El Puerto, Puerto del Carmen

El Puerto in Puerto del Carmen

„Was machen sie wenn es voll wird?“ – an diese Worte von Restauranttester Christian Rach habe ich gedacht, als ich das Restaurant „El Puerto“ in der Calle Teide in Puerto del Carmen zum ersten Mal besuchte. Denn es waren mit uns nur zwei Tische besetzt und dennoch haben wir auf unser Essen eine ganze Stunde gewartet und anschließend noch 30 Minuten mehr auf die Rechnung.

El Puerto ist ein Restaurant mit deutscher Küche und so finden sich Gerichte wie Schnitzel und Geschnetzeltes auf der Karte, allerdings mit kanarischen Einflüssen. Leider waren bei unserem Besuch die Deckenventilatoren nicht eingeschaltet, und so wurde es mir immer wärmer. Der Geruch von altem Fett in meiner Ecke hat meine Laune auch nicht viel geholfen.

Hier empfiehlt sich dann doch einer der zwei Tische vor dem Lokal zu sitzen, auch wenn diese direkt an der Straße sind. Im Lokal selbst ist die Deko eine Mischung aus Deutsch, vor allem Thüringisch, und Fisch- bzw. Meeresthemen. Als Hintergrundmusik spielte Radio von MDR.

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El Puerto, Puerto del Carmen

El Puerto in Puerto del Carmen„What do they do if it’s full?” – the words of Germany’s chef and restaurant tester Christian Rach came to mind as I visited “El Puerto” in the Calle Teide in Puerto del Carmen for the first time.  Only two tables – including ours – had anyone at them, and yet we had to wait a whole hour for our food and another 30 minutes for the bill.

El Puerto is a restaurant that serves German food, so schnitzel and geschnetzeltes have been combined with Canarian influences.  Unfortunately, when we visited, the ceiling fans were not working, and during the evening it kept getting warmer.  The smell of old fat in my corner of the restaurant didn’t help my first opinion either.

It is probably therefore better to sit at one of the two tables in front of the restaurant, even though these are next to the road.  Otherwise, the inside is decorated with a mixture of German, in particular Thuringian, and fish and nautical themes.  The music is provided by MDR, an station in the Eastern part of Germany. [Read more…]

Voting on the future of Stuttgart’s station

Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof - ©iStockphoto.com/AndreasWeber

After over a year of protests, the residents of the state of Baden-Württemberg will be voting tomorrow in a referendum on the future of the main station in Stuttgart.

The project, called “Stuttgart 21”, plans to demolish part of the station and take the railway lines underground.  The so-called “Kopfbahnhof”, a station where the tracks end and trains go in and out of, would then become a “Durchgangsbahnhof”, where tracks and trains run through from one side to the other, resulting in a number of changes to the rail network in the area.

A year ago, the politicians were saying that the project had been decided on in a long planning process, and that nothing could be changed.  Then there was a conciliation process (“Schlichtung”) where alternatives where looked at, and apart from the railway being required to prove that the new station would really bring a benefit to the network, not much changed.

However after the local elections in March of this year, the political situation in Baden-Württemberg changed considerably, when the CDU/FDP coalition, who had been in favour of the project lost such a large share of the vote, that a new Green/SPD coalition was formed to take control of the local parliament. [Read more…]

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