Top Rated Shopping in Kiel

Would you have guessed? Tea is the world's most popular drink. It doesn't really come as a surprise when you consider how easily it is prepared. The variety of flavours is enormous, and if you can't decide on one of the 5 black teas at the supermarket, you will simply despair at Jasmin's of Holtenauer Straße. They offer more than 100 different flavoured teas. Not only the many black teas are recommended, but the herbal and fruit teas are also very nice. As an additional feature, the store offers beautiful pottery, so it's really worth a visit!

We all know that wine growers no longer use frost protection agents to give their wines a certain quality, but many of them still manipulate the wineyards and grapes in other ways. If you would prefer a wine from a controlled, all natural growing area, Kornblume is a good place to visit. Elke Fahrenkrug's shop at Holsatiamühle offers various French and German white and red wines. And if you prefer milk to wine, well, that's no problem either. Along with other dairy products, bread, rolls and cake, fresh milk is delivered every day. Also available are fruit, vegetables, juices and grains. The grains can even be grated on request.

You don't have to pluck your own bread at the Brotgarten ( or bread garden, as it translates into English), as the friendly shop assistants will do it for you. But the large variety of 20 different sorts of bread and 15 kinds of rolls almost makes you feel like being in a garden with all sorts of different flowers and plants. The wholemeal products are baked with fresh grains which were biologically grown in Schleswig-Holstein's carefully overseen farmlands. The Brotgarten bakers never add any chemicals or preserves to their products.

Many nice Turkish markets can also be found in Kiel. Because of its impressive range of products, the Turkish bakery at Samwerstraße deserves to be mentioned in particular. You can get all kinds of Turkish bakery products here, not just unleavened bread and sesame rings, but also white bread, börek, cake and sweet treats like bakhlava. The unleavened bread is considered one of the best in town. Moreover, the shop offers a large choice of marinated olives, feta, Turkish garlic sausage and tsatziki, as well as lots of fruit and vegetables.

Kiel's largest and most popular weekly market takes place on the Exerzierplatz which is normally used as a parking lot. The people of Kiel can purchase the lovely all natural products from Schleswig-Holstein here - fruit and vegetables from the local farms of the Holsteinische Schweiz and the Probstei, and freshly caught fish from the Baltic Sea and the surrounding lakes. The meat and sausage products are also of guaranteed Holstein origins. Apart from the many culinary delicacies it is the pleasant atmosphere that attracts plenty of regular customers here. Why not visit the Exerzierplatz - market and judge for yourself?

The music store at Europaplatz mainly offers rock pop, hip hop, dance, heavy metal, and alternative CD's and LP's. Behind the sales desk you can always find a selection of rarities, box sets and imports lined up. Whatever is not in stock will be ordered in any case and you can listen to everything before deciding to buy it. The employees are friendly and competent and won't follow you around if you prefer to have a look around by yourself first.