Right next to the church in Samerberg you will find the rustic inn Alpenrose, where the son of the house, Florian Wörndl, cooks after having learned his trade in Styria. The menu offers an interesting mixture of classics such as fresh plate meat with potato cucumber salad, but also the results of lessons with a Japanese sushi cook. The house proudly presents itself as a family business with its sister, who works in service in the evening, and the 90-year-old grandma, who still prepares her legendary pastries daily in the kitchen.
Whether you sit under the lime tree at the splashing fountain, on the veranda or in the rustic parlour with its tiled stoves, the atmosphere is right. And the food too: deer liver sausage with passion fruit red cabbage and fried dumpling slices, risotto with fried black pudding and dried tomatoes, and many other Bavarian specialities. To this you drink a light Wienenger wheat beer on tap and at the end a “Schlichter Sturm” (simple storm), which, however, is not always available. This brandy has been produced in Western Styria from the butcher’s grape for 2500 years, can split fats and is extremely difficult to transport because the surfaces must not be closed. That’s why this rarity is carefully transported every year from Styria to Samerberg by someone from the Alpenrose.
Kirchplatz 2
83122 Samerberg/Grainbach
phone: +49 8032 8263
cuisine: bavarian
mon - tues closed
wed - sun 9.00 am - 11.00 pm
