Koeln

Köln, Tyskland, er kjent for sin gotiske katedral, livlige karneval og lokale spesialiteter som 'Himmel un Ääd' og 'Rievkooche', som reflekterer dens rike kulturarv.

Pizzeria Il Valentino

Pizzeria Il Valentino

Herzogstraße 14, 50667 Köln, Koeln, Germany

Cafés • Lunch • Seafood • Italian


"General As part of the birthday present, I invited my mom to the Italian, she had been in charge and opted for the small pizzeria Il Valentino in the city centre. Location Park situation Near the city centre you get to Pizzeria in the Herzogstraße by a side street, although you can park badly here, but you can travel well with the Öffis. The restaurant is located on a corner opposite a hairdresser. Thus, when waiting for food, you can also observe people cutting in the hair. Ambience The Il Valentino is two-storey, in the entrance area below just seems to have been converted a pub. On the right is the large wooden counter with marble plate, on the left there is a long bench with red upholstery and semi-high wood panelling, here are also the windows. In front of the counter is a huge wood oven from which you can also get its delicious pizza. Rather unusual in the guest room, but it doesn't bother. The counter is waiting with a large gastro coffee machine and some spirits. The tables are held in the same dark wood as the counter and fit to the long, red upholstered bench The walls have been embellished in red wiping technology. Current highlights of the map are presented on several slate boards. Everything seems simple. Here you can go after a day of shopping in the city. I found it very simple and I don't really like the wiping technique on the walls. For a nice candlelight dinner I would choose something else. To our arrival, the guest room was a bit empty except a few tourists, as it was very early. As time progresses, the space filled noticeably. Some couples, or even single men, who gave themselves a little wine. For later hours, a reservation is certainly useful, as there are not many tables in the basement. In the upper floor there is enough space for a larger group. The floor is yellow and the furniture is back in brown wood with red upholstery. The walls are painted here in Mediterranean orange. We were served by a friendly young waitress. And once chose Aqua Panna 0,75 mL to 4,50 € and once white wine in the carafe 0.5 L to 13,50 €. Both were brought to our table well cooled flight. As an appetizer we chose Carpaccio at 8,50 €. The Carpaccio was of good quality, cut hauchfein and appealed with plenty of fresh rocket, balsamico and freshly planned parmesan. My mother likes to eat Carpaccio and was thrilled as she had eaten the same dish at another Italian in the same week much worse. To this was served a crushed bread and a pepper mill. As the main course, it should be pizza. You can also order the smaller variant with a diameter of 26 cm, which we can look at the side table (small pizzas of more than 30 cm! also should not regret. My mom wanted to make herself a little extraordinary and ordered: Pizza Bresaola (with smoked ham, rucola and parmesan at €7.50 and I chose the Pizza Fantasia (with mushrooms, spinach, minced meat and salami instead of ham at €6.90. Both pizzas were hot and very luxuriantly served the edge crispy, coated with sufficient but also not too much tomato sauce. We had the water in our mouth and so it tasted! Here the pizza tastes and the goods are fresh! I haven't eaten such a delicious pizza for a long time. In addition to the usual pizzas and pastries, there were also some meat dishes that would irritate me. Cleanliness The toilets are upstairs. There was nothing to complain about. Service PLV The whole family is still working with us and you can see that. You'll be kindly worried and you'll be asked if everything's okay. It's just given attention to whether the guests feel comfortable and that's why the restaurant is well visited. We thanked each other with a good tip. The PLV is very good, you can even take the pizza home for 1 € less. Here you can also spend a nice evening with little money. FAZIT The service, food and PLV are certainly the absolute plus points here. Unfortunately, the ambience is not so beautiful that one would organize a great celebration here. That's better. However, it is rewarded by friendliness and fresh products. My recommendation to go to downtown for a pizza or to spend an evening with the friend. We like to come back!"

