My singaporian colleague and I decided to have lunch in the office together, as there are only few people in the office today due to the holiday tomorrow. So I suggested I drive to Workers Deli with my scooter to get us lunch. On the menue it said: "Risotto in Trüffelsahne mit Kirschtomaten" (risotto with a truffle-cremesauce and cherry tomatoes). We envisioned something decadent and rich and delicious and were salivating only at the thought of it.
We shouldn't have. Unfortunately it was a lot less spectacular than we could have ever imagined. The rice wasn't soft enough, neither creme nor truffles - especially not truffle - were teasing our tastebuds. It wasn't bad, but nothing I would recommend somebody to go and get. It's more alongside: ok.
We also got "Hähnchenbrust mit Schafskäse gefüllt auf Senfsauce mit gebackenen Kartoffelscheiben und Gurkensalat" (chicken-breast with a filling of sheeps cheese in mustard-creme-sauce, baked potatoe slices and cucumber salad). Well, I don't want to be overly critical, but we didn't manage to find or identify the sheeps cheese filling. The mustard-sauce was very good, the baked potatoe slices were mostly really raw slices of potatoe which didn't seem to have been either cooked nor baked. They were as crunchy, and colorless, as biting into a raw potatoe. The cucumber salad we didn't dare to try.
While everything sounded delicious and sumptious, luxurious and decadent for a simple office meal, we are sitting here now with stomach ache, due to raw potatoes and a risotto that's been a wee bit to crunchy instead of the slimy texture it is supposed to have. The chicken breast, apart from the lack of filling, looked a bit bland, whereas it should have had this nice dark appealing color from the pan. Needles to say we didn't finish. Good thing I have a glass of apricot-compote (apricot sauce) in my office, which we can dive into after our stomach pain is gone.
My conclusion:
Workers Deli is great for "Curry/Pommes" (bratwurst in curry-sauce and french fries), other stuff: not really a big fan of it. It sounds great but doesn't live up to the anything remotely resembling its description.
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