Last updated on February 13, 2016
Among them, stood a small, artsy restaurant, Wallse.
Wallse is an Austrian cuisine run by chef-owner Kurt Gutenbrunner, who also own Blaue Gans and Cafe Sabarsky. I have to be honest. I don’t know what I should be expecting at an Austrian restaurant. The only other place that strike a slight similarity is the Marrow (now closed), which served German food. As I understand, Wallsee, the town that the restaurant is name after, is only about 3 hours from Munich.
On the evening we visited Wallse, the building was scaffolded, which was cleverly camouflaged by the benches and flowers. Once step inside, it is equally artfully decorated. Across from the bar is a giant portrait of chef Kurt Gutenbrunner. The place is quiet, modern and sophisticated, and as were the food.
Bread comes with sour cream with chives and liver spread. Surprisingly generous!! and smooth. But kinda wish the bread was warm…
Complementary Corn bread with avocado and lime sauce with a little snitzel, topped with salty pop corn. Beautiful dish. Definitely woke my taste buds up.
Another artistically displayed dish. Foie gras is a little small, the flavor is anything but. It is creamy and dreamy.
Octopus, Asparagus, Fennel, Saffron
This was a little disappointment to me. It is equally beautiful, but the octopus was lost. To us, it is only a delightful salad. The octopus suction cups were all cut off, it looks like a sausage or a carrot than an octopus arm/leg. Along with the suction cups, the taste was lost as well. đ
For main course, we went for schnitzel of course. It was perfectly cooked, light, flaky and still juicy. And the white asparagus with sweetbread was just outstanding. White asparagus was fresh, sweet, with a great crunch. And the sweetbread, it was the uni of the land. Just absolutely mouth-watering.
However, yes, there’s always a but… unfortunately…
While everything was careful plated, almost an art itself, it was the side dish that had the mishap. The cucumber bibb salad and the potatoes came in a little soup bowl. They seem sort of just got throw together. It’s âŠ. pathetic. it remind us of the salad that serves on airplanes. It doesnât fit in. it seems out of place, not among these dishes, not on this table, not at a Michelin Star establishment.
(April, 2015)
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