Burgrestaurant Altena in Altena

We haven't eaten this well in a long time; everything is freshly prepared and super delicious. The atmosphere is fantastic, and the service is very pleasant and friendly. We'll definitely be back and recommend it with a clear conscience. Thank you. We felt so comfortable.

We had the sambal schnitzel and the pork fillet in dark beer mead sauce. These days, we've rarely eaten so well! The price is unbeatable. Schnitzel (freshly prepared) with fries and salad was just under €17. Pork fillet with croquettes and salad, with a truly delicious sauce, was just under €22... Where can you find something like that these days!? The staff were incredibly friendly and efficient, thank you very much! We'd come back again and again if the food quality and prices remained the same!

The ambiance and friendly service are nothing short of praise. However, the main course at the murder mystery dinner (pork fillet and croquettes) was only mediocre. Croquettes were from a packet, the fillet was dry, and the Parmesan crust was merely a dusting of the meat. A shame.

Delicious food, a B+. The service is also ok, a B+. The atmosphere, considering the setting and the beautiful views, is a B+. All in all, a wonderful establishment in a beautiful castle! A very beautiful place, both the castle and the restaurant. Not every castle has a decent cafe. Most often, it's cheap fast food. But this one is a truly authentic establishment. So, I recommend it!

We had lunch there on Saturday, October 4, 2025. The food was simply delicious, and the service was incredibly friendly and witty. Highly recommended.

Very good schnitzel, friendly and attentive service, and good prices.

Fantastic! We're thrilled with the parking lot and the shuttle service to the adventure elevator, and with the castle's exhibitions. And now we've had a truly delicious schnitzel in the restaurant. Attentive and very friendly service, and the food is delicious. Everything is freshly prepared here; it couldn't be better. 5 stars are truly deserved!

Everyone was friendly and the food (we had schnitzel) was very tasty.

We had a delicious meal here. The restrooms are modern and very clean. 😃👍

The cocktails were extremely delicious

The food is good, the prices are fair and the service is extremely friendly.

Your food is always delicious. The atmosphere in the castle and surrounding area is fantastic. I'd be happy to take the route. See you next time.

The food is delicious and service is prompt. The view from the castle restaurant is magnificent.

We sat on the balcony. It was lovely in the evening sun. The food was very good.

It was very busy when we were there. Despite that, everything was very clean and the service was super fast. We were there with our 4-year-old son, the food arrived within a few minutes, and there's a small play area for kids. The food was excellent and very reasonably priced. We'd be happy to come back :)

The castle is a beautiful and quaint location. We stayed at the JGH with a large group and have been guests of the restaurant several times. The staff is warm, dedicated, and personable. The menu is a successful mix of classic dishes as well as creative new creations, all of which are a true feast for the palate.

A very beautiful and stylish ambiance. The food was truly delicious, and the waiter was very friendly, accommodating, but not intrusive. A restaurant worth visiting even if you don't want to visit the castle. ❤️ The price/performance ratio is right!

The amazing historical location and the plastic plants by the toilets create a fantastic dichotomy 👌

Food very good, service very very very slow.

Delicious cakes, good coffee, and beer. If you manage to get a table on the terrace by the railing, it's beautiful ;)

We celebrated our wedding with 70 guests in June of this year with Toto and his team at the castle restaurant, and we can only take this opportunity to thank you again!!! The planning was straightforward, and no request was too much trouble. The ambiance at the castle was simply unique for the most beautiful day of your life. The food, from canapés to dessert, was simply exquisite and received praise from every guest. The staff was described by all guests (and we can only agree) as accommodating, friendly, and funny. We would choose the castle restaurant team and the venue again anytime and can highly recommend it to everyone!!! Anni & Alex

The view is phenomenal when you sit on the balcony and the food is amazing

Delicious food with a fantastic view in bright sunshine

Great atmosphere, especially the waiter was hilarious. The food was delicious, arrived quickly, freshly cooked, and reasonably priced. Everything was great.

