"Every year for 3 years in February I attended a trade fair in Frankfurt. We were there for a week each time. Thats a long time for that activity. Also, we saw very few UK customers but were obliged to be there by the German...MD. Every year we stayed in Friedrichsdorf, in the same hotel, the Mercure, and pretty much had a block booking at the same italian restaurant, La Montanara which was great. Its a fairly small restaurant, very rustic and traditional. Very friendly too. I have eaten so much pizza and drunk so much grappa in this place that I'm sure some must be incorporated into my DNA! My real favorite pizza there is the one with several different types of mushrooms on it. I am a veggie and I dread to think how they made these mushrooms taste so meaty. Absolutely wonderful, I have never tasted anything so good anywhere else. Most nights we would drink a fair quantity of complimentary grappa and then buy loads more. We had many snowball fights walking back from this restaurant to our hotel. I'm not sure I ever ate the pasta here because the pizzas were so good, but some colleagues did and loved it. In the billion times we ate there, I never heard anybody complain about anything ever. One things which was quite funny, was that you had to leave the resaurant by a side door to use the toilet, and its was very very cold there in February I can tell you. Its quite a small restaurant too and when full (which it always was when we descended on it), its was difficult to move around in there, but it was excellent fun. The people who ran the place were so nice to us every night! If you ever stay in this town go there its great!"