Make. Salate, Bowls Suppen

Make. Salate, Bowls Suppen

Venloer Str. 9, 50672, Koeln, Germany

Soup • Salads • Seafood • Vegetarian


"Very tasty and fresh salads (bowls). Very tasty and many ingredients you can choose yourself or choose a bowl from the menu with numerous options. Soßen are all vegan as far as I know and service is very friendly and helpful. Great that sustainable shells are offered, but a pity that is being worked with your own and not Vytal, that is to say you have to buy the shells for 10 euros, but can exchange them for money yet practically. Must order is the vegan shawarma and the carrots lax. The sauces are also very delicious. Teriyaki and peanut chili I tried and am very satisfied. The bowl from the menu was significantly smaller than the one that was put together, so I would put myself together next time. Prices are higher with 12 euros starting, but justified in the freshness of ingredients. Website is super vivid and there are promotions for the first order. I am a huge fan of salads and often the dressings are not on point and ingredients too old. Here you can order delivery (they sometimes have great promotions for 5 euro off etc). Environmental impact due to their own reusable bowls. You can build your own salad or choose one of the menu. I love the website which makes it easy to see the available ingredients. It is more pricey. Salads cost around 12 euro, but can go up to 14 17 depending on the mock meat you take. I highly recommend their vegan shawarma and vegan lax out of carrots. Peanut chili was good, teriyaki so tasty. Friendly service but keep in mind it’s usually delivery and take away so it does not feel nice to sit inside. Still possible. The bowl from the menu was quite small in comparison to the self built one so rather build your own. Fresh and tasty would def go again"

