You can almost get anything you can imagine. However seafood in huge variations are one of the main fares. Fish and seafood restaurants are everywhere. A must is the famous fish market. Go in the evening to a disco, stay up until 03.00 in the morning, grab a taxi and drive to the fish market. The fishermen will display their fresh!!! catch and prepare it to your liking or his recommendation in front of you. A typical Bauernfrühstück farmers breakfast might be more to your liking. Fried potatoes with onions, eggs and bacon. The typical joints serving this are very simple, cheap and hardly any service but portions which served as full pan, half pan and quarter pan. The quarter is big enough for a normal human being. Finkenwerder Scholle a whole sole with baco (here can can prove that you know how to eat fish), Labskaus a potato dish with marinated herring and red beet and as a desert Rote Grütze various red berries with ice cream or vanilla sauce. Herring is prepared in numerous variations, try some of them.

As everywhere else in Germany beer is high on the beverage list. Hamburg has couple of own brews, Holsten, Astra and Duckstein. You have a few Mini breweries, the best known are Groeninger Privatbrauerei

Even though the city has only 1.7 m inhabitants, it probable has one of the world largest entertainment areas of any kind. It's a part of the city called St. Pauli. Unique in it's own way. It has it's own beer St. Pauli Girl, it's own "girly area", it's own football club FC. St. Pauli and anything from cabaret to pubs, theatre and it's own church for those who have sinned.