Top Rated Restaurants & Cafes in Strasbourg

What can one say about Emile Jung and his famous Crocodile that has not already been said? Obviously, when you have been going for ten years with three stars, it earns you a certain reputation. Here the service team and sommelier are as irreproachable as the food, and Madame Jung keeps a close eye on everything. You may have difficulty choosing from the excellent range of dishes: pig's trotter and ear truffled with new cabbage and Darphin potatoes, tuna croustille, aubergine caviar conserves, and desserts like mango-and-pear-glazed nougat and muscatel-and-cream-of-nut sorbet are among the favorites.

This is a cross between a Parisian brasserie, a winstub and a traditional French bistro. Whatever you care to call it, this place has a wonderful selection of meats especially the cassolette de tête de veau sauce ravigote, foie gras d'oie en terrine, home-made sauerkraut choucroute avec jambonneau, quenelles de foie, langue de buf. The menu also includes fish dishes such as salmon tartar with fresh herbs on a bed of mixed salad tartare de saumon aux herbes fraîches sur salade composé, sea bream in olive sauce suprême de dorade à la tapenade or duo de saint-jacques et de gambas à la fleur de thym and some delicious fruit tarts.

Behind this magnificent façade the interior is decorated in wood and the tables are close enough to be able to share conversations with your neighbours, so a friendly atmosphere is guaranteed. Marie, the owner, is extremely attentive and helpful and the menu offers regional dishes such as quenelles de foie à la crème, (beef, pork, lamb, onions and potatoes stewed in white wine) baeckeoffe and kougelhopf glacé (a home-made ice cream cake) for dessert.

This restaurant is an authentic old-fashioned winstub: an old heating stove, checked tablecloths, carved chairs, wide benches and photos that have turned yellow with age as well as house white wine served by the glass instead of beer. As for food, the famous ham pie is delicious, but the knuckle of ham in sauerkraut and shoulder of pork with a potato salad is also good. Dining at Le Saint-Sépulcre will not hurt your pocket. It guarantees a delicious mean that will include starter, main course, and dessert at a moderate price.

'Le Glacier Franchi' is situated five minutes, on foot, from the 'Homme de Fer' and the Place Kléber. You might be forgiven for thinking that its location is why this ice-cream shop is so successful, however, it does have other attractions. It was the originality and quality of their ice creams and sorbets that built their reputation. Whether you want ice cream in the summer, or a cup tea or a cappuccino in the winter, this is definitely a good place to go.

In the shade of the cathedral, nestling at the end of these picturesque lanes where you will also find Chez Yvonne, Le Katzeroller and le Saint-Sépulcre, there is another small one just as charming and welcoming as the others in pure winstub style with its full and varied menu based on the regional dishes that you will taste next to its fireplace: a steak, kidneys, frogs legs, a shoulder of wild boar in a stew and for dessert, treat yourself to a kougelhopf glacéd in Gewurztraminer.