Restaurant Seeauer

The house

The Seeauer is the restaurant of the Heritage Hotel Hallstatt and is in the hotel's main house, the Haus Kainz, on the Landungsplatz: the landing-stage square where the boats from the station dock. It has a dining room for about 90 people and a terrace for about 30 with a view of the lake and shade in summer. It is also where hotel guests have breakfast. The good thing for the visitor is the schedule: it opens every day of the week, including Monday and Sunday, when the Seewirt Zauner is closed.

What to order

The menu is regional and changes with the season. The hotel tells you where what it cooks comes from: the fish, from nearby lakes, which is the house's advice; the meat, from the Zauner butcher in Bad Goisern, the next village; the vegetables, from Grabmayer, in Eferding, and the dairy, from the Gmunden dairy. There is always a vegetarian alternative and house desserts; in summer, ice cream sundaes. The tea is Ronnefeldt and the coffee, Meinl. The full menu is a PDF on the website and does not publish dish prices; it does warn of a cover charge of €4.90 per person.

Hours

• April to October: every day, lunch from 12:00 to 16:30 and dinner from 17:30 to 21:00.
• November to March: Monday to Friday, evenings only, from 17:00 to 22:00; Saturdays and Sundays, from 11:30 to 22:00.

The hot kitchen closes at 20:30 and desserts can be ordered until 21:00. Dinner bookings are made in two sittings, from 17:30 to 19:30 or from 19:30 to closing. In the evening they ask for smart casual clothes and closed shoes. Dogs are not allowed, nor any other pet.

Getting there

If you come by train, the boat from Hallstatt station drops you in the same square. By car, the village is closed to traffic: leave the car in car park P1 and continue on foot or by shuttle.