I have a couple of other posts lined up as I hope to re-invigorate this blog after tailing off slightly towards the end of last year, although moving house did take up more time/effort/mental capacity than I was expecting. But in the meantime I should finish off a couple that are hanging over from 2014. You may remember I went to Dortmund at the beginning of December and I was pleased to see that our standard hotel had had a makeover. As an aside, we do seem to end up at Best Western quite a lot these days although a few years ago I know that the Holiday Inn group were favoured. For me, the Best Western hotels have certainly improved over the last few years and are at least more interesting than a Holiday Inn!
Anyway, I had one meal there and I took a snap of the German menu with it's English translation:
Anyone fancy some Sunchoke or Rutabaga? Now, while I have eaten many things, those are not among them. A clear case of Google translate gone mental it seems.
In the end I couldn't resist the pull of a good sunchoke (or artichoke for you and me) with quail and I went with that. It was nice and creamy with the quail and paprika bringing in a needed depth. In general it was soft, warming and not bad at all. It didn't look very pretty but at least they gave it a go with some odd green powder and a flash of balsamic reduction.
Then a half decent steak with dauphinaise potatoes, a weird herby baked tomato and nasty, nasty whipped, flavoured butter. I wonder if you can guess what I liked/didn't like about this dish? At least the steak was cooked and seasoned well. All in all, what with the plastic antler chandelier, fur lined bar stools, amusing menu, nice soup, weird tomatoes and horrid whipped butter, I would say that this place does it's job and after all that, I still managed to find time for some decent local beer. And they come in one and a half pint steins - boom.
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