Slowman Rach.

You can’t call him slow: Christian Rach, star cook from Hamburg, toured in recent years relentlessly in the German province of the country and helped restaurant owners to flavor their daily business again. With new recipes for food and marketing, often á la (last) minute before the business-soufflé fell apart. With his new initiative he [...]

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Grocery Store Wars.

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Cosy christmas-markets.

Now we have just a few weeks left before christmas and it’s time to name the most exciting christmas-markets in the world. Beyond sport-socks-traders and similar stuff. The german commercial website www.weihnachtsmarkt-deutschland.de lists a lot of inspiring markets already, e.g. those which take place in castles. Please add a comment with your favourite location below!

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Seibstock Delicatessen in Merano, Italy.

In the old cities of southern Tyrol (Italy) the historic shopping street is often called Lauben (ital.: Portici) characterized by it’s typical arcades. In Merano Seibstock found it’s place in this street more than 100 years ago:

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Sustainable day in may.

A “day of sustainability” will take place at beautiful Weinstrasse-Region in central Germany on May 29th, 2008.

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Gorilla in Berlin.

Gorilla Naturally Fastfood in Berlin has just opened it’s fourth store: In the hype district around Oranienburger Strasse, at Friedrichstrasse 120. Organic, delicious and beautiful.

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Motherland Hamburg.

Deutsche Version At Hamburg’s Central Station recently opened Mutterland - an ambitious food store with a neo-ecological concept.

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Sleepless in Berlin.

Deutsche Version Fresh ‘N’ Friends is Berlin’s first supermarket which opens 24/7. It has been opened in a hip neighbourhood at Kastanienallee (Prenzlauer Berg) and makes both sense and fun. The “Premium Convenience” range of products is focused on the modelling and advertising customers:

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Delicatessen online.

Basically it is a contradiction: an online mail-order business for fresh delicatessen food. Nevertheless, it works in Germany - Genusshandwerker has great success!

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Delicatessen in Westfalen.

The delicatessen store Butterhandlung Holstein started 80 years ago to trade with fine food.

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A real good fish store.

That’s a real good store for fresh fish. And it’s even more: family-owned Fiedlers Fischmarkt in Bremerhaven at Germany’s north-west coast has recently renovated it’s space and delivers now a unbeatable authentic experience in fish shopping.

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A wonderful herb store in Duesseldorf

The Gewürzhaus Mostert in the old center of Duesseldorf (Germany) is a unique example of fascinating traditional retail, specialized in delicious mustard and herbs.

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