Restaurant Apels Garten in Leipzig

Delicious food with friendly service in a sophisticated atmosphere

I was invited to my birthday by dear friends and was able to spend a wonderful day and evening at Apel's Garden. We first sat outside on the patio, which, with its view of flowering plants and lovingly designed details, offered a wonderfully cozy atmosphere. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there with delicious wine and good food. As it later became cooler, we moved inside and continued the evening in an ambiance that is both stylish and steeped in history. Apel's Garden has a tangible connection to Goethe, which is also reflected in the tasteful interior decor, which gives the restaurant a special touch. The service staff was extremely friendly and attentive. We never had to wait long and felt well looked after and welcome throughout. The food was delicious, lovingly prepared, and attractively presented. Later in the evening, we treated ourselves to a cheese platter, which was also delicious and perfectly rounded off the evening. It was an all-round successful birthday, one that I will fondly remember for a long time. Apel's Garden is a place with history, atmosphere and soul and I can wholeheartedly recommend it.

Very good food and excellent service down to the last detail. Etiquette courses are offered regularly.

The schnitzel was really good and tasted convincing. Unfortunately, the side dishes couldn't keep up - they were rather tough and not particularly fresh. The service was friendly and attentive, which had a positive impact on the visit. However, the ambience was disappointing: we were seated right next to the bar, which was sometimes loud and somewhat uncomfortable.

Lange Wartezeit zum Bestellen,30 min, 20 € und wenig aufn Teller. Auch nicht gefragt wie es geschmeckt hat und es hat nicht geschmeckt. Da gibt’s bessere Restaurants in Leipzig.

Rustic, very nice staff and the food tasted very good. Gladly again.

Authentic cuisine with seasonal dishes. Service was friendly and matched the ambience. Absolutely great.

Highly recommended, service and food wonderful. I would love to go here again...

Had lunch on Easter Saturday with a pre-order. We found the table for 6 people a bit tight. The food and service made up for it. 👍 The price/performance ratio is right. Despite the restaurant being full, there was hardly any waiting time. Gladly again.

Not good service and also too expensive. I've eaten better

The wine tasting in the Apels Garden was a wonderful evening. The wines were excellently selected and went perfectly with the food. Each course was accompanied by two different wines, which made for exciting comparisons. The atmosphere was cozy and inviting, just right for an enjoyable evening. There were also great conversations with nice people, which made the evening even more special. The service was friendly and attentive, so you felt completely comfortable. A perfect evening for wine lovers – highly recommended!

Very friendly service, cozy atmosphere and delicious vegetarian options.

That was truly delicious. We all had the €25 menu, which was fantastic.

Guaranteed goose breast and thighs are a staple every year. In addition to red cabbage, Kohl also has something like cream stew, so you can enjoy a variety of flavors.

Hello Mr. Quinque, thank you very much for this extremely delicious dinner in your home. The service was very friendly and direct. Even the kitchen greeted us with a small bite to eat. Everything was prepared very lovingly and professionally and tasted top notch. The crème brulee was also very tasty.

Beautiful. This isn't our first time here and we've never been disappointed. Big praise to the entire team. Absolutely friendly and accommodating. Keep up the good work. Oh, and the chefs, what you're conjuring up is truly amazing, and the entire ambiance is simply beautiful. We've already made reservations again, and we're very excited. Best wishes from us to the entire team. 👍👍👍

The roulade tastes fantastic, the staff is super friendly and the atmosphere is very nice.

Delicious - super nice service - thank you

Unfortunately the food wasn't as tasty as usual. Neither the mashed potatoes nor the liver were tasty.

Nice atmosphere, very friendly service

As always, it's worth a visit, top-notch cuisine and great staff! The location is also pretty central and the prices are absolutely fair.

Great atmosphere and very nice staff. The food was fantastic. 🤩

The food tasted very good. The service staff is very professional and friendly. You can enjoy good food here in a relaxed atmosphere. I had duck broth and Saxon cordon bleu.

