What a great find it was for our last night in Cologne before going back to the US…read more If you're looking for a quiet intimate dinner with great wine and food - look no further, this is it. Also, customer service was incredible. The chef made sure that we are perfectly taken care of. We were so impressed with all the dishes, the wine and dessert. I will definitely be back next time I'm in Cologne.

Amazing dinner while on a business trip. You are not always so welcome when you go out for dinner…read moreby yourself but I felt really welcome here. You wouldn't expect such a nice cute place on the Hansaring. Great food, great service - perfect dinner!! Thank you. Will for sure come back

We just spent a week in Cologne and Madame Tartine's was our absolute favorite restaurant! The…read morefood was fresh and delicious and the service was great! They have every coffee choice imaginable as well as fresh-squeezed juice, homemade granola with yogurt, and fresh fruit and that's just breakfast! You also need to check out their sandwiches and salads, you will not be disappointed! I wish there was a Madame Tartine in California...

This is a fun and vibrant place to visit with friends or a work group. We had a work dinner at this…read morerestaurant and were seated at the chef's table upstairs. It was charming. The food was fantastic and had lots of local flair. We really enjoyed the starters which included an eclectic collection of various salads, cheeses and bread. They had lots of flatbread options on the menu and the salads were fresh. The wines were very reasonably priced. I very much enjoyed the Chardonnay on the menu. I would come back to Belgischer Hof the next time I am in Cologne.

I fell in love with this restaurant the second I walked up to the entrance. It's the cutest…read morerestaurant in all of Germany I'm sure of it! We were lucky to get a table. It was in the front room of the restaurant and our server provided the best service we had during our trip traveling across Germany. He was kind and his timing was perfect. The food was amazing! I ordered the duck and the sides were perfectly it was paired with it for optimal flavor. My friend ordered the rabbit and though it was weird it was very good. Afterwords we had creme brûlée which was again... perfect! It was so light but filling. Sharing dessert after dinner is a must and you'll leave fat and happy then have the best sleep of your life. The atmosphere is adorable. Food is perfect. And service is the best! What more could you ask for?

The best quiche in town and delicious Coq au Vin!read more

A small, pleasant restaurant with about two dozen seats, semi-hidden (some outdoor seating) in…read moreamong a very diverse group of Köln's cafés, Restaurants, and Shisha Bars. Classic French Bistro decor. And while I enjoyed the service, the table next to me insisted on ordering off-menu, rudely demanding "no fish." Fisch is just under half of the prixe-fixe menu. The server handled them easily and professionally. Of the plates, I did enjoy both the red mullet and the golden Trout with Trout skin chips. One of the more clever presentations was the 2nd amuse bouche: beef tartar with horseradish ice, over Vichysoisse and Trout caviar (photo). I initially thought it might have been a bit too much, but I was wrong - an excellent beginning of the meal. Also, I now believe that if the Chef makes the effort to present you with bacon mousse for your bread, it is your duty to eat it all. Brot und Butter does not compare to Brot und Speck. I'll return to Köln soon, and must return here. 2022 08 25. M1.

Our party of five enjoyed La Societe this past Friday and had a wonderful, sumptuous experience at…read morethis smaller, intimate restaurant. This was my second vist, the first nearly two years ago. From our greeting at the door to the handshakes goodbye, everyone made us feel welcome and very much at home. But, from the first bite of the chef's amuse to the last bit of dessert carefully scraped from the bottom of the plate, you knew you were not at home but in a culinary heaven! We all had the tasting menu, with one of our party having a vegetarian version. Each of our dishes were gorgeously prepared and presented, even the veg dishes looked the same. Every one of the courses was perfect but there were three that were even more perfect. The 'meat' dish was an Iberico fillet (never had a I. fillet before, only sliced) but this was so wonderfully smokey and meaty that I had to cut the two small pieces into even more tiny bites to make the pleasure linger. And the rustic Cote du Rhône that was recommended paired perfectly too! The pigeon was such a surprise to all: very tender, very "smooth", nicely chewy and delicious. And, at the end the 7 or 8 or 9 courses (five plus amuses) was dessert, a light, but not too light, sweet but not too sweet, mousse that was a milk chocolate colored but not so chocolatey tasting (nutella?) with a soft foam on top and sitting on a bed of passion fruit and 'clear' coffee flavored sauce - a marvelous finish! And I guess I should mention the 'fish' dish of small prawns that had been marinated, not cooked, with a soft sea foam and some fine, crisp fried shrimp pieces on top. A magical preparation. You will have guessed that I, and all five of us, loved this dinner. It was as fine of a dinner as I can remember (and I had been at Steirereck last May) at a small, intimate space without any hoopla. I cannot wait to go again.