Went here yesterday, food was really nice, place was fairly empty. Thought I'd go again today, was with one other person. it's was busy when we went in, the first person asked if we had a reservation, we said no, she walked away from us while telling us that they were busy and they don't take walk inside when it's busy. I asked another person who was working if they have a waiting list, didn't mind waiting, and was told that they don't have a waiting list, that the only way to get a table was to make a reservation. I asked if they actually meant that if I called up I could get a reservation for later, and was told yup. So I asked for the phone number, was given it, and was genuinely about to call the number of the place while actually standing IN the place, when the first person we spoke to walked by again and said there would be no tables available all day. The whole interaction was super weird, yes I know I was speaking English and no doubt a lot was lost in translation. I was no doubt a little grumpy this morning, and yeah it did seem strange to me that they said they would never take any names, but it's Sunday, I know in Germany reservations are much more of a prescient thing than in a lot of other places, so we left.
Cut to 20 minutes later, a friend we were with texted to find out where we were for breakfast, he was on his way to meet us. I told him not to bother with Jimmy's because apparently they wouldn't take any walk ins under any circumstances today..
He texted back to say not only had he gotten a table by just walking in, but he'd gotten a table for 2
I mean fair enough, if you have a policy I'm totally fine with that, yes I was probably arsier about the whole interaction than I should have been. But I sensed from the second I started interacting with the first person that we weren't gonna get a table regardless of whether there was one available or not, and that's what caused my annoyance to escalate. So to find out after I was right, that u could in fact just walk in, or wait, it was simply that they didn't want to help us out, that to me wasn't great.
But hey, to each his own, food the day before was still really nice. Hopefully one day they'll crack the whole waiting list/walk in on a Sunday policy. read more
