Restaurant focused on reducing food waste, promoting local art, and integration. Serves contemporary vegan cuisine ranging from salads, risottos and fried vegetables to savory comfort food like pizza, döner and burgers. Uses seasonal ingredients. Employs persons with disabilities. Open Mon 17:30-21:00, Thu 17:30-21:00, Fri 17:30-21:30, Sat 12:00-21:30, Sun 12:00-21:00. Closed Tue & Wed.
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Suermondtplatz 12 (at Harscampstraße), Aachen, Germany, 52062
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148 Reviews
First Review by ewecs
Kadaniel
Points +97
Still Aachen's no. 1 choice for vegans - Edit
Okay, I've got to be honest: The intérieur looks like some witches are living here, the font of it's sign looks like being stolen from Harry Potter, and the overall atmosphere in this restaurant doesn't seem to be "professional".
Read moreNevertheless, the waitresses have always been very friendly and helpful, the food has always tasted good (not an apocalypse, but really solid yummy), and the diversity of a daily changing menu is gorgeous.
I am pretty new to Aachen, but Pfannenzauber made my start here become very easy. I really enjoy the familiar atmosphere and the specials like sunday brunch buffet with scrumbled tofu or italian dinner buffet with Pizza and Tiramisu.
In my hometown Berlin, this place would just be one of many, but in Aachen it's your first choice as a vegan! Go vegan, go Pfannenzauber!
Pros: Totally vegan, Friendly stuff, Specials like brunch and italian dinner
Cons: Cheesy furnishing, Closed on sunday, Portion sizes vary depending on cookee
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thetofutravellers
Points +6299
Lovely Restaurant in a lovely city - Edit
Pfannenzauber ("pan magic") is located close to the very center of Aachen, at a pretty little square. The interior of the restaurant is just as nice, it's very relaxed, but still beautiful and attention is paid to every detail. I was served quickly and very friendly. However, I was a bit disappointed by the menu: There is a daily menu with a set starter and a dessert, and you can choose from four mains. I really think there should be more choices! In the end I opted for the carrot and potato balls with salad. While the balls were delicious, they were small and there were just four of them. On the other hand, the salad was huge, but totally boring and bland.
Read moreThe starter was a lentil and capsicorn soup which was very good, and the dessert was pineapple and vanilla ice cream - and it really was to die for!
With my tea, the bill came to 16,50€, which was ok.
Altogether, I really enjoyed my lunch at this restaurant. There are a few things that could be improved, but I still totally recommend it!
Pros: Great food, Friendly service, Lovely atmosphere
Cons: Lack of choices
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s_k_
Points +655
Would be worth going to anywhere - Edit
Splendid place. Simple menu but with enough variety to please many tastes. Tasteful decor. Very reasonable prices (but cash only). Friendly staff. Enjoyed every aspect of the experience. A great vegetarian choice!
Read moreUpdated from previous review on Saturday June 28, 2014
Pros: food choice and quailty, prices, staff and decor
Cons: doesn't take credit cards
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User08
Points +22
Great vegan restaurant - Edit
Love, love, love this place! The atmosphere is really familiar. It is a small restaurant, which feels more like you were sitting in someone's living room. On each table there are some games (Mikado, card games) or books to pass the time while you wait for your delicious meal.
Read moreThey work with daily menus. There are 4 main dishes to choose from, one starter and one dessert. You can also pick one main dish and make it a 3-course menu (which include the starter, the chosen main dish and a dessert). The menu changes every day. So if you're a picky person it might be a good idea to look at the online menu first ( http://www.pfannenzauber-aachen.de/Speisekarte/SK.pdf ). The menu also comes in two size (normal, small).
Pros: Nice staff, great atmosphere, Good food, Good price
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Richard Ross
Points +1209
Good vegan food. - Edit
We ate here on 4 December 2013, pleased to find a completely vegan restaurant in Aachen. The food was good and reasonably priced. The menu changes daily. The waitress spoke English but the menu was only in German. However, she lent us a German food dictionary so we could translate most of the items.
Read morePros: Good, vegan food, Friendly and welcoming
Cons: Menu only in German
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vsername
Points +164
Nice! - Edit
Very nice place and the service is very kind. The food is delicious and the prices affordable.
Read moreThey use daily menus so one can have the certainty that the food is fresh. The Pfannenzauberburger especially good as well as the "Vegannaise".
Pros: Vegan 100%, Taste, Service
Cons: A bit tricky to find
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Qternocq
Points +71
Excelent food, excelent prices - Edit
This restaurant uses a day menu. We went to this restaurant expecting a lot of meat imitations because of one of the other reviews, but this was absolutely not the case.
Read moreAs appetizer we had an union soup with some very descent homemade stock. It had great seasoning and tasted as a good union soup should.
I ordered a curry. Strong and balanced flavors made this dish one of my favorites of all vegan restaurants I've been to.
My girlfriend ordered a wholewheat pasta with sun dried tomatoes. Very powerful and yet very good. Maybe a tad salty, but I love that (we switched plates halfway).
As a desert we both had a Dame Blanche with some nice treats on the plates (sliced orange, filled chocolate, agave syrup).
The waitress was not very friendly, but this could have been the (obvious) language barrier.
Overall: the food was very cheap (40 euro's including large glasses of juice) and very fast. I think we ate within 10 minutes. Excellent restaurant and an absolute recommendation.
