When you are looking forward to a nice getaway over the weekend in a wellness hotel and pay a good amount of money and you leave the next day very dissapointed, that is so depressing.
We stayed in Lindner Hotel & Spa Binshof in Speyer. The room was ok, but the bathroom a bit too modern for our taste- no door, just a seperate loo.
We were asked when we wanted to go to dinner, 6 pm or 6: 30 pm. We decided on 6:30 pm. We had to wait with a couple of others in front of the restaurant for a while, then discovered that other peeple were allready in. The food was offered in buffet form.
There was one starter and a soup to choose from. The soup was a aspargus cream soup, uninspiring bland with no topping and not a lot of flavour.
The starter was named salmon tatar with lime and deep fried arugula.Salmon tatar is usually made from fresh salmon, this one was made from smoked salmon with a lot of lime bits inside and some gherkins. Topping was cream cheese. Sorry, not so good. The fried arugula was just burned.
The salad bar was a bit undeveloped. Not so much to choose from. One yogurt dressing was very tasty, the other one was mostly stock from a jar -like Maggi veg stock - with something not to define in.
Now speaking about the main courses. Fish that had died twice, inedible.
One of us had veal with risotto and vegetables. The risotto was overcooked and not something I would serve. Maybe it was too long in the thermo serving container.
I choose Asian stir fry pasta with artichoke. Main spice was Cumin!? Since when is cumin used in an noodle dish? The artichoke was grey and overdone, the pasta uninspiring bad.
Last chance Dessert!
Is there a kid´s birthday party at the house? They are offering a chocolate fountain with fruits, but no skewers to stick that on. The best kinds of fruits were missing too, bananas and strawberries, meh....
It ended on a plate with a vanilla pudding with thick skin drenched in caramel sauce. I had to take a fork and put the pineapple pieces under the chocolate and get it somehow on the plate.
Some mousse with a blackberry on top looked edible. Well, someone took some Bounty and put that into a blender and mixed it with cream. Too sweet.
When you are asked, if you want your Soda with or without ice and you order it without ice, the you get 3 huge blocks of ice in the glass- you wonder why.
The one with a bit of strawberry on top was a Dr.Oetker Paradise cream orange with fake strawberry aroma added.
We hoped for a better breakfast.
Well, mediocre, with cold scrambled eggs, non descript sausages.
Breakfast did not take the dissapointment from last night away.
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