RE: Das Festhaus
I'll comment for you Zimmy. The pasta in San Marco is about as authentic as cubic zirconia. Authentic foods begin with authentic texture. It doesn't matter how good your sauce is if the pasta is overcooked. Undercooking it is an extremely rare mistake, but slightly worse. In case you missed my hotdog rant in the star spangled nights thread, I am somewhat picky when it comes to the texture of my food. I'd go so far as to say that it is more important to me than the actual taste of what I'm eating. This is only my opinion, but BGW is way off, all over the place on proper preparation of their foods. Its a shame too, because most everything has an excellent flavor to it. Pasta in all forms is supposed to have a firmness to it at least to some degree. As stated above a couple posts, theirs' is mush. To not derail the thread, I'll finish with the Festhaus. Their meats are absolutely fantastic! However, they choose to ruin the meal for me by putting it on a dry, anti-saliva producing subroll that feels 3 days old by a texture standpoint. I only wish I had experienced the park when all of these things clicked with freshness and authentic preparation. I know it used to be way better, just for the simple fact that the park would have never gotten the reputation that is has by serving the food that they do right now.