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Festungsrestaurant Frommer's Highly Recommended

Mönchsberg 34, Salzburg

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Cuisine Salzburgian, Austrian
Hours Mar-Jan 7 daily 10am-9pm
Location Hohensalzburg, On the Left Bank (Old Town)
Transportation Funicular from the Old Town
Reservations Reservations required July-Aug
Phone 0662/841780
Web site www.festungsrestaurant.at
Prices Main courses 10€-21€ ($16-$34)
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V
Closed Closed Jan 8-Feb 28

Festungsrestaurant Review

The venue of this well-known restaurant is modern, warmly decorated, and airy, with the enviable bonus of being perched atop the former stronghold of the prince-archbishops of Salzburg, atop a huge rocky spur about 122m (400 ft.) above the Old Town and the Salzach River. From its evenly spaced windows, you'll have a sweeping view over the city and the surrounding countryside. The kitchen offers fish, well-prepared beef, pork, lamb, and such old-fashioned and traditional dishes as a Salzburger bauernschmaus (a bubbling stewpot of veal, pork, sausage, and dumplings), Salzburger schnitzels, Salzburger Grüstl (a form of beef hash with potatoes and onions), and käse Spätzle (spätzle with cheese). There's also wild game dishes served in season. One of the rooms within this restaurant complex, the Fürstenzimmer, offers occasional concerts, often featuring the works of Mozart. For ticket information, call tel. 0662/825858.

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