A little Maggi restaurant/store/cooking studio all in one. If you've never heard of Maggi, then you…read moremight have been food sheltered while you were growing up. I've had Maggi sauce ever since I was young. After some tourist stops and the rain coming down, my friends and I were hungry and stopped into the Maggi Kochstudio. They had a mini, very inexpensive cafeteria style restaurant (choose from: 2 Maggi soups, pasta and 2 sauces, salad and drinks). The soup was pretty good and the pasta was with cheese cream sauce I had was pretty good. The restaurant was clean, there were free, clean WCs for their customers, the Maggi store had tons of package soups, pasta sauces, gravy, and various other Maggi sauces for you to purchase. I couldn't read the German but I think you can pay and sit in on their cooking studio. I saw a couple of employees setting up for a cooking session.

This place is very interesting. Maggi is the maker of sauce mixes and I really like the concept of…read morehaving a cook studio incorporated in the store. how often do you see cake mixes or sauce mixes and wondered how to make a dish from these instant mixes. Maggi took this concept and ran with it. Great idea! I like the large space, cook studio and food they offered. Everything was very clean the staff very attentive.

Made to order Italian. Menus in English. Good food. Just a few of the positive attributes to…read moreVapianos. We started with a glass of Chianti and water "no gas". The antipasti plate was well made with a wide variety of items. Our main dishes were made in front of us with any customized ingredients we wished. Pasta was cooked perfectly and lasagna, even though pre made, was enhanced with extra cheese. The only downside to this "fresh made to order" concept was the wait staff. We were an intrusion on his day and made is life harder by being here. Don't come expecting good service but come for good food.

They need to edit there hours, they close early when they are slow…read more The last time I was here it was good. The staff i

Perhaps I'm not as with it as I used to be,* but I've never heard of Vapiano. Apparently it's an…read moreinternational chain. I only knew it served pasta, and I was ravenous and walking by. Upon entering, some guy just handed me a card of some kind and jabbered at me in German. Not wanting to seem like more of a moron than I am, I just nodded and walked past. Apparently the cards are like those punchcards you get at Katz's: the staff records what you ordered and you check out at the end. (Don't lose the thing, or you're going to owe them $50.) In any case, you get in line, grab a tray and then order from one of the a la minute cooks. There's pizza and pasta, but I usually avoid pizza outside of NYC because I eat entirely too much pizza in NYC. You can choose from a host of different types of pasta, and then you choose your sauce combination from four different price tiers. The cook then makes it all happen in a [traditional Italian] wok. You then go grab a seat wherever you can find one, and stuff your face. Strange ordering system aside, I see this chain taking America by storm because it's a fat man's DREAM. I know this, because I was even satisfied by the enormous portions, although the drastically overdressed salad turned me off a bit. However, the bread was excellent, the fresh pasta of surprisingly high quality, and the sauces we chose were not half bad. It is a cafeteria atmosphere, but the prices are correspondingly cheap, and I do like the touch of having fresh basil and rosemary on the tables for your use. I'm generally not a fan of chains of any kind, but I've had much worse meals for much more money, and I'd do it again. _____________ *I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me.

I had been to Vapiano before. It really used to be much better. I speak german, so my experience…read morehad nothing to do with that. To be honest, I went in with the expectation of getting decent food, but I certainly wasn't expecting anything spectacular. What I got was horrific. I came in and was greeted, but the guy at the counter didn't even say hello. I thought to myself, "Okay...whatever. His thing." I then proceed to the pizza counter, where it was not at all clear where I should order. The cook then just ignores me, and keeps chatting with his colleague. I stand there for at least two minutes. Un-helped. There is no one else at the counter. The guy behind the counter looks like he has seen batter days. He messed up on the computer and had to void my order. I ordered a cheese pizza and a bottled ice tea. The cook puts around six or so pizzas into a compartment, and rings everyones buzzer at the same time. My pizza is cold when I get it. And burned. The guy didn't even bother to cover more than half of the pizza with tomato sauce and cheese. It was so dry. Like dust. The whole thing cost me 11 Euros. Total rip off if you ask me. Cross this one off the list. Couldn't even eat half of the pizza because it was not even a pizza. It was a burned cracker.