"This is the Austrian style restaurant in the Alpenland hotel. Normally I would avoid a hotel restaurant like the plague too many years in sales, trekking up and down the motorway in my Ford Sierra, staying in anonymous forgettable chains. But it's a nice hotel, rather better than the rep places I used to stay in. Most of the residents are families on holiday rather than reps, though there are a few obviously here on business. Every night is a special menu night. I don't think they do an à la carte menu, though there may well be one available on request. First night was Ribs night. Help yourself to Gulaschsuppe and then to the salad buffet. I'm not wildly keen on goulash soup, though my wife is a big fan. The salad buffet was okay but not as good as in the hotel's Italian restaurant at the far end of the corridor. A rack of pork spare ribs came. It was fine. It came with Sauté potatoes although we had asked for chips, but I was happy with them. It would have been churlish to complain about something that I didn't care about! But not as good as the ribs at the Rübezahlalm in Scheffau. A couple of nights later came Wiener Schnitzel evening. Well I can take em or leave em, but my wife loves them. I prefer my veal not cooked in batter. But I perked up when I realised that there was a choice on the menu, and not just a choice between veal, Turkey or pork Schnitzel. Starter was Rindsuppe mit Fleischstrudel. That's beef consommé and meat strudel. You know Apfelstrudel of course? Well imagine a savoury one with minced beef. I had no idea what to expect, but it was very good indeed. Salad from the salad table again. My wife liked her Wienerschnitzel. My main course was leg of lamb in onion and thyme sauce with green beans and polenta knödel. Well the polenta was the best polenta ever! Not something I usually enjoy, this was delicious. I don't usually order a sweet but Apfelstrudel arrived unexpectedly but yummily, with a little scoop of slightly melted raspberry ice cream."
