Saturday, February 20, 2010

The beer took another 20 minutes or so to come out which was a pain because we were all growing very frustrated. Before the beer came out I ordered some slices or bread with raw minced beef on with a side of onions and sauces. Max ordered some quesos empeƱadas. Not really sure what each of the dishes were going to be we chose the cheapest ones. The bread with raw meat was quite nice, the meat had the strangest texture, with all the sauce and onions it was amazing, only problem was it was such a small portion that it made ever so slightly hungrier. Whilst we were eating poor Eva was waiting at the bar to be served so we could get our tasters. The bar staff were just as useless as the waitresses, they do everything in their power to ignore you, each of them has their different ways. One man looks just above you like he's looking straight through you, another just stares forward and doesn't glance at his periphery, others just pretend to do something when clearly they are doing nothing at all. Eva finally got hold of someone and they backed up the demon waitresses statement saying they had run out of cups. This was a pain but we just dealt with it and got on with our column of beer. The waiting around made us all increasingly frustrated and it seemed as if we were all going mad, we were moaning and making jokes about the most trivial of things. I noticed that most of the staff if not all of them do everything they can not to work, they loiter in the outside bit, stand around and chat, pretend to serve people when they aren't. Then after a few minutes they leave to the main room where they stand behind the bar or walk around looking as if they are really busy but they are all just lying. Halfway through the beer, I got too hungry that I had to eat some more, I really wanted to try the crudo Kunstmann, it was a big piece of raw minced beef on a bed of sliced gherkin with slices of toast on the side and sauces. The meat to bread ratio was a joke, it was like 80:20 meat:bread. The bread ran out so soon and left about half the meat. Again it had the weirdest texture, with the gherkins chopped up and mixed in with some salt and the sauce, a little bit of aji, Chilean chilli sauce. The experience of the raw meat was one that I wouldn't mind doing again at some point, maybe with a little more seasoning next time.

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