Pfeffer Salz Gaststättenbetriebs- Und Service Gmbh

On the 15th of August 2014, I sat down with my three (teenage) kids, to have a last drink (soda for them, a calvados (preferably) for me). We had spend the week before in Sweden, building a raft and floating it down the Klarälven. To recover from our hardship (it wasn 't all that bad), we had booked ourselves into the Spa in Bad Schwartau. Which then finally leads me to the story at hand. We had eaten at the local pizzeria and were on our way to Haus Magdalena (wonderful place, different review), when we passed this Peffer und Salz place and decided to have a nightcap (for me then, that is, as said). Now, the boys love playing cards. We basically play only klaverjas , a sort of simplified version of bridge. We were almost done with a game and so pulled out the cards to finish,. After having ordered the drink from an otherwise helpful waitress, the, presumably, owner, came out. He enquired about the game we were playing and despite my explanation ruled it to be “a game of chance” and asked us to leave. Now, you can call me biased on account of being Dutch and all, but having lived in Germany for a number of years, normally that chip is of my shoulders. I have now looked over the restaurant’s menu (insofar as this offers any insight other than “ausgesuchte Steaks etc“)and augmended by the fact that this place rocketed to be the 3rd best restaurant in Bad Schwartau on the basis of one review alone leads me to the hope the owner’s peculiar (to use a euphemism) behavior is borne from his frustration to find himself being a mediocre cook in even more mediocre restaurant as opposed to his perhaps squashed ambition to be a Michelin star. The alternative, otherwise, is an insult to my many good German colleagues and indeed friends. Either way, if you find yourselves in Bad Schwartau, better to avoid this place. I doubt very much anything these people serve can compensate for the aftertaste of narrow-mindedness.