MK-1 Restaurant & Bar - Ratingen

The Christmas brunch today unfortunately very disappointing! not sufficient juice selection! on demand and subsequent complaining of several guests, unfriendly behavior of the pächter. We have never experienced this before. brunch only to minimum, probably because it changes the restaurant at the end of the year.

For a long time, the large local at the belsenplatz was empty. when finally refurbished, you were curious what would become of it. since ende mai has taken over gastronomy from the paint box. Among the appetizers there are various salads (8,50€), but also tatar or semi-raw tuna (approx. 15€). we chose fennel salad with parmesan as well as mangosalat. both portions were first large and thus somewhat powerful, because the main components of both salates are simply too much in the quantity offered. pasta or risotto are offered as intermediate or main dishes (e.g. tagliarini with truffle or pfifferlingen). Among the meat dishes there are various dry age variations, e.g. entrecote or burger. I chose the whole dorade (17,50€) that did not convince me on "Sicilian art" (with tomato and olive), however, because the fish in the rather intense tomato sauce did not come to the ground. the service was present, but the local only opened about 4 weeks and therefore not everything round. beautiful is the terrace in the courtyard as well as the bar in the front area, which is also well visited at a later hour.

After our first pale gourmet attempt last winter in the restaurant (then already completely desolater service, insufficient food quality, but completely over-priced prices),- we were ready today for a second visit, and visited the beautiful beer garden. there is the principle of self-service where we thought it would have to work here more. which a follow-up error on our part! with only one handful of guests, the order of two pils worked quite well, but the order at the grillmaster should have told us immediately: quickly away, and never again! this grillmaster had no idea of his dips, the so-called grill depted as a "mini-bockwurst-Einplatte-Grill" (which can have and can only be much better). after five minutes of discussion we ordered a pulled pork burger with herb salad and a full of potatoes, as well as as assemblages with also herb salad and a maize flask. very to our surprise we got after a minute a completely cold ofenkartoffel with the note that meat still came. we were knocked nicely on the shoulder (an unusual gesture that made us the complete helplessness of the staff). after a bite we noticed that the ofenkartoffel was completely cold and we left it back and politely asked to get a hot ofenkartoffel. now the grillmaster showed his strength: no, a hot kartoffel would mean at least 15 minutes in the restaurant, but from which he would advise, and we were deeply persuaded to give up the ordered ofenkartoffel to order a steakbrötchen instead. he knocked continuously and confidently on our shoulders (who has such friends does not need to fear). after a few minutes came the ordered food pulled pork burger with the herbal salad. the pulled pork meat was almost cold, a smallest portion and completely hurried (inedible!) the spareribs dito (probably from the last week, hard and dry!) here was of course forgotten the ordered herb salad. Of course we were now really served and wanted to pay what was now all the previous toppte: the grillmaster calculated 21 € for eating of course without commission to check (financial office: contempt black money)? we gave him two 20 € and expected the return to 22€. we now got 5 € small money out, which we immediately complained, which this appeared to us unharmed. now the "do not expect powerful grillmaster" was generously improved and again misused what we now strongly reclaimed immediately! in the third attempt we got our change with the note: it would be too hot today. what this grillmaster would do if the beer garden was only in its own way full and instead of in the shade he would actually have to work in the sun, we will remain a riddle forever. we left this jerk-off and can only warn in front of these exorbitant disorders: here there are zero points of food quality, zero points for service, with absolutely covered parlors! pity, because the local kit itself is beautiful, but the owner is a completely unremarkable one that surrounds himself with an even more unreliable cook and service team. never again!

Super beautiful spaces and a great ambiente, paired with an excellent and warm service as well as an excellent food: a fun! the newly designed playground was also especially a hit for our youngest guests: the children have been entertained there for hours and above all safely. 1000 thanks to the team for the excellent day!

I was with a friend recently in the country house freemann and can only say that we have experienced a great evening. friendly and warm service in combination with delicious food and also pilsner urquell from the fass!