"A31, that meant so far between Meppen and Leer Moor, meadows, wind turbines, a lonely and empty highway and at most a snack bar in between. The A31 to the north is a way to important customers in North German oil and natural gas. I drive that section very often. Usually there is nothing that would make you come back. But now, on one of my last trips there, at the Dörpen, Heede, Bourtange exit, a restaurant sign was noticed, at the top of a new building that could be seen from the highway. On the way to a gas compressor station, my Navi led me to this departure from the highway. And it was lunchtime. Shortly determined against the instructions of my passenger not to the right, but to the left and to the new restaurant. At the last 100 meters, you ask what an investor is moving to open a restaurant in the commercial area. If you turn into the commercial area, you will first see a large concrete wall with the lettering : Kannelloni Pizza Pasta and still something in large red letters unobservable on gray concrete. Italian cuisine, not the worst alternative for a lunch and certainly better than the snack bar, which once again threatened in the Friesian gas field. The building was completely new, with a plant in the building, inviting: Before the entrance a beautiful terrace for the warmer days, but on my day of visit this was no alternative. That's why she was in good room, and that's what she really was. Here someone had done a lot of love. Edler country style, lots of wood in natural tones, large wine racks as room dividers, well-structured space, tables for 2 to 12 people, a counter with cake bars, coffee machines. The operator also calls a coffee roasting company that this was also a topic here, could be instantly sniffed. The tables also presented themselves clean and cozy. The map offers Italian cuisine, pasta, pizza and more. There is also a breakfast sabot, cakes and the coffees of the roastery. You really feel comfortable. I didn't expect that. I opened the map, there are still daily dishes on a table. Relatively fast, I chose a pasta dish. An apple juice choir, very stylish from the Fritz Buben from Hamburg. After a reasonable waiting period, my dish was served: Fried salmon fillet on lemon pasta, with warm antipasti The pasta should be homemade according to the map, so first of all the tested. That wasn't the worst of my life. Al dente, it's the kitchen. Bon. The salmon was grilled, a piece too much for me. He was too grilled, I like it a little more glazed inside, but this is certainly a minority preference in Emsland. In addition, a well tasted lemon cream sauce. The combination was really tasty. Only the antipasti did not want to fit right, but I ate the just in front of it separately and did the unhappy combination. And because it was so tempting for freshly roasted coffee, there was still an espresso. But it was very gently roasted. Little bitter substances, little acidity, me almost a little too flat in aroma. But this perception also applies to my own preferences in terms of coffee. Conclusion: I will surely return. Certainly the best motorway break alternatives between Bottrop and Emden I know. I'll be happy and safe. And try the combined water and hot air taps in the very stylish toilets! Then the engineer and the layman wonder...when it drows your hands under the faucet!"
