Service was very quick. The food arrived in less than 5 minutes even before the drinks made it to the table. The place is huge and pretty fancy but it feels a bit like trying to hard. The face of famous owner Til Schweiger is everywhere, even standing in front of the pissoir one is looking directly on to a huge canvas of film stills of a Til Schweiger movie. Gurl, calm down! On the website one finds a "Barefood Deli Home Collection" GURL! CALM DOWN! Even one of the beers available is called "Til's". GUUUURL, what??? It feels like just a way to make money with your name. That's ok I guess. I understand and respect your concept with the seedbombs and everything. That's nice. But everything is just a little to much, trying just a little to hard.
So is the very friendly, young and good looking staff. Service is quick and friendly for sure. But also doesn't connect with the guests (with me in that case). They seem distracted and made only little eye contact.
I had the Pasta Bolognese which arrived superquick at the table. Sadly it was Penne and not Spaghetti. I would have chosen another dish if the menu had mentioned that. And while Penne is not my fave to begin with, these were very chewy as were the Bolognese. Sorry Til, even if that is a recipe of your personal cook, pre-preparing and re-heating doesn't become it and it is certainly not worth the 13.50€. And my night wasn't pleasant as well as the Pasta Bolognese chose to come back up all night.
All in all I respect your restaurant and the business-savvy decisions you made for yourself. But I can't recommend this place to my friends. If anyone wants to visit for your famousness, I am sure there are a lot of perfectly good dishes and I am just the one unlucky guy spending the night kneeling in front of the toilet bowl.
But there is no chance to make a second good first impression and so I won't be visiting again. read more