We visited the castle a week ago with a group of 24 Chinese students. After successfully passing the knight's exam, we enjoyed a hearty lunch in the restaurant. The restaurant team was simply fantastic! We easily arranged the details over the phone beforehand, and we were not disappointed! There was plenty of currywurst, schnitzel, and fries. The children loved it, and they sent home many photos of the delicious meal. The service was also excellent! Despite being busy, the staff were friendly, quick, and in a fun mood. We'll definitely be back!

German cuisine, beautiful views, and friendly service. Worth a visit.

Delicious food, friendly staff, and a lovely atmosphere. Perfect for a refreshing meal after a tour of the castle.

Wit and charm meet taste and affordability... we'll be back ;)

I went to this restaurant with my girlfriend on Sunday. The food was unfortunately only average and quite overpriced. But it was okay. What bothered both of us was the extremely unfriendly and bad-tempered staff. We sat outside in the castle courtyard and asked the young lady for the menu. She just pointed at the blackboard on the wall. Once we had made our decisions, we ordered drinks and food. The drinks were brought out to us, but we had to pick up the food ourselves inside the restaurant (pager system). Shortly after our drinks were ordered and delivered, loud music started playing. Apparently, the chef in the kitchen had a penchant for Radio Regenbogen. Both the radio station and the unbearable volume caused us to have to change seats. But even farther away from the speaker, the music was still extremely loud. I asked several times for the music to be turned down, and the staff just grinned stupidly. The castle is such a beautiful location, but then such a lousy atmosphere, which emanated solely from the restaurant. You should rethink your overall concept! Unfortunately, nothing is right here! The food was okay, but the rest of it made us never want to eat there again. What a shame, really, considering the castle is so amazing!

My girlfriend and I were very satisfied. The food is truly delicious. The staff is very friendly and attentive, and the atmosphere was absolutely lovely (especially since it was a warm summer day). Highly recommended!

We had a wonderful visit here; the food was excellent, and we've rarely experienced such great service. Thank you very much, and see you next time! Keep up the good work.

First, the positive: the food was really delicious, and eating in that atmosphere is simply wonderful. I don't think the self-service option when you're sitting outside is so great. Our food was forgotten, and the place wasn't even full. So we waited a total of an hour. At least they offered us a coffee as an apology, although we didn't have time to finish it. In summary: the food was super delicious, but the service definitely has room for improvement. We would still give the restaurant another chance, though.

Truly fabulous service. The waiter was very personable and humorous in a pleasantly relaxed manner. The chef came by after the food had been on the table for a few minutes and asked how things were. General service and customer interaction still hold a very high priority here. The food was also perfect. I had the freshest pounded Wiener schnitzel I can remember. They also offer more rustic fare, including game. Vegetarians/vegans needn't be afraid either; the menu has a dedicated page full of dishes from this category. All in all, I recommend this to anyone who is willing to pay the necessary amount of money for excellent food, drink, and hospitality.

We celebrated a good friend's birthday here. There was a lovely, delicious, and plentiful buffet and excellent service. All in a wonderful atmosphere. I highly recommend it. Best regards, Andreas Schnell🔨

Very tasty. The 20-minute wait was quite quick for three people. The staff was very friendly. There's a small play area for toddlers. For those who are undecided, like me, the menu is very manageable.

Today we had homemade roulade with dumplings and red cabbage for our main course, and baked apple rings and baked ice cream for dessert (truly, you should definitely try them!). You can immediately tell that the food is freshly prepared with high-quality ingredients. Everything is delicious and reasonably priced. Plus, there's a fantastic view from the table down into the Lenne Valley and the Sauerland mountains. We'd love to come back again. I definitely recommend this restaurant.

Very good food, very nice staff, everything was great.

Highly recommended for the view alone. The food is very good.