As always, very tasty. Duck with dumplings and red cabbage

The ambiance could be described as slightly dated. On the other hand, it fits the overall concept and the story told at Apel's Garden (including the dishes). Delicious Saxon food with exceptionally attentive service. A definite recommendation.

Service was great. Food was a bit greasy.

Das Restaurant strahlt eine angenehme Atmosphäre aus. Wir haben zu zweit sehr lecker gespeist. Gutes Preis- / Leistungsverhältnis. Wir waren zu zweit Gast am Tisch Nr. 6 und hatten bestellt: 1 x Schweinebacken 1 x Apels Leibgericht 2 x Köstritzer Schwarzbier für insgesamt € 47,50

After visiting the Christmas market, we ended the evening here - thanks to our reservation we got a table - the service was quick and extremely friendly + relaxed 👍👍👍 - the food was very tasty - the ambience was tasteful - price/performance It's totally fine > the restaurant is recommended!!

Six of us were there for late lunch today... be aware that you can't get in without a reservation. Very good food. Down-to-earth and traditional... but vegans will also find a good menu. The staff is consistently friendly, fast, and attentive. We'd be happy to come back. P.S. The ambiance is missing a star... there's too much decor for my taste... but that's just my opinion.

You feel like you've been transported back in time... like Grandma's at the Sunday coffee table. Food was delicious, service was very attentive and quick.

Nice location with good food and friendly service.

Good portions and very tasty. Service was attentive and friendly. Good evening.

The staff and food were impeccable. The waiters were super friendly, quick, and attentive. We had the "best of the goose" and ate everything. It was like grandma's food, childhood memories included.

We ate at Apels Gans. It was really very tasty. The service was very friendly and attentive. We can definitely recommend a visit here!

The visit to this garden was very pleasant. the environment is peaceful and well maintained. The staff was friendly and there were lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. a beautiful place for anyone who wants to enjoy nature.

Delicious food at reasonable prices.

Great authentically clocky restaurant. Cosmopolitan atmosphere with the feeling of being in the past. Traditional or meat-based cuisine.

Great service, super clean and very friendly staff. The food was incredibly delicious. Great cook… We'll definitely be back 👍🏽

GREAT service, GREAT food and great ambience...👍🏻 I can only recommend it. Thanks for the GREAT evening. We've been there several times now, absolutely recommended and just THANK YOU for being here...!!!

Great service, child-friendly, wheelchair accessible, very tasty food and nice atmosphere. We have been regular guests for years and always look forward to a great evening in Apel's Garden. Many thanks to all the chefs and the entire service staff for unforgettable moments.

Very good food, very friendly staff. Absolutely recommended.

When everything is full it is very loud. But otherwise highly recommended, very nice service. Food great.

I have hardly ever eaten so well and experienced such friendly service.

They were really kind and honest, they didn't charge me for the beer because the mineral water wasn't to my taste. I really appreciated the gesture.

As guests, we repeatedly place our fate in the hands of strangers, often with shameless self-consciousness. We are fragile at such a moment, we want to be taken gently by the hand, we want to be cared for and loved. In contemplation we seek consolation and confirmation, our burden falls away for a delicious moment in which we remember the past, an old dream from which we want to draw strength. We know that this is actually a childish thought and we don't find such perfection in the daily juggling between appointments and fulfilling other people's expectations. On the contrary; We make our judgment in the first few seconds precisely because we cannot believe that we can be surprised in our expectation that it is just a childish dream. Now this is one such place where our dream was fulfilled, we would be surprised. Here we remembered the past, the Sunday feast with the family, the Christmas Eve with roast meat and dumplings, a moment of friendship and this one evening when everything was right and by which we measure all other evenings. Thank you for that!

Food tastes very good. Already spent 2 family celebrations here. Everything was fine. A little update today on August 22nd, 24: we can highly recommend the lunch menu. Price-performance ratio is great and the food tastes very good. I had crispy fish fillet with fried potatoes and it was very tasty. Above all, the food is moderately seasoned. I can also recommend the schnitzel menu with exciting variations. Today 8/28/24 second round lunch menu. Eggs with mustard sauce, mashed potatoes and ginger carrots. A poem. Tastes better than at home. A mild mustard taste, eggs on point and everything attractively presented. 9/12/2024 Grützwurst with sauerkraut and potatoes and it tastes like home.

