Au Chaudron sur Colmar

20/03/2024: We were here for the second time now. The ambience is simple but cozy, the service is very genuine and direct, and special requests are happy to be accommodated. The food is very nicely prepared and most of it tastes very good, but some small details are very disappointing and we don't fully understand why they are implemented this way. For the aperitif we decided on two non-alcoholic long drinks, tonic with Crodino, which were very tasty and attractively served. Unfortunately, a bowl of salty cookies and mini pretzels from the supermarket was enough. These weren't tasty at all and were a bit old. A very bad start! It's better not to serve anything with it than something of inferior industrial quality! The Iberian pork was really tasty but they used a sweet chilli sauce from a bottle, which was spread over the meat and on the plate. In my opinion, such a cheap ready-made sauce has no place in such a meal; a soy or miso-based sauce would be much more appropriate here than such a plain ready-made product. The semi-raw tuna was very good, served on a bed of radish strips. Unfortunately, these were completely unseasoned; they could have been marinated or at least served with vinaigrette. There was also a guacamole with three potato chips from the big bag, the guacamole was ice cold. The flavors of the avocado and the tuna can harmonize together if they are combined well, but unfortunately that was not the case here. There was no combinatorial connection between these two ingredients. They just happened to end up on the same plate. For dessert, the pear tart was far too cold to really enjoy, the chocolate sauce tasted like it came from a big plastic bottle and the ice cream was some soulless industrial product. Less would have been more here! The dessert with chestnuts, whose name I unfortunately forgot, contained rum. The service was very inattentive and did not point out to us when ordering or at least serving that we only order non-alcoholic drinks and my companion was also heavily pregnant. All in all, the visit there was still very nice and we liked it a lot, the prices are moderate and for the most part the food is really very good! Unfortunately, as mentioned, you're always bothered by the negative details that don't make any sense at all.

11/02/2024: We were not able to have lunch service which was too long for a Sunday lunchtime