In real estate, location is everthing.
So, if this were a real estate business and not a restaurant, it would easily win five stars: Located on a quiet and rather pretty street, right in the heart of Kreuzberg, offering delightful outdoor seating (in their "garden") - that would easily win top marks.
Alas - it's a restaurant.
And I left it hungry and with a feeling of having been ripped off.
Their menu is rather limited: They offer - if I remember correctly - roughly seven or eight starters and three main courses. Only. There is a lot of pork and seafood on the menu, with the odd vegetarian option thrown in. Their concept is - according to their words - "Peruvian food with a twist to share". However, the portions weren't exactly huge - and how a quarter of a sweet portato served just "as is" (i. e. not sliced and diced) enhances sharing is beyond my comprehension.
So I opted for an entrecote with chimichurri (a kinf of rough paste made by shredding lots of herbs) as the "main course". Called "meat of the day". For - mind you - almost €30. What arrived was, well, an entrecote, sliced, with the aforementioned paste. To my surprised "Does this come with anything?" the staff muttered a "Well, the sauce" and offered some rather dry and uninspiring slices of bread as some excuse of a (non-existent) side-dish. Hm. Not good.
This "main course" left me starving.
A dessert to the rescue, right? Yes, serve me the "Pina Colada" then - some pineapple with coconut and some other stuff thrown in. What arrived was the tiniest quarter-slice of piceapple possible in a coconut-something-sauce. For €7,50, not exactly a steel.
And hardly filling.
The drinks I had were Ok price-wise, but had a tendency - just as the food - to arrive much later than expected.
And the service, while professional and friendly, could not really make up for the lack of quantity and - in my eyes - quality of the items served.
I left the place hangry indeed. read more