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Gretchens Restaurant & Café

Contact & Visit

Address

Seifengasse 8
99423 Weimar

Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 09:00–15:00; Saturday and Sunday 08:00–16:00.

About Gretchens Restaurant & Café

Gretchens Restaurant & Café is an organic restaurant and café on the Seifengasse that describes its ambition simply as good food for Weimar: cooked fresh, organic, with vegan and vegetarian dishes treated as part of the menu rather than a concession, and coffee and wine alongside. It keeps daytime hours and shuts in the afternoon.

A daytime kitchen, and it opens earlier at the weekend

The hours tell you what this place is for. It opens at nine on weekdays and eight at weekends, and it is shut by three or four in the afternoon — so it is a breakfast and lunch house, not somewhere to end an evening.

Questions visitors ask

What kind of food does Gretchens serve?
Organic, cooked fresh, with vegan and vegetarian dishes treated as part of the menu rather than a concession — plus coffee and wine.
What are the opening hours?
Monday to Friday 09:00–15:00; Saturday and Sunday 08:00–16:00.
Is dinner served?
No — it closes in the afternoon and serves no evening meal.

Stay and eat nearby

Where to stay

Seifengasse 8, 99423 Weimar

The hotel's own restaurant, in the house.

Interesting reads

Historical figures

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749–1832 • writer • statesman • naturalist

Friedrich Schiller

1759–1805 • writer • poet • historian

Duchess Anna Amalia

1739–1807 • duchess • regent • patron • composer

Walter Gropius

1883–1969 • architect • founder and director of the Bauhaus • teacher

Historic sites

Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weimar

Platz der Demokratie 1, 99423 Weimar

Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar

Buchenwald, 99427 Weimar