Wein am Rhein - Köln

Server speaks English well. Menu in both German and English. Price of each dish is a bit high for Germany (around 20 euro for starters and 25-29 euro for...

PRIX FIXE MENU BARGAINS IN COLOGNE Enough with the beer gardens. I wanted a sit-down fancy place. Modern and clean. Friendly and efficient front...

This is probably as good a meal as you will get in Cologne if you want to eat international style instead of Schnitzel and Pork Knuckles. The wines are...

Whether at lunch or in the evening – I feel comfortable here. The costs remain within a reasonable framework.

We had the 4-course menu which consisted of a first dish with perfectly cooked octopus (one of the best I've ever eaten), a tomato/feta/watermelon creation which was a nice palate cleanser and had an interesting flavour combination, fish with lentils (extremely tasty, probably my favourite) and a 'Hugo' for dessert - the latter was probably my least favourite as the overall menu was generally very light, I would have appreciated a more substantial dessert. We found the tasting menu filling enough, but only just. I think finishing off with something a bit richer would have taken the menu to the next level.Either way, there was nothing about the food which I didn't like and everything was perfectly cooked, and - worth mentioning because this isn't always the case - perfectly seasoned!The wine list is, of course, fantastic. We decided to try something very different and go for an Austrian 'Blaufränkisch'. Very nice and interesting wine, quite elegant but we we would have preferred it if it had a bit more body to it. Unfortunately it didn't develop much further over the course of the evening.. But we're glad we tried something different!Service was excellent, the only thing which we weren't too fond of was the decor and design of the restaurant. It reminded me of a restaurant you would find inside a museum, a place you'd go to for lunch. Having such an exciting wine list and good food, I felt the decor didn't do the place justice. If we hadn't researched it online, we would have probably just walked past without taking notice of it.