Eat in Strasbourg
Search Strasbourg dishes by craving — baeckeoffe, bredele, bretzel and more.
6 dishes worth going out of your way for in Strasbourg, 3 of them vegetarian. Each one lists where to eat it, because the dish and the room that does it well are not the same question.
Leave room for Bredele.
Kougelhopf is a breakfast thing here, and sells out by mid-morning.
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Pork, mutton and beef marinated overnight in white wine, layered with potatoes and onions in a glazed terrine, sealed with a rope of dough and baked for hours until nothing needs a knife.
€18–28
Best around: Rue du Sanglier, behind the cathedral and Place de la Cathédrale
Small Christmas biscuits in dozens of shapes and doughs — cinnamon stars, aniseed springerle, butter shapes, almond crescents — baked from late November and stacked in tins.
€4–12 a bag
Best around: Across the squares of the Grande Île — late November to 24 December
Dough rolled, looped and dipped in a lye bath before baking, which is what gives it the mahogany crust and the particular taste — scattered with coarse salt, and eaten warm from a bakery counter.
€1.50–4
Best around: Rue des Veaux, student quarter and Across the squares of the Grande Île — late November to 24 December
Cabbage salted and fermented for weeks, then cooked slowly in Riesling with juniper and bay, and served under a load of smoked pork, sausages, bacon and potatoes.
€16–26
Best around: Rue du Sanglier, behind the cathedral and Place de la Cathédrale
A tall fluted brioche baked in a glazed earthenware mould, with raisins soaked in kirsch through the crumb and whole almonds set in the ridges, dusted with icing sugar.
€3–6 a slice, €10–18 whole
Bread dough rolled paper-thin, spread with fromage blanc and cream, scattered with onion and lardons, and blasted in a wood oven for a couple of minutes until the edges char.
€10–16
Best around: Rue des Veaux, student quarter and Across the squares of the Grande Île — late November to 24 December
