2 Best Restaurants in Regensburg, Franconia and the German Danube

If there's one city food experience you shouldn't miss, it's the succulent, charcoal-grilled Regensburger sausages at this 500-year-old "sausage kitchen". The small, homemade pork-ham würstchen, available in portions of six, eight or 10, are served with the restaurant's own cellar-fermented sauerkraut and signature Wurstkuchl mustard. There are plenty of other options on the menu, too, but they hold less interest. Try to grab a seat at one of the wooden benches outside, where you can eat while looking upriver to the nearby Stone Bridge; otherwise, head inside the wood-paneled restaurant next door.

The city's finest fine-dining option sees Michelin-starred chef Maximilian Schmidt focus on a fusion of European (especially French, German, and Scandinavian) and Asian cuisines. Choose between a three-, five- and eight-course evening tasting menu featuring inventive, seasonal creations like pike perch with fermented paprika and chawanmushi (egg custard) with bacon, or come for a good-value (and considerably cheaper) three- or four-course lunch. Although set in an 800-year-old Altstadt building, the decor is chic modern minimalism; all hardwood floors, featureless walls, and dim lighting. There's a lovely boutique hotel here, just in case you don't want to move after dinner.