Dresden Restaurants

I can't remember the names of the restaurants I visited, but there are lots to choose from. I found numerous restaurants on the large pedestrian mall that's a short walk from the rail station (I can't remember the name of it but it's very wide and has many stores and restaurants).

The restaurants you use will probably depend to some extent on which part of the city you plan to stay in.

Precovid, my husband went to Dresden monthly. I tagged along on one trip. These are the places that we enjoyed. Gansedieb, Sfizio, La Osteria, Kinh Do, Augustiner, and the M Eateery inside the Gewandhaus Hotel. The first and last on this little list were our favorites. Whatever you do, avoid Rauschenbach Deli. It was absolutely awful and I would have gotten up and left it that were acceptable.

Difficult to recommend a restaurant if we don't know about your price range and what kind of food you like. But I'll try.

First off, thumbs up for the recommendations in the previous post. M{eat]ery is quite expensive, though.

Freiberger Schankhaus at Neumarkt square, Watzke (2x in the centre: Am Ring and Am Goldenen Reiter) for regional and reasonably priced food. Schillergarten and Körnergarten on opposite banks of the river by the Blue Wonder Bridge in the eastern residential areas.
More expensive:
Alte Meister for international cuisine, Kastenmeier's for fish/seafood, Da Miri for Italian.

In 2019, I met a friend in Dresden who loves fine dining. She chose dinner at Genuss-Atelier, a 1 Star Michelin restaurant about 3km outside the Old Town.

My 3 or 4 course meal with wine was €65, which was worth it as a splurge!

From the Michelin Guide's description:
"Fourteen steps lead you down to this friendly, cosy cellar restaurant in a beautiful old villa in Neustadt, where sandstone walls and brick vaults make for a special setting. In a wonderfully informal atmosphere, brother-and-sister team Marcus and Nicole Blonkowski serve interesting, modern and creative cuisine prepared using top-quality produce – and the value for money is hard to beat!"

I agree that Genussatelier serves excellent food - but these prices are long gone. Three or four courses without wine, water, coffee would now be about that amount. Also, my guess is that for this restaurant you must make reservations long in advance for December.

Btw, friends of mine will have dinner there soon ;-)

Yes, agreed about the reservations, which I am sure we made weeks or even a month or two in advance for our October visit.

***We especially enjoyed the little food... huts(?) that are arranged like fair grounds.*

This is from my journal on that trip:

Day 1:**
Feeling a little confident while I waited, I pointed to food cooking asked what it was. And then read the sign aloud. It was green cabbage “mit Knacker”. And the man then said “mit Pinke!” and proceeded to explain (in German) that when the sausages hang and the warm air dries them… and then he gestured with his finger at his zipper “Pinke!”

The woman there just laughed at him, as did I. I don’t really know what exactly he meant... but I get the meaning! I think I learned a dirty word!

The Currywurst was outstanding. I was sorry that I ate my fries first because I ran out of room before I could finish. Mike made quick of work his and then of what was left of mine though.

Day 2:
By this time we were hungry. So we went back to the little carnival booths to get baguettes with sour cream and toppings on them. I had seen them yesterday and I wanted to have them. We stood with a beer and ate them.

We got some sweets and more beers. We were supposed to get a bottle of beer so we could walk around and some puff pastry we’d seen with a man. But the beer was only in a glass (with a Pfand) and the puff pastry ended up being potato pancakes with apple sauce. Oh dear. So much for my confidence in speaking German!

We also had dinner at the Biergarten across the river. This is from my journal on that day:

At the Augustus Biergarten Mike was having trouble deciding. I said that I’d have the Leberkäse I thought because it has cheese. A man walked by with something that Mike said “I want THAT!” I asked the man what it was and he said Leberkäse! So I got one for Mike and only a beer for me. The Leberkäse was (to me) a hot, inch-thick slice of balogna with krautsalat on Brötchen. The krautsalat on it was so good with mustard. I could have eaten just that on bread. But the beer was delicious and sitting looking back at Alt Dresden across the Elbe was a nice way to finish the night.

I was completely done with German food by the time I got to Dresden (I'd been in Germany for three weeks by then). My favorite meal was actually a chicken curry stew with rice at a little Turkish place around the corner from Gewandhaus hotel.