I had been in Bonn in business for about a week. This was my second trip of the month and I was beginning to get more than a little bored. Bored of work, bored of Bonn but most of all bored of the bad Italian food that seemed to be served everywhere in Bonn.
I saw a train going to Bad Godesberg and Googled ‘best restaurant Bad Godesberg’. Of course the results were mostly sponsored nonsense and random restaurants. I tried again, this time adding ‘Italian’ to the search string. The top hit was a blog written by an American who had been living in Bonn for some time and was due to go back to the US. She explained that there was only one restaurant that she knew she would visit again before leaving; it was called Terra e Vino.
The blog post explained that this restaurant was hidden behind a row of shops; it was Bonn’s best-kept secret. I rang a colleague and 30 minutes later we got off the train at Bad Godesberg Banhoff. The instructions in the post were clear: turn right out of the station and keep walking until you see a courtyard on the left. We did as instructed and sure enough we found the restaurant nestled in what looked like a car park.
The restaurant didn’t look much from outside, but we had come this far and we certainly weren’t going to back out now! This was a very rustic place; we walked past the tiny, open kitchen and could see the seating area beside the enormous racks of wine. I knew immediately that this was going to be fun…
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