Gasthaus Hotel Zum Lowen - Gelnhausen

Wir waren zu einem Abendessen als Paar in der Gaststätte. Wir hatten als Hauptspeise zum Beispiel Pfifferlinge, Schnitzel mit Bratkartoffeln und Salat. Leckere Hausmannskost, schmackhaft zubereitet. Der Nachtisch mit Mousse de chocolate und Tia Mousse waren hausgemacht und einfach lecker.Der Service war aufmerksam und freundlich.Ein Punkt Abzug gibt es für die nicht funktionierende Website.

Sehr schönes Ambiente mit zuvorkommendem Service und einer sehr guten regionalen und saisonaler Küche.

Zum vierten Mal sind wir nun im Gasthaus zum Löwen eingekehrt und wurden wieder mal nicht enttäuscht. Die Begrüßung ist immer herzlich und der Biergarten ist wunderschön.Jedes mal entdecken wir neue saisonale Speisen in der Karte. Was dieses Gasthaus ausmacht ist die regionale und saisonale Küche.Die Service Leute sind allesamt sehr aufmerksam und flexibel mit Sonderwünschen.Dazu noch einen eisgekühlten Apfelwein vom Fass und die Welt ist in Ordnung. Wir kommen gerne hierher.

The service was really nice, and so was the starter salad. From then it went downhill for me – the sausages were dry and over seasoned, and the roast potatoes seemed as if they had been warmed up a few times. The other dish at our table was Grüne Soße (Green Sauce), which was just about average, although better than the sausages. The wine list is none existent, and the German red wine that they serve is really not very good. It seems that this place seems to be a bit of a gamble what you get: some of the stuff that arrived at neighbouring tables looked quite nice. Not sure if we would go back if we came to Gelnhausen again.

The Gasthaus Zum Löwen is a beautiful ancient building with a long history. We went there as it was well rated on Tripadvisor. May be the ownership or management have changed recently but our experience was rather disappointing and strange. How to explain? The experience we had in the restaurant somehow does not match with the historic building and the expectations that go with it. First of all we noticed that there was quite loud music in the entire restaurant. The music came from a music station which broadcasted mainly pop and even rock music! As this is not the type of music we prefer for a nice dinner in a nice setting we asked the waiter if he could turn off the music. He said that this was not possible. He promised however, that he would turn the volume down a bit but in fact he did not do so. When we asked for the wine menue we were told that they had only two types of red wine by the glass. We tried one glass of each but would not recommend either of them. The food was just about okay. The service was not unfriendly as such but generally rather poor. Whilst the restaurant was not busy at all the service was very slow all the way through from the moment we sat down until we left. It was particularly slow when we wanted to pay and leave to finally escape the unnerving music. When the waiter finally presented the bill and I gave him money he asked me "how much (tip)" instead of respectively before returning the change to me! During our lifes we have visited many countries around the world and visited numerous restaurants of all sorts but this is the very first time to happen to us. It is so rude and unheard of that we were indeed speechless. All in all a very strange experience and we will obviously not be back.