Castello — Restaurant in Cochem

I ate here two times during our vacation in cochem. The first night, I had spaghetti bolognese, and my friend had pizza fungi . Before our food, we got two pieces of bread as a starter, like every table. The pasta was good. The pizza was floppy, and everything fell off it. She didn't enjoy it. Felt like it wasn't fully cooked yet. service the first night was good. most of them spoke english and even dutch. we sat upstairs on the terrace.

The second night, we started upstairs on the terrace again.We started with Bruchetta and tomato soup. before we even got our food wasp, we were flying around us and other tables. my friend who gets really sick if she is stung by a wasp or a bee. They were flying near us more and I got stung two times. We asked if we could move downstairs cause my friendcouldn'tt get stung or she ger sick. The girl said shed ask. Then our starters came alrsady. and while every other table got the two pieces of bread again, we didn't. The man I presume is the owner. He was looking upstairs again and saw us still sitting there. he spoke Dutch and English the day before but now only spoke German. The nice waiter took our food. we had to take our stuff downstairs while also carrying our bottles and glasses and also the plate with our cutlery. we could sit at a table downstairs. This time, I ordered pasta Arrabiatta with cheese and my friend, the Bolognese. the spice level next to the arrabiata said 2/20. when we got our food. it looked really good. My pasta was so spicy that I'm scared for spicy level twenty. my friend liked the bolognese, but her portion was too big, bigger than I had the day before. i didn't like the pasta cause my mouth was on fire and burning. my glas was empty before I even had a quarter of the food. I found chunks of cut up red pepper in there. we didn't get asked if everything was okay we didn't get asked if we wanted another drink , nothing. servers seemed to not pay attention to our table. the presumed owner seemed grumpy and annoyed. not a good 2nd day. had to get milk at a store cause my mouth was still on fire won't be...

We were very happy with this restaurant that’s tucked away from the touristy area. I read it was one of the best places to go to in Cochem and after trying food at many places in Cochem this place definitely is better than the rest. We didn’t make a reservation because we weren’t sure of our schedule. Instead we walked in and asked if we could get a reservation for about 45 minutes later. I could tell it was very busy but the owner took down my name. We took a very pleasant walk to the castle and returned to the restaurant. We were asked if we wanted indoor or outdoor seating and were seated right away. Our drinks, appetizers, and food all came out in a timely manner and with a smile. All four of us were happy with our dishes (pasta, pizza, carpaccio, baked pasta). We ordered a couple limoncello and did not feel rushed to leave, even though no one was left on the terrace. When we walked downstairs to pay we were offered by the owner another limoncello. I was surprised with some recent poor reviews since we were just there days ago, but then I feel like some people don’t have an understanding of kindness and patience when going to a restaurant. If you look around you’ll see staff and the owner aren’t being rude, they are extremely busy…notice the difference. If you’re kind to people, most always they’re kind...

I really don’t understand the rave reviews of this place. We started with carpaccio which was far from lovingly prepared. Carpaccio is very easy to prepare and to make extremely tasty. I’ve made it myself and have had it wonderfully made by several restaurants. This was truly the worst I’ve ever had. The very dense, flavorless bread was also absolutely awful. Then I had the lasagna which was mostly sauce. I wanted to ask for a spoon so I could eat my marinara soup (lasagna sauce), but nobody ever paid any attention to me when I needed them. My husband’s pizza was topped with so many red paprika slices that it made the pizza really wet and soggy. Then we ordered coffee and dessert. The coffee came wayyyyy before the dessert so we had to wait to drink it until the desserts arrived. The tiramisu was the only thing that was really good. It was such a disappointing place to eat for my 40th birthday.

Originally reviewed with 2 stars. Deducting 1 more star because of the very rude response. Clearly, they cannot handle any criticism. My husband likes lots of different things on his pizza, but not if it comes with a MOUNTAIN of paprika slices and then isn’t cooked long enough. And I’ve never EVER paid more than 15€ for carpaccio. 🤣 I’ve also never met anyone who likes a few noodles with their marinara...