An old marketing and success slogan for restaurants is: Location! Location! Location! But of course, as is so often the case with consultants, this is not true. I know some really bad places in the very best locations - and there is Schmidt's in Hellerau, which is anything but central. However, it has been a reliably good restaurant there since 2002, which is just as reliably very well attended most of the time (quality does prevail!).
Three people manage the service that evening, and they have quite a lot to do when the place is fully booked. But: it went without a hitch, thanks in part to the principle of dividing the service into food (Eva and Vivien) and beverage (Roman, as always a competent person to talk to) - and the fact that the word "principle" was respected, because if necessary, things could be done differently! This team served the four courses briskly and without haste, preceded by the traditional bread trio - this time with popcorn that had seen goose fat to match the menu theme "Surf & Bird". Apart from that, however, the goose season is over, the bird of the evening was the duck, the surf part in each course a different one.
