5
HM G -
2 years ago
I visited the restaurant on the 17th of July after a spontaneous reservation the same day. I had the wonderful 5 course menue.
In short, I am happy to visit this place again. The food was well prepared the personnel was nice and friendly. I had a lovely evening, thank you!
In greater detail, I was positively surprised to find this place in Essen. I honestly had my doubts first but when I was making the reservation but they delivered. Quite frankly I haven't found a lot of places in essen where I happily spent more money on food and actually get in exchange a menue that is simply tasty while not being pretentious overkill.
The 5 course menue was diverse and all the ingredients perfectly seasoned and prepared. The portion sizes were noted as too small by other people before me, however, I cannot agree. In comparison to other places, e.g. madame pic or Blumenthals restaurants, I found them quite sizeable.
As I said, all ingredients were very enjoyable. The only note I would make, nitpickingly, I thought it contained a lot of different animal protein all at once. Sometimes mixing two "star ingredients" such as turbot and unagi in one dish was overwhelming for me. While I very much enjoyed the dish I secretly thought it overshadowed each other and I could have been happy with one of the two or less of the two together. It relates to balancing for me personally. Same with the dessert, while I thought all the flavors play incredibly well i was personally overwhelmed by the very acidic sauce. I was missing a neutralizing component, balancing all the sour and acidic flavors. Nevertheless, this is a personal, not very objective point :) that should not stop anyone to visit.
Lastly, my only real criticism, was the cappuccino. This is something not many places get right and it seems to be neglectable. However, being a little coffee nerd myself, it is worth mentioning that the cappuccino was burned, with a coarse foam/crema, making it not up to the standard of the rest of food in the restaurant.
All in all I had a lovely evening with great food to reasonable prices considering the level of care and creativity put in the dishes. I hope you guys keep it up and change the menue frequently. I would love to try more.
All the best
