No barrel was broached at this year’s Oktoberfest,
since host Ina couldn’t find the hammer. Musician James Osterwald – the
name is a mixture of James Last and Hazy Osterwald, both being very famous
musicians in Germany and elsewhere in Europe - was smart enough to hide it
beforehand to protect his precious keyboard. Apart from that everything was
grand at the Berliner Bistro 2 in Soi Potisarn.
With a functioning keyboard and an additional accordion,
the Prince of Pattaya showed off a wealth of songs. The Navy band too played
worthy of any marquee in Munich and special offers on beer excited the
attendees to drown more than a few Moass of beer.
Waitresses were as sweet as ever, dressed for the
occasion with white ribbons in their hair and in white blouses and
blue-checkered skirts. They were certainly appetizing. That was also true
for all the courses on the specially printed Wiesn menu.
It is true too for any visit to Berliner Bistro 2, for
many changes have taken place recently to both the menu and the decor.
Owner Ina Buschhter, herself a gourmet, has
created some more new menu items such as a different but heavenly tasting
shrimp salad. There is even a champagne breakfast, available every morning
and if somebody wishes it, all day. Also new is that breakfast is served
daily from 8:30 a.m. onwards now at Berliner Bistro 2.
What else is new at the place? The cleanliness! Now
people can sit at nice white and blue decorated tables inside and at cleanly
scrubbed wooden tables in the beer garden. And everybody can visit a
spotlessly clean toilet.
The soups, be they goulash soup, lentil soup with
sausage, leberkn๖del soup or any other, are really big and if somebody
isn’t almost starving to death, they should not be eaten before the main
dish, otherwise one might have a problem, and his wife may have to sew new
buttons on his trousers and shirts. The same happens with the almost one
meter long sausage for 139 baht. And the suckling pig with sauerkraut and
red cabbage at 180 baht, and the roasted duck at 239 baht for a half duck.
Thai people and farangs can enjoy genuine Thai food at
low prices. And if somebody is homesick for Greece he can order his own
Gyros grill at the table.
Not only Germans or German speaking people are regulars
at the Berliner Bistro 2. Many Americans and lately English are showing up
there to enjoy the good food, the good beer – or whatever they like to
drink, and especially the good atmosphere and the genuine friendliness.
Oh, by the way, the prices are definitely much more than
reasonable. Main dishes cost from 149 baht up, soups are around 89 baht and
the champagne breakfast costs, including a glass of champagne, only 159
baht. And this is a real big breakfast.
If somebody wishes to order a special buffet, be it a
normal one or a suckling pig party, it will be arranged. Berliner Bistro 2
food is also available at door-to-door service.
The best occasion to give the restaurant a try-out will
be November 11, because that’s the start of the German carnival. Punctual
at 11:11 a.m. the fun will begin. Guests can wear carnival costumes and
expect a great time with music, dance, good food and beer.
The Berliner Bistro 2 is located in Soi Potisarn in Naklua. Tel: 0 38427
317.