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mayamaya
Points +52
Nice staff and good ideas, however.... - Edit
... I would appriciate more fresh food and less meatimitations. I ate there several times and I stopped going there, because I dont like the meat imitiations, and mostly dont like the taste of the soyproducts they use instead of sourcream etc., even though I love the idea of an 100% vegan restaurant.
Read moreGOOD: They offer different sizes to order the meal according to your hunger, have serveral organic drinks and one 100% organic meal - unfortunatly it is the pasta with (good) pesto (12€), which I dont eat.
The best coice there is usually the burger with fries (8€) :)
Pros: good burger, organic choices
Cons: "fast food", pricey
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Michael R
Points +256
Cheerful Central Restaurant - Edit
The restaurant is sited about 200m from Adalbertstrasse, one of the main pedestrianised shopping streets in the centre.
Read moreThere is a daily changing three course menu: starter, choice of four main courses at different price levels, pudding.
With juice, the most expensive menu came to €20 for one.
The service was very cheerful. On a Monday lunchtime the place was quiet. I would have thought it would normally be spacious and relaxed.
The food was good, with some imagination.
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kuni
Points +252
Not satisfying - Edit
I had been here once before and all was fine, but unfortunately now I got quite dissapointed.
Read moreFirst of all it was cold inside. We had to wait long before we could place our orders, then again it took long before we finally got our plates. The vegan burger was almost cold and the pumpkin-lentil curry I had wasn't bad, but certainly not worth its money because all it had was a small portion of rice and the mentioned curry.
Too bad because a restaurant like this could really improve the publicity on veganism in a city like Aachen. Now it will only leave a bad impression.
On a positive note the atmosphere was still great, with personal art hanging on the walls and colourful decoration.
Pros: Nice atmosphere, Lots of info and brochures
Cons: Expensive for the amount and quality, Long waits, Cold inside
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jbashworth
Points +15
Aachen's 1st Vegaterian/Vegan Restaurant! - Edit
We've waited a long time for this and it was worth the wait! Pfannenzauber just opened in 2010. The owner/chef is a 28 year-old who is determined to bring vegans/vegetarians creative and tasty food. Though one can order a quick menu, the basic set-up is a choice between three 3-course menus. One choice is always a vegan-burger variety (BBQ, curry, etc) and the other 2 change daily. We both started with a delicious mint-erbsen soup that was perfectly spiced. For my main course, I had spaghetti with a lentil-bolognase sauce and my partner had soja medaillions in a mustard crust. We were both very happy with the food. The service was a bit slow but the owner came to our table early on the explain that the waitress had called in sick at the last minute so a friend was springing in to help. All items on the menu are vegan, therefore also lactose free, and most items are also gluten-free. The prices for the menus are incredibly low (10-12 euros) especially for the quality and quantity. We intend to become regulars and will definitely recommend this place to all of our friends - even the meat-eaters will be satisfied!
Read morePros: Excellent food, Good variety, Friendly staff
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JohnC
Points +17
Enjoyable meal in a friendly quiet environment - Edit
I disagree with the previous review that was negative. Having been in Aachen a couple days, already stuffed to the gills with pasta and having tried the Thai restaurants (passable) and turned up my nose at the Chinese places, I decided to give this place a try. I was pleasantly surprised and certainly recommend Pfannenzauber. It wouldn't be competitive with the top vegetarian places in New York or London, but in Aachen it's a great alternative.
Read moreThey have a small menu that changes daily. As of this writing, there are 3 choices available at dinner, 8/10/12 euros. Add 2 euros onto your choice and get an appetizer and dessert. The appetizer can be either soup or choose your own cold things from the appetizer bar. (Didn't look at the bar so can't say exactly what they had there.)
I chose the 10 euro option, which tonight was polenta with stewed fennel in an orange sauce with various small crunchy things and a few berries. It was well conceived, unusual, tasty and filling. The other two choices were a veggie burger and fries at 8 euros - they seem to have a different flavoring each day - and fried tofu "fish fillets" with creamed beet salad at 12 euros.
The soup was some vegetable/nut concoction, hard for me to figure out exactly what it was, and my German isn't good enough to figure out the ingredients list on the menu. I enjoyed it, although it did need salt.
I felt the restaurant was a good value for a midrange sitdown restaurant in Aachen. The server was very pleasant and tolerant of my language difficulties. The environment is fun - quiet with plenty of games and books scattered around. There was a rubik's cube sitting on my table to play with.
They have both vegan and vegetarian, and they mark which items have gluten in them. I didn't look too carefully but I think all 3 entree choices had gluten tonight. They post their full menu for the week so I guess gluten-free diners choose their night appropriately.
Guest
ewecs
Points +57
nice place, bad food - Edit
I went here last night with some friends of mine.. It's a nice colorful place with a different menu every day. I decided to go for a soja-gulash with rice and Bratapfel-Konfit (still not sure what i ate in the end). The staff was very friendly and had a lot of patience with my friend who didn't know what to choose.
Read moreAnyway... the food... The Gulash looked not too awesome, and to be honest it tasted exactly like that aswell. It was the kind of food you'd expect to get at a voku, not in a restaurant. According to my friends the burger was pretty good. But with frozen fries from the supermarket and no salad on the side, 8 euros is in my opinon a lot of money for it.
Nevertheless, i think i might come back here again. Luckily the menu varies every day and i can do nothing more than promote vegan restaurants. I think that if you don't order something "adventurous", you'll be satisfied for sure.
Pros: friendly staff, quiet
Cons: not the best choice of ingredients, pricy
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