Euro Bistro — Restaurant in Herndon

I had lunch here today and read reviews before I went about "a lot of native German customers so food must be good". As native living in Germany for more than 40 years my opinion about the food is "soso" or in German "na ja". I ordered "Gemischter Salat" or mixed salad. I was baffled when the $6 plate arrived. First, in Germany a Gemischter Salat always has a green salad base accompanied by other salads. Here the green salad was missing, they had arranged few half wilted leaves with no dressing in the middle. The other salads were pickled carrots (tasted good but never had pickled carrots in a Gemischter salat before), cucumber (ok taste), red cabbage (good) and German potatoe salad. That one was actually really good, but so few pieces that it was ridicules. Pro-tip: don't arrange tiny amounts of salad on the biggest plate you have. It just looks sad or like left overs. Then i had wiener schnitzel with cream sauce and Spätzle. Technically the Spätzle were Knöpfle, but that is small and not really important detail. The portion was super small, in fact it was less Knöpfle than sauce. The sauce itself was ok, on a positive side it had fresh mushrooms in it, but it had basically no seasoning. On to the Schnitzel. First impression was that it's a lot of meat. 3 pieces. In Germany you usually get 1 max 2 Schnitzel. Real surprise was that each Schnitzel was only 1mm thin. I have never ever in my life seen such thin Schnitzel. In German we would say "ein Hauch von nichts". Again, the meat was not seasoned whatsoever and it was deep fried for too short which resulted in a very pale color. Summary: not sure if...

I'll start by saying the ambience is wonderful as is the decor and there's definitely some charm. This place has sooo much potential. It reminds me of one of those places you see on tv show Bar Rescue before the place actually gets rescued. The accordion player Sylvia is incredibly entertaining and is basically the one redeeming quality of this restaurant. With that said, the food was average. Compared to other German/Austrian restaurants like Mozarts in DC, it just doesn't measure up. Also, service is awful. There was one overwhelmed woman who was the sole waitress, hostess, to-go order point person and taking calls. It's confusing when you walk in because it's unclear who works there or where to sit. Then she eventually finds time to seat you. Tables just don't get bussed so stacks of dirty plates and empty beer mugs will just be sitting around all of the place. They desperately need more staff on duty. I want so badly to like this place so I hope this review gets acknowledged and I'd be happy to give it...

I visited it thinking it would be an awesome spot for German food, there there isn't any flair to it. I didn't the options and it didnt seem like they had anything German on the menu, minimal items that stand out as authentic to me.

Service is fine, nothing special or felt like it was super welcoming or anything. The atmosphere is more like a corner store feel with no excitement to it, the prices are high for what it is compared to others...

Service Bread: These were hard! Like old bread that they toasted up. The tastes where you leave bread out too long and toast it up, hard to bite.

Sausage Platter: The sausages were ok, I wouldn't expect any of it is homemade or anything, it was just expensive sausages you can biy at the any German market.

Spatzel: There side spatzel tastes like nothing, it really did taste like water and flour. There was no spices or flavor to it, extremely bland.

Not my new hotspot...