The annual special diet competition Kochsternstunden where the aim is to try as much as possible while gaining as little weight as possible, is over. I visited 23 of the 50 participating restaurants this year and mostly enjoyed 113 courses (without kitchen greetings!), sometimes just eating them. But when it comes to the question of what I remember as a good memory, there is an astonishing amount. Before I present my six-course tasting menu (mostly with the choice of vegetarian-fish-meat in the individual courses), a few general comments on this and that.
I am always delighted to be addressed by the service. There are fashions, the most persistent of which is the "soooooh". Don't you know it? These are waiters (as always here: m/f/d) who start to say "so!" at least one foot in front of the guest when they hover in with the plates and only stop when they have reached the table. Depending on the speed: "soooooooh...". Last year, it was all the rage to respond to everything possible, but also to everything impossible, with "gerne! with pleasure!". This has subsided considerably, with the occasional "gärrne!" still creaking out at us.
