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Restaurants in the Black Forest range from award-winning dining rooms to simple country inns. Old Kachelöfen (tile stoves) are still in use in many area restaurants; try to sit near one if it's cold outside.
Chef Florian Stolte creates beautiful dishes using international ingredients with an Asian twist in this one-Michelin star restaurant in the Traube Tonbach hotel. You won’t often find creative options such as Faroe salmon with miso and myoga (Japanese ginger) and lobster with cauliflower and ponzu in these parts of Germany (vegetarian options are also available), all served up in an informal atmosphere and paired with inspired wines or non-alcoholic choices.
A small chocolate and macaron shop is attached to this ornate café specializing in breakfast, light lunches, and sweet cakes. It's a centrally located place that's perfect for people-watching and indulging in the German coffee-and-cake tradition.
Inside the Schwarzwälder Hof, you can watch the young, enthusiastic staff through a large window into the kitchen as they prepare regularly changing seven- to nine-course menus using regional ingredients such as salmon, trout, and venison; the chefs also take turns serving the dishes. If you prefer to order á la carte, come for Wednesday or Thursday dinner or Saturday lunch—and bring your kids any time, as they’ll happily prepare a reduced set of dishes suited to younger tastes when advised in advance.
This inviting, albeit spectacularly expensive French restaurant, whose owners are from Alsace, emphasizes elegant, imaginative dining in a modern setting with floor-to-ceiling windows and an expansive courtyard, perfect for alfresco dining in summer. Dishes combine luxurious ingredients such as scallops, lobster, pigeon, and truffles with richly flavored sauces featuring red wine, bone marrow, orange, or juniper.
One of several restaurants run by the team behind the five-star Hotel Bareiss, this hiker's hut is more moderately priced than many of the town's more famous Michelin-starred gourmet restaurants, but the quality of the regional specialties served remains high. It's the perfect place for coffee and cake or a simple lunch, and it's also open for dinner on Sunday; atop a 700-meter-high (½ mile) hill near hiking trails, it has loads of outdoor seating from which to enjoy the natural surroundings.
Celebrated Michelin-starred chef Martin Fauster, formerly of Munich’s Restaurant Königshof, shows off his prowess with modern German cuisine at this charming restaurant in Freiburg’s Altstadt. Choose from a five- or six-course tasting menu or order á la carte, with such dishes as yellowtail with mussels, corn, and curry or pigeon with mole and pumpkin.
