So good. Perfect outdoor seating area and a friendly waiter. Recommend the Wiener-schnitzel and…read moreburrata. English friendly

Combination Hotel/Restaurant/Biergarten gone upscale. Admittedly I never visited the old…read moreGerbermühle. We biked over from downtown and were fairly hungry upon arrrival. The place is separated between Hotel Restaurant with an outdoor terrace and a regular biergarten. We were not aware that the two had different menus as we found seats in the biergarten. Actually they call it a Sommergarten which apparently fits the theme of going upscale from the previous version. The Sommergarten menu somehow just didn't make sense to me. The fare was sort of standard biergarten fare albeit with no Schnitzel. There was Handkäs, Rindwurst from Graf Vösling, Schweinshaxe, Spareribs, Lyoner Wurstsalat, and Flammkuchen. I guess the idea is that the new clientele is weight conscious so there was no bratkartoffel or Pomme Frites on offer. The meat dishes were served with a humble slice of rye bread and a dab of mustard. Somehow the concept just didn't work for me. We ended up bolstering our order with some handkäs (good enough) and the house special potato salad (unimpressive). The Schweinshaxe was fine and the rindswurst as well. Gerbermühle only offers the BInding line of beer (Römer Pils or Schöfferhoffer) so negative points there. There were a number of interesting looking wines on offer, none of which you'd be embarrrassed to drink but prices did seem slightly high. But I simply don't understand what they expect their customers to pair with a nice Rheingau Riesling or even a Veuve Clicquot. Does that go with the Rindswurst and mittelscharfe Senf? Or maybe the spareribs? I mean, if your winelist overshadows your beer list, shouldn't you offer food appropriate to the wine? Service was unexceptional. Ambience is lovely (direct on the Main). The Hotel itself has been renovated with an eye for design flair, succeeding here and failing a bit there. I'd like to try again for the regular menu.otherwise an OK place. I have to add there were two nattily dressed blokes there who were actually sharing a cigar (!!!). Frankly I'm a bit averse to going anywhere that let's that sort of thing go on without having a burly cook come out and bludgeon them to death with a schnitzel hammer.