last visit: 21.10.2011
Where: Kleine Bockenheimer Straße 14, Frankfurt
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Why strive to the city center of Frankfurt when you have a variety of choices to dine around my place in Bornheim? Sure, the "Heimat" on the Berliner Strasse is definitely worth a visit but most wallets wouldn't sustain regular visits. I'll try to explore that part of the town better in the future. As fate would have it my co-worker goes back to the US for a rather long period and since the hotel he is staying at to catch his early flight next day is quiet close to the Freßgass (a famous pedestrian area with rather sophisticated bars and restaurants and of course a McDonald's) and my research as well as me recalling some recomendations I thought to try out IMA Multibar for a small and informal farewell dinner.
I had booked a table for three people in the afternoon and if this Friday is a benchmark it is definitely recommended to do so. The interior is designed minimalistically without coming across too cold.
The place is pretty dense and I guess it might be quiet crowded during lunchtime but that is nothing that bothers me nor influences my review. You can easily check in advance if a place is convenient for a certain purpose and what ambience you can expect. I mean you wouldn't go to McDonald's for a candlelight dinner or expect a drive through at Jamie Oliver's place.
Corresponding to the set-up the menu is kept simple which on one hand - supported by the sight of the open kitchen - hopefully indicates that this place offers few but delicious choices but it definitely saves me time translating everything to my colleague.
On the menu we find various kinds of wraps, various oriental appetizers, a freestyle platter (with hummus, guacamole or freestyle addition couscous, potato-chickpea puree), baked potatoes and salads. These dishes can be enhanced with plenty of extras like vegetables, beef, chicken, smoked duck breast, fried goat cheese and many more.
We select a large freestyle platter (€8), a small salad with beef (€4,50 + €3), a wrap with smoked duck breast salad, pineapple - mango - mint chutney, sour cream and balsamic dressing and one with Tiger prawns, salad, potato-chickpea puree, homemade chili-vanilla jelly, yogurt - wasabi dressing and Asian dressing (€ 8.50 / € 9). The friendly waitress recommends a rasperry-I-forgot-the-other-ingredients-dressing for the salad and we decide to go for it.
Being located in this area of the town and with every dish coming for less than € 10 we fear to be served with tiny portions good for a picture in a sophisticated restaurant guide but not sufficient to fill our stomachs. Luckily that's not the case: The wraps are big enough to be tried by each one of us and each one of us agrees: Delicious, fresh and healthy! The many sauces, relishes and chutneys in that thin pita bread are perfectly complementing the duck breast/tiger prawns being a non-dominating but very important support act. The small salad is fresh and teaming up with the beef it becomes a quiet a portion delicately coated in that rasperry-I-forgot-the-other-ingredients-dressing. The freestyle platter can give any other dedicated oriental restaurant a run for their money and is not only eaten up in no time but we also leave the platter brightly polished using the bread that came along with it.
I am getting a watery mouth just writing about it. € 32.50 (excluding drinks) - good value for money - go for it!
Where: Kleine Bockenheimer Straße 14, Frankfurt
Auf Deutsch lesen / Read this in German
Why strive to the city center of Frankfurt when you have a variety of choices to dine around my place in Bornheim? Sure, the "Heimat" on the Berliner Strasse is definitely worth a visit but most wallets wouldn't sustain regular visits. I'll try to explore that part of the town better in the future. As fate would have it my co-worker goes back to the US for a rather long period and since the hotel he is staying at to catch his early flight next day is quiet close to the Freßgass (a famous pedestrian area with rather sophisticated bars and restaurants and of course a McDonald's) and my research as well as me recalling some recomendations I thought to try out IMA Multibar for a small and informal farewell dinner.
I had booked a table for three people in the afternoon and if this Friday is a benchmark it is definitely recommended to do so. The interior is designed minimalistically without coming across too cold.
The place is pretty dense and I guess it might be quiet crowded during lunchtime but that is nothing that bothers me nor influences my review. You can easily check in advance if a place is convenient for a certain purpose and what ambience you can expect. I mean you wouldn't go to McDonald's for a candlelight dinner or expect a drive through at Jamie Oliver's place.
Corresponding to the set-up the menu is kept simple which on one hand - supported by the sight of the open kitchen - hopefully indicates that this place offers few but delicious choices but it definitely saves me time translating everything to my colleague.
On the menu we find various kinds of wraps, various oriental appetizers, a freestyle platter (with hummus, guacamole or freestyle addition couscous, potato-chickpea puree), baked potatoes and salads. These dishes can be enhanced with plenty of extras like vegetables, beef, chicken, smoked duck breast, fried goat cheese and many more.
We select a large freestyle platter (€8), a small salad with beef (€4,50 + €3), a wrap with smoked duck breast salad, pineapple - mango - mint chutney, sour cream and balsamic dressing and one with Tiger prawns, salad, potato-chickpea puree, homemade chili-vanilla jelly, yogurt - wasabi dressing and Asian dressing (€ 8.50 / € 9). The friendly waitress recommends a rasperry-I-forgot-the-other-ingredients-dressing for the salad and we decide to go for it.
Being located in this area of the town and with every dish coming for less than € 10 we fear to be served with tiny portions good for a picture in a sophisticated restaurant guide but not sufficient to fill our stomachs. Luckily that's not the case: The wraps are big enough to be tried by each one of us and each one of us agrees: Delicious, fresh and healthy! The many sauces, relishes and chutneys in that thin pita bread are perfectly complementing the duck breast/tiger prawns being a non-dominating but very important support act. The small salad is fresh and teaming up with the beef it becomes a quiet a portion delicately coated in that rasperry-I-forgot-the-other-ingredients-dressing. The freestyle platter can give any other dedicated oriental restaurant a run for their money and is not only eaten up in no time but we also leave the platter brightly polished using the bread that came along with it.
I am getting a watery mouth just writing about it. € 32.50 (excluding drinks) - good value for money - go for it!
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| Small salad with beef and rasperry dressing |
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| Freestyle oriental platter |
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| Wrap with smoked duck breast |
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