# Kehlsteinhaus restaurant - Cost of a meal

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**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kehlsteinhaus-restaurant-cost-of-a-meal/451431 "2008-06-02T03:24:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\
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Does anyone know the range of cost for a meal at the restaurant that is located in Das Kehlsteinhaus?

> **[Kehlsteinhaus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus)**
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> The Kehlsteinhaus (known in English as the Eagle's Nest) is a Nazi-constructed building erected atop the summit of the Kehlstein, a rocky outcrop that rises above Obersalzberg near the southeast German town of Berchtesgaden. It was used exclusively by members of the Nazi Party for government and social meetings. It was visited on 14 documented instances by Adolf Hitler. Today, it is open seasonally as a restaurant, beer garden, and tourist site.
> The Kehlsteinhaus sits on a ridge atop the Kehls...

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kehlsteinhaus-restaurant-cost-of-a-meal/451431/2 "2008-06-02T03:29:46Z")

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> **[Ausflugsziel Kehlsteinhaus](https://www.kehlsteinhaus.de)**
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> Das Kehlsteinhaus heute: Berggaststätte und historischer Aussichtspunkt, RVO-Kehlsteinbus und Wanderung auf das Kehlsteinhaus

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kehlsteinhaus-restaurant-cost-of-a-meal/451431/3 "2008-06-02T04:02:24Z")

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[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]

> **[Ausflugsziel Kehlsteinhaus](https://www.kehlsteinhaus.de)**
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> Das Kehlsteinhaus heute: Berggaststätte und historischer Aussichtspunkt, RVO-Kehlsteinbus und Wanderung auf das Kehlsteinhaus

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Note that those crazy Germans use a comma instead of a decimal point. No wonder they lost the war.

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kehlsteinhaus-restaurant-cost-of-a-meal/451431/4 "2008-06-02T04:04:02Z")

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[QUOTE=friedo]  
Note that those crazy Germans use a comma instead of a decimal point. No wonder they lost the war.  
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All Europeans do that. They also write dates backwards and use that craaaazy metric system.

BTW for the OP: I’m pretty sure those figures are in Euros.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kehlsteinhaus-restaurant-cost-of-a-meal/451431/5 "2008-06-02T05:45:59Z")

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The best I can do for the menu

Sausage bread with original Berchtesgaden mountain salami, 5.60  
Ham with bread cooked ham 5.90  
Aspic with roasted potatoes 7.90  
Roast pork, oven fresh with dumplings and sauerkraut 9.30  
Braised steak with vegetables and boiled potatoes 9.90  
Farmer’s feast with potato dumplings and sauerkraut 11.90  
Chinese pork loin in pepper cream sauce 11.60  
Hunter’s schnitzel with mushroom cream sauce 12.90

Drinks

Beer 0.5 l 3.30  
Soda water 0.5 l 2.80  
Red Bull or Black Eagle Energy 0.2 l 2.50

Coffee and Cakes

Mug Cappuchino 3.10  
Hot chocolate, pot 3.90  
Cake (apple, cheese or Zwetschg.) 2.60
