Romantik Restaurant Walhalla — Restaurant in Osnabrück

This evening we had dinner at Walhalla to celebrate our 5th wedding annaversary.

Though the facade of the restaurant is authentic historic German "Fachwerk" the interior is stylefully modern.

The reception was cordial and professional. The waitesses were dressed stylefull. We felt welcome. We were offered several options for an aperative. We chose a nice cocktail with ice, frozen raspberries, blackberties and blueberries. Very nice.

We ordered our meals.

Before we finished our aperatives starters were already served. We felt a bit rushed and had to ask for the wine we ordered.

The starters were excellent. We had a carpaccio turnip, serrano ham and parmezan, and a mousse of parmezan, parmezan chip, fresh parmezan, mousse of fresh peas, olive tappenade and grilled prawns. The first a delicate mixture of tastes and textures, the latter an interesting rollercoster of tastes. Both beautifully presented. The bread and herb and garlic butter were nice.

The main course was served within a few minutes after the starters. Though the restaurant was only half-full, we kind of felt like we were pushed through so they could have a second serving.

For our main course we had grilled wild salmon fileton risotto and pikeperch filet on sauted vegitables. The salmon was excellent. The pikeperch was grilled somewhat too dry - with a suspicion it was deep-frozen and not well un-frozen - and the vegitables were too salty and too umami. Too much soy sauce. I mentioned it to the waitress and she said she would tell the chef. Off course. Much obliged.

For desert - also served speedily - we had an excellent cream coffee and a crême brulée with a chessnut macaron and consmon icecream. Though beautifully presented, the caramel on the crême was cold. Which it shouldn't be according to my likings. Probably the brulée part was done well in advance to save some 20 seconds operating a chef's torch just before serving.

As we were finishing our meal the waitresses cleared the tables that were not used this evening.

The tab showed €138. Was it worth that?

It could have been if:

we would have been pressed less the pikeperch would not have been too dry and the vegitables better seasoned

Somehow it felt as if we were in some tourist trap designed to push through as many tables on an evening - in this case for no reason - paying top euros

To conclude: full of potential, but missing the the...

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