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Starters & soups
To start, to share or as a light meal: soups from big pots, local salads and a proper German "Brotzeit" board.
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.
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Hunsrück potato soup
Potato soup with leek, marjoram, bacon and a smoked sausage
"Krumbeer" is Hunsrück dialect for potato (it comes from "Grundbirne", ground pear). A thick, rustic potato soup slowly cooked with leek and root vegetables, seasoned with marjoram, topped with crispy bacon and a smoked "Mettwurst" sausage. Our house classic – a meal on its own.
- bowl €7.50
- small €4.90
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Beef consommé with bone-marrow dumplings
Simmered for twelve hours, with little marrow dumplings and chives
A clear, deep-flavoured beef broth from local grass-fed cattle, simmered for twelve hours. With small home-made dumplings made from bone marrow, breadcrumbs and egg – a Sunday classic in German homes.
Price: €6.20
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Cream of pumpkin soup
With toasted pumpkin seeds and a hint of ginger
Hokkaido pumpkin from a vegetable farm in the next valley, blended smooth with a little ginger and cream, finished with toasted pumpkin seeds and dark pumpkin-seed oil.
Price: €6.50
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Lamb's lettuce with warm bacon dressing
With a warm potato dressing, bacon and croutons
Lamb's lettuce (corn salad) is the typical winter salad here. We dress it with a warm potato-and-bacon dressing and add crunchy croutons.
Price: €8.90
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Mixed seasonal salad
Leaf salads and vegetables with our mustard house dressing
Whatever is fresh from the garden and the market, with our house dressing (mustard, honey, cider vinegar). Small as a side, or large with bread as a light meal.
- small €5.50
- large, with bread €9.80
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"Handkäs" sour-milk cheese with "music"
Marinated with onions, vinegar and oil, with farmhouse bread and butter
A tangy, low-fat sour-milk cheese marinated in onions, caraway, vinegar and oil. Eaten with bread and butter, ideally with a glass of wine. The "music" is the onions – people here say you will hear it later.
Price: €7.20
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Nahe vintner's board
Home-made liver sausage, brawn, "Spundekäs" cheese dip, pretzel
Made for sharing: home-made liver sausage and blood sausage from a butcher in Kirn, "Schwartenmagen" (brawn / head cheese), "Spundekäs" (a creamy cheese dip with paprika and onions), pickles, farmhouse bread and a pretzel.
Price: €14.50
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Baked goat's cheese
With honey, walnuts and lamb's lettuce
Goat's cheese from a small Hunsrück farm, baked in a herb crust, with forest honey, caramelised walnuts and lamb's lettuce. Our modern twist on the starter list.
Price: €11.50
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.