Castel Flavon Haselburg - Bolzano

We ordered the 5 course degustation menu. Every course could not be faulted from the beautiful presentation to the incredible flavours. The service was excellent and the setting perfect. Highly recommend. So far Bolzano’s best food.

Visited this beautiful location when passing through Bolzano. Beautiful 14th century renovated castle with a top notch restaurant. We had the 5 course menu with the accompanying wines. All local produce disches with local wines, including wine of their own house. Food was good, and wine, service, location was great! The maitre also showed us where we could buy the local wines which was very sweet.

The location is certainly stunning. But how it often is with a great location comes ordinary food. If you add rude and fairly incompetent staff, you’ll have a winner. Winner for most of the patrons that nowadays have no idea about food. The entrées were … salty. (would not be able to tell you what the ingredients were apart from salt and maybe something else), one main course had ingredient out of a jar (you could taste the cheap vinegar used for conservation) and the meat had all its flavour cooked out of it, the other courses weren’t cooked enough. And don’t tell me that everybody has their own taste; that is true but the vegetables i.e. were almost raw instead of nicely soft. No wonder many don’t like eggplants if they are served like this. The staff are not interested in your opinion if they think they won’t like it. None of us finished any of the dishes, with some more than half left over, but we weren’t asked why. How can you improve your cuisine if you don’t ask your clientele why they didn’t even eat it? From our waitresses, one was certainly trained, but the other one was just a McDonald style delivery person. When I quietly pointed out to her the mistake she made while serving, she talked back, then went to the manager and loudly complained so that we could overhear her. I noticed that there weren’t any locals at all. Later in town I asked some locals why and the replies I got would be too X-rated for this site. Never ever again.

I was so impressed!! This Castel is breathtaking, the food mouth watering and the chef was a gem! We had our wedding reception here. Chef Andreas was very welcoming to the country and to the Castel. He helped us through the decisions for the evening and made it so easy and wonderful for us. He met us on the walk way into the Castel with a glass for each of us to toast as a new couple! My entire family loved everything that was served and we were impressed with the Castel. It was beautiful in so many ways! I don’t know when we come back to Italy but we would love to cross paths with Andreas and eat at this restaurant again!

Beautiful excellent kitchen