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Brotzeit German Bier Bar & Restaurant (Raffles City)
Food and Beverage - 2
Ambience / Setting - 1
Value - 4
Service - 5
Will you return to this place? Definitely Not
I spent about S$22 per person

Review Date: 14 Aug 2008
252 North Bridge Road, #01-17 Raffles City Shopping Centre, Singapore
The perfect 10???

Given that the first reviewer gives a perfect 10 for all ratings and review that read more like an advertisement I have to go pay this place a visit (since my comments were deleted) and none better than today with a little time on hand in the late afternoon after some meetings.

Ambience while "chill out" looking will attract mostly Caucasians and it is just the case for the hour I was there. It is an open concept where there are no windows/partitions to keep the "super weak aircon" in. For a hot humid day, the place feels like an oven and I was just sweating while sitting there with my beer - not cool (literally). Perhaps it will be nicer when it rains but I can only imagine eating lunch on a humid day... not fun especially if you are the type that sweat in a shirt....worse if you have to meet clients later and you have two wet marks under the arm pits of your shirt...too vivid.... Anyhow there is no way this is a 10/10 ambience for me where the best looking things are the people walking outside and the worst looking things are the warm sticky looking people sitting inside.

Food & Beverage - Took a Dark beer Dunkel (if I remember right) $8.50. The beer was not cold enough when it came. I made a note to the bar tender whose best explanation is "dark beers tend to be less cold"... what??? Quickly drank half of the beer cos I was feeling really warm. The other half glass turned yucky in the warm environment so first time in my life, I am at this rather" atas" German beer place asking for ICE to add to my beer - damn bloody kopitiam uncle but between drinking "warm" beer and looking "uncle" I rather be the uncle - no contest, not even close. Ordered a mini cheese sausage as well which cost $9.50 for 5 finger thick and slightly longer than finger sized sausages. First look was oh god...so oily.... The sausage was glistening... tasted "ok" at best but I won't recommend it - really very greasy.

Value...1 beer and 1 sausage starter cost $21 is it a 10/10? You decide yourself.

Service good if you like to be asked multiple times to buy another beer when you hold on to an empty glass - gives you the opportunity to say NO a few times. Bad if you feel they are trying to chase you away. For me nothing there says a 10/10.

Will i go back? Maybe if I can take off my shirt and show off my pot belly =P or Singapore starts having an autumn. This place will be perfect during that time but not in ever humid Singapore. At least vivo got indoor aircon seating...

P.S: The service staff will offer you a "cooler" seat (don't think it makes a difference when the sun is hanging high) at the deepest end but that is like 2 tables and it is for 4 pax so being alone I settled for the ceiling fan....

 
I also recommend this place for
Atmosphere:Alfresco/Outdoor Dining, People Watching
Others:Beer Lists
 
 
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cloudgal says: 14 Aug 2008 23:47
its sooooooo ewwwww on the perspiration part and ice + beer is so uncle. muahaha :P

i m so not for such 'alfresco' or open setting in humid tropical SG with nary a hint of wind. Esp HATE perspiration whilst I am trying to R&R and ESP so when in office wear. Totally uncool man. yucks.
 
vodkalove says: 15 Aug 2008 00:10
i always wanted to try this place for a meal. from your review, it doesn't seem that appealing anymore.. i mean, if a person has to resort to putting ice into his beer, that is over the line =o. urgh.

and well, i don't trust perfect 10 reviews. either they're biased or just too easily impressed. :/
 
picky gourmet says: 15 Aug 2008 00:31
Vodkalove,

try the vivo one...service was iffy when I visited but much better than this for sure.
 
blargh says: 15 Aug 2008 11:55
that was exactly what i thought when i saw that review you referred to. just wondering whether anybody picked it up as well.

that aside, the place looks very nice on the outside!
 
Gaz says: 15 Aug 2008 12:20
As expected, the perfect 10 rating is totally BS.

Picky: You beat me to it... was actually thinking of heading down there tonight to give it a REAL review.

Vodkalove: Vivo one is not too bad. Just make sure you go early or go with a reservation.
 
ice says: 15 Aug 2008 12:44
*smacks head* ice in your beer? gosh.
 
picky gourmet says: 15 Aug 2008 20:50
Notice the comments under the first reviewer got deleted AGAIN!
 
cloudgal says: 17 Aug 2008 10:55
Oh. Deleted yet again ah? Hmmmm.
And to share my take on ambience, I passed by this outlet the night before. Its really an open concept, outlet facing the road and opp chijmes. Objectively, perhaps patronizing this outlet in the evenings/night might be better as there is at least no sun.
 
cane greedy says: 5 Sep 2008 12:09
Dark beer is usually warmer
Also german ber is generally not served cold
 
picky gourmet says: 5 Sep 2008 22:33
cane greedy,

right..set up an account just to "justify" yourself. dude I know my beers and I have been to oktoberfest so I am not that clueless.

dunkel typically serves at a cool "celler temperature" of 8-12 degrees but that is in the West where it is much less humid and temperatures are as cool outside during "much" of the year, and during oktoberfest.

We are in SINGAPORE. When you start serving 8-12 degrees beer in an open air environment (read: no aircon) 3pm in the afternoon when the sun is scorching, people perspiring like a tap - your beer turns to room temperature in no time and that is plain nasty.

So next time you try to justify yourself/establishment study the environment as well. Don't wholesale take your western concept and dump it in Singapore where, culture and climatic conditions are way different. "Authenticity" is only as good as it is practical and appropriate for the locale.

By the way cold would typically define as 4-7 degrees and just to name a some, Kristalweizen, Koelsch, Pilsner, Hefeweizen, Weisse are all served at cold. So don't tell me "german" beer generally not served cold. It DEPENDS on the type of beer. Don't mislead people by generalizing by country (german).
 
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