Strasbourg Restaurants

There are cafes in this town that make a very unique dish called Flammkuche, which means cooked dough, or something like that. It's basically a white pizza concoction that has ham strips on it with spicy local cheese. Very tasty and eaten with knife and fork. Excuse my spelling if it is not correct or the translation is not either.

The best place to find good breakfast is a bakery. We found this outside of Strasbourg in a small town called Bensheim. They are the center of any communty, these bakeries. Follow your nose or the local people early in the morning. Fresh bread, heavenly croissants-buttery or filled with marzipan or chocolate, even a meat and cheese baquette. A cafe 'o latte will get you started for the day.

Favorite Dish: We had a baguette with chesse and meat but the marzipan filled croissant was so perfect! Lite and buttery! The cafe latte was hot and flavorful (and I am not a fan of coffe) Steamed milk really makes it perfect.

Strasbourg is crawling with restaurants. We had some work to do to find one, as we all wanted to savour Alsace's fine cuisine, but Marguerite didn't want any meat. You won't have any problem finding a good (and somewhat affordable) place.

Enjoy the unique blend of German and French flavours that Strasbourg provides. It's really fabulous.

Favorite Dish: Späetzle (fried potato pasta) and baekeoffe, a very large soufflé of veal, pork, and lamb with potatoes, carrots and herbs, all stewed in a big earthenware pot. The dish serves three people easily and would be perfect for four, if you haven't exerted yourself traveling.

Classy restaurant in the Petite France old town. Don't order appetizers if you want to give choucroute a try, your stomach might regret it. If you re not especially hungry, don't order one choucroute per person, it's too much already ....

Friendly staff served us Alsatian food in a place which was a mix of flair and cozyness. The Alsatian red and white checkered table cloths were mixed with 20s style film star posters and a high ceiling. There was also vegetarian spätzle so no worries for us :-)

The city centre is full of restaurants serving typical Alsatian fare. I'm an 'almost vegetarian' (who still likes the look of meat so it was tricky here) but one who enjoys local food and I thought I'd have problem since Alsace is all about mountains of sausages and sauerkraut but the touristy street near the cathedral had vegetarian tarte flambees (like a really flat pizza and often served with smoked pork and onion) and salads with melted local Munster cheese. I also eat fish sometimes which was delicious here as it is served in local white wine sauce (although maybe not to be eaten every day since it is river fish) and often with spätzle - gnocchi looking pasta made of an almost thicker Yorkshire pudding batter. Yummy! The photo here shows the style of the local restaurants.

There were several good restaurants..I ate at the hotel restaurant (kammer-zell) directly on the Cathedral square and enjoyed wild boar, Alos the Ancienne Douane is close by and is a little on the Tourist side but great food, and a small weinstube called 'Le Port du Corbeau' this wasn't far from the Ancienne Douane..just the other side of the bridge along the canal..I arrived about 1900 and the place was empty..I was asked if I had a reservation, no, but was seater anyway...Within an hour the place was completely full...It is a well kept secret..reservations or early arrival is a good idea...The concierge at the hotel in Bitsche had recommended this place and it was a good tip
The Le Port du Corbeau was moderately priced, but had the traditional hand written menu and it was full of locals.

Favorite Dish: Without hesitation the local Charcroute which is a mountain of sour kraut topped with several types of sausages and pork cuts..There are several variations, ie egg, fish, etc..but the secret is the sour kraut

'Aux Deux France' Restaurant-Bierstub
I sat outside, but I did have to use the washroom and I remember it being quite pretty actually. I don't know if that's important, but I liked it. The waitress was a bit snotty but hey; it's France. The nicest aspect of this place is that it's right next to the canal, and if you follow it about 20 meter's down the right side of the restaurant, you end up amongst a couple of tiny shops run by a local artist selling an interesting collection of the wierd and wonderful. :o)

Favorite Dish: To be honest, all I had was a wonderful pastry covered in powdered sugar, and 4-5 Espresso's, but it was all good.