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Decided to treat ourselves to a lovely meal in our stay in Hinterzarten, since Mr. Weather continued to send rain to curtail our hiking dreams. Made a reservation, slogged back to our hotel and cleaned up. This IS a very nice restaurant, after all. We...and 3 other tables had the entire (and large) restaurant to ourselves. So, indoor voices worked well too well. No music, almost whispering to no conversation dampened our enjoyment. Luckily, a vivaciously cheerful man at a table across the room engaged another table in normally loud conversation, complete with a fair amount of laughter. Whew! Thank you. Everyone relaxed, including the waitstaff. OK, THAT solved. Now, concentrate on eating and drinking. Bottle of red Spanish wine, since we are too cold to drink white. Lovely, poured perfectly, and left where we could refill our glasses at our own pace. Thank heaves. Nothing worse than seeing your wine, sitting open on a table NOT IN YOUR REACH. Just say no . And, a bottle of Vittel water for a mere 8 euros. Hinterzarten restaurants are now requiring that diners purchase water, instead of providing a bottle of tap water. Crazy, French water in a German mountain town with springs and rivers. Began with a market salad, served with 2 plates for splitting. The salad was fresh, lovely to look at and lovely to eat, and enough us both. Good beginning, tongues happy from good wine and from salad fresh and dressed tasty. For our mains, a special was the baerlauch risotto. Baerlauch, a wild garlic, is one of the glories of German springtime. The green shoots, in early spring, have a subtle garlic taste that is fairly addicting. A risotto with this? Yes, please. And, it was almost perfectly cooked. Once I slowed down my hunger, in about 4 5 minutes, it WAS cooked perfectly, with that enigmatic garlic taste. We ate every bite. Except, wait: I didn 't order that. Husband did. Because I ordered the kalbsleber: calf liver, which I truly, truly love. It was worth the ordering. You know how nasty overcooked liver is crumbly, dry, awful. This was cooked just enough, with a light sauce that complimented the liver and did not take front stage. Potatoes, on the side, also cooked that just so good to eat German way. Um, pretty happy. Dessert? Of course, as the food had been just enough and not super sized. So, we still have that space waiting for the final little sweetie. It is strawberry time, so , of course, a bowl of Baden strawberries. Just right. Now, the reason for the 4 star and not 5 star (ok, circle) rating. A very expensively dressed woman in her 80 's (we 're guessing), sat across another wall, in a table for 2, by herself, eating dinner. Unfortunately, she had her dog with her. Sitting on a CHAIR, next to her, not on the floor as was the other dog in the restaurant, and in every other German restaurant we have ever been. On the chair, where the next diner unknowingly would be sitting. And, she was feeding him, admittedly daintily, from her plate. He was quiet, she was quiet. Well behaved, except his butt (sorry) was on the chair, as he was fed directly from her plate/fork/hand. We think this is a serious misstep by this restaurant, but then, we were only there for the evening 's lovely meal, and not staying at the expensive hotel to which this restaurant is attached. Absolutely would eat here again (the dog was not in the kitchen). It is beautiful, with, for us, wonderfully prepared food. Delicately recommend quiet music, if the restaurant is not very busy. It can be turned off if there are enough diners to fill the dead space!