485°

485°

Kyffhäuserstraße 44, 50674 Köln, Germany, Koeln

Cafés • Salads • Seafood • Italian


"In “deli” (magazine for food and drink 4/2015, three locals in Germany, who have a special Neapolitan pizza concept, will be presented by way of example. Typical for this type: Long rest period of dough, high temperature in the oven, very short baking time. The statements on the homepage of the restaurant are very self-confident: “Yes, we are a pizza bud. But there are pizza bars and pizza bars. We clearly belong to the second group, because: We love good food! Our distinctive product love is already presented at the first, volatile look into our menu. Beyond our round, crispy core product, we are also characterized by the high quality standards of freshness, regionality and seasonality. From our homemade antipasti with Kölsch blood sausage from the butcher Hennes to the desserts with uncompromisingly sustainable chocolate to the high-quality Fair Trade coffee from the Cologne roaster Van Dyck – we are transparent, product-fanaly and passionate! ... But what would be hunger without thirst or a life hungry guest without a drink? Therefore, we have bought our pizza a variety of handcrafted beer and soft drink providers as a side actor. Each of the beverages offered is white to bribe and will be lifted by us to the innovative, yet simple stage of the 485Grad. There, we also provide gleaming headlight for the appearance of our wine offering from the charming Newcomer to the popular classic.” The three statements about pizza are definitely quite in my sense: 72 hours of dough rest 485 degrees 60 seconds Because in 1984 the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana was founded in Naples to preserve tradition. Members have the right to name their products, genuine Neapolitan pizza. In 2005, Pizza Napoletana was registered as a trademark within the European Union. Traditional composition and production have been protected since 2010. Pizza Napoletana consists of the following basic substances: common wheat flour, beer yeast, natural drinking water, peeled tomatoes and/or small fresh tomatoes, sea salt or sodium chloride and extra virgin olive oil. Other permitted substances are garlic and oregano, fresh basil and mozzarella di Bufala Campana g.U. (protected designation of origin or the mozzarella g.t.S. (protected traditional speciality) Baking takes place exclusively in wood ovens where a baking temperature of 485 °C is reached which is essential for the preparation. The cooking time shall not exceed 60 to 90 seconds. The Neapolitan pizza is not as crisp and crispy as it is sometimes common in other regions (Pizza Romana: very thin and crispy – and it should not be that at all. It is much more airy smooth, about four millimeters thick and well occupied. To the middle, it becomes thinner and damper, the edge should be bulging through and may even look a little burnt. Ambiente The restaurant is located on Kyffhäuser Straße in the student district of the city the so-called “Kwartier Latäng”. This small street near the Barbarossa Square is on the one hand a residential area, but on the other hand almost every house has a business. From the star place to the snack bar, from the bar to the cafe; everything is available in a few meters. The “485 degree” is also not particularly noticeable from the outside. A few seats are also outside. After entering the restaurant, I stand right in front of the counter. There I can see the map on the wall. Some customers stand in front of me and thereby I gain the time to familiarize myself with the processes. In a large refrigerator, the cooled beers are clearly ready. I'm taking a bottle and I'm already in line. The pizza oven is in my field of view. Further, some seats are set up. The tables are designed “simple”. They are made of wooden slats. Probably spruce – the wood has also been used for shelves and doors. The simple cutlery is located on a wall in boxes, as napkins stand kitchen rolls next to it. The chairs are black and look like industrial furniture. Cleanliness 3* The rooms are well maintained. Sanitary 3* At the end of the place behind one of the rough wooden doors is the sanitary area. Here too the most necessary things are present and everything is clean. Service 4* Young people – mostly female in a uniform clothing (Hemd/Bluse in black with the logo in white take care of the guests. They make it very friendly and customer-oriented. The orders are taken quietly. Advice is possible at any time. Beverages are taken with you and go to a free place. At the end you pay (only cash and the bons go to the next force, which completes or executes the work. You are asked for his first name to get the right dishes later. The waiters bring the finished food to the tables. The name will be announced and you'll get in touch. When removing the dishes, it is seriously asked if everything was okay. The map(s) The pizza card consists of eleven classics and three innovations. There are also appetizers and desserts, as well as coffee, alcohol-free, wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages. The tasting food 4* tuna 2015 14,50 € Baked peppers ° mushrooms Tropea Onions IGP tuna Tatar ° organic lemon from Mallorca (Tropea is a place on the Italian Mediterranean coast in Calabria. The onions of the region protected by a controlled designation of origin I.G.P. (Indicatione Geografica Protetata are among the sweetest onions ever. The pizza was perfect in appearance: large, beady edge, fine tanned. The thin slices of fresh tuna are a pleasure. On a “normal” pizza, “dosenthun fish” is usually used – that’s another league. The tomato paste on the dough was so mild and at the same time creamy and fruity as rare. I haven't eaten the soft fluffy onions. The mushrooms were also aromatic and pleasant in the mouth. The edge of the dough tasted good. This part was baked airy. Not excessively crispy, but not soft. To the middle, the pizza becomes thinner and enters a balanced connection with the coating. The discreet apron for me was noticeable. So I could cost the taste of the components as rarely. I think that by the short oven time the pizza cools down relatively quickly when eating. I didn't mind. So I could cost the components from hot to warm. Tarte au Chocolat 5,00 € Original Beans “Beni Wild 66%” (Wildkakao from Bolivia, dark table chocolate The cake consisted of a small quad of almost pure chocolate. The flavors were convincing. I love dark cocoa. The piece should have been bigger for me. The three plucks of white sauce seemed to me “cold”. But this is probably the style of the house that no greater value is placed on decoration. Drinks My favourite drink group is sure wine, but also special beers I do not despise. Therefore, the “Craft” beers on the map are a tempting for me. Since the homepage lists all names, I have collected information in advance and opted for a India Pale Ale. Crew Republic ° Munich “Drunken Sailor” IPA ° 0,33l 4,50 € The Crew India Pale Ale (IPA is characterized by its IPA typical bitter and also floral flavor notes. Here also a very good glass is used, which is particularly suitable for beer. The description (see above is full: I love fine bitter notes in beer. Price performance ratio 4* The high-quality ingredients justify the charges. Conclusion I will certainly not drive to Cologne extra because of the pizza, but if it results, I will certainly try more products. The wines should also be selected here. 4 – happy again (1 – certainly not again, 2 – hardly again, 3 – if it results again, 4 – happy again, 5 – absolutely again – after “Kuechenreise” Date of visit: noon 1 person – 26.10.2015"

