La Winstub du Chambard, Kaysersberg

La Winstub du Chambard is part of the Relais & Châteaux Hôtel Le Chambard on the rue du Général de Gaulle in Kaysersberg, one of the most celebrated villages on the Alsace Wine Route in the Haut-Rhin department of Grand Est. The winstub sits adjacent to the hotel's fine-dining restaurant but operates with a deliberately more relaxed format — the winstub tradition of informal Alsatian eating and drinking, elevated by the culinary standards and materials available to a Relais & Châteaux property. The result is the most refined winstub experience on the Wine Route: all the format conventions are present — exposed timber, ceramics, bentwood chairs, and Alsatian folk décor — but executed at a quality of finish that most winstubs cannot match. The baeckeoffe du Chambard is the kitchen's most emblematic preparation, a traditional three-meat slow-baked casserole made with superior ingredients and served in a sealed clay pot; Munster rôti aux pommes de terre sarladaises pairs the region's most pungent washed-rind cheese with richly sautéed potatoes; and soufflé chaud au kirsch de Fougerolles uses cherry brandy from the Haute-Saône to close the Alsatian meal in a warm soufflé. Mains cost €16 to €28. The wine list is exceptional for a winstub: it draws on the hotel's cellar and includes late-harvest Rieslings from the Grand Cru Schlossberg and Furstentum vineyards that flank Kaysersberg.