"Hotel guests are a captive audience, and the cook can treat them as slaves. Normally we would avoid a hotel restaurant, and certainly at a tourist castle! For whatever reason, we dined here on two evenings and enjoyed every minute.The cocktail Linari was too sweet for my taste, but the wife enjoyed it (4.20 Euros). I also found the by-the-glass Geldermann sparkling wine rather on the sweet side (4.90 Euros). Our waitress, totally in charge, brought as an amuse-bouche half of a small cooked potato with curds and a slice of radish: a perfect start for the Spreewald area. The ceasar salad with scampis was good (12 Euros) as was the white asparagus soup (6 Euros). White asparagus was the theme of the day, with sauce hollandaise and cooked potatoes with brown butter. The filets of pikeperch and catfish were good (22 Euros), and the generous pork chop from a local, domestic pig was fabulous! (22 Euros). On the second evening we had salmon filet (14 Euros) and roasted wild boar with green asparagus and home-made gnocchi (17 Euros), both excellent choices. As for wine by the glass, the blanc de noir was very good as was the German St. Laurent (1/4 liter for 11.30 Euros). The Rioja Reserva was ripe and smooth and matched the roast boar very well (0.75 Liters for 48 Euros). Sparkling water (Liebenwerda) cost 5.50 Euros for a 0.75 liter bottle. Not to forget the tonka bean creme brulee, a small but very satisfying sin after all that food! (7 Euros).The interior is spacious, the wait staff competent. After the meal, Rocco's Bar next door offers a relaxed landscape of sofas and armchairs to enjoy a glass of Tempranillo (8 Euros) or a 16 year old Lagavulin (6.30 Euros). It doesn't get much better than this, and we were not here for the last time, that's for sure."
