Aktivhotel & Gasthof Schmelz, Inzell

Just Can't Help Making A Raclette!!

Advantages: Deliciously Cheesy, Perfect for Cold Nights!
Disadvantages: Can be hard to source...

whilst it melts, although purists no doubt balk at this. Serve Raclette with a very light, dry white wine to offset the richness of all that cheese; I'd suggest an Alsace Riesling, or better still, one from the Valais-Wallis region. My own favourite recipe involving Raclette is far simpler, however. In truth, it is scarcely a recipe at all, more what my husband somewhat ungraciously refers to as glorified cheese on toast! I owe it to a little Gasthof, the name of which sadly alludes me, in a charming medieval town called Baden, which is about 15 minutes west of Zurich. The chef there, quaintly enough, referred to this as his 'Toast Hawaii', presumably by virtue of the fact that it has a slice of pineapple on it. It is quite simply a nice, thick slice of the best bread you can get, preferably a light rye. Spread with Dijon mustard, top ...

snowbunni 07.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Cheese Recipes

These mountains are for more than just SKIING DOWN

Advantages: Fantastic scenery, good transport links, not too expensive - if you know where to go...
Disadvantages: Too tourist-oriented, expensive shops

we stayed at the Gasthof Hasslesberger (very close to the cablecar station at the bottom of the Hahnenkamm), which I would give 5 stars any day - it was superb in every way. We normally go for family-run 2/3 star establishments (we tend to go through Inghams, which we have found far better than Thompson, Chrystal, and Enterprise, the other tour operators that we've been to Austria with), and these normally provide just the right level of quality, inexpensiveness, and unobtrusiveness. (Ingham's reps tend to be less pushy than most too, but are there when you need them.) If you want to go on a hiking / rambling holiday, Kitzbühel is perfect due to the wonderful surroundings and plentiful chair lifts etc if you find yourself suddenly too tired to walk down the mountain you've just climbed up. Obviously a good map is useful ...

CaptainDisaster 01.05.2005 (04.07.2005) · Read full review
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Review of Kitzbuhel (Austria)

No Gripes About The Graupner!

Advantages: Excellent Location, Attractive Rooms, Friendly Staff
Disadvantages: Inconvenient Parking, Slightly Disappointing Breakfast

The Graupner hadn't been our first choice in Bamberg. We'd really wanted to stay at a place we'd been told about, an ancient Gasthof beside the river with views across the turrets of the old Medieval Bridge, and a renowned restaurant underneath… Alas, disappointment seems almost inevitable when you visit a town on the weekend of a popular local festival and leave all your arrangements to the last minute. So, with previously vacant hotels filling up quickly, and our options evaporating, I went ahead and made the booking at the Graupner. Rather belatedly, with the booking irreversibly secured anyway, I decided to investigate, and to my dismay I encountered (amidst very little real information about the hotel) a couple of decidedly unfavourable reviews on an American review site. Thus it was with some trepidation that we arrived ...

snowbunni 09.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Hotel Konditorei Graupner, Bamberg, Germany