Pottkind

Pottkind

Darmstädter Straße 9, 50678 Köln, Koeln, Germany

Wine • Bistro • French • Coffee


"The counter was long taboo. Corona had taken many months to her favorite place. So also in the "Pottkind", which we had visited a year and a half ago and where we had enjoyed the direct view of the kitchen and the direct communication with the chefs from the beginning. And half a year – whether with or without lock-off – are too long. In the meantime, we have seen pictures and reports from current menus that document an exciting development. We would have taken a seat alone on a table. But it is now as it is and so it took until October last year, when an opportunity was found for the longest visit. With cleverly attached and uninterrupted Plexiglas discs you were allowed to release the counters and we look forward to the Carte Blanche menu of Enrico Sablotny, which is available in four, five or six courses (60€, 75€, 90€). The start is made by some crackers, including a Filo chip filled with rabbit grooves, with a Buckthorn and fennel crackers, which immerse wonderfully for the spicy Sauce Rouille. Apéros How complex the following passage is, you can hardly see in the eyes of the very purist presentation. Thematic is about chicken. For this purpose, the liver is drawn as a cream, the filled keule as a galanine, egg as a foam and a gel from the back of the bones, which covers the shell with sesame. Inside there is a thin-skinned black-root salad. Through the liver a earthy basic tone is pulled through the band, which is usually incredibly splendoury, juicy and simply tasty. It follows good bread, butter and Styrian ham. This is not staged in the “Pottkind” as an explicitly independent passage, but gets its corresponding appearance at this point. Butter, bread, ham It continues with navy apple and again hides under the sepia colored potato chip more than you expected. Kerbel root, pine nuts, inlaid beer dust and parsley spinach ensure the cozy underconstruction, but the most beautiful is undoubtedly the intense borillas. It goes straight to 12. Simply great and for me one of the dishes that makes it right into my personal year Best Of List! mullet, pine root, borillas The next course thanks to Jens-Peter, Koch in the team “Pottkind” with Frankfurter Origin. He had the idea to use cooking cheese as a creamy base for larate pea potatoes and swollen oxtail. Under the cheese foam there is also an onion jam. It is a decent, but original and very elegant solution. Jens-Peters Kochkäse, La Ratte, Ochsenschwanz The main plate with Hirschspinne, Chicoree (in fact with a pleasantly light bitter note, champignons in textures on Brioche, pistazie and a beautiful orange Jus would be worth all honor alone. The combination is diverse, the craft immaculate and the presentation convincing. But the real star in this dish is the separately served late Zle. They are fried with paws and butterflies and could also pass through as an independent dish. Maybe we are so valuable ingredients that are just seemingly simple supplements are so much fun. Maybe it's just because they're just ultra-lecker. Chicoree, Champignons Spätzle At dessert, my memories disappear a little. Whether it was a nougat or a hazelnut, I can't say exactly, but by yogurt it had a pleasantly acidic touch. Bronze fennel and spaghettic pumpkin also play a role, as well as rose juices processed in the Baiser and sauce. But I don't want to guarantee that. This is the problem with Carte Blanche menus that you need to pay attention to what you say. But in the end, it's just important whether it was good. And that was, even very good and pleasant, not too sweet. Nougateis, Karamell, Fenchel As always you meet the Petits Fours again a bow at the beginning of the menu. The presentation is almost identical, but now there is everything in the sweet version. Here as biscuits with cheesecake cream and apricots as well as with fennel cracker and Blueberry-Firing Dip. Petits Fours Compared to our very convincing menu at the time, this was again a clear step forward, not to say a stubborn performance. The style seems more independent and pointed. Enrico Sablotny combines creative and thoughtful, but without overloading his plates. Complexity often hides under what is not recognizable at first glance. He himself says that a dish like the appetizer for the chicken had not been brewed in this form before. However, if this marks the direction in which you want to go, I can only expressly encourage you to continue this path. Here you can see a handwriting, paired with original ideas and impeccable craftsmanship. That definitely has star quality. At any rate we were thrilled and can hardly expect the next menu at the counter. If Corona is allowed again. Report as always on my blog: [hidden link]"

