Zum Schmale Wurf — Restaurant in Basel

If someone knows what word "sovok" means they will understand my impression. For the rest there is just explanation: citizens of former USSR use "sovok" when they want to express their opinion about, for example, service level in the restaurants, shops, specific behavior of the personnel and clients. This word is also suitable in case of specific architecture and fashion style that is not creative and without taste. What can I say about this restaurant? Since it was Switzerland we couldn't even imagine that we would face such a poor service. Waiters and waitresses were not attentive enough. They seemed arrogant and were looking down as if we were disturbing them. So service was very unobtrusive. Some meal was forgotten to be served but everything was included in the bill. So if you think you can get perfect service in Switzerland just because you are in Switzerland, believe me you risk to get disappointed.

Прямо як в совку побували. Обслуговування дуже ненав'язливе. Не все замовлення принесли проте в рахунок було...

Today we had a dinner at this place with my family. I must say we experienced a very bad service. The food itself was just ok some basic stuff even that went very wrong. We ordered gazpacho which is a cold tomato soup with crotons but it came boiling hot and without crotons. Also we wanted to share two of our plates between 4 of us and we asked for 3 extra plates and we had to ask 4 times and waited for very long and finally the waiter only brought one as well as this we waited for more than 10 minutes to get a spoon. Also when we to pay we had to ask 3 times and when the bill finally arrived the asked as to pay in cash because they said the card machine was not working and I said tough I only have card and suddenly the machine started to work again (trick of the trade). I feel sorry for the Swiss people because these guys think they can get a way with it and I am not sure how they managed to get good reviews. If this restaurant was in London they would be out of business...

Location is just by the Rhine, which is perfect for a nice afternoon chat, their choice of beers is limited to one brewery only (but more than a handful of beers), staff is friendly.

Falling for the trick of their menu being in Italian, we ordered “Antipasto Misto Grande”, expecting a plate of Italian antipasti, but received a mix of something about as Italian as Starbucks (see photo): canned tuna, pickled mushrooms, feta cheese, boiled egg, wurst, exploded stuffed tomato, sun dried tomatoes in olive oil (in the summer)…

Go there, enjoy the scenery and a drink, BUT DO NOT ORDER ANTIPASTO MISTO.

We also ordered some bruschette… Old and soft cherry tomatoes on rock hard stale bread (no, not toasted) with balsamic cream drizzled all over it. I think I also tasted some Germanic Senf in the rucola dressing.

I’ll be back, but most certainly not...