Margaux, *, The Vegetable Menu, Mitte
August 31, 2011 6 Comments
I’m going to make this one short because as a rule, I don’t dwell on disappointments and that is what Margaux was.
You have 2 choices at Margaux, the vegetarian menu (€125 although on their website it is advertised as €110) for which it is known and a fish and meat menu (€175 again the website says €140). Our table had decided on the vegetarian menu before we had even set foot in the restaurant. You see, Margaux has its own vegetable garden in the Potsdam area where it grows 200 heirloom varieties of vegetables. Things like Mexican cucumber, a vegetable the size and shape of a kumquat but which looks like it could be a mini dinosaur egg. Good right? Exciting even! (For someone like me)
The aspirations didn’t translate onto the plate. At all. There were entire dishes which were bewildering to my friends and I. One in particular of blanched vegetable sticks lined up on a plate, the way you would do for a child, with packet of store-bought carrot sticks. And look at the carrot stick, it’s not even uniformly cut! You know when we learned that one at Leiths? Day 1, the same day we made chunky chickpea dip. Read more of this post
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