Hotel & Gasthaus STERNGRUND in Zella-Mehlis

I "only" ate a bratwurst with potato salad...it tasted very good. Service was friendly and quick.

Good German cuisine with huge cream puffs

Very nice cafe! Great range of food and drinks! Fantastic location, especially for motorcyclists!!

Craziness! We were just passing through. A sign read “cream puff paradise” We came here spontaneously and were extremely enthusiastic. Great restaurant, very nice staff and conditions. The cream puffs are a 10 out of 10. I would recommend it to everyone!

Cozy place in the sun, but overpriced.

We had dinner at Sterngrund for a birthday. We were looking for a cozy restaurant in a rustic style with delicious German cuisine. Unfortunately, our experience today was not what we hoped for. At first we were greeted very unfriendly by the waitress. The table we were supposed to take was shown from a distance. The menus were carelessly placed on the table and the candle, which was barely there, was lit. We went to the table and put our things down. We weren't really seated yet when we were asked about the drinks without being able to look at the menu. It has to be said that we were the only guests alongside two other couples. We felt very surprised and stressed. The drinks came very quickly, which is a positive thing. We decided on our meal and ordered this from the waitress. When one of our group ordered with the number of the dish, all we got was "And what does that number say?" thrown rudely. This did not show professionalism. After a short time our food reached us, it seemed quite quick to us, but we soon knew why. The chicken breast with frame champions was literally covered in fat, which was probably intended to reinforce the missing seasoning. The salad on the side also tasted bland. We also wondered why there had to be bacon bits everywhere, which made the sauce even saltier than it already was. Even the Wienerschnitzel only had anything to do with it. For the lack of quality that we were served, the prices are massively exaggerated. The ambience was just as lovingly decorated as the waitress appeared to us. Another waitress, who we also looked for in vain to enjoy the job, was at least friendly. The conclusion of today's visit can be said: Anyone who wants to treat themselves to a cool drink after a hike and has the necessary change will definitely not be disappointed. However, if you expect delicious German cuisine, you should use the travel time until then and go to another German restaurant.

I spent one night there. My room was okay, but could have been a little cleaner, as the trash belonging to the person who slept there before me wasn't put away. But this was the only thing. Dinner in the restaurant was good, but a bit expensive in my opinion, I had one of the two vegetarian dishes. There were no vegan dishes on the menu. The breakfast was great and the service in the morning was also very accommodating. Since breakfast was served separately for each guest and there was no buffet, I had told them in advance that I didn't eat meat, which was taken into account straight away in the morning and there was simply more cheese. ;) You can start hiking straight from the hotel, which was really great.

Good restaurant, food was tasty. Unfortunately, the prices on the website do not match those on site. This should urgently be adjusted.

We wanted to have lunch there during a long weekend. Although we came in without a reservation with 6 adults and 3 children and the waitress was alone and many of the tables were occupied, we received a very friendly welcome. After a brief consideration, the waitress told us that if we had some time we could stay. We didn't regret staying. The service was quick and friendly, and painting supplies were immediately brought for the children. The food was great and plentiful, no matter what. If we're ever in the area again, we'll be happy to come back.

Instant recommendation: the "giant cream puffs" are half the size of the ones I actually know as giant, but they were delicious.

We went there for cream puffs, which were delicious. Friendly and pleasant service.

On February 25th, 2025 our family celebrated a wedding in the restaurant. All guests praised the very friendly service. The dishes presented were great. We will recommend this location.

Highly recommended. The food was great.

During my first visit I already promised that I would come back. My second viewing appointment, 4 months after my first visit, topped my first impression! Delicious Viennese style schnitzel with fries. Service is top and super friendly. I would give more stars if possible. All I can do is promise: I'll come back when I'm nearby!

Recommended hotel. Friendly staff, prices ok. You should definitely try the super cream puffs. Today, however, it was a “failure” for me; the hot cherries had a strange taste. In summer there are often illegal motorcycle races on the road past the hotel.

Very nice, small inn. Good selection of regional dishes. Huge cream puffs. Very tasty. Great staff.

