Wachter-Wieslers Ratschen & Wohnothek

A stylish restaurant with a cozy atmosphere is difficult to find. they make a very good work to combine them. local top-level food and a very good choice of local vines, located at the top of the hill, will give them a perfect...dine weinrebe experience. good for coffee and cake during the day as well as check the opening times!

The cabins were super fun to stay. very beautiful but simple decoration. we had a wonderful dinner and weep with it. the breakfast buffet is simple, but plentiful and tasty.

The food was very good to excellent. The squab pigeon dish was delicious. The dessert combination with cucumber and dill was superb. Unusual ingredients (eg mispel, earth chestnuts) were used well to complement main ingredients, much better than we have seen them used at Saziani Stubn. Some real 5* content here. The 2006 Rene Rostaing Cote Rotie was poured beautifully. The breakfast was excellent and the rooms out in the vineyards are beautifully set with a great view and beautiful forest a stone throw's away. And the host family were each very friendly.But.We visited the restaurant during WeinFruehling. When we were there the host was busy with a big group in the bar area, the head waiter seemed to struggle with the large number of difficult walk-ups and got distracted. The kitchen got out of sync, leading to very long waits between courses. All was resolved immediately once I went and spoke with the host, but I can't give 5 *s in the circumstances.

We visited the "Ratschen" with friends from Burgenland, had a delicious lunch and stayed overnight in one of their 10 small guest cottages. The lunch offering was simply superb - i had a perfekt mixed salad, then "schweinebacken" (pigcheeks) and a topfen (cream cheese) cake for dessert. Everything delivious, beautifully prepared, professionally served - in an immaculate setting which somehow combines rustic and modern elements. The. Cottage was roomy,comfortable andvery clean with a good mattress and still a bit of fresh wood "duft". Not too luxurious, but very very nice. The only thing we missed was a corkscrew.. Something to consider given the proximity to great wines of burgenland (including those of the host!). We will definitely be back!

After a few days of Hungarian cooking -- bean soup (bableves), pasta with cottage cheese and bacon (turos csusza), lovely in its own way, but! -- I was ready for something different. My flight from Vienna was only at six, I'd made an early start, so I took the village roads northwest, criss-crossing the border, toward Nemetlovo / Deutsch-Schuetzen, where, a colleague from Vienna had said, the kekfrankos / blaufrankisch was particularly good, especially that sold under the Bela-Joska label by the Wachter-Wiesler vineyard. The road to the restaurant from the 56 is signposted -- sort of -- it winds up the east-facing hillside on which the vines and orchards grow, through the fields, off to the right and twist, and turn -- and there you are, parking behind, sun and a light breeze and, when you step out of your car and look back into the valley -- my, how high you are, and what a glorious view! A few steps down the slope through a small garden, into the building: Open bar, men standing about; a short hallway with a staircase; and at the hallway's a large, bright room with one wall all glass, the wall toward the view that you've just admired. Arriving at noon, as I did, I had my choice of tables, and took one at the window-wall. Within a half-hour the room had filled… Roast blood-pudding, coleslaw with a bit of hot pepper in the dressing, and slices of gently grilled apple to start, with a glass of Gruener Veltliner; then the loin of mangalitza with mushroom sauce and herbed spaetzle. Choose a glass of wine that will do the pork justice, I asked the waiter. He brought me the Bela Joska. It was wonderful. Everything was wonderful. The service, the tempo, the food, the drink. Absolutely grand.No room for pudding; no wish to explore the winery, the rooms of local products on sale upstairs; but I took a bottle of the B-J with me. I hope that I can put together on my own a meal that will do it justice. Now, a side note -- nothing to do with the restaurant, but a part of Deutsch-Schuetzen that you shouldn't miss -- on the climbing road I'd noticed a small white sign: To the graves of the victims of national socialism. Ah. On my way back to the 56, then, I hit my turn indicator and followed the road to the south that was marked by the sign. Another half-paved lane, another climb, and, deep in woods, a fenced enclosure and a slab of stone: Texts in Hebrew, Hungarian, German. Fifty-seven Hungarian Jew slave labourers gunned down and buried here in 1945, may their souls find peace... A quiet moment or two, and I retraced my route, turned to the north, steered for Vienna. Allow yourself twenty minutes on your trip to or from the Ratschen, and visit the grave. Deutsch-Schuetzen offers more than just food for the body; there's much food for thought there to be had as well.