IMbery Hotel & Restaurant Hinterzarten

Michelin worthy food - rooms a bit tired While I enjoyed my stay, and don’t get me wrong, the rooms are perfectly ok but could do with freshening up and I’m only saying this because if they would match the Michelin-class food, this could be a serious destination for foodies in the Black Forest, which is blessed with great food anyway, but suffers in losing winter tourism due to the declining snow season. Great food like this, combined with beautiful, clean and healthy surroundings to walk (or bike, ride, swim) off the calories could be the salvation. In detail: after a crisp, tasty mixed salad, I had a paired Saibling (local fresh water salmon) and local Trout filet so fresh it tried to leap off the plate. There’s game and all the braten and schnitzel you’d expect, but there’s also a three-course vegan menu, seasonal veg, all with a local reference - not just the way it’s cooked. The menu lists in detail every local maker and supplier of the ingredients, down to the meats coming from a butcher farming its own herds on local meadows. It doesn’t get fresher, ethical, and less carbon footprint. At prices you find (sadly) in the UK at ‘gastro pubs’ and it’s microwaved fare.