Rural Aera Gastronomy

You will get no Smartphone signal there and WI-FI is pretty basic, but the food is awesome.
Many bikers and hardcore cyclists can be found there, together with lots of families out for good food. The place is called "Grüner Baum" in Oberzent-Hesselbach.

I was invited to celebrate a 60th birthday there and it took me quite a while to get there on a Sunday morning. It is so weird when you drive through the countryside and loose your smartphone signal completely. Beeing used to reach out to anybody anywhere and not beeing able to is creepy. But this is Germany, way behind other countries.

But I am not writing about bad phone connections, but great food.

The couple who is running the restaurant is young. He took over from his father. His wife is from Italy, so you can find influences from the Italian kitchen there.

We started with a mixed salad wirh a tasty dressing that had some  cut up lovage leaves in.

Then came a beef consommé with the Swabian style filled pasta, called Maultschen.

An Italian couple was part of our group of guests. In there honor a classic melanzane dish was served next. Since we had a lot of more food to come, my friend was wise and brought Mason jars for everybody to take home some of the food.
The melanzane with mozzarella in tomato sauce was amazing. I filled up my jar and ate the warmed up content the next day for lunch at the office.

The main course was either regional trout or beef from Korsika.
But not the French island of Corsica, but a small village near by with this peculiar name.




Zwiebelrostbraten, or beef rumpsteak with onion sauce.

Then finally the dessert came. Most of us had Espresso ice cream.

It took us more then 3 hours from start to finish. In great company the time flies and nobody was angry about the long waiting time between the courses.