"The Erbprinz is best known as the recipient of the first MICHELIN Star outside of France, and while the restaurant is still its chief attraction, the hotel attached to it is worth a visit in its own right. Just across the street from Ettlingen Castle in Germany’s Black Forest, this elegant 18th-century building first served as a stagecoach station; more than two centuries later, hotelier Bernhard Zepf turned it into a five-star hotel. The place still has an air of old-world glamour, with several open-to-the-public venues — a cozy wine bar, a cigar lounge, and Café Erbprinz, overseen by pastry chef Jasmina Knevel, wife of the restaurant’s chef, Ralph Knebel — adding to the convivial, special-occasion atmosphere." - Tablet Hotels