Restaurants and Cafés in Leipzig

Leipzig offers a variety traditional inn classics, where you will be served typical Saxon food. Here you can still dine where personalities such as Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz, Johann Gottfried Seume or Richard Wagner once stopped by. Or you can take a seat in Auerbachs Keller, where Goethe once dined and enjoy the famous Mädler Passage your lunch. Here you will find the restaurants and inns that should be on your itinerary when you are visiting Leipzig for the first time. 

Fine Dining with a view? Then enjoy your meal in the Panoramic Tower − Plate of Art at a height of 120 metres with a fabulous view over the whole of Leipzig. Or you can have it in Macis Biorestaurant You can enjoy vegan and particularly delicious food in the restaurant Z dine. And also in the Imperial bath you can admire extraordinary food, because here you will be enchanted not only by the menu but also by the special ambience of the industrial architecture.

Discover restaurants that will provide you with unforgettable taste experiences. 

For tradition alone, coffee and Leipzig simply belong together - because it was here that Germany’s first coffeehouse musicians entertained their guests: Georg Philipp Telemann played in the coffeehouses on the market with the Collegium musicum, founded in 1701. And Johann Sebastian Bach visited the Zimmermann coffee house in Katharinenstraße twice a week. His coffee cantata is even considered the high point of Saxon coffee house music. The best thing about it: In the city's traditional cafés you can still feel the spirit of those times today.

You can also enjoy excellent food outside the city limits of Leipzig. Especially after a day trip to the region You can stop off at one of the many inns along the way. Whether in rustic atmosphere, under historic vault or with wonderful view over the Neuseenland − On the culinary journey of discovery there is all sorts of things to admire and, above all, to taste. In the country inns and restaurants of the Leipzig region, hand-picked ingredients from regional producers zu Saxon classics, but also delicate creations arranged that you should definitely try.