Giant cream puffs of the finest kind aren't the only thing that's good here. The service was also warm and accommodating. We'd be happy to come back.

Worth recommending. Super friendly and fast service.

Great, perfect nature, clean rooms, friendly staff. I recommend it.

I was here for lunch at short notice and I think I only got a table by luck and I liked it. For me personally it is a very nice restaurant and the staff are very friendly. Oh, and I personally really enjoyed the lunch 👍

We're only reviewing the restaurant here. A nice, comfortably furnished restaurant. Fast, friendly service. Thuringian cuisine, including giant cream puffs (plate-sized) in various variations. Prices range from average to high, depending on the dish.

The service was really great and the ambiance is beautiful, including the fireplace, which we really enjoyed. Thank you so much❤️

Very friendly service and we ate very well.

Very pleasant aftertaste. Trout is great! But I was captivated by the dessert: a mountain of cream, ice cream, profiterole dough, hot berries! Great combination of taste and price!

Highly recommended for its specialties

Good food at normal prices. Were just to eat.

Restaurant recommended in every respect!

We spontaneously stopped in for dinner. We received a very friendly welcome, the fireplace warmed us beautifully and the food was good and plentiful. We would love to come back

Very nice staff, great food, great ambience.

Short vacation in Oberhof. We were traveling in zella-mehlis and on a tour of the ski area and stadium and ski jumping facility in Oberhof. Since we were here before, we came back. It was tasty again and we'll be back. The restaurant was well attended.

We were there on January 7th for the silver wedding anniversary. It was a very nice evening. The service was great and the waitress was super friendly. The food was delicious and also for a great price. We wanted to thank you again for a great evening.

We were at Sterngrund for the family celebration on January 7th, 2025 and I have to say that the entire family and friends were completely thrilled, both by the food and also by the service. The staff was super friendly and put their heart and soul into it. It's been a long time since I've had such a positive impression. Thanks for that!

We came back again for the giant cream puffs and were also very happy with the service.

We went here spontaneously for lunch today and it was a very good choice! The food, especially the Tafelspitz, was excellent. Very charming service and very child friendly. My husband comes here often in the summer with his motorcycle group and they are always very satisfied. We'll be back.

!:::::::hier wird abgezockt::::!Wir waren zum Mittagessen hier... meine Frau bestellteThür. Bratwurst mit Kart. für 10,90 ...ich bestellte Wiener schnitzel mit Pommes für 18,80 ..die freundliche Bedienung bot statt Pommes Thür.Klöse an ...ja ok... ...meine bitte .: die soße nicht über s Schnitzel.giessen....die bedienung. klaro kein Problem...brig ich in einer extra Schale....alles schön und gut.....kein Wort über dafür das extra preis Extrapreise.. kostet....dann die Rechnung ...der Hammer: Soße extra 2,50...Klöße etra 2,80...dann noch der Hammer dafür Gebühren divers Speisen ???? 2,50... alles in allen 7.80 mehr ..ich hätte auch Pommes gegessen die waren ja im preis drin....sorry das ist HAMMERABZOCKE hier muss man Vorsicht walten

Delicious food (the schnitzel was really great and is recommended), nice staff and a short waiting time. Highly recommended.

We drove past it the day before and wanted to eat there because it looked very nice from the outside. Unfortunately we were disappointed with both the food and the ambience. Loveless and more reminiscent of a village pub than a restaurant.

Very nice here and the food was super tasty. Thank you again.

Very good Thuringian cuisine / restaurant to eat and relax.

The food and drink was ok, it wasn't particularly good, so I felt the prices were too expensive. We had 2 cream puffs and the coffee and cocoa were very watery and had little consistency and taste. The service was sometimes very overwhelmed despite the fact that not all tables were full. I wouldn't go here again

Today, 8 of us spontaneously went to the restaurant for dinner! We were warmly welcomed and painting supplies were immediately set out for the kids. Such a great, loving and attentive (black-haired) service is rare! Thank you for that! The food was delicious and we laughed heartily!

