Alt for all.

Whether "Füchschen", "confessional", "(Q) shed" or "ÜRIG": The bars and restaurants of the old town full of tourists, but, secondly, they are living in Düsseldorf. And from early morning until late evening.

 

'S Dommech emmol Kölsch! " Emphasis casually pushes his glass of Düsseldorf direction cone. The times are not looking, and the Alt hisses into it. The guest grinning - his ritual in the "Cross Men Eck," Old town 14 on the corner of Ursulines Street. A bar like a living room.

Since opening in 1954 has not changed much: 30 square meters with the bar, liquor rack, bar stools and kegs. What more could you want? This man fills the square. At such a place to start the debauchery monologues about the world and what they together with the announcement: "Isch red 'times from the pub?"

In the street Ratinger generations grew up, far more learned than beer to drink. In the "Kreuzherreneck" met the artists, and in the "Ratinger Hof" raged in the eighties punks. "No breathing space, history is made. It's progress," grölte the scene when in the "yard" the group "false" played. Or the "dead trousers" or "lunch break".

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Perdu! The "yard", there's no more. That is the real lunch break in the "Ohme Jupp" to take. Also here is the restaurant a spacious stage for the many guests who lunch real housewife kitchen eat, so Stielmuskartoffeln with meatballs or stew with carrots Mettwurst. In the kitchen are strong older women who are not afraid of a decent Mehlschwitze.

It is worth the Düsseldorf old town during the day to visit. From ten clock the first beer flowing from the taps of the brewery restaurants. Curfew knows nobody here. There is only so-called Putzfrauenstunde five to six clock morning. Opening times are otherwise discretionary. Mornings are the laggards on the road.

"How juut, dat isch Rhinelanders bin"

One needs at this time never longer than five minutes to wait until the typical old-Aboriginal past, and usually he is not alone. Today, there are two middle-aged men relaxed, with a slightly reddish face and broad smile, one of which sounds a loud voice: "How juut, dat isch Rhinelanders am."

As you certainly know where you landed. The men come from the "Füchschen," exactly the right address for the first beer a day. This will naturally brewed. Who blankgescheuerten one of the Standing in the glut ourselves, must be at the "confessional" over. For this glass box gave host and hostess of cigars and brandy. Today the Kabuff as a kiosk, where you can enjoy the wonderfully old-fashioned ironing bottles for home purchases.

One late breakfast or an aperitif already: The first Alt can be everything. Who works in the old town or stroll, goes like noon in the (Q) shed, "Short 3rd Street Outside the small kitchen of Julia Wenzel are in good weather tables set up, but inside you are in the small room, which is reminiscent of a snack. Three soups, salads and sandwiches here, everything is wonderfully fresh and uncomplicated.

And well it should, because here the food cooks from other restaurants old town. The bread comes from the bakery around the corner Hinkel in Mittelstraße 25 - the cult Röggelchen baker for the shiny, round rye bread, which only exist in a double pack. Between the Röggelhälften embeds itself like a piece of medieval Gouda, cremt with a sharp mustard Düsseldorfer ABB and makes the "Halve Hahn" - a specialty of the breweries. Then taste a really good espresso in the market-place Carl at "Coffee Rich", booth D 2nd

Already turn again two Düsseldorfer Lebemänner around the corner. They are a bit louder, but still emotionally formulate Rhine discharges sentence like "And yet isch sach ...". They come straight from the brewery "ÜRIG" - and later as a rebound back up there. That is no surprise, because everything meets in the "ÜRIG", one must only follow the nose.

At the corner Berger Street / Rheinstrasse is a light brown mountain, the steaming and fragrant. Every day after the brewing is Treber, what is left of brewing on the road geschüttet. Then slowly knattert a tractor with a trailer on the old plaster. A farmer from the area schippt the Treber to feed him and later to pigs and cows. Thus, the contemplative life around "ÜRIG" his. In the complex of four houses is a microcosm of guest rooms and brewery, and the mood of each generation space.

No Chichi - everything honestly!

"We make more in one evening to understanding as a family minister in a legislature," says host Michael Schnitzler in Rhenish Resolute. True! You sit and are confused, drinking in the late afternoon on the road in the milky light, and feels secure. The Köbesse so hot here the waiters are always present, the melody of the Rhenish monologue washes into your ears, and the beer is delicious - clear, of course, without Chichi - like the hamburger, which Schnittchen plate with Flönz (blood sausage) and liver or the plates of jelly Butchers, cited in the kitchen himself. All honest! And Saturday, there is pea soup - a fluid, but firm size in the life of Düsseldorf.

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There is no reason here is not another old to drink. The find also the two men with the now bright red faces. Particularly, they are again bent around the corner, based on a table and enjoy a moment silent. The view of the Rhine in its entire width can be beautiful on such a day should not miss.

Up to 18 clock is the Café "lantern" high up in the old castle tower on the Burgplatz open. The ideal place for an aperitif. To eat then go to the "Weinhaus Tante Anna". In the former chapel of 1593 provide old engravings, shiny brass and walls of the Rhine holzvertäfelte sophistication. Man eats "heaven on Ähd", ie apple, potato puree and foie gras. The wines are worth to an old refrain - but only for the duration of a meal.

A visit to Old Town would be incomplete without the finale in the "Et Kabüffke" opposite "ÜRIG": a glass Killesberg Pitsch, the Düsseldorf herb liqueur, such as the oil runs down through the throat. Guests are closely crowded. This is convenient, no one can fall over, and actually pays the one who sits in Kabüffke more than the stands. It comes closer, and that's worth it.