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Regional specialities
Dishes you will only find between the Nahe river and the Hunsrück hills: "Spießbraten" over a beech-wood fire, "Dippekuchen" from a cast-iron pot and game from the forests around Dhaun Castle.
Tap a dish for a picture, the full description and allergens.
We list dishes by their German name (so you can order easily) with an English explanation below.
All year round
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Idar-Oberstein "Spießbraten"
Grilled over an open beech-wood fire, with onions, potato salad and bread
THE dish of the region. Pork neck marinated overnight in lots of raw onion, salt and pepper, then slowly turned over an open beech-wood fire until smoky and juicy. No sauce, nothing fancy. The local story goes that gem cutters from Idar-Oberstein who emigrated to Brazil brought the churrasco idea back home in the 1800s. With home-made potato salad and farmhouse bread.
Price: €19.90
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Hunsrück "Dippekuchen" potato bake
Baked for three hours in a cast-iron pot, with apple sauce
"Dippe" means pot in the local dialect. Grated raw potatoes mixed with onion, egg, bacon and smoked sausage, baked for about three hours in a cast-iron pot until the edges are dark and crunchy. Traditionally eaten with apple sauce – sweet and savoury, trust us. Only while the pot lasts!
Price: €16.50
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Stuffed potato dumplings
Potato dumplings filled with liver sausage, bacon cream sauce, sauerkraut
Hunsrück dialect for "stuffed dumplings": potato dumplings filled with liver sausage and minced pork, served with a creamy bacon sauce and sauerkraut. Real winter comfort food.
Price: €16.90
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Potato pancakes
Crispy potato pancakes with apple sauce or smoked salmon
Freshly grated potato pancakes (similar to latkes), fried crispy in the pan. Vegetarian with apple sauce, or with smoked salmon and horseradish sour cream (+ €4.50).
Price: €12.50
Game & seasonal
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Venison goulash from local hunters
With lingonberries, spaetzle and red cabbage
Red deer and roe deer from the hunting grounds around our village, braised in red wine with juniper berries. With tart lingonberries, soft spaetzle noodles and apple red cabbage.
Price: €24.50
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Saddle of venison, pink
Juniper jus, chanterelles, potato noodles
Saddle of roe deer, cooked pink, with a juniper jus, pan-fried chanterelle mushrooms and "Schupfnudeln" (finger-shaped potato noodles) in brown butter. Our finest game dish.
Price: €34.50
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St. Martin's goose
Quarter goose, red cabbage, dumplings – pre-order only
Around St. Martin's Day (Nov 11) Germans eat roast goose. Ours is free-range, roasted crispy, with mugwort gravy, apple red cabbage and potato dumplings. Please order at least two days ahead.
Price: €36.50
Seasons & events
Coming up at the mill
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Every first Friday of the month from 6 pm
Spießbraten night
Spießbraten fresh off the beech-wood fire – in the beer garden in summer, by the fireplace in winter. Please book.
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Oct 1 – Nov 30, 2026
Hunsrück game weeks
Venison and wild boar from local hunters – extra dishes on a separate game menu.
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Nov 7 – 16, 2026
St. Martin's goose days
Crispy roast goose with red cabbage and dumplings. Pre-order only, at least two days ahead.
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Saturday, Nov 21, 2026, from 11:30 am
Traditional "Schlachtfest"
An old country tradition: boiled pork belly, fresh blood and liver sausage, sauerkraut. With live folk music.
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Sundays Nov 29, Dec 6, 13 and 20, 2026, 2 – 5 pm
Advent Sundays by the fire
Coffee and cake, mulled wine ("Glühwein") and baked apples in the fireplace room.
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Dec 25 and 26, 2026, lunch and dinner
Christmas menu
A festive four-course menu (€59 per person). We are closed on Christmas Eve.
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Dec 31, 2026, from 7 pm
New Year's Eve at the mill
Buffet, music and a glass of bubbly at midnight in the big hall. €89 per person, booking required.
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Wednesday, Feb 10, 2027, from 5:30 pm
Ash Wednesday herring dinner
The end of carnival season: herring in a creamy apple-onion sauce with boiled potatoes.
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Saturday, May 1, 2027, from 11 am
Beer garden opening
Maypole, Spießbraten and the first wine spritzer of the year under the chestnut trees.
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Aug 21 – 23, 2027
Village fair ("Kerb")
The yearly village fair: special roast, plum cake and a "morning pint" on Monday.
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Sep 10 – Oct 10, 2027
New wine & onion tart
"Federweißer" – young, still-fermenting wine – with warm onion tart, a harvest-time tradition.
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Oct 1 – Nov 30, 2027
Hunsrück game weeks
Game from local hunters on a separate game menu.
Allergens & additives – legend
The letters and numbers next to each dish mean:
- A
- Cereals containing gluten (wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt)
- B
- Crustaceans
- C
- Eggs
- D
- Fish
- E
- Peanuts
- F
- Soy
- G
- Milk (incl. lactose)
- H
- Tree nuts
- I
- Celery
- J
- Mustard
- K
- Sesame
- L
- Sulphites
- M
- Lupin
- N
- Molluscs
- 1
- with colouring
- 2
- with preservative
- 3
- with antioxidant
- 4
- with phosphate
- 5
- contains caffeine
- 6
- contains quinine
- 7
- with sweetener
We cannot rule out traces of other allergens in our kitchen. Just ask us – we can make many dishes without.