Sweet potato with vegan dips and salad in front, pasta with lentil ragu in the background at Hofgut Rodenstein in Fraenkisch-crumbach

  • Hofgut Rodenstein
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Serves meat, vegan options available. Restaurant and event hall located beneath the ruin of the hillside castle Rodenstein. Vegan options include tomato-carrot soup, pasta with lentil ragout, and baked sweet potato with vegan aioli. Also offering lodging. Call for hours.

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2 Reviews

First Review by Fabienne161

Avatar RebekkaBrenner

RebekkaBrenner

Points +27

Vegan
21 Jun 2020

Some Vegan options

There were two vegan main dishes on the menue (baked sweet potatoes with dips and lentil bolognese). As starter you can choose a carrot-tomato-soup.
Also they offered a vegan chocolate cake as dessert.
The servings were a little small but nevertheless quite good.

Pros: Some vegan options, Vegan dessert

Cons: Quite expensive , Small servings

Avatar Fabienne161

Fabienne161

Points +412

Vegan
21 Jun 2020

Cuisine lacks creativity, but the hike's still worth it

This place is somewhat remote and not worth being visited for its cuisine alone because it's rather pricey and the vegan dishes are disappointingly lacklustre. We've had the pasta with the lentil ragout and the baked sweet potatoes with three vegan dips, both with a salad on the side, the only two vegan main dishes on the menu; they'd also have a vegan soup for starters and regular fries or sweet potato fries as sides, but we didn't try those.

The sweet potato isn't really original, but the dips are actually quite delicious. We've got a tomato-bell pepper dip, a fig dip and a vegan aioli. It doesn't look like much, but it's tasty and very filling. The lentil ragout on the other hand very much lacks finesse: it definitely needed salt and pepper and we've mixed some of the aioli with it to add some flavor. It's not bad, but for what it is it's definitely overpriced. Hopefully the cook will accept some of our criticism and work on the recipe.

The saving grace of this restaurant, however, is its location. It's great to know that you can go on a hike or on a bike trip in this part of the Odenwald mountain range, maybe specifically go for the ruins of Castle Rodenstein (not that much left of it, to be honest) and have the option to sit down and actually get something vegan other than a bowl of fries. That's how we ended up there and we sure were happy to regenerate with a vegan meal in these picturesque surroundings amidst woods and meadows. I certainly wouldn't go there for the food alone, though.

Updated from previous review on 2020-06-21

Pros: Picturesque landscape

Cons: Pricey, Only a few vegan dishes, Lacks finesse

Sweet potato with vegan dips and salad in front, pasta with lentil ragu in the background at Hofgut Rodenstein in Fraenkisch-crumbach

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