Spätzle-Schwob

The owner is very nice, very accommodating and informative. The rooms are quaint, comfortable and cozy. The view from each room of either the street below or the rooftops (if your room is on the top floor) is quite nice. Breakfast is ample and great for a day of site seeing in town. Internet is ok, best if used in the dining area.

When I arrived at Gausthaus Edith located in the heart of charming Rothenberg I thought I had found the best value in all of Europe. I made a direct reservation for just 68 euro for a room that was bright, clean, and offered both a private bathroom and windows looking out at the town. (By contrast I had a room in Haarlem with windows looking at a brick wall). Unfortunately Edith made two missteps for which I deducted a star each. First, the mattress is just terrible. This could be solved easily. Second, involved breakfast. I read online breakfast was offered for 8 Euro in the restaurant run by her son. This sounded like a fair deal so I agreed to it at check in. The next morning I went downstairs and found a small spead typical of German lodgings along with an offer from Edith to cook eggs. While breakfast was served in her son's restaurant it certainly wasn't a restaurant breakfast Spending 8 euro here was a mistake and I wish I had gone down the block to Brot Zeit instead. If the room had been just a bit more per night and breakfast included I would not have minded and it is still likely I would have booked this place.

Nice little restaurant with great food. They are a little aside but the food is very tasty and they are the only one in the old city where you can get food after 21 o'clock. Service is friendly and professional. Nice white wine but hope they get some good red wines also.

The secound best schnitzel i ever had. If they had a sauce (except mushroom sause) it would be 5 The staff did their very best to please me, so they send out the chef. He suggest something that made me pleased. So...the food was great, the staff was so nice, the calm music they played went so good to the area. But it is a pity that cars drive in to those nice, small streets.

We had just arrived into town and we really wanted some spätzle. The reviews for this place seemed decent enough so we decided to give it a go. The first warning sign perhaps should have been the cold sterile LED lighting and the fact that...the place was empty aside from an old couple at dinner time. But we stayed anyway. The second warning sign should have been when we ordered beers, they all had a noticeable off flavor my pilsner smelled like egg salad a sign of contamination. It was perhaps the only place in our two week trip across the entire Germany where we didn't finish our beer. But we ordered anyway. Literally nothing went well after that. They were out of several items on the menu. At one point the entire restaurant was permeated with the smell of cigarette smoke. The kitchen staff was arguing loudly enough for us to hear them. The place was so uncomfortably quiet that we could hear the old couple crunching through their pork hock from two tables away. Food took over a half hour to arrive even when we were the only other people there. The sauces were generally one dimensional and salty. The meats were overcooked. Their namesake spätzle was mushy and overcooked. My friend's steak was accompanied by half a plate of plain and bland spätzle. The waitress was perhaps the single slightly bright spot. She was friendly and checked up on us several times and generally did a fair job. But I don't think there was saving this meal. I just don't get it. I would never eat here again. We're we eating at a different restaurant from the one all the positive reviewers were eating at