Germany’s largest urban area, Ruhr is characterised by the creativity and tenacity found across its towns and cities. Visit Dortmund and Essen to discover former mines and breweries being repurposed as meadows, museums and forward-looking cultural cooperatives
30 December, 2022
In partnership with
restaurant
The eponymous chef-owner of this café in trendy Kreuzviertel,
Dortmund, regularly travels to Scandinavia seeking inspiration and
it shows in the tasteful, wood-panelled interiors. Brunch menus are
excellent – expect acai bowls and whipped feta on rye. Booking is a
must, even on weekdays.
restaurant
This industrial-chic Mediterranean eatery in Essen also serves
juicy burgers and steaks in the evening. It’s located at the
Zollverein Unesco World Heritage site – once an enormous coal mind
– and retains plenty of its former character through rough concrete
walls and steel girders.
Making plans for a visit? Head to ruhr-tourismus.de and urbanana.de to discover more. Purchase Volume 39: Ritual to read our 20-page travel companion
to Cologne, Düsseldorf and Ruhr.
