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| - I would say perhaps a 3-3.5 for the food, but I'd give it a 4 star rating because Mike F (our server) did an outstanding job tonight.
Came for the Fondue Festival! I've never had cheese fondue before. I was so excited to try it! Came as a party of 4. Managed to order just enough food for all of us to be full (and have like 4 pieces of baguette left over).
Had:
Cheeseburger sliders ($13) - comes with 3 sliders. Supposedly comes with markt frites. Um...my frites, the six to nine of them, were in my sliders. Yeah. I didn't realize they were there until one fell out of Grandpa's slider. These looked decent. They could have been a lot juicier. They were quite dry, even though I believe they had mustard on the buns...or maybe that was the melted cheese. Anyhoo, I only had half a slider and I already needed water to wash it down.
Charcuterie board ($10) - Wednesday special. Usually $16. I got to choose 3 options from their meats and cheeses. I figured we already had enough cheese from the fondue, so I got 3 cured meats. Mike suggested the red chili salumi and the candied bacon. I ended up getting the 18 month Niagara prosciutto, the red chili salumi, and the juniper pancetta. I've never had a charcuterie board before, so I don't have anything to compare this to, but it wasn't foodporn pretty. It looked a tad sparse. I'm pretty sure I know what prosciutto looks like, so I'm going to say it was the pancetta that came rolled up (4 pieces). There were 2 decent sized slices of proscuitto, and 4 slices of salumi (laid flat on the board the way one puts pepperoni on a pizza). The board also had pickles, house mustard, and three slices of grilled bread. Yes, there were grill marks. Out of the three meats, the prosciutto was my favorite. Not too salty. I love the texture of it in my mouth. Yeah. I also really liked their house mustard. It kinda tastes like yellow mustard, but a darker shade (like dijon), and it has a spicy kick to it. I put that mustard on everything tonight.
Alpine Platter ($37) - supposedly serves 2. Comes with pork schnitzel and accompaniments, fondue, fresh baked baguette, granny smith apples, caraway and rock salt pretzels, markt pickle jar, braised red cabbage, lingonberry jam, sauteed green beans, house mustard, emmental cheese spatzle. That's what the menu says. By process of deduction, the accompaniments were some kind of compote (I asked Mike. He said it was compote) and what kinda fasted like beef jus. Schnitzel was large. Breading was crispy. Pork was juicy. Good job. Lingonberry jam was already on top of the schnitzel. Schnitzel was resting on the cabbage, the spatzle, and the green beans. The braised cabbage was sweet and quite tasty. The green beans were um...green beans. The spatzle was easily the best part of the meal. It's like little chewy (in the best way) bits of pasta. Loved the texture and the taste. If it were a menu item, I'd just order the spatzle. I want to say it's like crack, but I've never had crack. The apples were fresh cut (no icky brown bits here). The pretzel was a tad salty from the salt on top. Thankfully, the pretzel was softer than I thought it'd be. The pickle was interesting (three different kinds - spear was sour, slice was sweet, the small ones were sour as well. The baguette was missing when we got our platter. Thankfully, I checked the menu and then asked where it was. Mike apologized that it was missing and went to get us some. Good amount of baguette. I'm skeptical about its freshness. Fresh bread is usually fairly distinct in aroma. This was not. The outside was a tad hard and over time, it became harder. I kinda wish that they had toasted it up with garlic oil or something. The fondue. Oh the fondue. It tasted good. Not too strong on the cheese. Almost a cheesy alfredo sauce. My big gripe with the fondue was that it was not served with a warmer. My cheese progressively got colder, and it got less and less fun to dip it in. I'm Chinese. I like my food scalding hot. I had visions of dipping my food into molten cheese goodness. This was not it. All in all though, not bad. If we separate the two components (the schnitzel dish, and then the fondue with the various breads and pickles), I see how they got the price of $37. The schnitzel dish is $25 on the menu, and fondue is $12. Perhaps they added extra bread and apples to this two person meal, but other than that, I really don't know how much different it is than ordering the schnitzel meal and a separate fondue.
I'm not used to my servers being so knowledgeable. I very much appreciate it. Mike asked if we were interested in trying a beer and if we were interested in him recommending us one. We weren't, but I overheard him conversing with the table next to us, and I was very impressed. He pretty much asked the lady a few questions, then matched her up with a drink.
I don't know if I'll be back for the Alpine platter (unless they up their cheese game). Perhaps I'll be back for the spatzle. We'll see.
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