Thämer's — Restaurant in Hamburg

Went into Thämers to have a couple of beers and Bratkartoffel. We were welcomed to a warm German waiter who took are of us. He notified us that at 19:30 there would be a reservation but he mentioned we could stay until then. Soon after there was a shift change. At 18:00 we found a waiter come up to us politely asking what we would have to drink. We followed up on our order, and soon after came another waiter asking us to leave the table in 20 minutes. What? Seriously? You just take our order and tell us to leave. I speak fluent German and clarified the situation which then went my way. However, I have to say that some of the waiters have a racial intent although they aren’t German and their own customers speak better German than them. Thämres management really needs to talk to their waiters and...

From the outside, Thamers looks like a traditional rowdy bierkeller but inside, it's all dignified wooden panelling and peaceful drinking. It's a little like eating inside a ship - as the place is decked out in homage to Hamburg's trader past, with boaty knick-knacks and wooden booths.

I had a glass of local wine - not the best I've ever had, but at 2.50 euros for really quite an enormous glass (filled right to the top), there wasn't much to complain about. Then we had huftsteak - steak with garlic butter, an absolute mountain of fried potatoes (the portions here are really, really big), salad and tzatziki. It was unusual but filling and kind of tasty. I wouldn't advise any travellers to particularly seek out Thamers if you're in town, but if you're in this area, it's definitely better than a...

We visited as a group of 7 friends on a weekend break. This place had been recommended by a German friend. We are all retirees, the average age of the other customers was much lower. 2 out of 7 of us speak fluent German and we took the trouble to sort out the orders with the non German speaking guests beforehand. And also recorded who had what to sort out who had to pay how much. Nonetheless the staff were unfriendly, Unsmiling and worst of all were bad mouthing us to colleagues, in Italian. One of our group is Italian and overhead this diatribe and pointed out to the staff member, that he should be careful what he says about customers, in whatever language. The food was acceptable, the...