Felix Graulich
Google
This might be the most difficult review I ever wrote. I have been to my fair share of high class restaurants, but I can't remember a visit as bad as to Ikarus, when I visited Salzburg with my wife.
Let me preface this with a disclaimer. The food was good. We had the 8 course menu by the guest chef Anthony Genovese which was slightly adjusted as we don't eat meat. Therefore two courses with meat were switched with vegetarian courses.
We had a table reserved for 7 pm and were greeted very friendly by the lady at the entrance and brought to our table. However, from them on something was off. At first I thought I was just imaging things, but my wife felt the same. We felt like the service did not like us, like we were disturbing them. We were treated cold and unfriendly. We asked for a wine pairing, but we did not want 8 glasses of wine each and asked if we could get just 4 glasses for the 8 course menu. This was seen as a very strange request, but the female waiter said she would accommodate our wish. However we did not get a wine for the first course. We then asked the sommelier and he brought us the first glass. However, then we had to ask again for another glass when we got the third course. As I wrote in the beginning, this review is very difficult as there were no other special incidents, just this strange vibe. The whole time we felt like everyone around us was treated more nicely and warm-hearted. I really regret that I did not speak up and ask the service what was wrong and why they thought we deserved such a treatment.