12 Apostel Schulenburg - Hattingen

Dear GG friends, I wanted to come back today with one of the many wonderful culinary experiences that I experienced during my vacation in Garmisch and in the South Palatinate for visiting Marco. But when I looked at the photos and Bons, the evidence of this restaurant fell into my hands and I was annoyed by this performance in a direct comparison with these experiences, and therefore I decided, even for today's time, for this short cradle: given the hymns that will follow, this was a concern for me. As part of a company event I landed here two weeks ago with a group of about ten people in the evening of a beautiful late summer day, the colorful mixed huge card seemed to be a good compromise to bring different tastes under one hat. I did not know the gastronomically tradition-rich Schulburg and the location as such can only be described as dreamlike, be it the view, the location and the venerable walls, whose beautiful valleys are surely ideal for banquets and festivals of all kinds. [here link] The place is obviously very popular as a destination for excursions in the area and accordingly the map is available: some Mediterranean with antipasti, pasta and pizza, salads and film potatoes, some fish dishes, extensive meat department with carvings, steak and who want to get a bacon cake or a calf liver from Berlin – here everyone should really fumble. In addition to the beautiful ambience, the service this evening was a great view of the light: always present, friendly and catches the uniformly dressed team, with binding and personally without superficial signs of wear when handling the guest in a well visited destination. Oh, if I had done it just like my colleague, he took advantage of the “Schnitzel action day” and was looking forward to a hunter with pommes who made a pretty good impression at the price of 10.90€ and arrived well. Unfortunately, after this last warm summer day, I was not after Schnitzel and Pommes and I chose the “Fish Plate 12 Apostles” (27,90€ , according to the map with “Lachsfilet, Zanderfilet, Giant Pillars with homemade potato roast, paprika, baby leaf spinach, aioli and garlic sauce”. “Housemade Rösti” sounded good, mostly they come from the convenience and I was excited about self-made specimens that I like very much. After the separately ordered appetizers have found quite fast on the table, the main dishes should wait for themselves, but the waiting time was still within limits and I would rather wait a little longer for freshly cooked food than to be with convenience food from the assembly line à la tank and rest. And there we would already be on the topic when my “Fishplatte 12 Apostles” was served, the three Rösti-Talers could hardly have “scream” that they come from the big TK-Beutel and they should also taste exactly how they look. An absolute misfortune to call something like “homemade”, a clear case of hospitality. Fish plate 12 apostles For this purpose, three overboiled shrimps of a rather inconspicuous sorting (size and quality, a floury, taste-neutral piece of Zander, a likewise overboiled tranche of salmon, which over the underlying skin side certainly had a half centimeter thick gray, uncomfortable layer which overlaid its trandy on the entire tranche. For this purpose, strips of paprika that unfortunately also only wore their own taste and some leaves of spinach, which at least seen some garlic and represented for me the highlight of the dish, so sad, that is also. The "Knoblauchsoße" consisted of a spoon of vinegar chopped garlic from the glass, which next door parked, also very tightly dimensioned aioli not only looked like mayonnaise, but also as much as possible, with a good aioli this product probably also from the large bucket had not much common. On the whole line, especially at a price of just under 28 euros, if I think what I received at this price on holiday in Upper Bavaria, the Palatinate and Alsace for Delicate dinners, it makes me rather mad. A little sour detail: each plate, also opposite the carving, was spun with something that looked like thick red bete juice for decorative reasons. What was still working visually in my fish plate halfway, but at the latest at the Jägerschnitzel it became a superfluous effect hatcher from the culinary actor box. I left half the plate and ordered a very hungry apple strudel with vanilla sauce. Of course, here too, convenience that I wanted to admit. Under the heavy, batty vanilla sauce, then a piece of a very compact stem, one had difficulty cutting the dough without knife. This hasn't really excited, but somehow apple strudel tastes always and at least I was tired after that. Apple strings When casching I let the young lady in service know that the fish plate is not least because of the alleged “homemade” Rösti did not really delight and surprised her friendly reaction: “Is it really homemade? No, you can see they're not themselves! This is a mistake on the map, thanks for the hint that I immediately pass on to the restaurant guide!” This seems to be less interested in this feedback: As I said today, the map was changed, but only in terms of prices: the fish plate now costs 32 euros and makes the offer even more questionable. Rösti is still called “homemade” so that innoculation seems to be part of the concept. As a guest in this house you should rather sit on the classic gourmet cuisine and also because no culinary great deeds await so that my impression tonight. In fact, a shame, in such a beautiful place, good cuisine would certainly have any chance to live gastronomically profitable. But with the seemingly reliable mass of guests it is as easy as possible, which is perhaps not otherwise feasible in view of the almost absurd size of the card.