Aux Armes de Colmar, Traditional restaurant in central Colmar, France
Aux Armes de Colmar is a restaurant housed in a half-timbered building on Rue Rapp in the city center. The menu focuses on regional dishes such as Choucroute Royale and Baeckeoffe with three types of meat.
The restaurant takes its name from Colmar's coat of arms, which first appeared on the city's oldest seal in the 13th century. This connection to the city's identity has been part of how the place anchors itself within the community.
The kitchen honors Alsatian cooking methods through carefully made dishes using ingredients from the surrounding area and seasonal rhythms. Diners experience how local traditions echo in every course and shape the regional sense of place.
The establishment opens for dinner from Tuesday through Saturday between 19:00 and 21:30. Advance reservations help ensure you have a table when you arrive.
The kitchen prepares a Kougelhopf glacé dessert using Gewurztraminer marc, blending traditional Alsatian baking with local wine distillate. This combination appears rarely elsewhere and shows how the kitchen creatively uses regional resources.
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