"The restaurant of Hotel Dermuth has been popular with the middle and upper class people of the surrounding villas for decades. This long tradition is clearly visible in the house. The furniture has not changed much, but is still in a surprisingly good condition, given...its age. Inevitably, it looks a bit outdated nowadays. Even the silver cutlery, silver bread baskets and alike are still in use, although they are surely several decades old. The elegant and also very traditional menu offers a wide choice. This restaurant continues to focus on classic Viennese cuisine and it specializes in beef dishes. Nonetheless even vegetarians will find a sufficient number of dishes to choose from. We had arrived early for lunch on a Sunday and the time we had to wait for our dishes was pretty normal. In the meantime we tried the amuse gueule, namely a smoked fish spread, which had to our bewilderment already been on the table along with a basket of sliced bread at our arrival. So it did not come as much of a surprise that the bread was very dry indeed. As to the dishes we had ordered our experiences were mixed. While the Barbary duck breast was alright, the seabream fillet as well as the fried potatoes accompanying it turned out to be excessively greasy. The blue trout tasted good, but was not blue at all. Even if the color in this case has no bearing on the taste, one may expect from a classy restaurant daring to put blue trout on the menu that it is capable of cooking this notoriously difficult dish. In the course of time the restaurant became almost full and service quality deteriorated correspondingly. The personnel is only partly to blame for this since they were simply too few in number to cope with the heavy workload. At any rate, having to wait over 20 minutes for the bill is pretty annoying. This is not a bad restaurant. But seeing that it is so pricey, one may expect a better performance. We found value for money to be average at best."
