Alt Weimar - Menu

Best dining in three weeks in Germany. Sensitive serving staff, delightful ambience, varied and carefully planned tasting menu. Very special

This place is special. Right from the first course of our set menu Euros to the dessert we were impressed by the use of local and seasonal ingredients either imaginative use of common products, such as the beetroot soup, or the introduction of...vegetables and products we are not familiar with. It is light cuisine up until the meat course, at which point it becomes a proper feast; I like that approach, because the chef can show hisher skill over a series of dishes and then feed you. Excellent wine list, and some of the local wines are well worth trying Traminer from Gussek was well made indeed. Service with a smile too, although how she can cope on her own if it is more than half full I have...

Alt Weimar was our biggest dispointment in Weimar. They try very hard to be a top gastronomic restaurant but in the end they just fail to deliver. Just to give a few examples: the accompanying wines of the menu were limited to a half glass...per dish. What's even worse: they were given to us without any further insights on the wine provided. The bottles weren't shown and the wine glass was presented with an explanation like: 'this is a wine from Austria...' we're not kidding. To us all wines tasted of the same poor quality. To make things even worse: our dessert came half melted away and was presented with the words: 'das dessert ist eingesturtzt' once again we're not kidding. On the positiv...