This one is worth the journey: as soon as you step out of the bus and walk along this peaceful part of the Danube river towards the Flamingo restaurant, you’ll feel like you’re on holidays in the South. Little kids feeding swans, people leisurely paddling up the river, and the promise of fresh fish all add to the feeling.
Situated right next to the Danube, Flamingo has a generous Gastgarten, complete with old trees that provide you with shade on the hot summer nights.The place is packed, and it’s a Wednesday night when we visit.
The menu has much more to offer than Steckerlfish – as Osman Özgan the junior chef tells us jokingly, it is a Turkish restaurant offering international cuisine. While we order the trout and Gilthead Sea Bream, Osman surprised us with a mixed seafood platter that had us grinning with satisfaction from one ear to the other (and had the people next to us throwing us envious glances). And then the star of the evening arrived, the famous Steckerlfisch. It’s everything we had hoped for – grilled to a crisp on the outside, and juicy on the inside. We just kept on saying, ‘I can’t believe how tender this is.’
We suspect the secret behind the restaurant’s success is the freshness of the ingredients and the unpretentious way in which the dishes are prepared, as well as the gorgeous location and the seemingly never-ending friendliness of the waiters.
Good to know: We recommend you make your reservation early enough to catch one of the tables right next to the river. Also, this seems like a good spot to bring and impress a first date.
