Zum Alten Markt in Dortmund

The German experience in a really cozy place with tasty traditional food.

Here you can enjoy delicious, home-style food and wine. The ambiance is very cozy and quaint. We ate there on a Tuesday evening, and the place was almost fully booked. We'd love to come back 😀

Dortmunder Rosenkranz is very tasty here.

A friend from England really wanted to try German cuisine, so I booked us a table at “Zum Alten Markt”. As a starter we had potato and goulash soup with a baguette. Both very tasty. Then the main courses, both of which were very good, large portions. My English friend and I were thrilled. The waiter was very friendly and attentive. You could tell that he enjoys his job. I can only recommend the restaurant to everyone. We found it excellent. We will definitely go back.

Good restaurant with finely prepared food, all recommendations 🙂

It's definitely the place to go during football matches! Great atmosphere on the place.

Nice inn, with good food. Of course it's very busy when BVB plays, but it's worth a visit. Prices are also fair. The schnitzel is definitely recommended.

Absolute recommendation! We were in Dortmund because of a festival and after the journey we needed something decent. Very competent, friendly service. Great food and the quality was perfect. When we're there again, contact number 1.

A very nice German restaurant with great service and excellent food.

Very nice atmosphere and very nice waiters who read your every wish :) always happy!!!!

Many restaurants in one place with good food and perfect service.

Nice restaurant with friendly staff and a varied menu. The dishes we ordered were well prepared and tasted good. Unfortunately, there is also a problem with people begging, some of whom are very unfriendly, in the outdoor catering industry, as in the entire Dortmund city center.

Delicious, more home-style food.

Very nice place in the center of Dortmund, in one of the city's iconic squares. Very nice with a typical German beer hall atmosphere, in summer they also put the tables on the square, but the interiors are delightful. The food is delicious, the beers excellent and the service friendly and attentive, the prices are low. In short, one of the most interesting places in the city, it is worth a visit.

Im Zuge eines Einkaufs waren wir in der Stadt und nach dem Einkauf im Alten Markt eingekehrt. Wir hatten Hunger auf Dortmunder Krüstchen. Bedienung ist sehr freundlich. Leider war ich vom Krüstchen etwas enttäuscht. Es war ein riesiges Schnitzel und nicht wie es in der Karte stand zweigeteilt. Eher dann eine Kruste. Darauf und das war das Schlechteste am Krüstchen ein totgebratenes Ei. ( kenne es eigentlich mit Spiegelei). Beilage wie Spargel und Salat waren in Ordnung. Nur etwas wenig Sauce. Das Ambiente ist sehr gemütlich.

I really enjoyed my experience here! The atmosphere is authentic, reminiscent of a classic old German pub. The food and service were excellent. It’s a great place to try traditional German dishes and explore a variety of beers.

Cozy place, great service and food, affordable. There are many people, it is worth booking in advance!

Super tasty food, big portion. Service very good

A real German cafe. We had already been there 2 years ago to visit the Messe.

Very cozy, great service, food very tasty

Good, quaint restaurant with a large menu. We ate well and at reasonable prices. We'd love to come back.

Highly recommended. Very tasty food, nice restaurant, totally friendly service. Prices are good too.

A classic, cozy pub for a beer. But you can also eat something.

I was inspired by opinions and decided have lunch at Zum Alten Markt, but waiter rejected me in seat because all tables for 1 person were occupied. Despite there were free tables for 4,6 people! So, they take care about money only, they don't care about your opinion, please do not go there

Yes, I can definitely recommend the place, we like to stop there when we are in Dortmund, sometimes you have to make a reservation, but everything is just right, nice atmosphere, rustic food and the prices are okay too

the most delicious breakfast for my family

I went here to drink coffee and beer, but because of the staff I didn't do that anymore. We were told in a very aggressive tone by the waiter that it is not served at the bar and we have to go to a table, this is because we are not Germans, the Germans were allowed to sit and be served at the bar; for any tourist, i heartily tell you to avoid this place where the staff is racist and ordinary

Hemos estado allí dos veces. La comida era absolutamente fantástico, el ambiente era agradable y cálido, la cerveza era buena, el servicio era rápido. ¡No te pierdas el nudillo de cerdo!

