We started off with delicious little pieces of crispy chicken skin and peas, followed by one of the highlights already:
the baffling bread cart with a choice of about 40 different breads. My favourite was the so called “Blunznbrot”, a bread with black pudding baked into it. It was served warm and tasted really delicious.
Some other highlights were cockles with zucchini and green strawberries, a perfectly balanced dish with subtle flavours and a bit, but not too much, acidity.
Braised shoulder of a young goat, paired with a confied quail yolk, young pears and lots of veggies I don’t know the english word for. This dish combined a lot of different textures which made every bite different and enjoyable, another great dish of the menu.
My favourite dish, however, was the flamed eel glased with spruce tips and goldenberry, served with braised spring cabbage and smoked eel oil. After the first bite I knew this would be my favourite of the night and it literally was the best thing I ate so far, in my life. The fish was perfectly cooked and tasted really unique and the cabbage had a smoky flavour that accompanied the fish.
Next up was yet another card, the even more impressive infamous cheese cart with 79 cheeses. I picked a truffle cheese and let the cheese sommelier (is that a thing?) decide the rest of my platter and it was no mistake. Each cheese really had its own profile and the strongest of the four tasted like something I‘ve never tasted before. To this day, I do not know if I liked the strongest one or not, but it really was interesting.
After a couple desserts and petit fours we rolled out of Steirereck, fully satisfied, tipsy and happy, disproving the theory that you need to go to McDonald’s after enjoying a Michelin Star Dinner.
I want to close this post with an interesting thing we observed, at Steirereck they have „ladies cutlery“ which means my partner got smaller sized cutlery, I don’t know if this is rather common but we found it quite funny.
by viennese-lover98