The food here is very good, I highly recommend it. We'll definitely stop by again.🤤🤤

Mega delicious food and great service with a great view

The beautiful view, good food, and amazing people made the trip worthwhile! I was pleasantly surprised by the selection of dishes and the excellent service. A successful blend of beautiful ambiance, great conversation, and the warmth of the Sauerland region. 🫶🙃

It was our first time there, a group of 10 after a guided tour. We made a reservation at relatively short notice, and it was very friendly on the phone, and it was even better in person. It's beautifully located in a private room, with a lovely ambiance, fast and attentive service, quick-witted :-), a lovely menu, and lovely, delicious food. We stayed longer than planned and ate more than we planned. We'll be back, whether as a group or individually.

I highly recommend the youth hostel, the castle, and of course the castle restaurant. The town of Altena is also very pretty and definitely worth a visit when the weather is nice.

We have actually never experienced this before when visiting a restaurant: - Staff are extremely attentive and particularly empathetic towards children - absolutely nice, friendly and always with a quick joke, but not at all pushy but coherent - an all-round feeling of being valued as a guest -direct reference to the viewing balcony, where you can enjoy the evening sun with an incredible view over the valley and the hills all around - All the meals chosen were first-class visually, in terms of quantity, freshness and taste, really without exception, like in a star restaurant - Highlight is the relaxed boss service with fun schnapps in the form of a syrup pinnacle for the young ones We simply had to comply with the repeated reference to gratitude regarding a positive review, which we usually do not do. We highly recommend a visit to the Altena castle restaurant! And we will also go there again, as this top restaurant in combination with the mighty castle backdrop is always worth a trip. We say “Thank you very much for this lovely evening!” :-) Top tip for families: The youth hostel in the castle and the associated Art Nouveau villa in front of it.

A great restaurant with really good food and service. There is an outside balcony from which we had a wonderful view and were able to enjoy our meal in the sunshine. We'll definitely come back.

Coffee very thin and almost without taste. And in 2025 “ec card payments from 10 euros” is simply a customer-unfriendly impudence.

A really very first-class restaurant with excellent, delicious food and drink, in a very nice atmosphere, where you feel comfortable and the boss and employees are particularly child-friendly!

Unfortunately I can only give the whole thing 5 stars. There could really be more. Super nice atmosphere. Chef, waiters and the food more than fabulous. We'd love to come back. Keep it up👏

Rustic knight's room...very tasty And fair prices.

The prices are great and the food is delicious. We'll be back.

A nice "castle atmosphere", friendly service and delicious schnitzel meat, plus a freshly tapped 👍

100% Definitely worth a visit. Absolutely successful in combination with the museum! Also for those who don't necessarily want to go to the museum, but just want to eat well! Gladly again!

Food is very good and the staff is very nice, friendly and attentive! We always enjoy coming back here and look forward to our next visit!

We arrived relatively early on a sunny Saturday around 1 p.m., and it was delicious! The venison goulash with herb spaetzle and red cabbage, as well as the venison bratwurst, were really good and reasonably priced. The server was very friendly. All in all, a top-notch experience.

The vegetarian nut roast was something completely different. Super tasty. The chef and landlord were also very nice!

We were in the restaurant last week, ordered schnitzel and also hamburgers, the food was very tasty and the employees were very friendly. It is definitely recommended. :)

Very tasty and the service and staff there are very friendly. We would be happy to come back and recommend you to others. Greetings from Mecklenburg Western Pomerania 😁👋

Highly recommended! Very friendly staff and delicious food :-)

To ALL Altena residents! Go out to eat again during the week, especially in the castle restaurant. The wild boar burger (I don't actually like game) with Schupfnudeln and TRUFFELMAYO was a 10000000/10, I haven't eaten something so creative and delicious for a long time. My companion had a salad with goat cheese, pear and walnuts which she also really enjoyed. A small suggestion for improvement was more than responded to and implemented and tried out straight away (only possible because there weren't that many people in the restaurant). The owner and the chef are just friendly and accommodating. We will recommend you at every opportunity. Thanks for the lovely evening! :)

Highly recommended restaurant. Great service 👌 Very tasty food

Apart from a fantastic ambience and a fabulous meal, you definitely have to praise the super friendly and personable service of the waiter here in the restaurant! We haven't had such great service in a long time, if ever. Thank you very much for that, we will definitely come back and will also give further recommendations to our friends. :)

The food is really very fresh and modern and I was very surprised at how good it was. Only the restaurant itself really needs an update. Maybe everything has been redesigned with a TV somewhere. There are too many little things lying around everywhere. Anything a little more modern would be good. Then the restaurant could also be a highlight in itself, regardless of the castle. The food definitely has the potential to do that. You just have to get a lot more out of the space.