Old German cuisine👌🧑‍🍳🍖. Jammi Jammi Jammi. Very tasty, cool, funny service / waiter / I can only recommend the restaurant in Dortmund

This is a German restaurant with very good taste and atmosphere. Both wine and beer are delicious.

As German as it gets! I don't think more German than this is possible. Cozy pub where you can also enjoy excellent German food. Of course schnitzel but really German like schweine haxe and as in the photo eisbein. Prices not at the low German level but at the higher Dutch level. Kitchen open late. A disadvantage is that they asked for a tip at checkout, the receipt also stated that the prices do not include tip. Not neat!

I haven't eaten so badly in a long time! Of the six dishes we ordered, everything was mass instead of classy. All dishes lacked seasoning. It didn't taste good at all. The chicken on my salad was dry and unseasoned. I had to look for the dressing. The ambience also has room for improvement. Our table for six turned out to be two 50 cm x 50 cm tables pushed close to a folding table of the same size. I'm 162cm tall and had trouble fitting my legs when sitting.

Tasty Westphalian food, friendly service

Anyone who wants to enjoy good German cuisine again. It's exactly right here. Whether pepperpotthast, liver or kale with fried potatoes and Mettwurst. Eating like mother's. Everything delicious. There is also good service and a rustic ambience inside. In summer everything is outside at the old market.

Very pleasant restaurant with a cool atmosphere - very nice and friendly team

Small, cozy restaurant in the heart of Dortmund. The service is quick and very attentive. The dishes are very good and tasty.

Excellent dinner in a characteristic setting.

very nice restaurant. very nice interior. very nice service. food tasty but nothing special. overly salty food. I will definitely try again.

We have never eaten better pork shank in our lives, the meat falls off the bone and melts in your mouth, combined with great cabbage and potatoes. We highly recommend it

By far the best food we've had in a long time! Lulli is a very, very attentive and sincere waiter. Very accommodating and very warm. You need people like that.

Very nice, long-established restaurant in the city of Dortmund. Great ambience inside, coziness outside in the warmth. We felt very good here. Keep it up

Good food and quick service. Nice ambience, but also a bit loud.

It was a very unpleasant experience. The waiter basically threw us out for no reason. At the entrance we were rudely told that we couldn't stay long if we didn't order food. We explained that we wanted to order several drinks. After about 30 minutes we wanted to order the second round, but the waiter refused for no reason at all. He reacted rudely and made a racist and inappropriate comment that something like that wasn't normal in Germany. But there was also a German person in our group. We have been here very often, but because of the waiter Abdul we will never come back. If you don't want a lovely evening ruined, definitely don't go there!

Excellent service and very tasty food

We came here to have a beer after dinner and it ruined our lovely evening. We were served by a waiter named Abdul. He was very rude from the start and even told us that we should just have a round of drinks and then go out as the table was for those who wanted food. After drinking a beer, we ordered a few more drinks from another waiter and he told us that he would bring the drinks. However, Abdul came to us and threw us out very roughly. He told us in Germany that we were on a first name basis and not on a first name basis and that he was a foreigner and my friend was a German :). My boyfriend comes here almost every week after work and he has never been served as poorly as he was today. I highly recommend this restaurant - train waiters or hire non-racist waiters.

Very friendly service who also knows how to have fun. Great food, good value for money

Delicious, great service. I recommend it

Great ambience. Incredibly good food. Great staff. Simply great

This restaurant is just perfect if you appreciate authentic and local German food!

Excellent food! The portions were more than sufficient and the price/performance ratio was perfect. Great atmosphere, you immediately feel at home. Even though there was a lot going on and people kept coming in and out, the volume was absolutely fine. I can only recommend this restaurant!

Absolutely top! Westphalian cuisine as it's best! Great conditions, rustic atmosphere and delicious regional cuisine. A must when visiting the city!

