Roussel´s Restaurant "La Bonne Adresse" — Restaurant in Bernkastel-Kues

Someone had boasted this restaurant as being Michelin star quality and so my husband and I were intrigued to try. Overall, there experience was nice, but there is much much much to improve to be considered truly fine dining. The atmosphere is nice, with good lighting, pleasant tables and appropriate level music to enjoy a proper ambiance. The plating was exquisite and the presentation lovely. The servers were nice, but not quite natural for the setting. A surprising and disappointing factor is that despite being "fine dining" or a French restaurant, there was not English or French menu available and the translations for each dish were not totally accurate or enjoyable to be required to listen to in order to decide. Unable to properly understand the dishes in such a restaurant was a major mark against the establishment. The wine pairings were delicious, although all options leaned on the sweet side, even the dry pinor noir which was overpowered with the cherry flavoring masking any balance of wood. The champagne was delicious, but again, on the sweet side. It was a perfect aperitif, and all wines were nice, simply noting all options lacked a full balance od dry to sweet when taken as a set. The tartlett appetizers were quite nice. The beet, raspberry,wasabi selection was truly a symphony of flavors in the mouth. The tuna was very good, although the sauce was overly creamy disrupting the balance of the bite. The foia gras was lackluster, perhaps the worst I've had in any fine dining setting. The sea bass was dry and overcooked and bland in flavor (although my husband ate half of mine and said his was much better so perhaps mine alone was poorly prepared). The beef dinner was cooked well but the quality of the meat left much to be desired. Despite being slow cooked for 24 hours, it lacked tenderness or flavor of truly quality organic livestock from specialty farms, certainly a quality I expect in the main course. The desert was delicately prepared and presented. I see what this restaurant is trying to do and it is nice to have such an option in this region. Much work is to be done to be considered a 4 or 5 star selection though.

Update after owner reply: My review was mostly objective with many postiives balancing some objective and some personal opinions. I did mention that I did not care for the sea bass to the waitress. What good would continuing to communicate my displeasure do when the main course arrived? There were no comments or otherwise offered to correct the dish after I communciated that it was dry. And as I mentioned, I quite liked the wine, mentioning twice that it was delicious to me personally (although after tasting the reisling, we did decide not to order teh recommeded selection) I am objectively commmunicating that the selection as a whole was sweet as it might be good for other wine lovers to note, and for the restuarant to take into account - perhaps the wine sommalier is unaware of their choices being on one sweet side and for a fine dining establishment, I would expect feedback made objectively and with respect to be received and noted. You are welcome to receive or reject my review, as is your choice, yet the defensiveness in reply tells me the quality of the establishment would not increase. I stand by my review, the experience was nice,...

Blown away of the best experience. It was an absolute pleasure to visit their restaurant. Best restaurant experience we had in Germany!

We ate there 7th of September- We had the 5 course menu with a wine paring. The food was over all expectations, so tasty, perfect portions sizes, good different textures, timing was on point between dishes, nice wine paring improving the food. The service was so kind and accommodating.

It was clear when you looked around on the other guest, that the smiles on their lips got bigger and bigger the further we got with dinner.

It is a family driven restaurant, which is really something you could feel. The love for what they do shined through everything.

We found them because they were mentioned on the Michelin guide recommendation. We tried a couple of Michelin guide recommendations and this was clearly a lot higher caliber than the others we tried. And definitely in my mind up to pair with a star *.

Thank you so much for this wonderful experience! 10/10 would...

4 maal de eer om hier super lekker te eten. Verslag van diner 1 8-7-2021 Diner. Plaatsje binnen (op terras is ook een mogelijkheid) met een gezelschap van 6 personen. Bij die 6 personen ,3 nationaliteiten en 3 talen. Voor wat het bestellen betreft was er geen probleem in het Duits, niet in het frans (de eigenaars, Heike en Dominique, zijn zowel Duits als Franstalig en Heike zelfs Nederlandstalig. Dit was een aangename verassing voor ons gezelschap. We begonnen met een glas champagne (Gobillard) en daarbij kwam een proevertje uit de keuken. Verfijnd en heel smaakvol. Ik zal enkel beschrijven wat ik heb gegeten. Voorgerecht : Een huisgemaakte vegetarische Faux Gras prachtig gepresenteerd op een bord dat me het water inde mond deed komen. Niet enkel het bord was mooi het was ook nog verdraaid lekker, een aanrader. Hoofdgerecht: Rinderfilet in Tranchen. Een rijkelijk bord en een grote portie. Het vlees was perfect gebakken en boterzacht (beetje fleur de sel erop ,werkelijke af)de geglaceerde groenten erbij waren supervers en heel fijn op smaak., nog een aanrader. (een persoonlijke opmerking: ik zou iets minder saus op het bord serveren en een kannetje saus er bijgeven) Het dessert: Dessert Gourmand ; ik ben geen dessertman maar ik geniet er nog altijd van. , een top dessert. De bediening was vlot en de wachttijden meer dan ok. De wijn: het gezegde "goede wijn behoeft geen krans" is hier op zijn plaats.Bij de ganse maaltijd de wijnen van de eigenaar D.Roussel gedronken: zaaaaalig Dit is een op en top aanrader voor eenieder die gezellig en heel lekker wil tafelen. Op het eind van de maaltijd nog even gepraat met de Chef Thierry Roussel, een vakman begeesterd...