A very nice atmosphere. The service was very nice and the restaurant is super family friendly. The food was very tasty and the portions were also very large. The restaurant is very cozy with a fire in the fireplace and very loving decoration. It's worth browsing through the map. :) We'll come back anytime :)

Didn't stay overnight But great big filled cream puffs

We were here for coffee, piece of cake is huge and delicious. Service friendly and accommodating.

Pre-booked a table to be on the safe side, but it wasn't necessary. Most people are in Suhl during Advent. So enough space; nice reception. Ordering went super quickly. All extra requests were fulfilled. The food was very plentiful and tasty. Everyone enjoyed it right down to the last bite. Food around 20€. Add a beer or shandy etc. Everything is within the framework. I can't say anything about the rooms, only about the food. Five hungry people came and left completely full and well-situated. Gladly again 👍🏻

Great ambience, very friendly service and the food was excellent! Keep it up!👍

You can eat really well there, especially nice cream puffs. If we're near there we like to go there

There is one star less for deleting the increased recession... The food was delicious, the service was very nice, but it was definitely my last birthday meal here. Why? I don't know where to start... The opening times are posted on site until 9 p.m., so it wouldn't be too much to ask at 6:45 p.m. when you're sitting in front of an empty restaurant to ask if you'd like anything else. But what still weighs heavily on my stomach to this day is the clearly audible statement from the chef who complained loudly shortly before 7 p.m. "Do they seriously want to eat cream puffs now?" I come from the catering industry myself and know the problem when a guest orders something shortly before the kitchen closes, but since no kitchen closing time was communicated, I can't understand this reaction at all... even if there had been a kitchen closing time, I wouldn't have communicated it like that the guest can hear clearly... All in all, very nice waitress and delicious food but the circumstances really spoiled my birthday meal.

Delicious food and very nice service

We spontaneously drove by to eat cream puffs, we weren't disappointed. First of all, super nice service, always with a nice saying on her lips, brilliant! The cream puffs were really good and big too 🙈 Go there, see for yourself!

Drove by by chance and had lunch. Great service, delicious food, would love to come back. It's nice that we were allowed to be guests.

The inn, the menu, the service are simply great. The roulades were awesome and this cream puff ❤️

Great food, wheelchair no problem.

Great hotel with ditto restaurant. Very good price-quality ratio. Despite its location on a main road, no problems with traffic or noise. Friendly staff

Food great service great staff first class

The food in the inn was really delicious

Was only there to eat cream puffs on the motorbike

Beautiful, almost 200 year old hostel, now a successful ensemble, hotel with catering and it's great. Plus the house specialty: giant cream puffs, which are lovingly prepared. Also a pleasantly friendly staff. There is a kind of bistro attached which functions as a biker meeting place. Due to its location on the main road between Oberhof and Zella-Mehlis and the really great range of restaurants on offer, the house is always well attended. There are many cozy, rustic outdoor spaces for the warm days, as well as an interesting picture of the outdoor area with small waterfalls and large wooden figures. So also something for the eye. All in all a great destination.

We stopped here for lunch and it was absolutely the right choice! The inn was very well filled and new guests kept coming. The employees absolutely kept calm and were very polite, competent, gave very good advice and also had understanding and a heart for small children! The food was very, very tasty and so was the dessert! Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of it, which I regret very much! I or we can only recommend this inn with its friendly staff and great cuisine and will be happy to come here again on our next trip to the Thuringian Forest!

From the outside the hotel doesn't look particularly inviting. Luckily we booked one in Oberhof. If you go to the toilet after 2 hours of hiking you will be greeted rather rudely. The atmosphere in the restaurant is worse than at a funeral. At least the food looked delicious. Our order was limited to drinks only.

We'd love to come over The food and coffee were great Highly recommended Everyone is welcome, regardless of whether they are 2-legged or 4-legged The warmth of the staff is great and you feel welcome straight away I can only say great Again 👍👍👍👍

You feel like you're at home. The food is simply first class and you don't have to wait long for it.

