L'Arbre Vert - Kaysersberg Vignoble

German style restaurant with various game dishes in the menu. Prices are reasonable and the portions are huge. Quality is good.

We stayed at the hotel so it was convenient for a late night order. The pizza we ordered was fine but nothing special. They are one of the few restaurants that serve later in the evening.

While visiting the Kaysersberg Christmas market, we had lunch at this restaurant on the advice of a friend. After some initial disappointments, we left mostly satisfied. On the whole, I'd give the restaurant 7 out of 10. A few days before our visit, we looked at the menu (carte) on the hotel's website. It showed a lot of very tempting appetizers and main courses. To our dismay, however, that was NOT the menu that was provided when we arrived. Instead, a more limited Advent market menu was offered. Only one of the dishes that I has been interested in was still available. There was NOTHING on their website that indicated only a restricted menu would be in place.For example, you could not have a salad unless it came with your meal. On the website menu, one of the appetizers listed was a salad with crottins of Munster cheese. I had planned to have this as my appetizer and when I asked if one could get any kind of salad, even a simple green salad, as an appetizer, I was brushed off with a curt no. I ended up having the escargots, which were in fact very good. My husband had the vegetable soup, good but not beyond the ordinary. My main course was a chicken in Riesling with spatzle -- again, quite good, although not what I had originally wanted. My husband had the Baeckeoffe, which was also good but not what he had expected (the English translation described it as a pie, which it is NOT, it is more of a casserole -- there is no pastry at all. Nothing wrong with the dish but don't expect to be a tourte). He did get a green salad with his meal. Fine, although whoever made the mustard vinaigrette dressing was a little heavy-handed with the mustard. The Alsace wine varieties offered still seemed to be the same as on the website but I have no idea if they were the same vintages. For all I know, the Advent menu could have substituted lesser vintages. I had a glass of Alsace muscat (good, but somewhat lacking in flavour), Alsace pinot noir, again good but in this case a little sharp, and the Riesling, which was definitely the best of the three. My husband had the special Advent aperitif, sparkling wine with a bit of cinnamon liqueur, which he enjoyed very much, the pinot noir and a quetsch eau de vie at the end. We skipped dessert.Overall, the meal was a good if not exceptional example of cuisine de grand-mere.Service was variable. The dark-haired waitress we had for the meal itself was helpful, efficient and kind. The hostess seemed easily irritated -- she could use some remedial training in graciousness. The restaurant setting is attractive and our window table gave us a lovely view of the village and the castle. Would we eat there again? Probably. although we would first check to see whether the "real" menu is being served.

Huge and hearty is how I'd describe our baeckeoffe casserole at L'Arbre Vert. It's Alsace's answer to a Lancashire hotpot.I did, however, find it disconcerting spending the evening confronted by giant photos of fast food adorning the restaurant's walls. All in the name of art, apparently. But staring at a vast image of a greasy hot dog hardly added to our gastronomic enjoyment.

Very pleasant, well run hotel. Every is in the right place. Unusually nice artwork!The owner has some galleries, I understood. Location is perfect. We had a very nice view on the castle. Dinner.... good Foie grasse but very uninspired main dishes. Chicken in Riesling glue for my wife,who,wisely didn't eat it . I had a massive ,dry Gamestew that I shouldn't have eaten. It kept me awake most of the night. The poor deer, posthumously trying to escape from my digestive tract. Breakfast good. Service friendly.