Restaurant tips: The area around Lake Neusiedl is not only known for its beauty, but above all for its exceptional restaurants and culinary offerings. The trained foodie, who simply loves good food and is passionate about its preparation as well as everything new and worth knowing about it, is literally in a "foodie coma" because of what is on offer around beautiful Lake Neusiedl. An incredible variety of sustainably produced products is revealed here and it is no exaggeration to say that the temptations are so numerous that one trip is not enough to discover all the culinary temptations.
Rust and the Burgenland - Restaurant tips
Rust - where you will also find our vacation home "Seehütte Neusiedlersee" - is the perfect place to start a culinary journey to places like Breitenbrunn, PurbachOggau, Schützen or Mörbisch. Directly in Rust you will find producers such as Richard Triebaumerwho sells delicious sausages from Mangalitsa pigs, pumpkins, compotes and unusual jams directly from his small store at Rathausplatz 4. The Triebaumer pigs can also be found in the pastures in Rust, where they wallow in the mud with relish.
If you like to eat well, our restaurant tips in Rust in the Restaurant Hofgassl in the best of hands. The beautiful guest garden, which you enter through a trellis of hydrangeas, invites you to spend cozy evenings with a little more wine, as the Seehütte is only a short walk away via Seestraße. The famous wine taverns Schandl and Gabriel can be found to the right and left of the main road coming from the lake. Both offer wonderful Pannonian dishes and a buffet full of fresh and home-cooked delicacies - reservations are highly recommended.
If you cycle or drive one village further to Oggau, you will end up in a real insider tip right on the water and the small and very romantic marina in Oggau on Lake Neusiedl. The restaurant tip Marias Marina offers an idyllic view of the lake and a very extensive menu - freshly cooked and usually also from the charcoal grill on Fridays.
New: the Tesla on the lake opposite the Seehütte Neusiedlersee
In Rust, almost directly opposite the Seehütte Neusiedlersee, the trendy Tesla by the lake. A Neapolitan pizza oven, grilled dishes and a truly exceptional breakfast await you right on the waterfront.
Ein weiterer Grund den Kochlöffel in der Lade zu lassen ist einer unserer liebsten Köche – und soeben auch Koch des Jahres geworden 🙂 Max Stiegl mit seinen Restaurant Purbach Estate. We particularly like his philosophy "From Nose to Tail" - i.e. processing the whole animal and also offering almost forgotten dishes such as snipe, numerous offal such as tongue or tripe, because it shows respect for the animal, which Max cooks here with great dedication.
His signature dish "chicken in a bladder" and the famous Sautanz in autumn are definitely worth a visit - booking a cab and an overnight stay with Max or with us at the Seehütte Neusiedlersee is highly recommended. Also in Purbach, directly in a former wine cellar, you will find the Restaurant Fossil by Salzburg award-winning chef Thomas Pugel - his reinterpretation of classic Pannonian-Austrian cuisine is definitely worth a visit. One of the most beautiful cellar lanes on Lake Neusiedl can also be found in Purbach, where every 1st Saturday of the month the "Kellergassen Heurigen" takes place. Around June, when the cherries ripen between Breitenbrunn, Purbach and Donnerskirchen, the Producers The range of old cherry varieties from Prosecco to juices and brandies includes many old, almost forgotten varieties. But also Burgenland oyster mushrooms from Lock mushrooms can be discovered in Donnerskirchen. There are many more restaurant tips, but you should discover one or two culinary temptations for yourselves.
The Galeriecafe - our favorite for cakes and aperitifs
If you fancy a dessert or an aperitif with a direct view of the storks and their nests high above the rooftops of Rust, we recommend the Gallery cafe in the center of the old town of Rust, which is one of the most picturesque of its kind with its numerous town houses and is now a listed building. The owner bakes here herself and constantly fills the display cases with the sweetest delicacies, while you can gaze over the wonderful facades of Rust and watch the storks on the roofs breeding and rearing their offspring in spring and summer.
