Restaurant Taubenkobel

Description:

• This well-known restaurant lies beside the main street of the hamlet of Schützen, about 40km (25 miles) southeast of Vienna. In a 200-year-old maison bourgeoise with a quintet of tastefully rustic dining rooms, self-taught chef and owner Walter Eselböck prepares artful, idiosyncratic cuisine.

  The menu items change according to the season and Eselböck's whim. Expect a meal that's more sophisticated and upscale than anything else in the region. Superb appetizers might include cold potato soup with strips of smoked eel, watermelon salad with salmon-trout and red herbs, or else crayfish with a bean salad. The chef also shows his prowess in such dishes as veal chop with yellow fruits and a gooseliver terrine and in braised oxtail with a carrot-flavored sabayon. For dessert, why not try blackberry pastry with fresh blackberries and freshly made ice cream?

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Very Highly Recommended 2010