7 pans out of a possible 10 with an arrow pointing upwards. After more than twenty years of successful work on the gourmet front with the Husarenquartier, Jutta and Herbert Brockel closed their restaurant in Erftstadt at the end of May 2017, but did not remain idle for long: Together with Daniela and Tobias Schlimbach, they soon took over the gastronomy at Burg Nideggen, about 25 kilometres southwest of their old place of work, namely on the edge of the Eifel, where the gourmet restaurant named after the two managing directors and chefs has now opened in early summer alongside the equally ambitiously cooked restaurant Kaiserblick. The "Jülicher Zimmer" (Jülich Room), with its dark wood, tiled stove and bay windows, has been attractively contrasted with a stylish white interior, and modern accents of a visual nature (designer furniture and accessories) and even an auditory nature (birdsong) as well as frivolous art attractively break up the monumental castle walls. While the much larger, light-flooded main restaurant next door serves imaginative regional cuisine à la carte, the fine dining section exclusively offers a cosmopolitan menu of up to eight courses, which can of course be shortened if desired. Here, too, the focus is on regional products and local flavours with powerful aromas, but they are complemented by victuals that have travelled further afield and southern Mediterranean influences. To anticipate the punch line: we were thrilled. By the unagitated sovereignty with which everything is thought out and cooked, by the strong substance that lies in every detail, by the aroma-rich, no-frills arrangements in which the focus is always on the good product and the taste.

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