Hawkes Bay NZ Water trail

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Sign of a Good Regional Restaurant in the Black Forest

Here's a partial inventory of the interior decoration of this excellent restaurant:
Bird cages hung from the exposed rafters
Two swan shaped vases, circa 1930, filled with fabric flowers
A brass hedgehodge serving no apparent purpose on one of the larger table
Ugly Commemorative plates attached to any available mantel
Several silver candlestick holders with tapered candles
Many ornately framed pictures, subjects ranging from Rembrandt, an
Early C20th German painting of naked women by a stream, 3D card of The Holy Trinity, plus cherubs, late C19th, and 3 Chinese currency banknotes, dark still life if overblown rides, a matching set of terriers, a nude woman wearing high heels and draped in a brocade curtain, various random bucolic scenes of hayricks, scenic farmhouses and willows by a river
Two shadow boxes containing faded funeral wreaths
Dolls, bier steins and what appears to be a brass faucet from a keg from a bier garden in Munich
Something that looks like an engraved stock certificate, complete with cameos and floral garlands
Terra cotta rabbits dressed in pinafores
Framed choral music with illumination and incomprehensible Gothic calligraphy
A heraldic family tree, also involving many coats of arms and more incomprehensible Gothic calligraphy
Fake Art Nouveau lamps
Plastic roses in empty milk bottles
Upholstered benches
Platters of plaster fruit
A piece of Gobelins tapestry showing crowns, standing lions, shields with the fleur de lys, castles, Ren-Fayre knights in plumed hats, and strangely alien flowers
Heavy worn satin drapes on an iron curtain rod
A metal wall handing depicting painted pansies
Wrought iron
Random pieces of looted wood trim from some long ransacked Schloss
Glitter decked plastic roses attached to a curtain
Duster bottles of burgundy in a pine display cupboard decorated with metal door pulls
A piece of reproduction medieval stained glass depicting a camel and a jewel encrusted gold cross in the lead panes window looking out to an alley
Frayed Persian carpets
Various cut glass cookie jars and a stone rabbit on the deeply recessed window
Bad lighting and dark corners

It's sort of like eating at your eccentric elderly former globe trotting bachelor uncle's castle. All that's missing are several enormous cuckoo clocks and a large hat decorated with grapefruit-sized red pompoms, apparently the national costume (at least according to the TI) of Freiburg.

Gott im Himmel. This cures me of any desire to go antiquing.

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