Brasserie Bellanger, Paris
In 2019, younger restaurateurs Victor Dubillot and Charles Perez determined the Paris brasserie scene wanted an replace for the Instagram period. So that they opened this good-value, no-reservations restaurant close to the Gare du Nord. It has a campy pop decor that mixes conventional brasserie components – together with black-and-white honeycomb-tile flooring and red-velvet upholstered Bentwood chairs – with a bolder color scheme and prospers, comparable to hanging copper pans. Traditional dishes prevail, like onion soup, marinated leeks, steak frites (€15), sausage and mash (€13), and Paris-Brest (choux pastry full of hazelnut cream), however there’s additionally a “Veggie du Second” foremost for vegetarians and a fish of the day (€16).
• 140 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75010, common three-course meal €25, victoretcharly.com
Alexander Lobrano
La Mundana, Barcelona
On a residential road 10 minutes’ stroll from Estació de Sants station, La Mundana is informal and reasonably priced, regardless of a well-deserved fame as a critics’ favorite. The sharing dishes take inspiration from each quarter: strive the steamed bun with oxtail stew (€4.80); a smoked lamb carbonara (€12.80) or red-prawn carpaccio with tarragon mayonnaise and a bloody mary gelée (€14). E book forward or threat the long-ish look ahead to one among solely a handful of tables.
• Carrer de Vallespir 93, dishes from €4.80, lamundana.cat
Sally Davies
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Mercato Centrale Roma, Rome
Inside Termini Station, Mercato Centrale thrums with 19 culinary artisans, every with their very own stand. The canteen-style area was a recreation room for railway employees till its market reincarnation in 2016. Meals spans contemporary pasta swirled within the sauce of your selection and Chianina beef burgers to bowls of ramen. Value queueing for are thick-crust pizzas made to order by Pier Daniele Seu, Stefano Callegari’s trapizzini (wedges of crisp dough brimming with meatballs and hen cacciatore) and cheese boards courtesy of Beppe Giovale.
• By way of Giovanni Giolitti 36, mercatocentrale.com
Alexandra Bruzzese
Paris-Moskau, Berlin
Paris-Moskau is a 10-minute stroll from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof station and its backstory intersects with Germany’s railway historical past. In-built 1889 as a railway signalman’s home, it was changed into a guesthouse and inn by a lemonade service provider who labored at Hamburg’s foremost station. These days, it’s named after the Paris-Moscow prepare line and its rustic aesthetic is matched to a beautiful summer season backyard and a fine-dining menu whose presentation is loosely impressed by Russian constructivism: suppose deer and rabbit, smoked eel and guinea hen, in addition to vegetarian dishes.
• Alt-Moabit 141, mains €23, three-course lunch €22.90, paris-moskau.de
Paul Sullivan
Meat Beer, Prague
Regardless of its caveman-sounding title, this back-to-basics place reverse Hlavní nádraží (foremost station) is a cultured joint. Opened in late 2018, it’s Hoxton-diner in fashion: minimalist picket chairs encompass shiny copper tables and large slabs of striploin cling in a big fridge. It makes use of native elements to offer the likes of goulash, schnitzel and roasted duck a tasty twist. The lunch menu is nice worth (foremost and soup for €5) and the non-Czech dishes come extremely advisable, too (pork ribs with apple horseradish, adopted by gooey, chocolately Cognac tip).
• Washingtonova 23, mains from €7, meatbeer.cz
Mark Pickering
La Ruche, Brussels
On the strategy to the Gare du Midi/Zuidstation – dealing with the fantastic and large Midi Market on Sunday mornings – this was once a Moroccan breakfast cafe however, in 2019, opened underneath new house owners. It specialises in steak, which the employees advocate you eat “blue” to style the standard, however will cheerfully prepare dinner to your liking. Attempt do-it-yourself conventional Belgian cheese or shrimp croquettes to begin, ice-cream-based desserts to complete, and a home cocktail or mocktail, too. Service is within the authentic eating room or exterior on the terrace, climate allowing.
• Boulevard Jamar 1B, mains from €13, laruchebrussels.be
Emily Waterfield
Cafe Kulturalna, Warsaw
After the second world struggle, ruined Warsaw was rebuilt with a surprisingly trendy side. The world round Warszawa Centralna, the primary railway station, now has a high-rise glass-and-steel skyline harking back to an American metropolis. The primary tower to go up, in 1955, was the Soviet-designed Palace of Culture and Science (PKiN). As soon as interpreted as an upturned syringe symbolic of Soviet oppression, it now screens Hollywood films with Polish subtitles. It’s solely a brief stroll from trains coming in from throughout Europe. The constructing has develop into so kitsch that it seems on the sleeve tattoo of the lady behind the bar at its floor flooring cafe-restaurant and occasions venue, Kulturalna. Right here, a bean–and-oyster-mushroom stew is served up for £5.50 and do-it-yourself muffins value round £2.40.
• Plac Defilad 1, kulturalna.pl
Keith Lockram
Grand Café Restaurant 1e Klas, Amsterdam
The high-ceilinged all-day restaurant on Centraal station’s platform 2B was as soon as the ready room for first-class passengers and retains a lot of this old-world splendour, with artwork deco lighting and intricately painted fin-de-siècle wall and ceiling ornament. The huge, conventional menu fits all budgets, starting from sandwiches (from €6) and pancakes (€9.50), for lunch, to a three-course dinner (€34) with mains, comparable to duck in Grand Marnier and ribeye steak. Some come only for the €8 espresso and cake “combideal”. All are watched over by Elvis, an imperious cockatoo who struts alongside the bar.
• Stationsplein 15, accessible ticket-free through stairs close to foremost entrance, restaurant1eklas.nl
Deborah Nicholls-Lee
Supawan, London
Bedecked in shows from the florist store subsequent door, Supawan raises a smile even earlier than a chunk has been taken of the punchy southern Thai meals. For lunch select between rice dishes (stir-fried aubergine with chilli and basil, served with rice and fried egg, for instance) and spicy-sour soups. The dinner menu is extra intensive, that includes zingy salads, noodles, wealthy curries and mains, together with Gung Ob Woon Sen (steamed king prawns, with glass noodles, pork stomach with ginger and Star Anise). Each menus have loads of vegetarian choices. A world away from the Instagrammable joints popping up within the restored railway arches of Coal Drops Yard, Supawan is liked by locals, guests and meals critics alike: former Guardian reviewer Marina O’Loughlin described reeling out “gobsmacked with pleasure”.
• 38 Caledonian Street, lunch dishes from £9.50, dinner mains from £13.50, supawan.co.uk
Isabel Choat
Café Goldegg, Vienna
Only a few minutes stroll from the Hauptbahnhof in Vienna is this excellent artwork nouveau cafe relationship again to 1910. With its Bentwood chairs, green-velvet cubicles and mirrors, the place appears like a relic however, in actual fact, a good curry (€13.90) or panini (€7.90) might be picked up. Constructed to entertain railway employees, it had a revolutionary socialist custom resisting Nazi influences proper as much as 1941. The clientele are primarily locals and the ambiance is right down to earth. Good for espresso and cake through the day or a beer and a sport of billiards till early night (it closes at 8pm every day).
• Argentinierstraße 49, cafegoldegg.atis
Christopher Brennan
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