We went to the German wine tasting, 13 wines and 13 delicious matching courses. Excellent event

The regional lunch specials are absolutely unbeatable for the price! A decent plate with good ingredients for under €10, no one can complain about that!

We had a really tasty meal here. There are even some very good vegetarian/vegan dishes. Everything true from beginning to end perfect. The order was taken promptly. A short time later the drinks arrived and the waiting time for the food was also very short. The food was super hot and very, very attractively prepared. Both dishes around twenty euros. So it's pretty cheap too. A big compliment to the chef and the very friendly staff. We will definitely come back when we are in Leipzig. From now on our favorite number 1⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Seen in the second picture: Liver with mashed potatoes and apple onion vegetables Picture one: (Vegan) chickpeas, avocado, red beans in rice leaves with herb risotto and Mediterranean vegetables

The food was good, but the shock came with the bill. Beforehand, the friendly waitress had suggested chanterelles to us, pointing out that “they are just a little bit more expensive”. This “little bit” was just under €12 extra. The dish, which would have cost 19 euros, ended up costing us more than 30 euros. An absolute disgrace because it wasn't dealt with transparently. I still don't understand why a restaurant like this feels the need to strip its guests like this. An actually nice visit to a restaurant has been ruined and you still feel like you've been ripped off.

Offer has developed very positively. The food was delicious and prepared in a modern way. The prices for lunch were also attractive and the portions were sufficient.

We were there as a family and we really enjoyed it. I can only recommend.

If you expect a lot of green from the name, you will definitely be disappointed. Apel's Garden is located on Dorotheenplatz in one of the better prefabricated buildings that characterize the square and the surrounding area. Once inside you come to a country inn in the middle of the city. Gentlemen in baroque clothing sit at the corners and only at second glance reveal themselves to be life-size figures. Everything seems well ordered, conservative, clean, conservative. On the website the owners describe themselves as “traditional” and that’s true. The menu is also accordingly. There is good quality Saxon home-style cooking, sauerbraten, roulades and curds. I had a Saxon cordon bleu filled with Altenburger cheese and bacon. That was delicious and plentiful. In the last few years I haven't been there often, but I've been there several times and I've always been very satisfied. The prices are not bargains, but they are okay according to the new standards in gastronomy. The service is very good and courteous.

Im Rahmen einer kulinarischen Stadtführung machten wir hier einen Stopp. Ich kann nicht behaupten, mich hier willkommen gefühlt zu haben, da wir draußen an einem Stehtisch abgefertigt wurden. Es gab als Kostprobe ein kleine Suppe, zumindest meine vegetarische Variante war okay aber etwas fad. Das Restaurant soll ja eine absolute Institution in Leipzig sein. Wahrscheinlich ist mein Eindruck daher nicht repräsentativ.

Great service, homemade cuisine, no frozen food. Simply great and delicious

Waren wegen des Zoos für einen Kurztrip in Leipzig und haben im Restaurant gegessen. Das Cordon Bleu war das beste, das ich je gegessen habe. Ausgezeichnet! Auch das Gemüse und die Bratkartoffeln waren super! Alles frisch und auch sehr schön angerichtet. Schönes Lokal und freundliche Bedienungen. Preise für die Qualität absolut angemessen. Claudia Fischer-Rodwell

The ambience is nice. Pretty beer garden, rustic but modern interior. The food was delicious and reasonably priced. The waitresses were very friendly.

The meal was delicious . There is nothing wrong 👍🏻

Very elegant ambience and very good cuisine. Recommend “Master Apel’s favorite dish”.

