Gasthaus "Der Kleine Heinrich" in Glückstadt

Excellent service and waitresses, they helped us choose dishes. We didn't really like the food, it was bitter and quite ordinary, but we really liked the atmosphere of the place, thank you.

Great restaurant with friendly service and very good food at fair prices. We were very satisfied.

We took our two children on a short trip to Glückstadt, and for lunch we simply chose the restaurant with the nicest name. Luckily, because we really enjoyed it! Even though we hadn't made a reservation, we were given a lovely table. The service was very friendly and attentive, and all our special requests were easily accommodated. The food was delicious, and the whole experience took place in a very charming old building. Highly recommended!

Very good...absolutely thrilled.....

Simply a quaint little restaurant, great service, very friendly staff, excellent value for money, you should book a table in advance as it's very popular.

A gem in Glückstadt. Excellent regional cuisine. Highly recommended!

A great restaurant with great service and very down-to-earth cuisine, simply top

A very beautiful, older half-timbered house. The food was good and the staff was friendly. Several tables upstairs were reserved, but there were still enough free downstairs for a spontaneous visit.

We were there on a Tuesday evening and wouldn't have been able to get a seat without a reservation. No wonder, because the food, ambiance, and service are all very good. The menu isn't particularly extensive and focuses on herring dishes. A 0.4-liter glass of Jever beer costs €5.30.

We ate at Kleiner Heinrich in Glückstadt today. The ambiance was fine, but the food had its ups and downs. The fried potatoes were very greasy and seemed to be swimming in oil. The side salad consisted only of raw leaves without any dressing – that doesn't seem contemporary. I was also disappointed with the herring variations: The fish itself was top-quality, but the marinades, for example, in red wine, seemed like pre-made industrial sauces. In a herring town like Glückstadt, I would have clearly expected the raw fish to be marinated and refined in-house. On the positive side: The shrimp appetizer was very well prepared – firm to the bite, cleanly cleaned, and flavorful. The pumpkin soup was okay, but the pastry cut into it was a little off-putting, which you might not necessarily like. The drink selection was appropriate: Sauvignon Blanc with a pleasant acidity and a Dithmarscher Dunkel, which went well with the meal. Overall, a mixed impression: good basic products, but with weaknesses in the implementation. For me, that's enough for a solid 3-star rating, but unfortunately, nothing more.

A very nice ambience in which the very friendly service served a great meal.

Very good service, friendly and courteous, as it should be. We had roast beef, the portion was more than generous, and everything was noticeably freshly prepared. We'd be happy to go back.

Very good service, friendly and courteous, as it should be. We had roast beef, the portion was more than generous, and everything was noticeably freshly prepared. We'd be happy to go back.

We were here on a beautiful summer day and sat outside. The view is unfortunately nothing special; it overlooks Glückstadt's market square. I mention this because a view of the water might justify the very high prices. Inside, I find the restaurant a bit dated and not appropriate given the price of the food. For that price, you could easily eat very well in similar restaurants in big cities, like Hamburg, and get more for yourself. The food was delicious and well prepared. However, the portions are modest. I had three herring fillets from the mixed herring platter, and we had a medium-sized bowl of fried potatoes, which should have been enough for five people. Since everyone was being reserved, the bowl was enough, but it certainly wasn't filling. The service was friendly and quick, the food delicious but overpriced and too little. It's also a shame that some dishes, like the plaice, were sold out that evening. The ambience of the restaurant does not match the prices of the food.

A very cozy restaurant. It's even quite quaint inside.

Very cozy place, perfect combination of taste, service and atmosphere.

A very nice and traditional restaurant in a building over 400 years old in Glückstadt, with a great selection of drinks and delicious maritime dishes.

A fantastic restaurant, it feels like you've been transported back in time. Delicious food, very friendly service...highly recommended. We'll definitely be back.

A great way to start our trip. Friendly and efficient service, good, straightforward food, beautifully prepared and gemütlich as they come.

