Graham March 28, 2010 at 1:24 am

I would suggest the sausage kitchen down by the river (http://www.wurstkuchl.de/) – many people in the UK may recognise it from the BBC language course “Deutsch Direkt!”

4 Marianna April 15, 2011 at 2:22 am

The Indian place on Maximilianstrasse, I think it’s called Ganesha, is really good! After living in Rburg for 6 months, when I returned a year later for one day, that’s where I ate.

Peaches is the place to go in Regensburg for pizza deals! Words cannot describe how I miss 5.90 pizzas on Mondays…

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