Veal liver with asparagus is good, the other dishes are rather mediocre. It's a shame that Tafelspitz is no longer offered. The interior with human-sized figures slowly becomes eerie. The design should be renewed once in 30 years. We go there because my elderly parents live around the corner and because the kitchen isn't bad, but the shop could use a bit of a breath of fresh air.

Quality of the food is okay. However, I swapped my vegetables for asparagus, which meant the dish cost 32.50 euros (!) instead of 19.90 euros. Sorry, but that would have been 65 DM and is completely unacceptable. This extra charge should have been told to the guest. When asked, the waitress simply replied: "You didn't ask." Cheeky.

A must for every visit to Leipzig. Traditional Saxon cuisine, friendly staff. This time there was a wonderful schnitzel with perfect vegetables with a bite and fresh mushrooms at a fair price.

Really good, in the sense of solid, fresh ingredients, pleasant ambience, very friendly staff, reasonable prices, a really well-run restaurant without any pretense. Unreservedly recommended

Location seems to be getting old and has this charm. Sanitary facilities appear well maintained. The dishes are authentic, tasty and unusual for today. Price level for this is okay. Some of the service was noticeably stressed during the visit, but still nice.

The food is delicious and also visually good to look at, the eye eats with it. Price okay. Service friendly, attentive and quick. Nice ambience, clean, cozy, rustic, also cozy outdoor seating with lots of flowers and plants. Only the parking situation is modest.

Home-style cooking on the edge of the center, there was asparagus with corn plaice, the potatoes were a bit too buttery - service was very friendly with a good price-performance ratio -

Very tasty food. 😋 Hospitality lixh. High prices. Unfortunately we were in a separate room which seemed very lonely to me and therefore only almost perfect, because eating in company is better than in the next room. Nevertheless the food was great. The waitress did her job very professionally.

Food and service great, but pretty uncleaned all around (windows, floors, etc.).

If there were 7 stars, it would be for this! Hard to beat in terms of friendliness, children are a matter of the heart here! Kids up to 5 years old can eat for free from the children's menu. The service was incredibly nice, the food was delicious and totally authentic, just as you imagine when people talk about Saxon cuisine. We recommend it 1000%

Had a very good meal here with friends, good German cuisine

We spontaneously ate here on Friday evening with the Happy Diner Card. Very nice staff. Enjoy your meal. Gladly again.

Authentic service with a lot of humor and honest wit. The table reservation (strongly recommended) at 10 p.m. was also accepted in a relaxed manner. The joy of work is physically noticeable. Very rare and a must visit

nice environment, you'll like it here, but the service was reluctant and unprofessional, the food was standard good, so it won't excite you or make you sad, it's a shame

The waitresses were super nice and attentive, the food was excellent and plentiful and the ambience was very appealing for German-good middle class. What is striking is the child-friendliness, which we have never experienced in any restaurant in Leipzig. We'd love to come back!

We celebrated a big birthday in the salon of Apels Garten. Everything was arranged very well and we were completely satisfied. The birthday menu was very tasty and the service was extremely attentive. All our wishes were fulfilled. A big thank you to the Apels Garten team for this successful birthday party. We would love to come back.

The food was super tasty and no ready-made food, everything was homemade. Big portion Very clean Fast service Very friendly Great German food

A very nice restaurant. Very good food and very nice service. The proximity to Clara Zetkin Park was very important for us, after duck breast and dumplings, to stretch our feet and stimulate digestion. We'd love to come back.

The food is good Price performance at e.g. Potato soup a little too high Service Attentive and courteous Parking lot found by chance

Reservation was uncomplicated. The food was very tasty and plentiful. However, a senior plate would have been enough for us. Thank you very much for the excellent service.

The restaurant "Apels Garten" is located on the edge of the historic center of Leipzig, surrounded by typical GDR buildings. Its interior, which appears to have remained unchanged since it opened, exudes a nostalgic charm. We received a warm welcome and the service remained friendly and accommodating throughout. The food is traditionally Saxon and of high quality. All dishes served were tasty and attractively presented. The restaurant's value for money is excellent. For those looking for a true Saxon culinary experience, this restaurant is a clear recommendation.