This was our first visit to Kleiner Heinrich. The restaurant is located right on the market square in Glückstadt. It has a quaint, maritime feel, and is clearly housed in a very old but well-preserved building. The menu is small but fine. There's something for every taste. Of course, herring in many variations is a must. In general, they place great value on regional products and dishes. We were there during kale season, and of course, there were several varieties of it. The food was tasty and plentiful. The prices are upscale, but the food was worth the price. This wasn't our last visit to Kleiner Heinrich. Update: We went there again. This time it wasn't as great. The fish was greasy and glassy, nowhere near as well prepared as last time. The quality seems to depend on the chef's mood on the day.

The food was delicious. It took a little longer to arrive, but we were told that, which I really appreciated. Great restaurant, definitely try it. We'll be back 👍👍👍👍

Best herring ever... a small restaurant in the perfect spot in Glückstadt. Professional service. Five stars aren't really enough; Valentina deserves a sixth. We thank you for the lovely evening and would love to come back. Holger & Birgit

I really enjoyed the meal; my chanterelles were perfect. The restaurant itself is absolutely worth a visit.

We always enjoy coming here to eat traditional herring. The quality is particularly good and delicious. The staff is attentive, friendly, and accommodating.

Absolutely recommended in every respect!

Very nice restaurant with delicious fish dishes. We will be back.

Lovely little restaurant with very good food. We went there for the eel soup and Labskaus (Kitchen Impossible) and were not disappointed. It was truly great. We went back a second time, and it was also very good. And the chocolates for dessert!!! Friendly service! Lovely restaurant! Definitely worth it. We'll be back in Glückstadt

The food was better 5 years ago. The fish platter was nothing special. Eel soup without eel was okay. Expensive! Fried potatoes were swimming in their skins, regular potatoes had no taste, and the fried fish fillet was too mushy. A shame.

Simply great, very tasty food, friendly service and great atmosphere

Top-notch service, very experienced waiters. The finest herring, although the portions are quite small. Highly recommended.

Well, I've known Glückstadt since I was born. My relatives still live there. Little Heinrich? A regular stop. We've been there several times in the last four years, and it was a disaster... Why you should pay the equivalent of over 50 DM for a herring dish, according to the menu, is beyond me. A doner kebab costs 10 euros, a baguette with lumpen sausage costs 14.60 euros, and a special fries costs 6.00 euros... 50 DM for herring!? What planet are you on?

The restaurant is located in a historic building on Glückstäter Marktplatz. The food is traditional North German and very good. Attentive and very friendly staff. I can highly recommend this restaurant.

As always, a real treat, the matjes is so tender.

very nice and really cozy, but difficult for vegetarians

Very beautiful old house, very cozy on the upper floor

Unfortunately, my experience was that the food was only mediocre on the lower end. The atmosphere was cozy and the service was okay.

Great herring, quick and friendly service. Unfortunately, the food was too delicious to photograph.

yes, nice attentive service, food was great, a MUST for fish lovers

Beautiful day in sunny Glueckstadt. Lunch was great too. I highly recommend this place.

Dishes are perfectly coordinated and highly recommended!

As always, very tasty food, fresh and regional, including old Holstein recipes. Non-Holsteiners will certainly be full and satisfied 😉 Service friendly as always. We were able to take matjes with us sealed. 👍🏻

We were there for the first time today and would go back at any time as soon as we end up in Glückstadt again. The service in particular was incredibly friendly and accommodating!!! Thanks for that, it brightened up the end of the day for us :)

Top address for good northern German food. Great atmosphere, especially upstairs in the beautiful old house. Or even outside when the weather is good. There is always fish there, everything is of very high quality. For me the best fried potatoes ever.

Everything just works here! The seating is comfortable, the service is very friendly, and the food is excellent. The sauerkraut ribs are delicious, the green beans are cooked just right, and the fried potatoes are crispy and cooked with ham. I haven't had such a good meal in a long time.

A great restaurant, very friendly, great food, just great

Unfortunately, we didn't even get to eat. We sat outside this afternoon and waited about 5 minutes. It can sometimes happen that you don't notice inside that guests have sat outside. I then went in and asked if there was also service outside or if Roman should order in here. Answer - I'll come to you soon. After that we have another 10 Waited minutes - unfortunately no one came.

