I am catching up with last week....
For the second half of the working week I was on a business trip to Munich. Our office is on the East side near the ICM conference centre on a fairly boring industrial estate. I am normally booked into the InnSide hotel which is 200 metres from my office but not much good if you want to enjoy the centre of Munich.
Having said that, the restaurant is surprisingly good. Normally hotel food in Europe is about 30% more expensive and 30% worse in quality than going out to a local restaurant. With UK hotels the ratios can be even worse value for money!
I had a really great (8/10) Wiener Schnitzel. It was served piping hot, with the breadcrumbs almost crisp (...well maybe I cannot find a better word), saute potatoes and a good salad. Also there were Preiselbeeren which are sometimes translated on menus as "cranberries" but despite a similar taste are not the same. Preiselbeeren have roughly half the diameter of cranberries and in my view taste slightly better. I do not have my European plant book with me unfortunately to see if there is a better translation. I thought cranberries were native to North America.
Last but not least there was a very good dunkles Weißbier to wash it down with!
Despite being a pretty lousy location if you want to do signseeing, I can - unusually - recommend the hotel restaurant which is of good quality and reasonable price if you ever attend an ICM located tradeshow. There is a great salad bar with a good tomato/mozzarella salad and smoked salmon. Both the cooked and the cold breakfast buffets are great.
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2006-11-06 @ 01:24