Visiting Alsace is a special experience for foodies as it is a mix of French and German cuisine. You are just as likely to have great wine as you are to have saurkraut. Here we go through a number of the traditional Alsatian specialities that tourists will enjoy whether they are in Colmar, Strasbourg, or any number of French villages in the Alsace region. From the wine to the flammkuchen or tarte flambee you will have a lot of fun eating here in Alsace.
Filmed in Colmar, France
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I love Alsace been there four times. Friendly people great history and culture and the best wine and food. I remember when I was in a typical Alsace restaurant in Straatsburg a woman asked the waiter if the wine is regional and he replied madame this is Alsace even the cola is regional brewed.
Nice video, good editing. 100% agree with your recommendation for l'Estivale beer in summer … but the wines, especially both Gewurztramier and Riesling, are superb! I tried bringing the Muscat home and it did not travel well – but it was wonderful when enjoyed en place. Flammkuchen is big in all Germanic-influenced countries, never a bad choice.
Ah yes, I remember the name Alsac-Lorraine from my secondary school history textbook. I think it was one of the regions annexed by Hitler or something.
Free Elsass ( Alsace) il am not French
Concerning the "bibalaskas" you made a real mistake.
Cause this dish in its real Alsacian name dont look like that. First its a cold dish, made of potatoes and heavy sour cream mixed with some "green" spices (ciboulettes, persil, poivre, sorry need a translation). We eat this with fresh or old munster, or fryed fish in my family.
Oh and the correct name is Bibalakass or Bipalakass. (pronounce bibeleskäs) …
Colmar looks like a Bavarian town. Do the Alsatians feel more French or more German?
I'm going with my friends in 1-2 weeks for a couple days.
I've been here with my dad 10 years ago and loved it.
Can't wait
I used to enjoy visiting in Wissemburg. I would have Lapin rôti. Also, chocolate!
You owe me 20 bucks. I've spent a lot searching for Bibalaskas (which is – in fact – a pretty banal meal), only to be dissapointed. Also the "famous" choucroute, just some sour cabbage, with few processed meat. It has to be better meals there, unfortunately is too late for me to discover.
Your videos are really great. Love from Canada.❤
My husband and I will be staying in Colmar on a Friday and Saturday in mid August 2024. Are there specific restaurants that you would recommend that I should reach out and make reservations at for those two nights? Otherwise, everything is going to be on the fly and grazing throughout the two days trying a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
So many foods I know from my childhood in southern Germany. I never realized they were from the Elsass. Gugelhupf for example was our go-to-cake. We often had Zwiebelkuchen. Or some of the meat looked like Siedfleisch, a meat boiled in salty water and tasted extremely of salt (I liked it very much), …
In Alsace, salade + tarte flambe + vin d'Alsace + black forest dessert = Alsacien ! Perfect! 😂
Wow, thanks. Going next week to Alsace. Listening to you talking about food really makes me hungry. Please keep up the good work.
Does the food comes with Drano? LOL
My god, I love Alsatian food. It's like German but 20 times better and more diverse.
For wine; Gewürztraminer sounds German, but it seems you can only get it from Alsace. It's an almost "spicy",almost pearly wine, even it's not. Great with salted pork, pickled vegetables and potatoes. Think German "eisbein mit sauer kraut". In Germany I would just order some Riesling, it's OK, but do not die before you have had Gewürztraminer!
Thanks brother to shared this video I will be there on November 2023 in strasbourg Alsace..from(Mount Everest )Nepal🇳🇵 😎
It's not the various changes between France and Germany which build the specialties of Alsace food. Alsace was a germanic place and with specific cooking before that. They kept their specificities even when king Louis XIV of France annexed it….
Did you know that the famous cake "Baba au rhum" was invented from Kougelhopf, as this "brioche-like" bread don't like to travel, and adding a rhum-syrup made it lasting more for travellers.
I was in Alsace last year where 2/3 of my family lived going as far back 1634 . My family is jewish and the meusems explained that they most likely were there since the 12th century when jews first started to settle there. I was able to walk the same streets see the same towns as people on paper who im a decendant of walked. Powerful experiance love this area pf europe very underratted.
looked two of your vids – now i´m hungry!!!
Thank you Mark! We just ate at an amazing Alsace restaurant in L'Auberge Chez Francois in Great Falls Virginia. French with some hints of German – === Alsace so we looked it up and found you!
quite ordinary simple dishes, only this one is paid to present them as something special.
ganz gewöhnliche einfache Gerichte, nur dieses wird dafür bezahlt, sie als etwas Besonderes zu präsentieren.
piatti semplici e abbastanza ordinari, solo che questo viene pagato per presentarli come qualcosa di speciale.
des plats simples tout à fait ordinaires, seul celui-ci est payé pour les présenter comme quelque chose de spécial.
вполне обычные простые блюда, только этому платят за то, чтобы преподнести их как нечто особенное.
Alsace is one of the best places for food in the world 🤗
Great video – thank you
Sauerkraut is not German. It is alsacien. The cabbage is grown ONLY in Alsace and fresh or pre cooked sauerkraut gets exported everywhere, even to USA.
Can someone please tell me what the dish is at the 40 second mark. Looks like mushrooms, cheese and an egg.
Alsatian food is the successful marriage of the generosity of German food and the refinement of French cuisine.
I'm wondering if Mark likes food. It's not clear to me.😄Also, I think on my trip there I will need to bring a solid supply of acid reflux medicine.
Zuurkool, 2 soorten vlees en spätzle begeleid door een witte Elzasser wijn. Bier kan natuurlijk prima de rest van de dag.
When you can actually find an open restaurant or an available table. Level of service like in stone age
Great video, now I'm hungry! My great grandmother was from Metz in Lorraine. Is there a significant difference in cuisine between Lorraine and Alsace?
On the train to Alsace region now will be staying in Colmar. Any restaurant recommendations?
Are there specific restaurants that you would recommend in Colmar & Strasbourg