Definitely a lot of room for improvement if you look at it positively.

Very tasty food and absolutely friendly service. Special recommendation is the little Radler 🤣

The castle is mega, the restaurant is rightly busy, the food was great and the service staff were all very nice and committed. That's how restaurants work.

The service is good and the ambience.. Hello, we are in a castle! But let's get to the essentials: the food is really great! Everything is fresh and flavorful. I have rarely eaten a burger as good as I did here. Come here and try it, absolutely recommended.

We were there on February 2nd, 2025. The food was great and the waiter was friendly. Prices for a castle restaurant are also okay.

Absolut empfehlenswert. Tolle Ambiente durch die Burg, ohne aufgesetzt zu wirken. Als Bewohner von Altena ist es zweifelsohne die erste Adresse für gutes und leckeres Essen. Die Küche ist sehr gut und die Karte weißt immer wieder Überraschungen auf. Service tipp topp, ohne aufdringlich zu sein. Freue mich schon auf die nächste Gelegenheit.

We ate a super tasty schnitzel with fries here and were very satisfied. The service was really nice and gave us very good advice. We'd love to come back.

Great food. Good, tasty dishes and large portions. Sensational service-oriented persona - pleasantly personable and appropriately humorous.

Great, just great! Super nice and entertaining staff and very tasty food!! Would definitely go again.

The restaurant is very cozy. Rooms nicely furnished. Food is high quality. Price is adjusted not too expensive. The staff are very polite and always in a good mood, even under stress. Can only recommend

Wir waren heute da. War gute Atmosphäre. Lecker Essen, nette Bedienung. Vielen lieben Dank für wunderschöne und herzlichen Empfang ❤

Very good, exceptional ambience, very tasty food, nice staff and a friendly chef. Worth the trip for good prices! By the way: definitely try the fruit wines!

Super delicious food in a great atmosphere.

The food is exceptionally good and the portions are really big. The staff is very friendly and accommodating!

We would love to come back! Food was tasty and portions are large. Maybe a little more finesse and courage for modernity, otherwise great. The service is super nice and the location itself is always worth a visit.

Very nice restaurant, price completely ok for such a big meal. Food was top. Service very friendly. I promise to come here again at the end of May.

The service was super nice and super friendly on what was probably a slightly stressful Saturday lunchtime in a full restaurant. The food was delicious. We would love to go back again at any time. We can have the rustic pork fillet with croquettes and pepper cream schnitzel , recommend fried potatoes and delicious apple rings as dessert. Kind regards and thanks to the chef...

We went to the castle with the children and stopped here afterwards... we received super friendly service and the food was fresh and delicious. I forgot to take photos because it was so delicious. We had schnitzel and for the children nuggets and "Affenpipi" hehe (original sound for Fanta).. We'll be back

Food was top for the price. Service was A1, the chef even asked whether we liked everything. The location is also great, I really liked it.

As a castle fan, I really enjoyed Sunday. The stay in the restaurant was great, I can recommend it. Delicious food friendly service.

We were there for a children's birthday. The food was great. The kids had fries with nuggets and the adults had fries and schnitzel - the meat was juicy and super tender. The appointment was made well in advance, on a Wednesday. The restaurant is usually closed on a Wednesday at 5 p.m. It was open longer for us that day. Despite working overtime, the staff was super friendly and funny. The kids were also allowed to go into the large knight's hall for a birthday photo! A great restaurant if you like to eat home cooking and want to take advantage of the castle charm. Gladly again!