Very tasty cream puffs and a great area😋 Gladly again…☺️

Super nice service Delicious food Great rooms What more could you want than guests? We'll be back

Spent two nights there to stay overnight. Good starting point for hikes in a great location. Unfortunately, the radiator in the bathroom in room 3 was completely rusted, and the WiFi password was only requested when we asked in the restaurant, only to discover that there was no WiFi in the room. The food in the restaurant is very good, but the price/performance ratio is not right. Addendum I had forgotten, of the 9 channels available on TV, even the public ones were in SD and the picture was terribly bad.

Unfortunately I can't say anything about the hotel itself as I didn't have the pleasure of spending the night there, but I can say something about the staff at the restaurant... My best experiences have been with one waitress, always friendly, always in a good mood, she loves her job and you can tell :) However, yesterday I had a very unpleasant experience when my friend and I were driving home from Zella-Mehlis and thought we could have dinner there. A waiter (bald and male) and a waitress (blonde/gray and a little older) were apparently responsible for the afternoon/evening operations. We weren't greeted and were initially "ignored" or the waiter just watched us and stayed behind the bar. The waitress first talked to another guest and then went behind the bar to get drinks. However, since this process took longer, I got up to get the menu for my friend and I, which was obviously at their "regular place" (where all the cards and cutlery are). On my way back to the table, the waitress apparently came up with the idea of ​​bringing us the cards. However, her eyes darkened and a bad aha followed the fact that we already had cards on hand. The tea light was turned on and then she turned around and, in a rage, panting, climbed down from the pedestal (sat on the rise at the far left of the bar) and threw her lighter on the cupboard to the left of the entrance, which made a nice clatter. We then got up and said goodbye with the words that we won't eat with such rude waiters and the shop shouldn't be surprised that the people might be fewer and regular customers just come back and leave without anything because of one or two waitresses buy if these are not there. This completely drags down the image of the store... By the way, it's not the first time that the bald man ignores his guests. There have been many times when he just does a quick lap outside and then leaves without handing out cards or serving guests. And you blonde is always rude and annoyed. As a side note, leave the job if you don't feel like it... The cream puff is always a treat when I order it with hot raspberries 💕

Greetings, In itself, Sternengrund is a particularly great place, especially for the weekend, due to its beautiful location, especially for motorcyclists, and its cream puffs. Unfortunately, more factors play a role in a restaurant and a big one is the service. There are two waitresses here who I have come to appreciate very much because of their funny nature and the excellent service, which is 1+ with an asterisk, all I can say is that. Then the downside is that there is also bad staff, which I have experienced many times, including the last time. No greeting, a long wait and picking up the menus ourselves were part of it. After an annoyed aha and really aggressively removing the lighter, me and my girlfriend decided to leave the restaurant. Because the atmosphere of these two waiters on site was just too negative. The two of them were visibly annoyed when they appeared: a gentleman with a bald head behind the counter, who I had already noticed negatively from previous visits, and an older blonde woman who had also often struck me negatively. People like that destroy places that simply have great potential. My tip is to cancel and find something else instead of being annoyed all day. PS: The cream puffs are awesome, I've finished them all 😁 and can recommend them.

Great cream puff! Almost too big for one alone!!!

Cozy little restaurant with a small but good menu. Prices are normal and reasonable. The cream puffs, however, are a true dream for those with a sweet tooth. There is a lot to see there for the children (wood carvings)

We were at the inn for lunch. The service was nice and quick. Fireplace was on. 👍 The portions are sufficient. Unfortunately, ready-made products were often used, for example hollandaise sauce straight from the tetrapak on the vegetables, dumplings unfortunately also pre-packaged, and probably the same with game goulash, as no cook would cut the meat so differently. Unfortunately, only the cheapest round shaped ham was used for the schnitzel with ham gratin. We still tasted it quite well, thanks to the flavor enhancers. But we don't like going to the store for ready-made products, because you expect a bit of culinary art.

Went there for coffee and then tried the cream puffs. Oh yes, they are really big and very tasty. Hot raspberries are recommended

Very nice location! Great service! Cream puffs excellent...

