Restaurant Alte Kunst — Restaurant in Tübingen

Tübingen is definitely a really cute city and i would say it is worth the ride. For the pizza however… don’t run, run away !!! For this first real swabian trip (drip drip), we thought fit to end that second day on Milan’s memory lane with a pizza with Milan’s very good friends Moritz and Muireann who unfortunately had to go down that hell-ish path with us. I promise next pizza will be worth it !!

It is true that, so far, the pizzas we’ve had were good or even excellent and it was likely that we were going to end up trying a bad one at some point right… Alte Kunst is very well located in Tübingen’s old town. Don’t be fooled by the dreamy location ! The place looked alright, so did the menu. Prices were not cheap. 17€ et 15€ for pizzas that were not worth half that price. The Biancas were dry af : no base sauce. Bad cheese on top and 4 slices of aldi spicy salami. Overall the pizza looked like everything was just thrown on there with no thought in it. Milan’s and Moritz’ pizza didn’t look a lot better although they had sauce. Milan’s even had a full on hard-boiled egg on top of his ???? We don’t know about the other dishes but the pizzas were, for the least, very disappointing. Drinks were ok, not really original or good or italian. To be honest my aperol spritz was even bad : it was not sparkling meaning no prosecco was used for sure. A good tell about the quality of the restaurant was the knives too, which legitimately got on Moritz’ nerves. The dough was bad quality and the knives were pretty much cutting nothing meaning one had to fight for several minutes to cut a slice of pizza worsening the overall experience. Who puts butter knives for eating pizza ? The service was also far from outstanding : first waiter couldn’t really give advice on the pizza because, after 11 years of working there he had not tried the most original one on the menu. He had the amability to ask if we want chili oil but then actually did not bring it. Tables were not leveled and an umbrella was put in the middle of our table forcing on of us the sit on the end of the table : not convenient at all and even though most tables were free we were not offered another one. No one ever came to ask us of we would need anything else and had to wait for a long time to be able to pay and leave. At this point it is clear we probably should’ve just run away as no one was around. After alerting the waitress that we needed her, she informed us the payment by card was not possible. That should have been mentioned in the beginning as we didn’t necessarily have the cash…

Right before we left, a group approached the restaurant, indecisive whether to sit here or not, i even hesitated about warning them about the shitty quality of the place. Leaving was a pleasure. Now we have to go to another pizza restaurant before i’m off to France again to wash off the taste of frustration and annoyance of that experience.

The mystery stays whole as the reviews (google) from the restaurant were quite good which is what had us in the first place. We will try to bring back the truth by adding this one to google. Alte Kunst gets a unanimous 2,5/10 rating from the four of us. Please...

One of the few places that works on Sunday evening. We went there on a warm summer day to have a snack. On the second floor there is a large and relatively comfortable terrace (however, on a warm summer day it is not that comfortable because of the huge number of annoying flies and wasps).

The staff was friendly. The coffee was fine, but the pizza was kind of difficult to eat (at least for my taste it was incredibly salty).

There are also some questions about the ingredients. (We ordered pizza with mozzarella, but there was pizza with parmesan 🤷).

We also did not manage to pay by card. The staff said that payment by card is only possible from 30 euros. It was also said that this information is indicated in the menu, but we did not pay attention to it,...

Ich bin leider sehr enttäuscht von unserem Abendessen in der Alten Kunst. Zuerst konnte unsere Servicekraft kein einfaches Deutsch, sondern hat auf Englisch mit uns geredet, was bei anderen Gästen vielleicht Probleme bereiten könnte. Da wir beide gut Englisch sprechen habe ich mir deshalb erstmals keine Sorgen gemacht, jedoch hat sich herausgestellt, dass die Servicekraft sogar Probleme mit dem Englisch hatte. Das hat sich herausgestellt, als wir falsche Auskunft über eines der Gerichte bekommen haben (hat sich erst herausgestellt, als wir das Gericht auf den Tisch hatten) und unsere Vorspeise parallel zur Hauptspeise gebracht wurde, obwohl wir extra betont hatten, dass wir die Gerichte separat voneinander haben möchten.

Was dann noch alles getopt hat war meine Penne all Arrabiata. Ich esse diese Gericht sehr häufig und gerne und habe es dementsprechend auch schon bei mehreren Italienern bestellt. Dementsprechend ist mir bewusst, dass es sich hier um ein scharfes Pastagericht handelt. Das hat bei mir noch nie Probleme bereitet, da ich sehr gerne schaft esse und was das angeht nicht sehr empfindlich bin. Allerdings war die Penne all Arrabiata bei der Alten Kunst nicht nur scharf, sondern ungenießbar scharf. Mein Mund hat gebrannt, ich konnte nichts schmecken und habe nur den Schmerz der Schärfe gespürt. Ich habe nicht mal die Hälfte der Pasta essen können. Auf der Karte war kein entsprechender Hinweis, dass das Gericht über dem normalen schärfebereich liegt, was ich hier mehr als angemessen empfunden hätte. Als wir dies angesprochen hatten, sind wir auf Unverständnis gestoßen und die Sprachbarriere hat es unmöglich gemacht darüber zu sprechen.

Dann wurden wir gefragt, ob wir mit Karte oder Bar zahlen möchten, ohne dass wir ein Zeichen davon gegeben hätten, dass wir zahlen wollen oder gehen möchten, als würde man uns los haben wollen.

Zusätzlich muss ich erwähnen, als jemand, der selbst schon viel in diesem Bereich gearbeitet hat, dass es auffällig war, dass hier gar nicht auf die die einfachen selbstverständlichen Regeln des Service geachtet wird, was man bei dem Preis allerdings erwarten darf.

Ich wurde sehr enttäuscht und wir werden auf jeden Fall nicht mehr zur Alten...