Our verified places
Every place is checked on the ground and on paper: exact address, prices actually charged, real booking practice and a genuine Google rating. A place that drops in quality comes out of the guide.
Stay
17 places
7Hotel&Spa
A spa designed for everyone: separate family and adults-only sessions, large relaxation ar…
Cour du Corbeau
An inn of 1580 with carved wooden galleries and a spa in the vaulted cellars: the Cour du …
Diana Hôtel & Spa
A heated pool, a hammam and even a salt cave, at the exact start of the Alsace wine route:…
Hilton Strasbourg
The one genuinely large heated indoor pool in Strasbourg hotels, with sauna and hammam, of…
Hôtel D
Hammam, infrared sauna, whirlpool bath, and the cathedral a few minutes away: the Hôtel D …
L'Ami Fritz
A jacuzzi turned towards the vines and a Bib Gourmand restaurant below Mont Sainte-Odile: …
Le Bouclier d'Or
A historic house in the Tanners' quarter and a small spa you can book privately: Le Boucli…
Le Colombier
Taking a bath in riesling in the middle of the vineyard: Le Colombier at Obernai turns the…
Le Moulin de La Wantzenau
An old mill on the water, a complete spa and the lowest starting rate of our regional sele…
Les Haras
Eighteenth-century royal stables turned award-winning design hotel, with an hour of spa ac…
Maison Rouge
An Autograph Collection hotel right on Place Kléber, with a full spa downstairs. The best …
Monopole Métropole
A genuine sauna and hammam pair in a well-kept Art Deco hotel opposite the station, at a p…
Regent Petite France
A former mill on the water, windows on the Ponts Couverts, with an indoor jet pool, jacuzz…
Régent Contades
A private townhouse in the UNESCO-listed Neustadt, with hammam, sauna and jacuzzi under a …
Sofitel Grande Île
Strasbourg's only five-star hotel in the centre, three minutes from Place Kléber: French s…
YONA and Yonaguni Spa
A Japanese-inspired spa complex at Obernai on the Alsace wine route: indoor and outdoor po…
voco The Garden
An IHG hotel in the Halles district built around an indoor pool and a lot of greenery. Spa…
Drink
11 places
Académie de la Bière
Strasbourg's beer institution: more than a hundred references, an old bistro room on the P…
Café Bretelles
Strasbourg's first coffee shop (2014), Mokxa beans you choose by origin and real home cook…
Café des Sports
A vintage wood-panelled bistro, a table football table, hundreds of wines and many of them…
Jaja
A quiet square in the Krutenau, a sharply chosen natural wine list, an easy terrace: Jaja …
La Kulture
The hybrid address of the moment: Mokxa coffee and precise brewing in the afternoon, conce…
Le Boui-Boui
The smallest bar in this selection and perhaps the most endearing: 22 square metres on rue…
Le Grincheux
Pints the local press calls almost unbeatable value, a whisky list that runs on forever an…
Le Purgatoire
Drinking under the vaults of a former chapel: the most surprising room in the Krutenau, a …
Le XX Bar à Vins
The wine bar Krutenau regulars recommend without hesitating: Alsace by the glass, a warm r…
Léobar
A cat-themed look, 70 wines with a large biodynamic share, serious cocktails and a terrace…
Rouge
Natural wine, beer brewed next door, boards to share: the bar that sums up the Krutenau, a…
Eat
16 places
Al Diwan
Generous mezze, family cooking and remarkable consistency: the Lebanese address on rue Mun…
Au Cruchon
A small room and great consistency: 4.6 on Google for the winstub on rue des Pucelles, ope…
Au Pont Corbeau
Gault&Millau calls it the city's last family winstub: a room full of regulars beside the I…
Brasserie de la Bourse
The classic big brasserie on the bank of the Ill: served every day until 11pm, €31 to €45 …
Chez Yvonne (S'Burjerstuewel)
The winstub Jacques Chirac visited on every trip to Strasbourg: 150 years of choucroute, a…
La Binchstub
No booking, ever: you queue, and you understand why with the first tarte flambée out of th…
La Corde à Linge
Unbeatable setting on place Benjamin-Zix, well known spaetzle, but a welcome too erratic: …
La Petite Mairie
A family winstub, an Alsatian tavern, thirty seconds from Place Broglie: 4.6 on Google, ge…
Lamian
Open seven days a week without a break, Lamian pulls Chinese noodles by hand five minutes …
Le Banquet des Sophistes
4.8 on Google, more than 2,300 reviews: the best rating in our whole selection. The bistro…
Le Saint-Sépulcre
One of the best rated winstubs in the centre, a listed shopfront, ham baked in pastry and …
Le Tire-Bouchon
Open seven days a week two minutes from the cathedral, 4.3 on nearly 5,700 reviews, and on…
Mama Bubbele
Tartes flambées, shared tables and cheap daily specials on the quai des Bateliers: 4.5 on …
Piano Grill
A contemporary French grill on one of the quietest squares in old Strasbourg: 4.6 on Googl…
Santa Elena
Charcoal grilled Argentinian cuts, empanadas and Malbec on rue Sainte-Hélène: 4.7 on Googl…
Zuem Strissel
A sixteenth century monument facing the Ancienne Douane, and a Google rating of 3.8. Our p…
Attractions
10 places
Barrage Vauban
A late seventeenth-century dam built to Vauban's plans, whose rooftop terrace gives the fi…
La Petite France
The old tanners' quarter, its timber-framed houses leaning over the canals: the most photo…
Maison Kammerzell
A fifteenth-century stone ground floor, three carved timber storeys from 1589 and 75 bottl…
Museum of Modern Art Strasbourg
Opened in 1998 and designed by Adrien Fainsilber, the MAMCS shows its twentieth-century co…
Palais Rohan
Built between 1732 and 1742 for the prince-bishops of Rohan, the palace now holds the deco…
Parc de l'Orangerie
The biggest park near the centre: a lake, the Pavillon Joséphine and white storks in the o…
Place Kléber
The largest square in the centre, lined by the Aubette and its abstract 1920s interiors, a…
Place de la République
A circular garden ringed by monumental late nineteenth-century buildings: the square sums …
Ponts Couverts
Three surviving watchtowers of the original four, lined up over the water: the Ponts Couve…
Strasbourg Cathedral
The cathedral at a glance: how you get in, when the nave is open, what is free and what is…