Highly recommended, delicious food and very nice staff in a cozy atmosphere :)

We spontaneously went to eat there on a Saturday. We liked it so much that we ate there again on Sunday. There is a great selection of food, all of which were delicious and the service was great. We had a really nice time in the restaurant and will definitely be happy to come back

The food: A dream. We were there twice and tried different things. Everything extremely tasty. Especially the venison bratwurst with cherries, or dark beer mead sauce... 🤤 And afterwards: A meadow orchard. 🥂😉 The service: Not just quick when served, also quick with the tongue. After a few minutes it was clear that you could do it with us: stupid jokes. We kept our bellies full with laughter. Rarely have I had so much fun eating. Thanks!

Agreements are not kept here. We had already requested a reservation for a children's birthday party months ago and everything was no problem. Now, a few weeks before the birthday, all you get is a shrug of the shoulders and the words that there is nothing left at that time. We can now celebrate the birthday somewhere else, as unfortunately we can't stop at the castle anywhere. Thank you so much for my daughter being totally disappointed now. I definitely won't spend another cent in this restaurant. The lack of commitment and indifference of people today is simply unbearable.

The restaurant is located in the middle of the old castle, which of course makes the ambience very special. The rooms are correspondingly large and the ceilings are high, so that you have enough space and are not crowded table to table. Our waiter Basti was extremely friendly and served us wonderfully, something you don't see too often these days. The food was delicious, the portions were large. All in all we were very satisfied and would come again. Thanks to Basti and his colleagues!

Large portion, fresh and tasty. Nice person! Gladly again :)

A real culinary delight. Everything is freshly made, including the schnitzel. My special request due to intolerance was no problem at all and was fulfilled. Highly recommended!!!

I've been living in Altena since last year and don't want to miss the castle restaurant! Food great! Delicious, fresh and (I think) large portions. Prices absolutely okay. Service always friendly and in a good mood! I really enjoy eating here with my husband!

Very tasty, fresh and well prepared. Both the roulades and the schnitzel are highly recommended. The service was impeccable, funny and courteous. Always exactly right. Thank you very much, this is something you rarely experience

The waiter walked past us for half an hour, serving everyone who came later. In the end he came up to us and said that the kitchen was closed for an hour because there were too many orders. We said that we would wait an hour, she said that the kitchen would not open again today

Food was very good, great service, the atmosphere is very nice, I can recommend it

Table reserved, ordered for 12 people. Food came quite quickly and was tasty. Service was good. The dessert we ordered took a little too long, probably because there was a lot more going on in the meantime.

A good selection of food and friendly service, even when there are a lot of visitors, round off the visit. The food is highly recommended, especially the schnitzel with sour cream sauce. All in all, worth recommending.😃

Good home cooking, at normal prices. The service is very good and really nice. Great ambience and the view from the balcony is unique. There is also an English menu for international guests.

Absolutely recommended with great panoramic views from the restaurant balcony!

The two of us were in the Burg Restaurant on August 10, 2024 and ordered schnitzel. Once with mushroom sauce, once with hollandaise sauce. Both dishes with fries and mayonnaise. After a reasonable wait we were served our food. Very large schnitzels that took up half the plate and were covered with the respective sauce. Fries without mayo! I then reordered them from the waitress. Unfortunately our wish was not fulfilled until the end of the meal. The schnitzels consisted mainly of breading. The meat was flattened to a few millimeters. The main component of the schnitzel was the breading. Everything was also very greasy and rather mushy due to the sauce. The salad served as a side dish with the meal is, as is unfortunately the case in many excursion restaurants, a tragedy. I don't expect three-star food, but something like that is unreasonable, especially given the price. All in all very sobering, we won't eat there again.

Table for 6 people was reserved in advance by telephone, service orientation was clearly noticeable. We received an open and warm welcome on site, drinks and food were brought quickly despite many tables being occupied. The quality was top! We were all very satisfied and will come back.