From the owner: Wir bieten Ihnen saisonale, frische Gerichte,…read moretraditionell, klassisch und neu interpretiert. Wild aus dem Wiesenthal, Kranichsteiner & Dieburger Forst und dem Mönchbruch sowie aus den umliegenden Wäldern.

Alte Burg Gasthaus is the oldest cider house in Germany, situated inside the Dreieichenhain (three…read moreoaks grove) castle ruins. Although the castle ruins are older and many of the village buildings are also older, the cider house came to be in the 16th century. You definitely feel part of history when you eat or stay here. We overnighted three nights in one of their rooms which was very comfortable. We had a flat with two bedrooms and three twin beds, and a specious living room. Note that the house is old so the beams are also warped which means some of the doors won't open all the way as the structure has changed. This adds to the charm. The amenities are a little dated, but if you don't mind the little things you'll be comfortable here. There was wifi, the place was clean and the service was very friendly. On our first night we dined on traditional Frankfurter specialties such as the Schnitzel with Frankfurter green sauce, which is a sour creme sauce that is blended with 7 local herbs, a few of which you simply can't find in the US. A little while later we shared sour cheese (Handkäse mit Musik) on dark caraway seed bread. All the while we had the locally fermented dry Apple Wein.

Great setting, super vista and Württemberger Wein on the menu. The starting conditions could have…read morehardly been better. Oh, and did i mention someone claiming (I would argue in hindsight without any merit) being the oldest place in Germany to serve apple cider, or as the folks here in Hesse would say "Äppelwoi"! First the good: Seated on Beer tent benches in the driveway of a gingerbread house, covered with a canvas that rivaled the roof of Denver's airport (just more colorful) it seemed quite promising. and did I mention the vistas ,check out the pictures). I wanted to play it safe and ordered head cheese preceded by a beef soup. The soup made me to postpone my annual physical as I seriously feared my doc would - rightly so - diagnose a sodium poisoning (needless to say, my doc was also quite upset about the reschedule thing) and the "presskopf" (head cheese completely failed the test: too much meat, virtually no cartilage and absolutely no gelatin! Oh, bummer! You come for high expectations, stay for the ambience and I suspect won't come back. Or maybe you do for the great company and folks you meet who joined you at the beer tables. This Yelp is driving me nuts. My changes, corrections and best jokes don't show.

Our first dinner of our European tour. This beautiful outdoor restaurant was an awesome place to…read moreclose out exhausting firt day. Very relaxing and beautiful

The food here is so good! We had potato soup, two sausages and Wiener schnitzel. Great service and…read morethey have menus in English. We ate outside and the atmosphere was very quaint! Overall a great experience and we would return!

The Fischerhutte on the Steinrodsee is a small cosy restaurant / bar. It's very friendly with a…read moresmall menu offering simple fare, but the food is nice They do an excellent Schinkenplatte (plate of different kinds of ham), baked camembert and really good chips, there is also fish on the menu, but I haven't tried that yet. You can't fault its location, overlooking the lake, and you can take a 20 / 30 minute walk round the lake and then sit outside with a glass of wine and feed the carp for a Euro (no throwing your chips in the water, you have to buy the proper food).