Meisenheimer Hof

Sauerland-born Markus Pape has found his culinary home in Meisenheim, and over the last few years he has created a wonderful combination of wine hotel, restaurant, café and event venue here.

As I have described more than once, I very often find that it is on the last few kilometres of my trip to a restaurant that I can really switch off and unwind. Especially when, like today, I am out in Rhineland-Palatinate, where, compared with the Rhineland, the horizon always seems green and twice as far away. The last few metres through the cute little lanes of the small town of Meisenheim, where the...