The Käfer's Rooftop Restaurant in Berlin at Reichstag was the place.
What has happened?
They changed their menu and went into the experimental or avantgarde direction. The well known classics were forced off the menu.
The start of the dinner was good. A pear and espresso Martini. Followed by bread with salt from Germany's most northern island Sylt with herbs, cream cheese, butter and oil.
Then the disaster started.
On the menu was dish with lobster and veal heart. There was no mentioning on the menu that these two components were served raw. It was made into a salad. The ingredients were manderin, mustard, kraut, leek, macadamia nuts and pink pepper berries.
Gross. When you do not like Sashimi.
The plate went half eaten back to the kitchen. Telling the waiter that it was not good did only get a shrug.
The main course was wild sea bass. A tiny piece of fish. Double or three times the size would have been nice to have. Here the combination of parsley root, mushrooms, beer vinegar, duck stock, onions and horseradish were good.
We shared a dessert from the menu. It wasn't a classic Käfer Dessert. It tasted good, it looked like a car crash on a plate. The pumpkin seed parfait looks like a sick glob of murky green stuff under a army camouflage netting. All other components were strewn around.
The nicest thing was the greeting from the Patisserie. A little deconstructed tart served with the espresso.
An evening out with a friend to experience high end dining, paying a lot of money and not getting satisfied is bad. It was a fun evening with great company though and the location is still an awesome place to visit.
The decision to not go there next year has already been made.
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