Cycling where the best restaurants are
3 days cycling along the Danube Cycle Path from Passau to Vienna where the Danube Cycle Path is most beautiful and where there are the best restaurants. The Danube Cycle Path is at its most beautiful in the Austrian Upper Danube Valley between Jochenstein and Obermühl, in the Wachau between Melk and Krems and in Vienna from the Wiener Pforte to the Stadtpark.
1. Schlögener sling
Gourmet bike tour from Jochenstein through the upper Danube valley to Obermühl
In Jochenstein you start your gourmet cycle tour on the Danube Cycle Path and cycle along the left bank to the Schlögener Schlinge. In Au you board the longitudinal ferry that takes you to Grafenau. From Grafenau you continue to Obermühl, where your taxi will be waiting to take you and your bike to the Mühltalhof in Unternberg.
Stupid look
The "Grand Canyon" of Upper Austria is often described as the most original and most beautiful place along the Danube. A hiking trail leads from Schlögen to a lookout point, the so-called Schlögener Blick, from which you have a good view of the loop that the Danube makes around a long mountain ridge near Schlögen. The bed of the Danube in the area of the Schlögener Schlinge is full to the brim due to the backwater from the Aschach power plant.
The Ois in Mühltalhof
In the Mühltalhof in Unternberg, a 12-course tasting menu by Philipp Rachinger with accompanying wines by Daniel Schicker, who was voted Sommelier of the Year by Gault Millau, awaits you in the "Ois", the Mühltalhof's restaurant, which is located directly on the Große Mühl 2022 and is a Certified Sommelier by the Court of Master Sommeliers. Philipp Rachinger takes a very creative and playful approach to the culture of cooking, which is largely vegetarian, for example according to the motto that beetroot is the better meat, especially when it is Beetroot is smoked. Daniel Schicker comments on the wines with empathy and treats the guests with sympathy.
2. Wachau
After the beautiful evening in the Mühltal and the transfer to the Wachau, you cycle from Melk through the Wachau. First on the left side past Schönbühel Castle and the ruins of Aggstein Castle to Arnsdorf and from there take the ferry to Spitz on the Danube on the north bank. From Spitz you continue past the fortified church of St. Michael into the valley of the Wachau, which extends with the historic villages of Wösendorf and Joching to Weißenkirchen in der Wachau. During your bike ride through the Wachau you will pass some world-famous wineries, from which you will surely find wines in the wine accompaniment of your evening country house menu. From Weißenkirchen you take the ferry to St. Lorenz again and then cycle on the Rossatzer Uferplatte to Rossatzbach, from where you take the bike ferry to Dürnstein. From Dürnstein it then goes through the Loiben plain to Förthof, where you cross the Mautern bridge to Mautern on the Danube and the Bacher country house.
Dürnstein
Dürnstein, a castle town of the type of the medieval minor towns in a narrow spandrel on slightly rising terrain between the steep vineyard terraces and the Danube, with the high ruins, the castle built by the Kuenringers and the baroque, former canons with the blue tower of the collegiate church, lies at the foot of a rocky cone that drops steeply to the Danube. The elongated complex of Dürnstein Castle was built in 1622 on a spur above the steep cliff. The two most important buildings in Dürnstein, which essentially date from the 16th century, are the town hall and the Kuenringer Tavern, both buildings diagonally opposite in the middle of the main street.
Country house Bacher
The Landhaus Bacher is a cozy, still family-run restaurant in the country. It originated from a snack station that was built for tourists in the 1950s. In 1979 Elisabeth Bacher took over her parents' business and in 1983 became Austria's first "Gault Millau Chef of the Year". In 2009, Thomas Dorfer, son of a confectioner from Carinthia, who has been Elisabeth Bacher's son-in-law since 2006, also became "Gault Millau Chef of the Year". Thomas Dorfer loves to play with classic dishes. A signature dish he likes to play with is the boiled fillet, a Viennese dish consisting of the front, rump-bordering, thinly tapering tip of the beef's tail, usually boiled in soup and then sliced with Apple or bread horseradish is served.
Upper Austrian Katharina Gnigler, who trained at Hois'n Wirt am Traunsee and most recently worked at the Geranium in Copenhagen, the best restaurant in the world in 2022, has been head sommelier at Landhaus Bacher since 2021. Mrs. Gnigler has a good sense for the right wine accompaniment, but if someone does not want to drink alcohol, then she knows how to offer something non-alcoholic.
3. Vienna
After the beautiful evening in the cozy Landhaus Bacher in the Wachau, you will be transferred to Tulln on the Danube, from where you will cycle through the Tullnerfeld on the Danube Cycle Path in the direction of Vienna. The journey takes you past the foot of Greifenstein Castle, which was built around 1100 by the Bishopric of Passau on a rock in the Vienna Woods above the southern steep bank of the Danube and which was used to monitor the Danube bend at the Vienna Gate. Past Klosterneuburg Abbey you come to Wien Nußdorf, where you turn onto the Danube Canal Cycle Path, on which you cycle to the Vienna Ring Road.