A restaurant that has stood still in time. Everything is so old-fashioned that you can say it has a certain GDR retro style. The service was without exception very friendly and professional, the menu was manageable and regionally Saxon. I wanted exactly this East Germany experience and I got it. Price performance reasonable to affordable.

We had a very nice evening and fantastic food! We'd love to come back!

Sehr kompetente Servicemitarbeiter und immer hervorragendes Essen , leckere, kreative Küche, Wir kommen sehr gern wieder.

Herzlichen Dank für Speis und Trank. Und, daß es so ganz kurzfristig noch geklappt hat. Guten Rutsch Ihnen allen und bis bald.

Super leckeres Weihnachtsessen. Wir waren eine große Gruppe, haben unser Essen alle relativ zeitgleich bekommen und alles hat sehr gut geschmeckt. Ein ganz besonderes Lob für das grandiose vegane Menü!

Ein hervorragendes Essen, super, nette, freundliche Bedienungen.

Das Essen ist traditionell Deutsch und einfach hervorragend. Der Service ist dazu noch schnell und freundlich, absolut empfehlenswert.

Wir hatten ein Fingerfood Buffet mit Canapes plus Soljanka bestellt. Kurzfristig zum Schulanfang noch eine Bestellung abzugeben ist eigtl. ein Himmelfahrtskommando... Aber alle Wünsche wurden erfüllt! Es war sehr gut organisiert und hat wunderbar Geschmeckt. Vielen Dank!

Waren beim Wochenendausflug hier, weil es vom Reiseführer empfohlen wurde. Können die Empfehlung uneingeschränkt bestätigen. Außerordentlich freundliches Personal, sehr gutes Essen und nettes, klassisches Ambiente

Immer gut besucht, liegt am Service und am guten Essen. Es wird auch Essen angeboten,welches die Lehrlinge sich aussuchen und zubereiten. Wir fanden unser besuch sehr empfehlenswert.👍

Wir haben ganz lecker Martinsganz gegessen. Service war auch sehr gut.

Gestern Essen gewesen. Alles einfach nur super. Sehr nettes Personal. Essen auch sehr gut 👍. Wir kommen garantiert wieder.

In diesem Restaurant ist nicht nur das Essen und das Ambiente hervorragend, sondern auch der Service außer Haus. Ich habe hier schon mehrmals einen Gutschein als Geschenk für einen späteren Gaststättenbesuch bestellt. Dieser wurde mir nach der Bezahlung völlig problemlos in kürzester Zeit nach Hause geschickt. Vielen Dank nochmals dafür!

Zufällig über gute Bewertungen im Internet gefunden und wir haben super leckeres Essen bekommen. Reservierung übers Internet klasse geklappt, sehr empfehlenswert! Wir waren zu 4 dort - Kürbissuppe, Kartoffelsuppe, Salat und fantastische Hauptgerichte. Sind auch trotz eines vollen Lokals auf Essenwünsche wegen Allergie eingegangen. Unsere 7 jährige Tochter hat den Frischlingsbraten mit Klöße sehr gut empfunden! Kann man auch mit Kindern gut empfehlen! Weiter so👍

Apels Garten hat eine gutbürgerliche Küche, ein passendes Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis und freundliche Servicemitarbeiter. Durch sein uriges Ambiente gewinnt das Restaurant zusätzlich an Charme.

Sehr angenehmes Ambiente. Freundliche, schnelle Bedienung und Ente ohne Ende für 25 Euro.

Gutes Essen, Ente ohne Ende, Lecker, Service zuvorkommend. Einen Punkt Abzug gebe ich nur, weil es bei vegetarischen Gerichten leider nur eine sehr kleine Auswahl gibt.

Sehr leckeres Essen und sehr freundliche Bedienung.

Ente ohne Ende- es ist sehr lecker gewesen. Service top! Super zu empfehlen

Schönes Restaurant mit netter Bedienung und sehr gutem Essen. Der Frischlingsbraten war ausgezeichnet.