Jacobi

1 Star (Green Star) • Innovative. This restaurant housed in the Hotel Schwarzwälder Hof in Freiburg's old town boasts a relaxed atmosphere and food that is by no means run-of-the-mill. The kitchen has no need for luxury ingredients and instead shines the spotlight on supposedly humbler, but high-quality and strictly regional produce. The wonderful sourdough bread is baked in-house, and fermented components are seamlessly woven into the dishes. The seven-course set menu (which can be extended by a further two courses) features highly interesting and innovative combinations such as "pike, cauliflower, hazelnut", "venison, chervil root, beetroot" or "quince, Jerusalem artichoke, chocolate". On Wed and Thu evenings, a more concise four-course set menu is also available. The chefs themselves serve their creations, talking diners through each course and providing information about the local producers of the carefully selected ingredients.