A nice friendly cafe, where you can enjoy coffee with a view of the dam. The staff were friendly…read moremaking good suggestions for the days freshly baked cake.

This was our dinner stop on the way to Volkenroda. A Bavarian restaurant in middle Germany. It was…read moreone of the few places that made me drool and wish I were omnivorous again, watching my brother in law gnaw at his "hackensaw". I call it that, because I can never remember the German word for it. It's actually the pig trotters or a piece of meat around a big bone like you would see in one of the Flintstone movies. But it looked awesome! They had English menus too. And though it doesn't compare to what the omnivores had, it was still awesome!

We made reservations in advance…read more Unfortunately to the Germans the concept of a host is unknown to them. You walk in the restaurant and need to browse to seat yourself or I. Our case find the reserved table. Definitely not a welcoming atmosphere. Plus: every other table which would seat 6 was used by 2 people only. As they are not seated here people tend to use what they see fit for themselves. The restaurant could make more profit and increase happiness by seating people according to the server capacity and free space. We had to wait to get our bill as the service doesn't really race to service the customer. If they have one table with more rotation on happy customer, they would increase the profit. Seems to be not occurred to the management of the Bavaria Alm.