So!!! the Restuarant at the hotel is closed on Thursday and out we had to go. If you are going to go out this is a rustic local Weinbau right on B9 with lovely view of the traffic on the Rhine. Plopped at the edge of the access road of B9(the main drag for rolling along the river north to Koblenz) Furstenburg has a huge parking lot with monster steps leading to the terrance atop the garage and finally the main entrance. Thursday is special night here and all the entrees are 12.90 marks, or close to 7 Euros. Also they serve their own beer Fursten-Pils in lovely tall slender glasses. Great for sipping while you wait for the kitchen to prepare the meal and gaze at the blue-grey river sliding by.
Our waitress, the owners wife, politley delivered our steaming meal, hefty pork cutlet smothered in a lush gravy crawling with onions along with the ever present crispy fries and a spicy and light salad with beats, green beans, carrots with juilanne celery to our cozy table by one of the three picture windows opening onto the Rhine. Our subdued room was filled with light oak chairs and tables, rectangular with rustic design cut into the chairs and tables splashed with white table cloths and tiny vases with fresh carnations in the dead of November. The owner himself was the chef and the bartender and offerd advice on the wine for dinner, one of the few red wines(8 Euro) grown along the Rhine. It was a little on the light side, not heavy like some of the Burgandys from France.
After a crisp and sweet apple strudel shared for dessert, we were invited to the tiny three stool bar at the rear of the room by our host. No credit cards here and remember that 16% is already added to your bill, but it is considered polite to round off the ticket. We had a great meal and conversation for 54.60 Marks (27.92 Euro including the beer and wine) which is almost the same as dollars. What a find!!!!!