Mondsee, Austria in June. Any dining recommendations?

[triple creme]

We will be spending a week in Mondsee. If anyone has been there and liked what they ate, please share!
We are interested in both upscale and casual places to eat and drink. Thanks!

[Sturmi]

Mondsee used to have a concentration of high-end places, twenty years ago...
No the only place with some acceptable food is the Seehotel Lackner.
http://www.seehotel-lackner.at/restau...

[Trip Klaus]

Sturmi, any recommendations for Rust and the Burgenland area?

[Sturmi]

Burgenland is full of truly excellent restaurants. Close to Rust are Taubenkogel in Schützen am Gebirge, one of the top ten in Austria, and their Gut Oggau heurigen:
http://www.taubenkobel.com/online/page.php?P=1

and Gut Purbach: http://www.gutpurbach.at/index.php
recently visited by Anthony Bourdain in his "Vienna" episode.

[Trip Klaus]

Thanks for the info, been to Taubenkobel (and am returning) and saw Gut Purbach on the TV. Just looking for something I haven't had.

[Sturmi]

There are two more restaurants worth considering

Nyikospark in Neusiedl am See

http://www.nyikospark.at/

and, my favorite: Zur Dankbarkeit in Podersdorf, the most authentic of all these restaurants

http://www.dankbarkeit.at/

and yes, there is a regular boat service crossing the lake from Rust to Podersdorf

http://www.schifffahrt-knoll.at/

[triple creme]

Wow! Thank you for your honesty, Sturmi!

[triple creme]

Sturmi, I am in Mondsee now, and found that the restaurant at the new-ish Iris-Porsche Hotel serves creative, beautifully composed modern fare. We've eaten there twice this week because it was so good.

[Sturmi]

Well, it seems that bad marks can have an effect !!
Gault Millau Austria gave Iris Porsche a quite negative review and reduced the rating by one point, and so I decided not to recommend it, although my daugther has had a nice weekend at exactly this hotel (albeit without any dinner) last summer.

http://www.gault-millau.at/restaurant...

Seems that these review really made a difference and started a change !!

[triple creme]

We ate at Lackner Friday night and found the food mostly uninspired but competent, nothing outstanding. There were 7 of us, and we were all impressed by the gracious welcome by the chef, and the extraordinary view from the glassed-in terrace, and the service was very professional. We use a term in the US, "Zagat Zombies", to describe restaurants that are resting on their laurels and not too impressive anymore. I'm afraid Lackner is headed in that direction.
Iris-Porsche, on the other hand, is top-notch.