Indian restaurants in Hannover - Germany

anyone know of a good Curry House and watering hole in Hannover
i will be at the Cebit on the 18-19 and will have an overnight stay
but want to go for a good Curry

Hello Bully,

a good place to drink is the "Jack the rippers " near the central station, easy to find. As for a good Curry. http://www.taj-mahal-hannover.de/

Been there once and its ok.
http://www.jacktherippers.de/

Good luck.
Craig.

Hi Craig

thanks for that will give them both a try on the 18th.
there is three of us together, my son and a guy from our
office in Thailand, only speaks english that is why i was pulled to
show him around
i think they eat hot food in Thailand

ok your english but if I show a Thai around in Germany, why put him somewhere where he gets food he's used to?

If I travel I'd not want same stuff like I get at home, why travel then?

Guess brits are just different

@Craig

is Oesselse far from the city centre?
it is near Laatzen that is where our hotel is

Hi Hannah,

well i dont want to give him a currywurst
could let him have sauerbraten or something

it is me that wants a curry, he has what he is given...i am paying
the pub is an english one so that is something he has not seen, anyway he is here for a whole week and a couple of the germans will look after him on the other days. i only have to look after him at the Cebit as an IT man myself too.

he can then have his sauerbraten and rotkohl and whatever else he fancies.

he could go to England for this

yes and take me there too

Sorry Bully never heard of Oesselse ? Are you sure its spelt right ?

doesnt sound really german to me

yes its a part of Laatzen
18 km from the city centre

its here

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and i am at home now FEIERABEND

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NO Feierabend um 13:00

went out for a walk with the dog before posting

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An Indian friend of ours recommends Thali on Marienstrasse, it has a shop too across the road. If you try it let us know the verdict!

will do just that

well it is set for a curry then into Jack the Ripper on Thursday night

not sure which curry house to go to but will sort that out by thursday

will probably be Taj Mahal as it is near the Rippers

Well i just got back from Hannover and took the advice and went into th Taj Mahal, was b**dy good, a nice hot Mutton Vinadloo with all the trimmings.
also went into Jack the Rippers which was good too so thanks for the info

Two curry houses in Hannover that I know of that are worth a try:

Shalimar, in Lange Laube, near Steintor, is more pricey and a bit stiff, but the food is good.
http://www.shalimar-hannover.de/

Sagir, in Sallstraße 17, Südstadt, is inexpensive and informal, but for the money it's pretty good (and has the advantage of being right around the corner from us ).

Cheers,

Fairfax71

There´s one on Klagesmarkt as well, corner of Poststrasse, can´t remember the name. It´s okay, but not cheap.

I´ve heard about Sagir, must go in there sometime.

Fairfax, are you familiar with the term "ring-stinger"?

Actually no, I haven't heard that one, but as a fan of good hot curry I can figure out what it means pretty readily.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

You are spot on!

To be honest, and I know it´s dangerous admitting it here, but I´m not such a big curry fan. I can take it or leave it. When we really go out for a meal we go to the little spanish place - Tierra - in the Engelbosteler Damm.

Heresy! Blasphemy! Discombobulation!

Er, well, I don't only eat curry...and even then I don't eat all curry, either.


Haven't heard of that place before, but then again I'm not up in that part of Hannover very often (I only recently started going to those kiddie reading hours on Saturdays at Escape Books, and before that I was rarely if ever in the neighborhood).

What I miss is good Tex-Mex food. Spanish cuisine is only vaguely similar, and most "Mexican" places I've tried are just somehow...wrong. Fischer's in Linden is pretty close, the closest I've had so far in Germany, but even they have some oddities about the way the food tastes that I can't quite put my finger on...

Cheers.

Fairfax71

It´s just that for a lot of my fellow countrymen don´t seem to be able to live without it. Goes back to the days of the empire I suppose.

"Haven´t had such a hot one since the days of the Raj!" That´s not Python, just me, I thought the double-entendre was quite good though!

There was a good Tex-mex in Stuttgart, and we celebrated new year here in the Am-Mex (it´s gone now) a few years ago, next to the Bierbörse. Friends of ours are into South America, my wife was in Peru for half a year. Also the music, which isn´t really my thing - that´s the next thunderbolt from above...

I`m not a gourmet though, I eat pretty much anything - except celery! We go mainly round the corner to Was Nun? for a beer and whatever takes our fancy - they do salads, currywurst, baguettes, tapas, pasta. It´s not brilliant, it´s only a pub, but it´s cheap and edible. Kaisers in Schneiderberg we like as well.

I don´t know Fischer´s - have you ever been to the spanish place O Atlantico!, also in Linden?

What? You're not part of Monty Python? I thought all British citizens were!


I like the food, not the music. ;-)

There used to be a Tex-Mex in Hildesheim, but they went tits-up a few years ago. Frankly they weren't all that wonderful anyway. *sigh*

My wife tried Café del Sol (there's one in Hildesheim and Garbsen) but was underwhelmed, so I haven't been there.


I'm only a "gourmet" in the sense that I'm a bit picky, but I won't get all toffee-nosed and pretend my taste is better than anyone else's. To each their own, I say.

I also have a special diet for health reasons, so it limits what I can eat somewhat; on top of that there is a laundry list of things I just can't stand, such as beans. So I'm the first to admit that I'm a pain to cook for. OTOH I taught myself to cook at a fairly early age (largely for the aforementioned reasons), so my wife doesn't have it too bad.


The main place in Hannover like that that I would recommend is Mezzo, at the southern end of the Lister Meile in the Pavillion. Great food, cheap, nice relaxed atmosphere.


'Fraid not, no. Haven't really tried that many restaurants in Hannover, I'm afraid -- Fischers was a bit of a fluke, actually, as we were invited there by friends years ago and we don't go to Linden very often (we tend to be in Südstadt, downtown and parts east such as Kirchrode or Kleefeld). Fichers is sort of Tex-Mex, but with more of a Caribbean accent to it -- not quite what I'd expect when thinking "Tex-Mex", but not bad, either.

I'll keep O Atlantico in mind, though. What Spanish food I've had (mainly tapas) I've generally liked, so it's something to try. Thanks for the tip.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Mezzo is good, that´s true. They do quite a good Flammkuchen - which, due to the southwest connection we both really like.

I learnt to cook in Germany, I used to throw everything in the pot and hope it would be edible - which it mostly wasn´t. I worked in a couple of places in Stuttgart - I can do a pretty mean Käsespätzle! I also discovered how to season properly. I think I´m probably more often in the kitchen than my wife. A fact which she would probably strongly dispute!

Like I said I´m really not all that fussy, what I do find quite horrible though is that spinach, fried egg, potato combination that a lot of people seem to like here. And Grünkohl - I hated greens as a kid!