This little-known place is probably too small to make it into the guide books and that's good news…read more It's intimate, loud, boisterous, tatty, cheap, and everything you want your local jazz club to be. The only downside is the wine, which one should studiously avoid ordering as even the waitress winces if you do so. But the beers are good, and comes with that German extra frothy top that takes the mandatory 7 mins to create (so that your beer doesn't oxidise too quickly I've been told). So you've now been warned that you should order early and often. The music is eclectic but generally very good, and there's always an open jam session after 10pm for anyone who wants to show his stuff on stage. So people there are often entertained by me playing bluesy Robert Cray riffs on the electric guitar (just kidding!). Oh, one other thing. The jazz nights are not on every evening so you should check out their website to find out the program before heading out there. Without the jazz, the place is rather ordinary and the food is pretty ho-hum. But cheap.

After visiting their website and securing that the show on that night was one we wanted to see, and…read morethe food looked like something we wanted to eat, we took the advice given on the site and made a reservation for a table. First, the positives: food was good (although the dressing on the salad was positively awfulvery mayonnaise-ywould ask for oil and vinegar next time). We both ordered the steak with Bratkartoffeln and salad. The steak was perfect, potatoes you can't really mess up, and the side salad was large and colorful and diverse. The waiting time for the food was very longwe waited maybe 45 minutes, an hour? Obviously we weren't in a rush but it did take quite a long time, I think because the kitchen is a one-man affair. The music was top. I was surprised that in such a small room (we sat in the room in which the band played, at the table closest to the stage) that it wasn't overwhelmingly loud, even with a microphone hooked up to the sax. I can imagine that it might be a bit less pleasant had there been horns in the band, although I wouldn't mind that either. The service was attentive and friendly. The girls were definitely busy but they took care of us very well. The negatives: um, yeah. So, the thing with the reservation? Couple of problems with that. First, when you make a reservation for a table, you're not asked where you'd like it to be, which is not a big deal, unless they happen to take it upon themselves to seat you at a table with a EUR15 per person surcharge. Even that would have been OK, if at any point along the way we'd been informed. Neither on their site nor while making the reservation was it mentioned. They simply sat us at a table which had a sign on it, informing you of the chargethe first we'd heard of it. Of course it would have been both pointless and embarrassing to take an hour-long trip out to the place and then turn around because we were too cheap to cough up the money, and we decided to make the best of it and enjoy ourselves, but next time, we'll take a table elsewhere. And, this is the kickeryou pay EUR15 to sit at a table they they then fill with other people. In our case it worked out OK because our table was big enough to accommodate the three other people they jammed onto it, but there were other tables who wanted to order dinner and couldn't because there was literally no space for the drinks of five other strangers plus your food. One guy just got something small he could place in his lap, although he would have preferred to order a proper dinner. Apart from that it was a very pleasant evening and we will go back.