Even though chef Philip Rachinger’s cuisine is based on working with local flavors, he also draws inspiration from his cooking experience in top restaurants abroad. Honoring his homeland, Philip celebrates natural ingredients and local delicacies, accompanied by herbs, fruit and vegetables from the restaurant’s own garden. At Mühltalhof, his signature dishes strikingly illustrate his modern cooking style. For example, his already iconic fillet of fish in hot wood shingle, as well as his beetroot with saddle of hare and smoked cream. Other dishes, such as his spring greens and weeds salad with vermouth, show how effortlessly this young chef can come up with surprising flavour combinations.

The Mühlviertel is a beautiful site for exploring. The legendary Bohemian Forest connects Bavaria with the Czech Republic and surely is a site that locals would recommend seeing. Nearby restaurant Mühltalhof you can find the Hacklbauer & Prechtl organic farm shop, the Haslach oil mill, and small pottery shops. But the area’s high-end art galleries and picturesque towns are also worth your time, as well as an excursion to “Weaving, Museum & Beer Road”.