MASTAN — Restaurant in Berlin

NEVER AGAIN!! Went there yesterday with my girlfriend and food and the service was actually pretty good BUT we had the Sommeliere recommend us a bottle of red wine. We told him specifically what kind of wine we like and what kind we don't. We were looking for a heavy, oily red wine. He recommended us a bottle for 80€ (which in Berlin is a decent price for a good bottle of wine). Before he opened the bottle he told us that he really hopes for us to like the wine and that he will take it back and drink it with his colleagues if we don't like it. We all laughed and agreed on this. The moment he poured the wine into the glass we could already tell by the color that this wine is definitely not what we were looking for and after tasting it my girlfriend said to the Som. that this not the type of wine we like and wanted. He apologized and wanted to bring us a new one but returned a few minutes later with the same open bottle and told us that his Chef ( the owner of the restaurant) told him we need to pay for the bottle because he opened it for us. I was speechless and didn't know what to say. The Sommelier told us that it's not his decision and that he will make a deal with us and only charge us 50%. I was so shocked about this whole circus and was to tired to make a scene that I somehow agreed to this and we tried to drink the wine but ended up paying for it and left it there so he could have the rest with his colleagues as he attended it in the first place. To make a long story short this kind of behavior is an absolute NO GO. I won't go back and definitely won't recommend...

I love this restaurant which is why I have given it 5 stars. It has a great atmosphere, good food and wine, and very competent and kind wait staff. I was thinking to give it just 4 stars though due to the lack of care for vegetarians. Admittedly this is a problem of French culture and cuisine. Try being a vegetarian in Paris! The problem for me at Mastan is that though they do have one vegetarian starter and main, my experience was that the two dishes had virtually the same ingredients (carrot and other root vegetables). In the starter the carrot and root vegetables were served as a tempura and in the main they were served in a vol au vent. I would have expected a chef at such a good restaurant to have designed a starter and main for vegetarians that complemented each other. I was envying my husband’s fish/meat starter and main that had complementary sharp and complex taste profiles (with marinated beetroot, saffran risotto and fennel). Just writing this review in the hope that Mastan will read it as I would like to go back and have a better experience as...

We were a group of six and half of our friends ordered the tunafish and one of the tunafish was not prepared properly. We sent that dish back, advising the chef and hoping they would offer our friend and alternative, but they came back in a very accusatory tone, as if my friend was the one who did not have good taste. We felt they deliberately embarrassed her which put a negative feel on the evening, I’m a huge believer that customers always come first, especially given that there were six people at the table and only one had an issue. This should’ve been addressed promptly. The food in general was passable but not spectacular and therefore we can only give it overall a 2 out of 5. Even small things like not explaining what the cheese was through to the caper overload in...