Very good inn, can only be recommended. The food is very tasty and Ophelia the service is always very friendly and funny. We have been there many times and you always feel very comfortable. Greetings from Suhl

Were guests in the restaurant. Very cozy inn. Good selection of food. We enjoyed the food very much.

Here they are, the giant cream puffs. Incredibly delicious.

I can only recommend the inn. We had very tasty food, the service was very nice and the five of us shared the huge cream puff. Any time.

I've driven past it many times and now we tried the cream puffs. These are HUGE things! My “Rennsteig” was delicious. Respect for someone who creates such a big piece. Nice service.

Very tasty, very nice people, very good atmosphere when hobby racers desperately try to fly through the curve like a pose

Good food but no prices in the display case at the restaurant.

We took a break here, had a coffee and listened and watched the “racing drivers”. The highlight is probably the cream puff or storm bag. It looked good, but too big for me.

Good offer. Giant cream puffs. Really delicious. But also good home cooking

We can only recommend the restaurant. Went there for coffee and dinner. Everything prepared very lovingly and deliciously. We particularly liked the barrier-free access for wheelchairs.

I was there for dinner. The service was nice and on point, the food was very good. Next time I would like to go there again.

Nice staff. Ate well. Cozy inn. Two drinks, starter and main courses 55 euros.

Unfortunately it was still closed but it looked great from the outside

Had a very good meal in the Sterngrund restaurant!

Nice staff Enjoy your meal Great

War wieder lecker.... thüringer Bratwurst mit Salat uuund Riesenwindbeutel mit Füllung.. Nette Bedienung und Preis stimmt auch...

Gained 3kg in 3 nights, food was very good!

Top inn very customer friendly great location very good and fast service and very good staff cleanliness top and very good food and delicious dessert

Visited the inn - not the bistro. It was delicious 😋. Good home cooking. Giant cream puff 😋😋😋😋

There are the biggest cream puffs I've ever seen here.

The location is fantastic - about halfway between the Panorama-Gotel and Zella-Mehlis. Here you have a great view and a heavenly peace - at least in the morning and evening, when the heater group isn't using the winding route to test the knee pads... At least my room was actually a single room and was crammed with a double bed. The table, which was too small, wasn't actually usable; it was so narrow that a cupboard door couldn't be opened, nor could a bedside table. Here, profit maximization clearly prevailed over hospitality. You couldn't darken the room either, so in summer it's very suitable for early risers... 😬 The room had a musty smell of old carpet and it couldn't be darkened. However, the hygiene was much worse... A handful of dead flies behind the bedside lamp, a ceiling light full of dead insects, everything in the bathroom that was chrome-plated or made of steel was completely filthy, the towel holder was rusty... Special requests for dinner could not be accommodated (I have a problem with pepper); But the breakfast was very plentiful and good (not a buffet, but set for each guest).

A pleasant atmosphere in bright sunshine. The giant cream puffs are the ultimate attraction here. Hard to do for one person, but super tasty. However, the location of the inn is very dangerous on a curve.

We had dinner twice. We and the short ones enjoyed it very much. Portions also sufficient. Staff friendly.

Delicious cream puffs and nice staff 👍

Ate a delicious Rostbrätel and bratwurst there, which was simply delicious. I can only recommend the cream puffs

Absolute catastrophe The condition is extremely unfriendly if it appears at all after 30 minutes of waiting. The overpriced food and drinks are also not worth the money. Hair in the food, the order was taken incorrectly and the food itself is bland and not fresh. The tables are also dirty, and until the dishes from the previous visit are cleared away, multiple requests are necessary. Absolutely not worth a visit. The snack bar above, on the other hand, is the absolute opposite, nice service, good offerings.

Very nice place. We drove past and discovered it by chance. It's actually a motorcycle pit stop, but cars can also find parking here.

Nice ambience, nice service. Food was good and reasonably priced. However, the cream puff was very dry and when I asked if the cream puff wasn't a little dry, the only response I received was: "the cream puff is always like that." I've never seen a cream puff that can be broken like dry bread. Unfortunately 2 stars deducted for that. So we won't be coming back on our next trip.