Meierei

Easter Sunday brunch feast!

From left: Char tartare with roe and cress; Marinated salmon with curd cheese wrapped around thyme-milk jelly; Cheese omelette (featuring a Gruyère of sorts being my guess) with chives.

Soft-boiled egg with sour cream (tasted more like mayo) and foie gras.

Celery remoulade, also featuring apple, walnuts and Périgord truffle.

Gammon ham with freshly grated horseradish.

Blackberry sauce, yoghurt, and granola.

Preserved white peaches with hazelnut cake.

Curd-cheese strudel with blackcurrant compote.

Meierei
Am Heumarkt 2A / im Stadtpark
A-1030 Vienna.
Notes:
For Easter vacation B had been so kind to invite me to Vienna, where we were so lucky to spend an evening at Michelin-starred Steirereck (more on this soon). The restaurant however also hosts a little sister, specialized in dairy, downstairs, which we therefore decided to try out for Easter Sunday brunch. I will keep the food description short as I really have nothing to criticize as to the quality of the food. The char tartare, the marinated salmon, the cheese omelette and the blackberry yoghurt were among the showstoppers, but it quickly became evident that Meierei has some issues related to its' processes in the restaurant. First of all, B and I decided to go with each our brunch set and share it all. We were quickly bombarded with tons of intricate and inviting little plates, and I found it to be quite a shame that some of the warm dishes such as the strudel were not served at a later stage (cold strudel is really not that arousing an experience, while we also caught the foie gras and egg serving too late). Further, what really bothered me with this visit to Meierei was the service. The place was far from full, also meaning that the restaurant was overstaffed and gave us so much attention I almost felt unable to enjoy the food. The waiters kept refilling water, rearranging plates or taking away plates (if not, monitoring us from a two meter distance), giving us so little private space that I was about to put the less sanitary part of my vocabulary to good use. We ended up with a bill of 60 euros, the place is thus not inexpensive. Maybe we just caught them on a bad day, but given such a stressful eating experience I will not recommend Meierei.