Traben-Trarbach Restaurant Tips by ATLC Top 5 Page for this destination

Im Kitt'che: Lunch in jail!

A Kitt is a jail and this restaurant is a former prison!
The text on the wall (2nd photo in this tip) reads:
Hier fass ein mancher manches Jahr
weil's früher ein Gefängniss war.
Doch heut' geht jeder sorglos ein
und lässt sich gern gefangen sein!

Here stayed many, many a year
because it used to be a prison
but now everyone comes in without a care
and enjoys being kept prisoner!

Well, if you go to the toilet, you will find that it is behind actual heavy jail doors (see 4th photo in this tip).

Favorite Dish: The Moselweinsuppe (Mosel wine soup, 5th photo in this tip) was creamy and had grapes in it. Globetrott will probably say: there's a Tourist Trap again! haha.
After that I had a roasted potato with garlic cream and salad. Washed it down with Apfelschorle (that mix of applejuice and bubbly mineral water).
My dearest thought the Wiener schnitzel was very tasty but a bit greasy. However, a Bitburger quickly neutralises that!

Address: Brueckenstrasse, Trarbach

Comparison: about average

Directions: Turn right, immediately after you pass the Brueckentor, about halfway the street on your right hand. It has an outside terrace.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 3

Theme: Local

Claus Fesst: Impeccable service

This is the hotelrestaurant of hotel Bellevue (see my accommodation tip). Here also the service is impeccable. All 3 nights that we ate here, the restaurant was booked full.
The head waitress caused us a bit of a giggle. The first night she bowed across to me, quite close, and half-whispered: Hat es Ihnen gut geschmeckt? (did you enjoy it?). It caused me to jump. We watched her do it at other tables. It was completely correct, I don't know why we thought it was so funny. The whole week we'd whisper to each other in that same tone: Hat es Ihnen gut geschmeckt? and then burst out laughing...

However, nothing than praise for the staff. Apart from the lack of a wine waiter, the service couldn't be better. Swift, hardly noticeable and yet completely attentive to your every wish. Nope, I'm not being paid to say this. But I hope to come back one day :-)

Favorite Dish: First night: rabbit with a barley accompaniment, and a delightful chocolate cake with mocca sauce and a small scoop of blackberry sorbet.
Second night: salad with feta and French dressing, a very chic onion soup (nothing of the typical country-coarseness here!), excellently prepared beef roast and for dessert a buttermilk pudding with red berry sauce.
Both nights, dinners were part of our arrangement (2 nights, including half board).

Third night: We ate a la carte. A terrine of baby chicken with duck liver in the middle, then fish (I think haddock) with scallops and fresh homemade pasta, for dessert (see 4th photo which doesn't do it justice!) a freshly baked tart with damsons (Quetschen?) with cappucino sauce, berries and almond icecream.

The wine chart has a big choice of Mosel wines of course. You can order a choice of 2 cl. caraffes. We chose a 2005 Spätlese (white) and a 2006 red Mosel.

Address: An der Mosel 11-12 56841 Traben-Trarbach

Comparison: more expensive than average

Other Contact: info@bellevue-hotel.de

Phone: +49 6541/703-0

Price: US$41 and up

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Website: http://www.bellevue-hotel.de/