Best and worst restaurants:
Best: Hotel Restaurant Reichsstadt in Gengenbach.
Why: Best food in Germany. Gerhard Hummel is a gourmet chef with very tasty dishes. This wasn't in the book, but should be.
Jerry Nakano in Orange, CA USA 08/02/2010
Worst: Restaurant at Frankentrum Hotel in Trier
Why: One is a fact, another is our opinion. Fact: It was just an Italian restaurant and we did not find any “German cuisine with a twist of Asian and Mediterranean” you mentioned in the book. Opinion: The standard treatment here is they don’t want your business. How possibly can you recommend this restaurant! The waiters said they did not speak English when we asked them for help in ordering our dinner, and they kept repeating “pizza, pizza”. How rude! Our friend asked for a specific wine and the waiter said they did not have it and went away. He could not be bothered to recommend another wine, although we could see a huge variety behind the bar. The restaurant was not busy. It had a bigger party sat next to us, who looked like locals and spoke German, but seemed to receive the same kind of cold treatment by the waiters. We did not leave at that point because we had children in tow and it was somewhat late. We thought we could not go wrong with your recommendation. Our group of 8 were finishing our appetizer, pasta and pizza, and our server came to tell us he spoke English after a certain time of the day. He did not seem friendly and offered no apologies. We were not amused.
ASN in Concord, MA USA 07/15/2010