Il Valentino -pizzeria Pasquale Fabio Selvaggio

Il Valentino -pizzeria Pasquale Fabio Selvaggio

Herzogstraße 14, 50667 Köln, Germany, Koeln

Pizza • Pasta • Salads • Italian


"General As part of the birthday present, I invited my mom to the Italian, she had been in charge and opted for the small pizzeria Il Valentino in the city centre. Location Park situation Near the city centre you get to Pizzeria in the Herzogstraße by a side street, although you can park badly here, but you can travel well with the Öffis. The restaurant is located on a corner opposite a hairdresser. Thus, when waiting for food, you can also observe people cutting in the hair. Ambience The Il Valentino is two-storey, in the entrance area below just seems to have been converted a pub. On the right is the large wooden counter with marble plate, on the left there is a long bench with red upholstery and semi-high wood panelling, here are also the windows. In front of the counter is a huge wood oven from which you can also get its delicious pizza. Rather unusual in the guest room, but it doesn't bother. The counter is waiting with a large gastro coffee machine and some spirits. The tables are held in the same dark wood as the counter and fit to the long, red upholstered bench The walls have been embellished in red wiping technology. Current highlights of the map are presented on several slate boards. Everything seems simple. Here you can go after a day of shopping in the city. I found it very simple and I don't really like the wiping technique on the walls. For a nice candlelight dinner I would choose something else. To our arrival, the guest room was a bit empty except a few tourists, as it was very early. As time progresses, the space filled noticeably. Some couples, or even single men, who gave themselves a little wine. For later hours, a reservation is certainly useful, as there are not many tables in the basement. In the upper floor there is enough space for a larger group. The floor is yellow and the furniture is back in brown wood with red upholstery. The walls are painted here in Mediterranean orange. We were served by a friendly young waitress. And once chose Aqua Panna 0,75 mL to 4,50 € and once white wine in the carafe 0.5 L to 13,50 €. Both were brought to our table well cooled flight. As an appetizer we chose Carpaccio at 8,50 €. The Carpaccio was of good quality, cut hauchfein and appealed with plenty of fresh rocket, balsamico and freshly planned parmesan. My mother likes to eat Carpaccio and was thrilled as she had eaten the same dish at another Italian in the same week much worse. To this was served a crushed bread and a pepper mill. As the main course, it should be pizza. You can also order the smaller variant with a diameter of 26 cm, which we can look at the side table (small pizzas of more than 30 cm! also should not regret. My mom wanted to make herself a little extraordinary and ordered: Pizza Bresaola (with smoked ham, rucola and parmesan at €7.50 and I chose the Pizza Fantasia (with mushrooms, spinach, minced meat and salami instead of ham at €6.90. Both pizzas were hot and very luxuriantly served the edge crispy, coated with sufficient but also not too much tomato sauce. We had the water in our mouth and so it tasted! Here the pizza tastes and the goods are fresh! I haven't eaten such a delicious pizza for a long time. In addition to the usual pizzas and pastries, there were also some meat dishes that would irritate me. Cleanliness The toilets are upstairs. There was nothing to complain about. Service PLV The whole family is still working with us and you can see that. You'll be kindly worried and you'll be asked if everything's okay. It's just given attention to whether the guests feel comfortable and that's why the restaurant is well visited. We thanked each other with a good tip. The PLV is very good, you can even take the pizza home for 1 € less. Here you can also spend a nice evening with little money. FAZIT The service, food and PLV are certainly the absolute plus points here. Unfortunately, the ambience is not so beautiful that one would organize a great celebration here. That's better. However, it is rewarded by friendliness and fresh products. My recommendation to go to downtown for a pizza or to spend an evening with the friend. We like to come back!"