Our fourth visit at Lake Weissensee at last permitted us to test the well-prestigious completely veggie lover and vegetarian Strandhotel Weissensee. This lodging has driven the way with regards to vegan cooking in Austria in numerous ways. The proprietor is additionally the originator of café TIAN – the honor winning veggie lover haute cooking eatery in Vienna.
The thought was to bring this idea of top of the line vegan food to one of the most peaceful occasion objections in Austria.
The area: Lake Weissensee
There’s much to be said about Lake Weissensee in and without anyone else. Instead of numerous different lakes in Carinthia this lake is fairly pristine and quite a bit of its coastline is secured by local laws. This is all gratitude to the visionaries in the district, who have had the option to oppose impulses to sell out the important regular resources of the lake.
Today there’s a few reasons that Lake Weissensee has kept it’s person and peaceful environmental elements:
No new structure licenses for inns or homes straightforwardly at the lakeshore
Stringently restricted speedboat traffic
Last mile traffic idea to bring visitors from adjoining train stations straightforwardly to the lodgings
The inn: Strandhotel Weissensee
Strandhotel Weissensee is a store estimated lakeshore lodging with 30 rooms, that all element lake sees. While the engineering isn’t the fundamental fascination the lodging has one key resource: The best wharf (with a spa!) of the entire lake. Truth be told every one of the inns at Lake Weissensee has its own private lake access or “ocean side” with a dock or a little fishing hovel, however not a single one of them can rival the huge lake spa and wharf of Strandhotel Weissensee.
There’s an appropriate ocean side with sandy lake access, yet all at once much seriously engaging: A colossal lake spa with a glass front sauna, a housetop patio and a huge breakwater that pairs as sundeck and unwinding region. The dock in itself is more open than any of different wharfs at Lake Weissensee and furthermore constructed straightforwardly in the lake with braces.
Here visitors partake in the perspectives and alleviating hints of the turquoise completely clear water the entire day.
The food: Veggie lover and vegetarian treats
As veggie lover in Austria you are likely used to frequently having to do with one thing all in all menu or eating exactly the same thing over and over once more (make proper acquaintance with cheddar dumplings!). In spite of the fact that occasions are gradually changing and lodgings and eateries are finding very much past due patterns, it’s still all things considered a test to get inventive and intriguing veggie lover cooking. Also assuming you’re vegetarian odds are you’ll need to eat salad again and again in other Austrian inns. And afterward there’s Strandhotel Weissensee and the group around gourmet specialist Andreas Leib!
During our 3 night stay we delighted in half board and every night the 4 course supper menu was brimming with shocks and inventive dishes – and the choice to pick between various courses, that are either veggie lover or vegan. From wild searched asparagus with cabbage turnip and coated potatoes to mushroom and broccoli tempura, from barbecued zucchini with spelt salad and pesto to a good tomato bread salad – every one of the courses came brimming with astonishments and innovativeness.
Obviously the morning meal buffet additionally accompanies a veggie lover and vegetarian determination, that you won’t find elsewhere – even veggie lover cheddar or a veggie lover “omelet” produced using chickpeas. Assuming that you like your espresso or oats with milk you can pick between soy, oat or rice milk.
This natural and economical quality comes ensured by a wide range of confirmations, that the inn gladly features. From the “Umweltzeichen” (that examinations and affirms the full picture – including water utilization and wellsprings of energy) just as veggie lover and vegan amicable and the “Profiles” brand name, that ensures natural beginning of their produce.
The exercises: Drifting, cycling and lakeside unwinding
In the event that you’re searching for something beyond swimming and eating and need to encounter a few exercises, then, at that point, you can browse a huge number of Spa medicines, lease a bike or own of the inn’s own paddling or selling boats and obviously additionally stand-up paddle sheets.
We leased one of Strandhotel Weissensee’s paddling boats to push as far as possible past “Ronacherfels” at the Northern coastline of the lake. Past this point the coastline is totally pristine and there’s just a climbing way along the water. Not bicycles are permitted here, so it doesn’t get more peaceful than there. This is likewise where you will observe the most turquoise and perfectly clear water that give Lake Weissensee it’s standing to be the “Caribbean of the alps”.
