Hotel Restaurant & Spa Verte Vallée

Chef Olivier Lamard crafts a modern culinary score that draws on the terroir of Alsace: house-made foie gras in gewurztraminer; guinea fowl with velvety parsnips and mushrooms; upside-down plum pie, tonka bean-laced mascarpone cream and vanilla ice cream. Savvy, deft craftsmanship and premium produce, some of which from the chef’s granddad’s garden: it ticks all the boxes!

On the edge of the Munster Valley, La Nouvelle Auberge ("New Inn") is a lovingly maintained former coaching inn. The regional-style bistro on the ground floor serves up delicious lunch options during the week. The fine dining restaurant occupies a lovely space on the first floor with exposed timberwork. Bernard Leray, who hails from Rennes in Brittany, has taken to Alsace like a duck to water. After honing his skills at Bernard Loiseau, Leray puts a delicate new spin on local produce, each dish demonstrates his painstaking work and consummate technique – medallion of pike-perch, medley of sals

In this family-run hotel-restaurant, you will first fall in love with the irresistible vintage interior and its parquet floors and chandeliers. The extensive menu reveals a weakness for purebred classicism (tournedos steak and black mushrooms), regional dishes (smoked trout and bibalakas) and the odd more contemporary composition (gravlax salmon and beetroot emulsion). Sweeping view over the valley.

Venture over the threshold of this large regional-style 1920s building with oriel and stained-glass windows into a handsome, inviting dining room. Poultry pâté en croûte and confit lemon; honey-lacquered loin of pork, cream of sweetcorn and sautéed seasonal mushrooms; chocolate soufflée tart: the young chef delights diners from start to finish. A concise wine list with a focus on organic and biodynamic wines; possibility of gin and tonic pairings (with local gins of course!).

This cosy family-run restaurant in Alsace's Vosges mountains has many regulars who come for the mouth-watering traditional cuisine. This is refined and flavourful fare: baeckoffe with snails, fish matelote, venison stew and the like. Attentive service and refurbished guestrooms for overnight stays.

Located in a picture postcard wine-growing village, this inn, helmed by a young couple, strives to uphold Alsace traditions by way of no-nonsense, gutsy, wholehearted fare and premium local produce: presskopf, snails in garlic and parsley butter, Heimbach arctic char, beef in coarse salt, braised ham hock and choucroute... The ice cream is house made.