Before going to the restaurant, I read the menu - not because I have any intolerances (I'm not allergic to anything except bad taste), but to get a taste of what's to come. A menu with happy goose liver, followed by veal sweetbreads and monkfish, lamb in two different ways and a dessert that we didn't like years ago: that sounds uffregending! So off we went to Pirna to try out the Kochsternstunden menu!
The exciting-sounding menu comes at a price: just under a hundred euros, and the wines from the accompanying drinks, which are not at all above average, are also very bravely sold at eight euros per glass. This could be one reason why the rather large restaurant was not too full that evening. On the other hand, it could be that chef and host Felix Mikulla has bigger plans, so let's give it a try.
The first course is quite a linguistic jumble of English, French and German terms. The happy foie gras (happy because the animals weren't stuffed) was also presented on the plate with its partners brioche and chutney in a rather disorderly arrangement that didn't want to form a picture for me. But: morsel after morsel tasted good and everything came together in the mouth to form a fitting whole.
