Barfly Kitchen - Full Menu

After six nights of hearty Teutonic cuisine, we were ready for something a bit different for our last evening in Munich. Barfly and Kitchen provided us with the... read more After six nights of hearty Teutonic cuisine, we were ready for something a bit different for our last evening in Munich. Barfly and Kitchen provided us with the perfect meal and atmosphere for the last night of our honeymoon. This is a fantastic Italian restaurant with well stocked bar and cosy seating area. The music (crooners past and present) and the ambient lighting were well judged music not too loud, lights neither too bright nor the sort of straining to see darkness often gone in for in the name of atmosphere. This was a pleasant change from a number of other rather garish dining experiences in Munich. The clientele included a family with a number of generations, an older couple and a few groups of friends of varying ages. Again, it was nice to have that variety in terms of clientele: a number of other 'fine dining ' restaurants we tried really made you feel that the asymmetric hair cutted staff are doing you a favour to let you have a seat there. There was none of that here. The staff were friendly and knowledgeable about their menu and I 'd have been happy to stop in for a meal or a drink if I 'd been solo in this kind of environment. A pregnant woman on her own ate at a table near us and received the same attentive but never obtrusive service that we did. This place is a little off the beaten track near the Museum district and wasn 't as busy as it deserved to be, but that made it really peaceful. The food: the food was simply excellent, and reasonably priced. We had three courses each, a bottle of wine, two bottles of water, and two digestifs each after the meal (we didn 't want to move) and it was about £110, so if you went easier on the gins and tonic and choose wisely you could have something really nice for two for about £80. The pasta and risotto starters were obviously homemade and delicious there was no sticky stodginess about either of them. There was a reassuring gap between courses and everything tasted fresh. We both had saltimbocca, which was perfect. The pork was cooked tender, the parma ham around it crispy and the sage sauce deliciously piquant. The wine selection was a good mix of the highlights of Germany (riesling on the more expensive side) and some reassuring big names from Italy and France. We had a bottle of very pleasant Barbera for about 25 euros. Both the tiramisu and the chocolate melting middle cake desserts were also homemade and again, hard to achieve sometimes with this kind of food, were not in any way stodgy but had real flavour. Three courses left us replete rather than horribly full, and the place was just so nice that we stayed on for a few drinks rather than try to find another bar with Hendricks gin and no loud music. I cannot recommend this place enough.

Great ambiente with beautiful lighting, good kitchen, a really cool scene local. read more Great ambiente with beautiful lighting, good kitchen, a really cool scene local.