restaurant review #478 – Die Sonnenuhr is one of the restaurants of vegan hotel Nicolay, in the south west of Germany (Moselle region). We had dinner here twice, while staying at the hotel (visit in Fall of 2023 – REVIEW following this one).

The menu is pretty basic (although a bit of a puzzel to work out), with dishes like schnitzel (with a variety of sauces), burger, flammkuchen or a salad.

We had a flammkuchen (9,9€) schnitzel with pepper sauce and the other time with mushroom sauce (each 19€) and a posttopf (oven dish?) with 3 kinds of seitan (17,50€).

Bit heavy food, we suspect storebought fries.

Service was slow. It is clear that they were understaffed (and there’s also a note on the table apologising for it). But still, having to wait for nearly an hour for a simple schnitzel and flammkuchen is long (certainly after a long day of travel) …. And it certainly didnt come with a smile…

We also wanted to try dinner at Die Weinstube on another night (just the room next to this one, but more restaurant feel with table cloths etc), but that was fully booked every night with hotel guests who have half board. You can also have the 3course menu of the Weinstube in the Sonnenuhr room, but we declined.

Everything is of course vegan, and that is a unicum in the whole wide area. So kudos for that. But the food wasn’t really are type of thing.

Accessibility: entrance to hotel/restaurant with stairs. I think one could enter at side entrance and then take elevator. Don’t know if there’s an accessible toilet.

• From a visit in the Fall of 2023.

Die Sonnenuhr

Uferallee 7
54492 Zeltingen-Rachtig
Germany

website: https://www.hotel-nicolay.de/restaurants/sonnenuhr/

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