The Eve of New Year's Eve Dinner 2022 @ Goldstein

On the Eve of New Year's Eve 2022 we had a lovely dinner at Das Goldstein, a restaurant hidden in the forest, located very close to our house. We have been to the restaurant in the last summer to treat my brother who happened to visit Germany for business. We, actually all guests have seated at the terrace at that time, so I hadn't seen the inside of the restaurant building until this time.   

Built in 1911, the building used to be a rifle club and now provides a chic dining space with a light touch of the old time hunting theme. The menu, which contained a mix of traditional German and Austrian (related to the restaurant's owner) classics and international, especially Asian, was rather limited. In fast almost all dishes were the same from the last summer. Still this was our second visit and we were able to find new for us.  

J liked the crunchy crackers with pumpkin seeds.   

My starter was Tafelspitz Bouillon vom Charolais Ochsen. Tafelspitz, an Austrian traditional dish is beef soup, which we have had before in Vienna. This was Tafelspitz Bouillon, or broth of Tafelspitz. Boiled beef wasn't included. Topping was Frittaten, shedded pancakes. The soup was ok but too salty! I think my own Fritattensuppe was much better. 

J had Tom Kha Gai (Thai coconut soup) with King Prawn. J kindly let me taste his soup a little. It was pretty good.

For main, I had grilled fillet of wild salmon served with yellow curry vegetables, Basmati rice and coconut foam. The salmon was nicely grilled and delicious. I also liked the yellow curry veggie with rice very much while I don't know the coconut foam was really necessary there.

J chose fried chicken. It was simple deep fried chicken. The chicken came with potato-endive salad. It looked like a lovely side and J enjoyed it.

At the last we shared the restaurant's homemade vanilla ice cream with Zotter chocolate liqueur from the Gölles distillery. Our waiter came to our table with the ice cream and a bottle of the special chocolate liqueur and poured the chocolate over ice cream at the table. The dessert was super! We should have ordered two. By the way the chocolate liqueur was developed by a collaboration between two companies in Riegersburg, a south-east city in Austria. One is Zotter, a chocolate maker and the other was Gölles, a vinegar and spirit maker. 

It was a very nice way to enjoy the time of almost end of the year. Thank you J!