Culinary
Culinary Delights on the Southern Wine Route
Our numerous restaurants, inns and wine taverns serve excellent food and convivial dining - often outdoors in picturesque courtyards and gardens. From hearty, typical Palatinate specialities to modern, light cuisine, you will find culinary highlights on the Southern Wine Route. And at the Palatinate huts, refreshing Palatinate spritzers and down-to-earth cuisine await you with great views. Taste and savour all that the Southern Wine Route has to offer.
Tip
The wine taverns and restaurants on the Southern Wine Route are often very busy.
It is therefore advisable to book a table by telephone, especially at weekends and on public holidays.
Restaurants & Wine Taverns
From Regional Classics to New Creations
The Southern Wine Route is not only known for its Mediterranean climate and excellent wines, it also has a creative gastronomic scene to offer. In addition to the wide variety of restaurants, with dishes ranging from sweet to savoury and traditional to experimental, the numerous wine taverns and wine taverns offer the opportunity to sample Palatinate classics such as Saumagen or onion tart. While wine taverns are usually open all year round, ostrich taverns are only allowed to open for up to four months of the year - especially in autumn, of course. Historically, the term "Straußwirtschaft" goes back to a decree issued by Charlemagne in 791, in which winegrowers were supposedly authorised to operate "Kranz" taverns, which are identified by a hanging wreath of vines or ivy. Especially after a strenuous hiking tour on the Pälzer Keschdeweg or the Pfälzer Weinsteig, you can fortify yourself here with simple, hearty dishes.
SÜW Picnic
An Enjoyable Excursion into Nature
Whether you're travelling by bike or on foot, alone, as a couple or in a group - you always need to pack something good to eat. How about a romantic picnic in a quiet spot in the middle of the forest, with a breathtaking view, with your nearest and dearest in the middle of a vineyard or in a dreamy little garden? After a hike in the Palatinate Forest or through the vineyards, there are numerous picnic spots that invite you to linger. Whether a hike or a cycle tour through the Gäu and the Queich meadows: In order to enjoy the Southern Wine Route not only with your eyes but also with your palate, special picnic packages have been developed and put together with various businesses and winegrowers, which can be ordered in advance and then enjoyed at one of the numerous picnic spots.
Gourmet Arrangements
Lean Back and Enjoy
Friends of good wine and regional delicacies will find the right offer with the gourmet packages of the Southern Wine Route. The packages emphasise culinary delicacies and excellent regional wines.
For example, the "Chocolate Cycle Tour" package combines sweet delicacies from the Palatinate and Alsace with two appealing circular cycle tours.
Huts
Stop Off in the Palatinate Forest
Rustic huts invite you to stop off and linger: With its many huts, the Palatinate Forest is not only a unique hiking destination, but also a culinary one. Since the beginning of 2021, the Palatinate Forest hut culture has even been a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Site. In keeping with the typical convivial Palatinate way of life, the Palatinate huts offer rustic refreshment stops for hikers - for a suitable refreshment during a hiking break or as a destination after a successful hiking tour. At the huts, which are often run by volunteers, you can enjoy regional specialities such as Palatinate bratwurst, Saumagen, liver dumplings and sauerkraut, as well as steamed dumplings and homemade cakes. To go with it: Wine spritzer with Palatinate wine.