Super cozy place. You enter a fairytale here. The first evening we had an unfriendly waiter. We went back the next day because I was curious about the vegetarian dish with dumplings. This one was to die for. And this time we had a very friendly waiter.

It was very delicious for a fair price in a cosy place. The service was also very good.

Top venue, fast service and delicious food. I highly recommend booking!!

The knuckle was tender, crispy and simply delicious, with perfectly coordinated side dishes. The staff was friendly and attentive, the service was quick and pleasant. Plus top prices – absolutely recommended!

Expulsion after waiting sign missed. Waiter comes rude and throws us out

Heerlijk gegeten, de steak en haxe waren super. Het personeel is heel vriendelijk en de sfeer is goed. We hebben er eerst lekker een drankje gedaan en de volgende dag zijn we teruggekomen voor een hapje eten.

Everything was great, the waiter tried to find us a place for two people despite the full house. It worked, the food was great. See you next time.

The place to eat in Dortmund!! The staff is very friendly and kind. I recommend the venison stew. The atmosphere is local and touristy.

Traditional inn since 1956, delicious home cooking at normal prices 👌🏻. Well trained and friendly staff.

Friendly and fast service staff, the food tasted very good. I found the rather quaint and rustic furnishings very comfortable.

It was a pleasant experience, very good food, fast service, although it was very crowded! The atmosphere was focused for the Christmas and New Year holidays!

Dear Zum alten Markt team, we were guests with you yesterday afternoon and ate kale and market crusts. I noticed two things: the mustard with the kale sausage was not sword mustard, but mustard in plastic portion bags. Not appealing at all! The second thing I noticed was that the beer was priced at €3.90 and €5.00 for 0.3l and 0.4l, but €4.00 and €5.10 were charged. That doesn't work at all! Please urgently correct the price on the card and spend swords mustard or remove it from the card! That's why I only gave you an overall rating of 2/5 stars.

Urig, traditionell und lecker Essen.

My husband and I arrived to eat at 2:30 pm We shared a starter and a main course and were satisfied. The starter is a salt bread with raw meat and chopped raw onion, which we found delicious and the waiter informed us that it was typical of the Dortmund region. For starters, the pork knuckle accompanied by mashed potatoes and sauerkraut was very tasty. Service was excellent and fast.

In the run-up to Christmas you can eat delicious goose here. But don't forget to book a table in advance. Then everything works.

Great food and German ambience! Great price and everything was great!

Great location. The food is very good. Service quick and friendly.

We spontaneously asked for a table and it was worth it. It was delicious and fun. Top service and very tasty food 👍🏻

Typical German food place, with delicious dishes, what to say about this type of cuisine, which I can't find its point. Normal service and price.

Nice restaurant on the old market in Dortmund. Delicious Westphalian food and good beer.

Very disappointing! We have eaten well here several times, and we always came back. Since the last time more than a year ago, however, everything seems to have changed. New management? We can only guess. The food was no longer culinary as before, and guests were snapped at rudely by the waiter who - how surprising - begged for a tip when we paid the bill. The schnitzels were not fried crispy but wrapped in a greasy mess. The fried potatoes, too, they were not well done and seemed to be made of a soft-boiling potato species. Tasteless vegetables and watery sauerkraut completed this bad lunch experience.

This is my favorite restaurant in Dortmund. I have always eaten delicious things here. But today I got very bad service. I arrived at around 1:00 p.m. and ordered knuckle and beer. At 2 p.m. the waitress wanted to kick us out because of a so-called random reservation. When paying, she asked for a tip. This is incredible. I haven't even finished my beer yet. She says there will be reservation later. But when we arrived, there was just a sign on the other table that said reserved at 2 p.m. The first time I had such a bad experience was in this restaurant. I have always tipped but not this time!

Very cozy restaurant, great service and friendly staff. Great food 👍👍

Very nice restaurant with extremely friendly service and delicious draft beer. We would love to come back. Thank you!