Good German restaurant with nice staff. There is a nice terrace overlooking the market square

A restaurant with a very nice atmosphere and the excellent service we were offered. Our friend is in a wheelchair and can only walk a very short distance with the walker. The help we received here was simply unique. Our four meals were also simply delicious. We can easily recommend this restaurant and will 100% make further trips here. The visitor from Portugal also wants to come here to eat with his friend from Hamburg.

Quaint restaurant on the market square with regional cuisine. Unfortunately, on Sunday the kitchen closed at 4 p.m. due to a lack of staff. We also noticed this with the slow service, which is a shame. But it still tasted good. The existing staff tried very hard.

Very nice restaurant in a rustic style. The food was great and the service was very friendly and attentive

Very nice atmosphere. The food was very tasty 😋. We'd love to come back.

Nice atmosphere in an old half-timbered house. Great and friendly service. Labskaus was delicious. Unfortunately, instead of a roll pug there was wine matjes. Because Glückstadt. I'd love to come back.

Friendly and warm service, the best food. Absolutely recommended

Very friendly staff, delicious food. The menu is manageable, but there is something for everyone.

Supper food incredibly authentic Incredibly delicious

Good restaurant with regional specialties. I can only recommend it.

A waitress, there are no words, snippy, probably doesn't feel like working. You ask in a friendly manner and are insulted stupidly, then I pay with EC CARD, the LADY doesn't like that either. I won't eat there again

Everything absolutely great. This restaurant is simply recommended. I'll definitely be back.

We had a Christmas party with around 30 people. There was a menu that was served at the seat. One course was tastier than the next, the service was impeccable, unobtrusive and always attentive. We really enjoyed our time and the food and will definitely stop by again.

Maybe the third or even second best Labskaus I've ever eaten. Great service and a fine atmosphere incl.

A wonderful place, very tasty food, perfect, radiantly friendly service. But to offer original Spezi from Augsburg as a dyke limo, in Swabia they don't really have dykes in front of the door ;) Dear team, keep it up!!!

The best restaurant for Glückstadt herring for years!

Probably the best-known restaurant on the market square in Glückstadt, which certainly lives up to its reputation as a stronghold of “Matjeskultur”. Good quality of dishes and experienced, distant, not unfriendly service, which is not necessarily a given given the influx of tourists. However, prices are relatively high - especially for wine - which you have to be able to put up with if you stop here. The competition is not inferior. It's a very touristy place. But you can treat yourself.

I haven't eaten this good in a long time. The Hamburg eel soup is simply amazing. Keep it up.

Delicious, delicious, delicious!!!

Very well eaten pears beans and bacon.

As we all know, taste is a matter of taste, so we can only report our experience here. My wife had cheese spaetzle, they were really tasty, the price is very high... I had the Labskaus, for €23.50. Except for the sugary-sweet herring, the Labskaus was delicious, but I find the price demanding. We were served courteously.

We ate very tasty, Labsksus, gebr. Matjes, elderberry soup etc. everything was great, and the service was super nice, thank you

Hello little Heinrich, we were there simply because of the long weekend from October 3rd to 5th. in Glückstadt. Recommended by our neighbors who already lived in Glückstadt, we were with you yesterday. We were thrilled, everything was right. Friendly service, great service and the price/performance ratio is right. When we come again, we will be with you...

Great ambience, very friendly service but unfortunately the “Hamburger Pannfisch” is not recommended.

Very nice cozy restaurant Very tasty food Friendly waiters Highly recommended

We were here for lunch and were satisfied. The price-performance ratio is OK. The service is polite. You have to make yourself known when you order drinks again.

Simply great, would love to come back.

Hello 👋 👋 👋. I haven't seen something so beautiful in a long time. We were visiting from Stralsund. We got a tip that was really 👍 👍.

Very friendly staff. Attentive. Food was excellent. Well attended. Gladly again when we are in Glückstadt. We were very impressed by the friendly staff.

