For you, vacation means good food? Trying something new? Having someone else do the cooking? If you’re looking for good restaurants, browse through the following green pearls. They are all united by their love of regional and seasonal products wherever possible. Anything that cannot be sourced directly comes from certified suppliers. You can read about the individual focuses of the chefs at the sustainable hotels. Note: reading makes you hungry. =)
OCÉANO Health Spa Hotel Tenerife
The OCÉANO restaurant, named La Marea, features fresh cuisine prepared with ingredients from sustainable and regional cultivation. Menu items include: Papayas, oranges, lemons, and bananas find their way directly from the region into the hotel’s kitchen. Make sure to try traditional Canarian goats milk products, delicious palm honey for vegan sweetness, and award-winning wines from centuries-old traditions. You must not miss the fresh fish from the still rich fishing grounds of the Atlantic. “Oceans cuisine clearly promotes the connection between nutrition and well-being with this quote from Hippocrates, “nourishment be thy medicine.” You’ll get this at every meal. The sea greets you with an incomparable view during the breakfast buffet on the terrace in the morning, when the sea is at its calmest.
Bio-Seehotel Zeulenroda
The Bio-Seehotel in Vogtland also follows a holistic approach. Chef Fabian Schlupp says, “In the kitchen, we have a responsibility to the animals to get the best out of them.”” I am deeply aware of this responsibility. All meat and sausage products are from the in-house organic butcher shop. As part of our holistic approach to food preparation, you will be supplied daily with fine baked goods, including cakes, from our own organic bakery.
Boutique Hotel Maslina Resort
The restaurant of the 5-star resort in Croatia has a chef who uses fresh and mostly reduced ingredients from the hotel’s own organic garden. He believes that honesty is the best policy, which is why he plants and harvests in his garden. There are classic varieties such as thyme and sage that grow here. He also uses wild asparagus and wood sorrel, of which he even uses the edible flowers to decorate his dishes. Cvek strives to bring you the best experience possible, by using all your senses. He believes it doesn’t take much to accomplish that. His success is partly due to the combination of the old and the unusual.
Geniesserhotel Hotel Die Forelle
Berg.See. Küche. The award-winning cuisine at the Genießerhotel Die Forelle is based on a regional and seasonal focus, as well as a focus on local ingredients. The chef and owner, Hannes Müller, follows the principle of import autarky, which means that only seasonal and local foods are used. It is not surprising that freezing, fermenting, and drying food are natural parts of the kitchen’s daily work, given this approach. These are used to complement freshly prepared dishes. The restaurant Die Forelle is one of the JRE restaurants and has received four Gault Millau toques.
CERVO Mountain Resort
Davide Cretoni is the magician in the kitchen of the CERVO restaurant “Madre Nostra”. He notices that there is growing interest in the food that he and his team use. Cretoni “lives” sustainable cuisine along the three R’s: reduce, recycle and reuse. He is particularly proud of the restaurant’s amazing transparency, which is attributed to his sourcing all the produce used in the kitchen from organic farms within a 150 km radius. He gets meat and specialty cheeses from local farmers. The Madre Nostra uses natural herbal oils, made from herbs from the chef’s own permaculture garden, as natural flavor enhancers in the cuisine. A real treat!
La Subida Country Resort
The hotels associated Osteria la Preda and Trattoria al Cacciatore are worth a visit. Guests will experience a unique blend of traditional Italian, Friulian and Slovenian cuisine. Allessandro loves to make dishes, and he puts all of his love into making them.The finesse and cordiality with which you are advised in the choice of dishes and drinks contribute to the fact that this place will remain in your memory. For that special La Subida flair, bring your loved ones a special highlight from the in-house vinegar manufacture.
Biohotel Sturm
As a 100% organic certified hotel and member of Slow Food Germany, you’ll be in wonderful hands at Otto’s Restaurant at Biohotel Sturm in the Rhön Mountains. When ingredients can’t be sourced directly from the Rhön, they come from surrounding areas, such as the Thuringia Forest. Traceability and transparency prevail in the production and supply chain from all producers to the Otto’s kitchen. If you eat a vegan diet, the Biohotel has a wide range of options. During the global project Veganuary you can experience vegan cooking in direct contact with the kitchen during the Show cooking. Thereby, it should not be a matter of persuasion. The cuisine offers you delicious and creative alternatives.
Klosterhof – Alpine Hideaway & Spa
Two exceptional Restaurants await you here in a secluded location on a sunny plateau in the middle of the Berchtesgaden Alps: the GenussArt and the BarBarossa. The seasons determine the menu. Chef Sascha Förster and his team source their food regionally whenever possible. All dairy products come from Berchtesgadener Land, free-range eggs from Mühlhauser Biohof and fish from Karlsteiner Fischzucht Bad Reichenhall. As a healthy lunch, the Klosterhof offers you “healthy Lunch Bowls” and as dessert you will be served “Nice-cream”—homemade, instead of industrially produced ice cream.
Das Rübezahl
In the famous neighborhood of Neuschwanstein Castle in the Allgäu, you can taste special regional and international cuisine in three locations of the Hotel Das Rübezahl. The Louis II Restaurant offers a variety of modern cuisine and a cosmopolitan and regional concept of enjoyment. The cuisine of the restaurant Gams & Gloria—Alpine Fusion cuisine, combines a love of the homeland with a cosmopolitan approach. Dishes with names like “alpine herbs meets whitefish sashimi” and “mountain pine dashi kisses Algäuer chamois ham” are humorous. By the way, with all pleasure the joy and a relaxed service should not be missing. These attributes explicitly belong to a new kind of gourmet restaurants in the Allgäu. So, also here.
Fletschhorn Waldhotel
That only the best from nature finds its way into the kitchen of the Fletschhorn Waldhotel is a natural part of the holistic approach here. Having received countless awards, the Fletschhorn restaurant has made a name for itself beyond the region. Due to the trust in the producers and the sustainable foodstuffs used in this way, special dishes are created here with great attention to detail. The kitchen team offers a changing lunch menu every day. In the evening, you can enjoy creative and always freshly cooked meals that will leave you with long-lasting memories of your time in Saas Fee.
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