Very cozy restaurant, always busy, delicious food at reasonable prices

El servicio era absolutamente terrible. El camarero era extremadamente grosero, uprofesional y arrogante. Nunca visites este lugar, quien alguna vez contrató a ese tonto debería replantearse su plan de negocios

Incompetent staff but still nice food

Right in the city center, so good location. Very busy restaurant, it got very crowded after 5 p.m. Loving furnishings. I was sitting upstairs, there was nothing free downstairs. Fast and polite service (although full and therefore many orders). Had Thier beer and appropriate for the season, kale with curly sausage and fried potatoes (getting hungry again 😋). Reasonably priced. I can therefore recommend the restaurant. It's certainly not a fancy 5* restaurant, but that wouldn't be my thing either...

Really good German cuisine. The waiters know they don't have to compensate. Very busy always.

Very tasty and authentic Westphalian cuisine at a fair price.

I wanted to eat in a traditional German restaurant, and was 100% satisfied! Delicious food, I had probably the best goulash soup of my life and the pork knuckle was delicious and just melting away from the bone. Really warm traditional German vibes. We visited early and were lucky enough to find a spot, because as I realized later looking around me, all of the tables were constantly full! Very friendly and helpful waiter as well. Totally recommended.

Super delicious food and good local beers.

Very attractive location of the restaurant. Great atmosphere and atmosphere. You can see that it is an old restaurant with some problems. Typical German pub atmosphere. A lot of people and often no free places. The prices are right. You can pay by card or cash. There is a toilet available on site on the lowest level. The restaurant has tables on the ground floor and upstairs. The food was so-so. The schnitzel is small and extremely fatty after frying. Very good beers. We asked for the bill twice and had to wait a long time for it. When it comes to food, I only recommend a great set of salads with a very good dip and beer. The potatoes were burnt and the onion in them was actually burnt. Probably because we didn't speak German, we received lower quality food. At the next table, all the sets ordered after us looked much better. Pity.

In my opinion the best knuckle in Dortmund. There was also very tasty sauerkraut with mashed potatoes. Great price/performance ratio. The only room for improvement this evening was that the food could have been a bit hotter. Otherwise there was nothing to complain about. Therefore, I absolutely recommend it.

Very good food, extremely friendly and fast service even with a full house

No moose board in winter time, I'm shocked.

Great ambience. Waiter who showed us our tables was a bit rude. Beer is slightly more expensive compared to other places.

Tasty schnitzels, cozy German atmosphere…

HELLO, GERMAN. I HAVE AN OFFER. I sent the documents. DORTMUND ARVATO! TEAM LEADER OR WORK IN FRANCE? APARTMENT. DO YOU HAVE A ROOM FOR ME? ORGANIZATION. DRIVER. I'm waiting. MY ASSUMPTION. MATTHIAS.

Quaint German restaurant with very friendly staff and very tasty food. Absolute recommendation!

So...what can I say? So when I was at the Christmas market I went to the culinary window and ordered kale with Mettwurst in the classic way. And what can I say? It tastes amazing 😋. Nice and hot and freshly prepared and simply delicious ☺️. It's worth a detour, but you might have to wait a bit longer, especially at the Christmas market. But definitely worth a visit 😊 I'll be back.

Great restaurant in a rustic style. The food, the staff are simply top and world class. This will be our home business when we are back in Dortmund for the dog show. Highly recommended for anyone who likes good home cooking. I'm already looking forward to my next visit on May 25th.

Although there was a lot going on (lots of football fans there), we were served very friendly and the food tasted very good. Our expectations were truly exceeded.

Rustic pub atmosphere meets star cuisine. If you don't let the external appearance irritate you and get involved in the brewery charm, you'll get to know employees here for whom "Service Desert Germany" is a foreign word. By the time your order is served, it should be clear to even the last doubter that you will not only be full here but will also enjoy every bite. I always look forward to a visit!!

Good restaurant, centrally located. Popular starting point and meeting point. Delicious food, very good house beer

Good food, nice ambience, great service :-) Thank you very much!

Very friendly staff and really very good food. Always my pleasure

Amazing German food and atmosphere. Staff is very polite.

Very good restaurant! Gladly again👍