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| - I have on a number of occasions passed by Alpenhaus and wondered what it would be like, but was always frightened by the prices which were prohibitive. Most people to whom I inquired about it said it wasn't special, but then my partner got a Groupon so we tried it out.
One thing that I think this restaurant has is ambiance. The decor is like a cabin, with low light and a decor that depends heavily on rough timber and shepherd's cross. There was a steady stream of adult contemporary piped in over old speakers: crackling Neil Diamond, and whatnot. This somehow goes very well with swiss cheese fondu and pictures of burly men in leiderhosen. The bathroom is really special, but in an eerie way, not a Cactus Club restroom.
Our server was kurt, rushed and really absent, and I assumed this was due to our Groupon status, as some neighbouring tables were getting little peels of attentive laughter and I noted other grouponers getting the shaft. I remarked to my boyfriend that this restaurant probably needed to be relegated to a Groupon purgatory to knock it down a few notches: irrelevant, over-priced, and the food was missing a certain attention to detail. The bread was pretorn into dipping-sized peices, but it was cold and dry. The vegetables for the fondu were pitiable and too sparse. We decided to skip dessert when they didn't have black forest cake. If my company weren't so pleasant, I probably would have left mad.
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