Well I guess they removed the post. That is good.
Ingo: What was the name of the restaurant that we ate at in Dresden on the first night we were there?

A,

we had dinner at the "Luisenhof" the first night. Too bad the funicular was not in operation (it is again).

Thanks again for the kind words :) I am glad you enjoyed the tour and found the information interesting. Please pass on greetings to Carol and the others!

By the way, not only a politely enthusiastic audience after (the new) "Turandot" at the opera house last week, but also standing ovations.

Ingo: It is a shame that Carol was not there. Turandot is her favorite opera. Will tell her about it. Also, I could not remember the restuarant name to put in my photo album notes so now I can. Thanks so much!

Hello apseals -

I know this report is 2 years old, but I have just found it. I will be visiting Berlin and Dresden in July, and am trying to find out as much as I can about these great cities. Your report is wonderful.

My next "search" will be to make a reservation at the Terrace Restaurant. Hope I'm not too late.

Thank you, from a fellow Texan (Austin)!

kopp: Glad I could be of service. It was a wonderful trip. If you read these boards you know that Ingo is the expert on Dresden. If you like I would be glad to give you his email address or just post on this site with a question about Dresden and he will reply. (Just got back from Austin on Wednesday. Son is in Pharmacy school there and I chair the scholarship committee at Texas Exes.)

Another Ex-Austinite and frequent Dresden traveller here.

I have lots of good restaurant ideas, many from Ingo and many from my Dresden colleagues.

Just returned a week ago from most recent trip, including 1 day trip to Berlin so let me know if you have specific questions.

J62

Hi apseals, kopp and J62! I did not realise there are so many travellers to Dresden on this forum ;-)

Yes, kopp, keep your questions coming! I'll be glad to advise you. Btw, if I recall correctly you're going to stay at the Hilton, right? The road (minor street) works in front of the Hilton are almost completed, and so are the works on the facades of the new block vis-a-vis.

J62 - unfortunately I have to delete one restaurant from the recommendation list: Hotel Schloss Eckberg went considerably down in quality lately. Don't know why. Friends of mine reported about a just fair but overpriced meal there.

Greetings to Texas! Hope the hurricanes don't hit you hard again this season.

Ingo

Thanks, y'all, for your kind offers to help. I'm just finishing up my Prague (5 nights) and Berlin (6 nights) planning, so next week I hit the Dresden books (3 nights). Right now, I'm kind of in the overwhelmed stage. Each city has so much to offer.

I did post a question the other day about the Reichstag tower restaurant in Berlin, but it went nowhere. Just curious about the menu. Somewhere I read it was really expensive. I'd just like to know what "expensive" means, whether it would be worth getting the reservation to avoid the crowds.

And you're right, Ingo, we're staying at the Hilton. Thanks for the update.

We leave in 4 weeks!

I am sure I would be overwhelmed too. Somehow it sounds like a nightmare to me to spend two weeks in cities only - and although each city has nice gardens, parks, recreation areas they're still cities with much traffic and crowds. Huh, I would definitely plan a break somewhere in the countryside (read: mountains).

I cannot really help with the Reichstag restaurant, but I found their website. You can download the menus for June at this website:
http://www.feinkost-kaefer.de/ht_de/...peisekarte.php
Mittagessen=Lunch
Abendessen=dinner

In German only I guess, but you can still get an idea of the prices.

Ingo

Ingo, I had to laugh at your talk about staying so long in the cities. You're absolutely right. We spent 10 nights in Rome a couple months back, and man, was I ready for a break at the end.

But fear not! Although it did not work out to put a break in the middle of our upcoming trip, at the end of this we head straight to the Swiss Alps for 3 weeks of hiking and yodeling (well, maybe not the yodeling part), but we definitely will need to decompress!

Oh, I did not recall that you are going to spend additional 3 weeks in Switzerland after visiting the cities. Now that makes me green of envy!

But I hope to be in Switzerland in early July (for just a week I think), so it is okay ;-)

I.

Ingo: Just a moment of personal thanks for the project you helped me on for Dalton's class. I think that you will be receiving a thank you email from Dalton very soon. Why does it not surprise me that you are headed to Switzerland this summer?? :)

Kopp: Even if the menu is expensive, you do not have to go there for a full meal. You can make a later reservation and have dessert and coffee for far less and avoid the long lines. I have done it both ways and using the restaurant as your entrance is by far the best choice IMHO.

J62: Lots of former Austinites around these boards. :) Glad you had a great trip.