Le Jardin de France

Frommer's Review

The most highly recommended and most elegant restaurant in Baden-Baden lies in a baronial-looking building in the center of town. It features the kind of haute cuisine and elegance that qualifies it as one of Germany's best restaurants. Defining itself as a "small corner of France set within Germany," it's enhanced by the creative cuisine and service of Alsatian-born Stephan and Sophie Bernhard. Within an extremely comfortable milieu of antiques, masses of flowers, and the sense that you're within a historic monument, you'll be confronted with menu items that many critics from throughout Germany have defined as memorable. During clement weather, an outdoor terrace provides alternative seating. You might begin with freshwater whiting in puff pastry with a horseradish-flavored cream sauce and winter vegetables; a rosette of scallops with vanilla-flavored olive oil, bay leaves, and artichoke hearts; fried scallops of foie gras with pineapple, fava beans, and essence of balsamic vinegar; and crayfish poached in a bouillon of Sancerre, essence of orange, and caviar. Main courses include a thick-cut slice of turbot with compote of carrots, Bresse chicken with cinnamon sauce and a purée of chestnuts, and lacquered pigeon with cumin-flavored maple syrup and a purée of sweet potatoes. Plan on spending an evening tableside.

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