Looking for off the beaten path restaurants in Colmar(will have a car)

With a car, I'd consider dinners in some of the nearby villages. The only problem with that is you won't want - or at least shouldn't want - to drive after more than one glass of wine. Blood-alcohol limit in France is only 0.5%, compared with 0.8% in the US.

In Colmar - like in most places in Europe - if you avoid the places that are obviously targeting tourists (multilingual language menus, on the main square, next to top tourist sights), you'll be fine. Don't reject places with menus in French and German - German is the either the first or second language throughout in Alsace.

Here's a village outside of Colmar (Kientzheim) where we stayed a few years ago with a lovely restaurant.

Even if you don't end up having dinner there, the café out on the center plaza would be a great place to stop for an afternoon refresher.

I don't know if it's "away from the tourists", but it's truly a tiny village and very charming.

https://www.schwendi.fr/web_en.htm

Thank you! Web site and menu look special!

If you can afford it, we had a long, memorable meal at L'Auberge de L'Ill, in Illhausen. It had 3 Michelin stars at the time, haven't checked this year. Aperitifs in the garden by the river, quiet, lavish meal indoors. Perhaps our best 3-star experience. I'm sure a jacket is expected for men.

I presume you mean villages close to Colmar, as you do not require a car in Colmar itself. Bergheim is a very pretty village with very few shops and restaurants. We ate lunch twice at Winstub l'Altenberg and once at www.la-bacchante.fr, both highly recommended.

We had a lunch at www.auberge-du-froehn.com in Zellenberg, also highly recommended. We usually have a late, 3 course menu lunch which will do us for the rest of the day (very light supper at our home base apartment most days). Alsace is a great area for good food at a decent price.

We also had a very good lunch in the square of Dambach-la-Ville, through googling I believe it was La Vignette.

Riquewihr, full of tourists, has a number of highly regarded restaurants

Great recommendations!! Thank you!

I have to say the dining in Alsace is probably our least favorite of the regions we have visited in France. The best restaurant we ate at in Colmar was the Moroccan one right by the cathedral. In Kaysersberg, we liked Bratschall-Manala. Save room for a slice of their homemade tarts for dessert. I had the Mirabelle plum one. Omgoodness.