Strasbourg Restaurants: Six Places to Eat Well

A shared flatbread supper at Binchstub Gayot is a different occasion from a waterside meal in Petite France or a French-brasserie dinner at Les Haras. Choose by the dish you want and the kind of meal you have in mind, rather than treating these six Strasbourg restaurants as a ranking. The selection runs from the cathedral area through Petite France to the southern edge of the historic centre.

Choose your restaurant

Restaurant	Area	Order	Typical spend per person	Weekly availability
Binchstub Gayot	Marché Gayot	Traditionnelle tarte flambée	€20–30	Every evening
Le Gruber	Cathedral	Choucroute strasbourgeoise	€25–40	Daily
La Corde à Linge	Petite France	Taffetas spaetzle	€25–40	Daily
Maison des Tanneurs	Petite France	La choucroute	€40–60	Closed Sunday and Monday
Au Pont du Corbeau	Quai Saint-Nicolas	Choucroute garnie	€30–45	Closed Saturday; Sunday dinner only
Brasserie Les Haras	Rue des Glacières	Charolais beef tartare	€45–65	Daily

For a late lunch, choose Le Gruber or La Corde à Linge, where continuous food service lets you eat between conventional meal periods. Binchstub suits an evening of sharing flatbreads, while Maison des Tanneurs and Au Pont du Corbeau suit a substantial regional meal. Les Haras is the more dressed-up choice, with its former-stud setting.

Lunch in Strasbourg usually centres on midday and dinner on the early evening. Reserve for busy dinners, weekends and larger parties, and mention seating preferences when you do. Choose your dish and dining area together if the setting is part of the occasion.

Binchstub Gayot

Binchstub Gayot belongs on your list for its specialist flatbread menu and small, informal room near Place du Marché Gayot. Order the Traditionnelle tarte flambée, a thin Alsatian flatbread. The traditional topping is usually cream, onion and bacon, spread over a thin base rather than the thicker dough associated with pizza.

Share successive flatbreads and order more according to appetite. Start with the traditional version if you want to get to know the dish before choosing other toppings. Agree on each order together, particularly when your group has different tastes.

Expect shared counter- or bar-style seating rather than a spacious room of conventional tables. Choose this room if communal seating suits your evening, but it is less suited to a private conversation. The limited seating makes reserving particularly useful here, especially if sitting together matters to your party. This is an evening choice, with service starting at 18:30.

Le Gruber

Le Gruber pairs a substantial Alsatian meal with a building dating from the 14th century on Rue du Maroquin. Its Choucroute strasbourgeoise is the order to choose: choucroute means sauerkraut, usually served with meat accompaniments. The cabbage is central to the dish, not simply a garnish beside the meat.

Continuous service makes Le Gruber useful after a cathedral visit that runs past lunchtime. You can sit down for a main-course meal in the afternoon rather than rearranging your sightseeing around a separate lunch sitting. The cathedral-area location also makes it a straightforward choice when you want to remain in this part of the centre.

Treat the choucroute as the centre of the meal and decide on further courses according to appetite. Its substantial meat-and-cabbage format suits someone looking for a regional main course rather than a light snack.

La Corde à Linge

La Corde à Linge on Place Benjamin Zix is a useful Petite France choice for spaetzle, soft Alsatian egg noodles. Order Taffetas, served with forest mushrooms in cream and a parsley-garlic sauce. Spaetzle are usually small, irregular pieces of egg dough, giving you a tender noodle dish rather than a plate of long pasta.

Choose Taffetas when you want a regional dish without a meat-heavy main course. Companions who want something different can choose from a broader menu that includes burgers, so the whole table need not commit to the same style of cooking. Le Raphia is the vegetarian burger option. This gives a companion another named choice without relying on the noodle dishes.

The kitchen serves hot food continuously from 11:45 to 23:00. That makes a late lunch workable after exploring Petite France: you can order a main course between the usual lunch and dinner periods, not just stop for a drink.

Maison des Tanneurs

Maison des Tanneurs combines a substantial sauerkraut meal with a former tanning house on Rue du Bain-aux-Plantes. The building became a restaurant in 1949, keeping a connection between the quarter’s working history and its present-day dining rooms. Order La choucroute, served with assorted meat and sausages.

This is a meal to choose for the meat-and-sauerkraut combination itself. Let the main course set the pace before committing to further courses, because a starter, dessert and wine can turn it into a much larger occasion, both in appetite and spending.

For the Petite France outlook, request the waterside terrace on the Ill in fine weather. The terrace is the dining area that offers the view, so choosing the restaurant alone does not guarantee that outlook. If the weather does not suit outdoor dining, make the dish and the former tannery setting your reasons for coming.

Plan this as a lunch or dinner sitting rather than an afternoon meal. Dinner service runs until 22:00.

Au Pont du Corbeau

Au Pont du Corbeau is a traditional winstub, an Alsatian wine tavern serving meals, on Quai Saint-Nicolas near the southern edge of the historic centre. Its family-run history is part of its appeal. Look for choucroute garnie, the classic meat-accompanied sauerkraut dish, for a seated regional meal.

Choose Au Pont du Corbeau for a traditional tavern dining room, with extensive woodwork rather than a contemporary brasserie interior. A winstub is a place to sit down and eat, not simply a wine bar where you drop in for a glass.

Wine can be part of that meal without being its purpose. Decide whether you want it with the main course and leave dessert until you know your appetite, because both add to the bill. The nearby riverfront, including Quai des Bateliers, gives you somewhere to walk before or after eating.

Brasserie Les Haras

Brasserie Les Haras offers a more dressed-up French meal in Strasbourg’s former National Stud buildings on Rue des Glacières. The complex dates from the 18th century, giving the meal a distinctive historic setting beyond the plate. Choose the Charolais beef tartare if you enjoy raw beef.

Beef tartare is a raw-beef dish, not a rare cooked steak. It is usually finely chopped and seasoned, often with condiments such as mustard, capers or onion. That preparation matters more to the choice than the brasserie label: order it because you want the texture and flavour of raw, seasoned beef.

Allow room in your budget if you want to turn the main course into a longer lunch or dinner with additional courses and wine. This is a setting for making a meal an occasion, rather than simply fitting food between sightseeing stops.

Sources & fact-checking

Checks against the sources below cover: key figures and opening hours.

• Le Gruber — key figures
• Binchstub — opening hours
• Binchstub — key figures
• La Corde à Linge — key figures
• Au Pont Corbeau — opening hours
• Brasserie Les Haras — key figures
• La Maison des Tanneurs — opening hours
• Menu – Maison des Tanneurs
• A propos – Maison des Tanneurs
• Notre histoire – Maison des Tanneurs