- 整體 3
- 食物 3
- 服務 2
- 氛圍 4
Here's a suggestion for the restaurant: don't offer a 6 course menu with less than 90 minutes before your kitchen absolutely closes. As a matter of fact, a reasonable guideline for you menu would be if you kitchen closes precisely at 9pm:
- only 4 or 5 courses after 7:30pm
- only 4 courses after 7:45pm
- only a la carte after 8pm
I was recently visiting NRW from New York and went to the restaurant on recommendation from a friend to have an early celebration for my birthday. I was accompanied by said friend as well. We sat down by 7:30pm and were told "it would be a fast 6 courses if you chose that". I take responsibility for making a decision while hungry. Once orders were placed, the first course did not even arrive till about 8pm. And after that it was, indeed, course after course of not small, not light courses in quick succession. It felt like being rushed and force fed. On this I blame the restaurant for allowing this to even happen. In no way is that a nice experience. Indeed once 9pm came, the kitchen was well and truly closed. In other restaurants I've been to this is rather flexible when you have guests in the space. This experience, however, just feels poorly executed and plainly rigid and greedy. Of course I still paid for 6 courses I did not enjoy the experience of.
Do you really want guests to leave with this bad of an experience when it is rather simple to guide us to something better? It's a shame because the setting is beautiful; primed for a great experience. On the contrary, it was some of the worst I've ever had!
Contrast this with another 6 course meal I had at a restaurant in Frankfurt the night before I left Germany. The whole experience took nearly 4 hours and was very comfortable and leisurely. Highly enjoyable! 4 hours is perhaps not necessary, but coursing out 6 plates should take a while and the experience should be more pleasant.
The experience at Jagdhaus Schellenberg was far from pleasant.