Xantener Stuben Restaurant

A family restaurant in the middle of a residential area. They serve nice bread and sauces, before the ordered food. Like all typical german restaurants, everything contained lots of sugar, the goulash soup, the salad. But apart from that, i enjoyed a copious meal, the soup was small but the salad was huge. The lady that served, who seemed to know half of the customers is very friendly.

Firstly, I'd like to comment on the homemade rhubarb schnapps. It's glorious. It doesn't even taste alcoholic, it's that rhubarby. Sure makes the walk home fun though. The staff were all friendly and very proficient. They put up with our mediocre German with good grace, and were helpful with any questions we had. The beers and wines selection is as you would expect for the area. I went with diebels alt not being a pilsner guy, and my wife had a rather nice white wine. The first thing brought after drinks was a basket of bread and three dips/spreads. One schmalz, one aoli and one which I could not identify. They were all good, but the schmalz was far and away the standout contender here. I ate way too much bread because the spreads were that tasty, and that's something I'm normally very careful about. Starters wise, my wife had the tomato soup which was very nice and well spiced, and I had the chilli garnelen which were also excellent. Did I mention that the rhabarber schnapps is tasty? I had the rumpsteak mit champignons und zwiebeln, and my wife had the rumpsteak Madagaskar (with a green pepper sauce and kroketten) and both were very good. They cook steak well as ordered (rare for me, medium rare for my wife) and the chef clearly knows their way around a chunk of cow. We really wanted to try their peaches, chocolate sauce and ice-cream dessert, but at this point we were both too full and decided to go with the legendary rhubarb schnapps and an espresso. The coffee was just OK, but my god that schnapps. I'd come back to xanten just for that. Oh, the waitress even corrected me when I couldn't do basic arithmetic so I didn't tip too much, which was very kind of her because she could have easily tricked me out of another 20 and honestly she probably deserved it anyway. I hope this place stays open for a long time, because they're very good at what they do and know exactly the kind of place they run. That said, if the business collapses they can just sell that sweet sweet rhubarb schnapps online. To me. I'll buy it all.