"Small history: We have had several guests for lunch not only on Christmas Eve but also on Christmas Day. We had the choice of dishes, the appropriate shopping, the preparations, the cookery and, of course, also the washing and cleaning up; there were the guests who had liked it every time, then of course they were steamed back to home. There had been no single counter-invitations for Christmas dinner and therefore my wife pulled the tear line months ago: Christmas dinners at the Simbas will not find anymore, instead we are looking for something out in time for the 1stFeiertag; who wants to go with, but then at his own expense. We've been booked for weeks on this date, but also two promises, one of them came from Hotel Haus Krone in Bexbach. From here to Bexbach we had gone for years with up to 10 people on Easter, Pentecost, but also on normal Sundays to brunch; but not into the crown but in the Hochwiesmühle to the Jungfleisch family, where we had always liked it well. Fine deals, not just moderately priced, but completely an order. At some point, the young meats sold the very good hotel to take their retirement somewhere in the Balearic Islands; the junior, always traded as successor, did not take over. The new operators of the Hochwiesmühle continued to offer Sunday brunch, but this was accompanied by a highly collated programme and increased prices; so the drops in Bexbach Brunch were sucked for us. Since we know neither the crown nor the other restaurant that promised us for the 1st Christmas holiday, we had to do some kind of rehearsal dinner before we cancel one of the two guest roses, and today the crown was just there. Homepage of the Krone [here link] Excerpt : In our restaurant, you will find well bourgeois to noble delicate cuisine in a pleasant and informal ambience, of course in first-class quality. Our professional service provides them without being intrusive. Among other things we offer: Lunch buffet Sunday afternoon 11:00 14:00; rich food selection from buffet incl. Water, soft drinks, juices and coffee. Ambience: The pleasant and informal ambience found by us may have been modern in the fifties of the last century à jour. After our vaccination certificates had been checked, we were frozen into a space called Winzerstube, where the professional service blurred us completely unobtrusively with the tracking form and a ballpoint pen in front of the nose even before we had ever found an opportunity to take place. An absolutely impersonal and cold room; if not covered tables, among other things a birthday table, I would have held it as a storage room; little welcoming and anything but cozy. This was also found by the 85-year-old Jubilar and his wife who arrived shortly after us. Apparently they had promised a better space when booking, and could not comply with this commitment now because the desired space was otherwise forgiven. Longer discussion of the jubilarsgattine with the restaurant management, which however absolutely did not bring a satisfactory solution. The only alternative would have been to go, but where? The jubilar with his guests remained, we stayed too. For the uncomfortable ambience I forgive a star. Service: Aside from the paddle at the beginning, the service worked neatly; He had not had much to do anyway, because we had to try our own feet on the buffets. For the service speak the clearing of the plates, the bringing of my wheat beer and the cashing out of the invoice amount there are three stars from me. Cleanliness: I didn't notice anything negative, but I didn't visit the wet rooms. Hoping that everything was fine there, I forgive five stars for cleanliness. Food and drink: We both decided for the lunch buffet to EUR 23.50 p.P. I had a Franciscan Wheat 0.5l EUR 3.90 ; our other drinks water, Fanta were included in the buffet price. What was eating? I start with the highlights, and I'll get through quickly. very tasty were the mussel salad, the sheep's cheese salad, the mushrooms, the mackerel and the spinach dumplings; the salmon that my wife tried, which, in her opinion, was very fresh. About my Vitello Tonnato and the tranches of the cold ham roast, I better cover the coat of silence; their quality was simply underground. Finster also looked at the so-called main dishes. My wife had chosen the turtle with potato gratin and red cabbage. The roe must have had many kilometers on the tacho and more years of life on the narrow hump; a single disc of the frying just went through as tender, but the majority did not. I had the pork fillet with spinach dumplings and a few broadband noodles. I had already praised the spinach dump, the bnd noodles deserve no special mention, and the poor pig died in the crown kitchen more than just a long death; more than this fillet is simply not possible, the next cooking stage, if there were such, would have been powder or dust dry. As dessert, my wife had a Bavarian crême, some chocolate and two different bars of a wabbelige witness; She didn't cheer at consumption. I got another plate of shells; the clams as such are quite right. However, they had not seen a single drop of wine or even pastis during preparation; also had been decorated with celery, cloth etc. in the kitchen. Altogether as a court disappointing, but it was not the only disappointment of the day. For food I forgive two and a half stars; the mentioned very good appetizers can't really tear everything out and the first-class quality on the homepage with in the foreground I didn't find out about long distances. Conclusion: My wife has put it on the spot in a single sentence: I don't want to come back here, and it's also clear where the Simbas will not spend the 1st Christmas holiday."
