Restaurant Zur Festung Hohensalzburg- Salzburg Austria

 

Restaurant Zur Festung Hohensalzburg up in the mighty Castle. A traditional location turned into the modern age on the mountain. We found this restaurant by accident as we were looking for a place to eat. The place was packed with Japanese people but there's plenty of room for 4 of us and had a nice sitting table beside the window that we see the magnificent view of the countryside and villages below.

The ambiance of one of the most elegant and atmospheric dining room with wood tables and chairs populate the room while golden light from scattered lamps cast romance. Fine table linens serve as a simple background for authentic Austrian cuisine. Menus are offered in German, Italian and English and Russian to help ease ordering. We had the Austrian local food, as lunch was a slow and somewhat formal affair.

 

Our meal started with soup, suprisingly  was also very flavorful and delicious. Beef broth with thinly sliced pancakes.

Tomato cream soup with mozzarella crostini

Stockpot festung hohensalzburg with vegetables, noodles, beef marrow dumplings

Cream soup of potatoes with herbal croutons

For the main course it was simply presented, but I assure it was delicious! Wiener schnitzel, escalope of veal  with parsley tomatoes and cranberries sauce

Gratinated steak of pork with croquettes, broccoli vegetables and creamed pepper sauce.

Variety of Salzburger sausages with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut.

Spaetzle a kind of very small dumplings with melted cheese.

For dessert we were very fortunate and had 2 different desserts which we shared. No one can resist the famous Austrian sache torte served with whiped cream. The cake itself was sweet, flavor-wise it was very good. Incidentally exactly what we had the last time in Cesky Krumlov.

A very large portion Salzburger Nockerl with raspberry, apricot, rhubarb sauce. That can easily please 2-3 people along with glass of iced coffee were brought to us soon after our lunch plates were removed. The Nockerl is extremely light, almost frothy. It tastes and looks like a cross between a souffle and a meringue. The texture is such that it dissolves in your mouth meaning that you can eat a lot of it. It’s sweet but not sickly. A kind of dessert that  I really wanted to eat for sometime in Austrian restaurant in Taipei.

3 selections of Nockerl sauce.

This tasty egg and  sugar souffle is topped with some fresh fruit sauce, yum!

We order iced coffee and again we were impressed with the generous serving size is almost like dessert. Perfect location, staff were very helpful and the food was great. The views from the room were great.You won't be disappointed! As a tourist you have to go there because of the view.

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Restaurant Zur Festung Hohensalzburg

Salzburg Austria
Website:
http://www.festungsrestaurant.at/

Lucky Six Salzburg Austria

We were ready for a break from the meat, pickled cabbage, dumpling and stumbled upon this Chinese restaurant. Well, I had never written a review of any Chinese Restaurant we dine in Czech, because we were here about 2 years ago and the food are really appreciated. This place is family owned and run by Taiwanese who lives in Salzburg for 26 years and they serve Taiwanese cuisine. The decoration is typical for Chinese restaurants, with tables and chairs made of solid wood. The slopes of the ceiling was painted in gold. I think it's quite cool. The owner are so overwhelmed and friendly to us, especially if you are from Taiwan. It seems we continue to see the same smiling faces and keep talking in Taiwanese dialect when they brought the food on our table, which makes you feel right at home.

Stewed Hakka Taiwanese pork belly, the gravy is great it is simply delicious especially with steamed rice.

Hakka Taiwanese stir fry tofu, ok a many of you may have this dish! The tofu is unlike anything I've tasted before, and has the texture of Chinese vegan wheat gluten, but even smoother. My reaction to this dish was one of surprise. The sauce seemed to be a type of yellow bean sauce. There were also some mushrooms, carrots, green onions and lots of garlic in there as well. I did find that it was a bit salty but very delicious indeed.

Stir fried prawn with green vegetable, this dish was so good!

Hakka Taiwanese style stir fried broccoli, maybe we had too much meat during our tour in Czech. So we find the stir-fry broccoli really appetizing and slightly tossed with garlic it was crunchy and delicious.

Hakka Taiwanese style stewed Chinese cabbage, at first glance, the stewed Chinese cabbage with dried squid and mushroom looked rather dull. The cabbage was cooked till tender, while the generous addition of other ingredients made the cabbage very flavorful.

The herbal chicken soup, didn't look appetizing but the soup was delicious. The food was perfectly justified by the high quality and taste of Taiwanese cooking style. Definitely  try this place if you're looking for good Taiwan food in Salzburg.

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China Restaurant Lucky Six
Eichstrasse 2, 5020 Salzburg Austria

Dining at Cesky Krumlov CZ

Satlava had excellent medieval atmosphere. It's in a dungeon, with only candles for light, and meat cooked on an open fire. It's meant to be a tourist draw so it looks all traditional, like you're actually dining in the medieval times.

My husband had tried this dark brown, sweetish with liquorice fruit and caramel flavors. On one sip it tastes like different and I just wanted to stick on my apple juice, but on the other hand it is kind of refreshing.

After we finished the chewy soupy cheese soup. We only have to kinds of choice; grilled beef and pork knuckle, we can not make your own orders at this point and everything had been arranged by travel agency in Taiwan. Either way, it was simply the worst beef fillet with vegetables and boiled potatoes with ricotta cheese, mustard and horse radish sauce. The steak was slightly tougher!

I had a pork knuckle was really kind of old meat I ever tasted (barely edible) and very bland. The food itself we could not fault, the presentation, the texture, flavors. I knew it I was in Medieval times. The taste of all of the foods brings you back in times. Being able to sit in a place and eat the type of foods that were eaten hundreds of years ago

What a relief to find Hotel Dvorak after our medieval meal adventure. For the rest of the afternoon before going to the Austria, we decided to just chill in coffee shop. This hotel is conveniently located directly in the heart of Cesky Krumlov, within easy distance of the castle and chateau. The inside and outdoor decors were rich and elegant. Waiter were polite but seemed aloof. the service was slow.

We ordered  coffee, juices for my kids and a slice of cakes. The sacher torte (cake) to be extremely sweet yet just something moist and flavorsome. The coffee was strong but taste so good, despite the vast amount of sugar and milk.

I don't remember the name of this cake, this cake was lighter in sugar than sache torte. It was around something warm, yeasty and buttery, can we say delicious.