Ruiling Z.
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The food is nice. The chief try to use a lot of local ingredients to support the locals and good for sustainability. The texture of the dishes is nice balanced, e.g. crispy coast pair with tender scallops, or crunchy potato pair with eels. Also interesting to try new ingredients, first time to try pinecone in the dessert, I like the fresh and “forest-y” taste it brings.
The waitresses are really sweet and friendly. However, there are 3 things bothers me. One of them makes me consider to leave earlier. So I only give 2 only for the service.
1. in the eel, I got relatively big fish bones. The first bite I had I can clearly feel it in my throat. Did not want to spit it out, so I ate it. But then I checked carefully in the rest. And found another one. I took it out and put it on the plate. When waitress came to pick up the plates. I mentioned to them. They expressed, oh it’s is quite unpleasant.
2. The time between the last course before main and the main is MORE than AN HOUR. When it’s passing 30min, it becomes noticeable, but I waited and continued chatting as usual. Then 40 mins, I start getting annoyed. During this whole time no one did not came to explain or check. So when it’s 50mins I asked did they catch the duck yet. Finally, when it’s over an hour. The duck is served. But I have to say I lost my mood already. Took a picture more for the timestamp.
3. Considering the 1 and 2 happened, I would expect the chief or the owner come to say something. However, nothing during the whole time. There are 3 tables in total for the evening. One of them is his friend, so he chatted a lot with them ofc. The other table he also did at the beginning. But the whole time he never came to our table. Sorry to say, but there only two reasons come into my mind. He does not speak English at all. Or because I am not Dutch 🤷♀️. Neither of reasons is good from my view.