This elegant 600-year-old Weinstube is the coziest choice in Freiburg for tavern dining. It serves a mixture of French and Swabian German cuisine.
Open Thursday to Monday 12:00 to 13:30 and 18:30 to 21:00.
The pewter and earthenware dinner services decorating the walls are art objects in their own right, and the ceramic stove is more than 300 years old.
The food here is elegant and well prepared, emphasizing game, meat, and fish.
New menu items include versions of braised strips of gooseliver, a roulade of black scabbardfish served with king prawns and fennel, and stuffed pigeon with chicory.
There's a fine wine list.
Reservations are required and can be made on 0761 321 90
The restaurant is also closed for 2 weeks in April and the last 2 weeks of August.
Has a beergarden
Other restaurants may offer greater choices or more elegance, but Zur Traube is recognized locally and beyond as Freiburg's leading restaurant. Its chef, Sven Messerschmidt, is the youngest in Germany to have earned a Michelin star.
The Traube (Grape) fuses regional and classical French cuisine with an eye toward inventive use of local wines. Entrees are creative: stuffed baby squid served on lemon risotto with mild curry sauce, carp with Brussels sprouts and caviar sauce, frogs legs in a chestnut crpe, smoked eel with mussels. There's duck in two courses: breast with apples, chestnuts and mushroom dumplings followed by the leg glazed with honey and pepper and served on red cabbage and Spätzle. Or various preparations of lamb served together with sheep-cheese ravioli.
The restaurant, a national monument, received a facelift in 2002 under new innkeeper Doris Hunn with an eye toward historic charm. The dining area was reduced to eight tables (all antique wood), and a mural now displays a scene of the Cathedral market. A medieval tile oven from an Alsatian monastery literally and figuratively warms the room.
Entrees start around €25, and dinner for two can easily exceed €100. Within the same building and under the same management, the Restaurant Oberkirchs Weinstube offers lighter and less expensive choices.
