Alt Hendesse
Heidelberg, Germany
The read// why locals go
Alt Hendesse has been a family business in Handschuhsheim since 1986, a wine tavern and beer garden on Mühltalstraße cooking Badisch home food. Gut badisch, gut bürgerlich is how the house puts it: regional dishes made by hand, local suppliers, a calendar that follows the season — asparagus in spring, mushrooms in autumn, goose when the year turns. There are around sixty-five seats indoors and roughly ninety more in the garden. Since 1997 the same family has also run Gilbert's Goldener Adler a few streets away, which makes this a two-house operation contained entirely within one Heidelberg district. Local food writers treat it as the village-centre address it is, well clear of the castle crowds.
Opening hours
Mo-Fr 17:00-22:00+
Mühltalstraße 4, 69121 — Heidelberg
The read// why locals go
Alt Hendesse has been a family business in Handschuhsheim since 1986, a wine tavern and beer garden on Mühltalstraße cooking Badisch home food. Gut badisch, gut bürgerlich is how the house puts it: regional dishes made by hand, local suppliers, a calendar that follows the season — asparagus in spring, mushrooms in autumn, goose when the year turns. There are around sixty-five seats indoors and roughly ninety more in the garden. Since 1997 the same family has also run Gilbert's Goldener Adler a few streets away, which makes this a two-house operation contained entirely within one Heidelberg district. Local food writers treat it as the village-centre address it is, well clear of the castle crowds.