Stephansdom
St. Stephen's Cathedral is the symbol of Vienna. St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna is one of the most important Gothic buildings in Austria. St. Stephen's Cathedral has a total of four towers. The south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral is the tallest and best-known. Furthermore, St. Stephen's Cathedral still has 2 west towers that flank the central axis, and the unfinished north tower, in which the most famous bell of St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Pummerin, is located. The most famous bell in Austria with its deep sound is only rung on certain occasions, such as the Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, All Souls' Day, Christmas Eve, St. Stephen's Day and New Year's Eve.
Restaurant Steirereck in the city park
Celebrate the conclusion of your gourmet bike tour on the Danube Cycle Path in Vienna in the Steirereck restaurant, which has 2 MICHELIN stars for its excellent cuisine. The Steirereck is one of the 15 best restaurants in the world. Chef de Cuisine at Steirereck, a family business in the second generation, is Heinz Reitbauer, who attended hotel management school in Altötting and completed his apprenticeship with Karl and Rudi Obauer in Werfen in the province of Salzburg. The Steirereck restaurant stands for contemporary Viennese cuisine, which runs a farm in the background and which builds on the internationally influenced cuisine that emerged at the time of the Vienna Congress. At that time, emissaries from numerous countries brought their culinary preferences to Vienna, where they merged into Viennese cuisine.
René application, sommelier of the year 2022, is responsible for the wine accompaniment in the Steirereck. Mr. Proposal has a holistic view of wine, in which nature plays a key role. He makes his own wine, mixed set. Mixed set is a wine made from different grape varieties that grow in the same vineyard and are harvested at the same time.
Gourmet bike tour along the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna
Gourmet bike tour program
The. day 1
Individual arrival in Passau
Wed Day 2
Tansfer to Jochenstein, cycling along the Danube Cycle Path to Obermühl, transfer to Unternberg, 12-course tasting menu with wine accompaniment in the OIS and overnight stay in the Mühltalhof in Unternberg
Thu Day 3
Transfer to Melk, bike ride through the Wachau to Mautern, country house menu with wine accompaniment, overnight stay in Landhaus Bacher
Fri Day 4
Transfer to Tulln, bike ride to Vienna, 6-COURSE MENU with accompanying drinks in the Steirereck restaurant, overnight stay in Vienna
Sat Day 5
Departure
The following services are included in our Danube Cycle Path gourmet cycle tour offer:
4 nights
3 breakfasts
3 gourmet menus with wine accompaniment in 4 or 5 toque restaurants
Transfer with bicycles and luggage transport from Passau to Jochenstein or Unternberg
Transfer with bicycles from Obermühl to Unternberg
Transfer with bicycles and luggage transport from Unternberg to Melk or Mautern
Transfer with bicycles and luggage transport from Mautern to Tulln or Vienna
Longitudinal Danube ferry in Schlögen, all Danube ferries in the Wachau
Price for a gourmet cycle tour along the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna per person in a double room: €2.489
Single supplement €390
Travel time gourmet cycle tour along the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna
From April to October 2023, every week from Tuesday to Saturday, you can cycle from gourmet bar to gourmet bar on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna.
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What is meant by a gourmet bike tour?
A gourmet cycle tour means cycling from gourmet restaurant to gourmet restaurant on the most beautiful sections of a long-distance cycle path, such as the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna. The impressions of the scenic beauty collected during the day, for example of the upper Danube valley and the Schlögener Schlinge, are then crowned in the evening with a 12-course tasting menu with a view of the Große Mühl. Or after a bike tour from the foot of Melk Abbey through the Wachau to Mautern, simply end the day with a country house menu. After the last cycling stage from Tulln on the Danube to Vienna, to crown it all, experience new Austrian cuisine in a contemporary way in the Stadtpark in one of Austria's best restaurants, the Steirereck with 5 Gault Millau toques.
For whom is a gourmet bike tour on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna best suited?
A gourmet bike tour on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna is suitable for everyone who likes to cycle in a beautiful river landscape, who likes good food and appreciates a good glass of wine with food. A gourmet bike tour on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna is therefore suitable for all people who like to be active in the fresh air during the day and who like to exchange the beautiful landscape for the atmospheric ambience of a gourmet restaurant in the evening. A gourmet bike tour on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna is therefore suitable for all people who like to have a goal when cycling, such a worthwhile goal as, for example, a good dinner in a gourmet restaurant on the Danube Cycle Path.
Is a gourmet trip by bike even possible?
A gourmet bike trip from Passau to Vienna is of course possible, because gourmet restaurant visitors are not only knowledgeable connoisseurs of refined food and drinks, but also connoisseurs when it comes to choosing their bike and bike route. Riding a bike along a river like the Danube is energizing. With the appetite of a cyclist after a day's stage on the Danube Cycle Path, every gourmet chef has his joy, because his creations meet a palate receptive to new taste experiences.