Landhotel Saarschleife - Mettlach

Amazingly nice place with fine local cuisine, friendly personal and nice decor details. You can taste a variety of seasonal dishes as well as local specialities nicely tuned by the chef.

Open on Sunday, we decided to eat here as we were visiting the Saarschleife. English speaking waitress, but there is no English menu (only German). Nice selection if wines by glass with many local options. The food we ordered was good (rabbit and fish) and...the portions were quite big. At almost euros per main we found it expensive though, because after all this is no haute cuisine. Also, feel free to skip the dessert : we paid euros for a very average tiramisu. That was a bad idea.

Stayed in this hotel and went for dinner one evening. It is the old exclusive' food thing. a Ceasar salade (without salad or other standard ingredients) and lamb chops with some strange dressings for euro. After that we ate in the Italian on...the other side of the street and in a very recommendable place (but closes early) in the forest, Blumentale Biergarten... served delicious food in big quantity for less than half the price.

Fine dining, great service. Really, it was a pleasant surprise. I do hope they hold on to this level, and I will be there again.

The streetside terrace and its evening sun got my attention. Then I noticed the high prices and the snooty attitude of the waiters (at least they were fast and efficient). They brought some free taster of a weird jelly and egg concoction that seemed like...something my grandmother would have eaten during the great depression. The mains seemed to be based around local produce so I got the pork cutlet. For it was a single cutlet it seemed like a very good cut of meat, however, it also seemed overcooked and a bit rubbery. There were a lot of good veges with it and potato cakes but they seemed designed to fill out the dish cheaply. The wine list was extensive, including a lot of Mosel wines at decent prices. Overall though, it needs to try a lot harder to justify those prices and that attitude.