Rustically furnished. The food delicious. Normal, reasonable prices. Service unobtrusive and attentive. I felt in good hands there.

Amazing food and free pan fried potatoes as a side. The waiters were amazing with us and helped us a lot to get a taxi when there was none in the area. Thanks, very recommended place

This restaurant is highly recommended! Whether plaice, labskaus, roast beef or eel smoked matjes, the cuisine is fantastic! Delicious and rich, it couldn't be better. The service is excellent, informative, quick and very attentive. The ambience is maritime and very well maintained.

Outstanding service behind the counter and at the table. The quality that the kitchen delivers can then be recognized on the plate and then enjoyed. This praise, especially from a Swabian, is therefore to be rated highly.

Small but mighty point, this would apply here top location top offers top employees top price-performance ratio

Fantastic! Walked into the store and fell in love! Simply beautiful, inviting, cozy! Food and service are terrific! Delicious!

The ambience in Little Heinrich is still excellent, I love it, old but well-kept and it's always a little experience. The service was also very friendly and accommodating. Unfortunately, the dishes weren't really my cup of tea, in terms of taste. After the Labskaus was shown in an older Kitchen Impossible episode, I wanted to see for myself whether the design was really the pinnacle. In terms of taste, I found it to be quite flat. You can compensate for a lack of salt, but less so for a lack of acid. My wife had herring with fried potatoes, which was also quite low in salt. The crab soup used to have more flavor ten years ago. As is well known, taste can be debated. Maybe that's what people are used to in the Glückstadt area and that's exactly how they want it, but it certainly wasn't our case.

Great food. We chose Sussländer sour ribs and lamb meatballs. Delicious. We would particularly like to comment positively on the service: friendly approach and enjoyment of the job. Great. The rooms in the historic building are attractive and comfortable. Overall, absolutely recommended.

We have been going to this restaurant for years. So far it has always been delicious. Good home cooking, not too expensive and in a cute little half-timbered house on the Glüchstädter Markt.

We ate here as a family and it was delicious!

Enthusiastic, extremely empathetic service. We felt very welcome.

The museum-like ambience, the refreshingly friendly service, the solidly good cuisine, the relatively moderate prices - Little Heinrich arouses sympathy.

Beautifully located on the market square. Food was delicious, we had Labskaus. In terms of prices, almost no meal was under 20 euros.

We only had a small lunch, but it was very tasty. The service, consisting of young people, was very friendly and accommodating.

Super great atmosphere and very tasty food! Despite the really busy restaurant (outside and inside), the staff was very friendly and quick to serve you 👍 Changing table for babies is available👍 Definitely worth another visit! Thank you very much ☺️

The food was really, really tasty. We became aware of the restaurant through Kitchen Impossible and are very grateful for it. We will definitely come back and recommend.

The food was very tasty. We had matjes. The service was very friendly and even though we hadn't booked, we got a very good table by the window. I can recommend it.

The waitress should urgently ask Eugen Block how to deal with objections and criticism. A "I'm sorry" if the food was overcharged wouldn't have been bad either.

Matje days in Glückstadt are a journey away

Highly recommended, we were there for the herring days

Very friendly service. Always a smile for the guests. Even if there was hail on Matjes Sunday, the tables and chairs dried straight away. The matjes variant...genius.

Super delicious food, very friendly service, nice atmosphere...🤗 highly recommended 🫶

We weren't registered and only got the table for an hour. But we were served quickly and very friendly. The food, especially the fried potatoes, were very tasty.

We have been loyal fans of the kl for years. Heinrichs and also like to put the quality of the food behind the ambience and service. The restaurant is super nice, the service at the table is undoubtedly super nice, professional with absolutely no complaints. But the food really wasn't anything special. Actually just particularly expensive for the quality. The panfish had probably been under the heat lamp for too long, it was pretty dry, the herring was ok, but there's almost nothing you can mess up. So not bad, but somehow not professional, as I expect for the price. Maybe you just had a bad day?

Always a great “port to enter” for decades!