Ephraim`s - Berlin

Good standard German eating with some exotic supplements. portions are reasonable, prices are affordable, and the atmosphere is right. the hotel is located in a corner of nikolai district, a beautiful pedestrian zone

For lunch and 20 minutes for a beer arrive and 45 minutes for lukewarm eating of small portions. lebermash is cheap food and must be served generously, that was not the case. Please don't get the male waiter-slow.... looked disgusting that he had to work at all. When my wife asked for salad recommendations, he scrubbed his shoulders and said he didn't eat them. the salate when he arrived, looked like he had been cut by a class of 7 year old children and this is a supplement. the beer was good when it arrived, but no tables were cleaned only between the incoming and outward leaving people. often the toilets are a good note on an essei and these were unclean, no soap and nothing to dry their hands.

We were a party of 5 and had dinner, when we got the check and wanted to pay with the credit card we were told to our surprise “only cash”! We were visiting from Latin America and had only a few euros cash with us...for emergencies. The waiter told us that it was posted outside the restaurant no credit cards accepted. I went outside and saw nothing. Then he said, if we wanted to pay with credit card, it Would be an extra 10% surcharge of the total amount! Never heard of something like that! We got really annoyed by then. Then he said, his machine for cards was down anyway. My daughter had to leave and search for an ATM machine. In a city like Berlin you only can pay in cash?? Impossible. Very disappointing and a friend of mine living in Berlin told me that’s a systematic abuse by restaurants to ask only for cash! It’s 2022!!!!

A real let down. This restaurant has an absolute prime location on the river yet it falls far short of what it could be. The food is bland, poorly executed and completely dated. The decor should have been replaced 29 years ago, plastic tables, faded...umbrellas, and interior decoration that belongs in a museum. The service was ok, nothing special but nothing terrible.

Good food, honest prices a bit slow service but in general i would have been rating them better but on 2022 after Covid they cannot ask me to pay cash and not having credit card!!!!