Auerbachs Keller

Auerbachs Keller Review

The most famous of Leipzig's restaurants consists of an upscale, international gourmet restaurant and another restaurant specializing in hearty Saxon fare, mostly roasted meat recipes. There's also a good wine list. It has been around since 1530 (making it one of the oldest continually running restaurants on the continent), and Goethe immortalized one of the several vaulted historic rooms in his Faust. Bach was also a regular here because of the location halfway between the Thomaskirche and the Nikolaikirche. The rowdy beer cellar shares a space with an interesting gourmet restaurant—the five-course menus (€110) are worth a splurge.