Andechser Hof - Herrsching

Until now I have only eaten in the restaurant and have not met the hotel. but I can say definitiw when you book a room there, they have a very tasty restaurant in the house where they can eat. Unfortunately, it is also a bit expensive.

I recently ate a steak here. it was very juicy as I like it. as supplement there were kartoffels and a little sweet. I tasted very good and the price was also ok. here you can spend a nice evening.

We arrived by train in Herrsching to make the 4km walk to Andech's monastery, and that looked like a viable place to eat and drink. It was good, nothing unusual, but if I went back through this little town, I could stop here again.

I have been here three times in total over the years. The last time was in New Year 2017 when we visited some friends who live in Munich. The husband (an old friend from university) convinced me (with very little persuasion needed) that a trip to Andechs was in order. It's quite the trip, but ultimately worth it. A lovely, peaceful place with stunning views. The food is made locally (if not on site) and is very good (I stuck to Brezen mit Obatz'da good drinking food), but their beer is divine very little to choose between theirs and the beer brewed by he mighty Augustiner (another pilgrimage site for me). Lovely people, good service, great location, cracking vittles. Topped off by the fact that a German make voice choir was in the building for a visit that evening, and they raised the rafters with their wonderful singing. Top night my friend regretted it the next day though. Just goes to show that if you're going to down four Mass of beer, Doppelbock is not the sort of poison in which to indulge (nor is a round of schnapps on the way back home a good idea)!

While we had an OK meal here, I left with the impression that the Andechser Hof is one of those places where more thought was put into how to fancy up the food on the plate than into the actual preparation of the meal. The food is fine, tasty even at times, but nothing particularly special. We ordered off the seasonal menu chicken stuffed with wild ramps and pine nuts with a white asparagus foam. The idea is great however, the foam was a milky, too runny sauce that didn 't taste at all of asparagus except for the few penny sized slivers of asparagus swimming in the soupy blandness. The chicken breast was probably 1/4 of a chicken breast, hammered out into a thin enough filet to wrap around the filling. The taste was very good, but the portion was just very small. My friend had asparagus filled maultaschen , which are rectangular dumplings, in a wild ramps (bärlauch) pesto sauce. These were again tasty, but presented in an artfully arranged way on the plate that brought to mind photos from cooking magazines for bored housewives from the 1970s. However the prices were not exorbitant, and so I’m feeling a little bad to write a critical review, but I guess it was the attempt to present the food (in the menu creation as well as on the plate) that set the bar higher in my opinion. The biergarten was closed when we were there, despite it being a lovely spring night, and at prime dinner hour the restaurant was nearly empty (while the restaurants at the lakefront were all packed). I suspect this was more a reflection of the location (not right at the lake) on a nice night, than of the quality of the food, but who knows?