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Ate: November 10, 2006 Published: November 12, 2006 $$$ As the week began to wind down and our standard decision about where to review this week came up. I wanted to venture outside of our usual realm, so I looked at my lovely wife and said "Hey baby, let's try something different. How about German?" After pulling up the online directory and finding listings for the three German restaurants in the area, we decided that this week, we would head into the center of old Myrtle Beach and visit Bodo's German Restaurant. At first glance, Bodo's looks a lot more like a small hip college bar or coffee house than a restaurant a block and a half from the ocean. The apathetic host lounging at the bar only added to the environment. Small college bars, however, don't have thirteen dollar appetizers. We spent several minutes waiting to be acknowledged by the waitress and almost walked out before she brought us our menus. Their appetizer menu was full of formidable foreign names with lots of consonants, but we went for the more mundanely titled German Wurst Sampler, billed as a variety of imported sausages. We got two different sausages in a thin chicken stock sauce. One was pretty good with a distinctive flavor, but the other tasted an awful lot like a hot dog to the two of us. Unimpressed, we sat and waited for our main courses. And waited. And waited. And it wasn't like they were real busy - we were the only people in the restaurant. Admittedly, we are two people with hearty appetites who enjoy our food, but when our dinners finally arrived, they looked kind of small for what we were paying. We also discovered that even with barely any patrons, a restaurant can actually run out our sweet tea. My wife had ordered the schweineschnitzel, a pork loin cutlet, with spetzle (noodles) and German potato salad. The cutlet was small, thin and covered in the same thin chicken stock sauce as was our appetizer. The spetzle was kind of bland, and the sauce didn't help much. The only thing on her plate she had anything nice to say about was the potato salad. I had ordered something called sauerbraten. At first, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that sauerbraten is Germany's take on barbecued beef. But I'm afraid that the pleasant feeling didn't last. I sure hope that the sauerbraten they make in Germany is better than what I had this evening. It was a pretty weak offering, with mushy meat and a flavorless sauce. One thing that didn't help our perception of Bodo's that evening was when we saw another couple enter the restaurant. They arrived more than forty-five minutes after we did, but their meals arrived only a couple of minutes after ours. That didn't exactly endear us to the staff this evening. When we finally managed to make our way back out of the restaurant, my wife and I agreed on two things. First, we paid way too much for our meal. Second, the potato salad was the only thing good that either of us ate there. We've usually had pretty good luck picking restaurants for review, but our luck ran out this week. Bodo's German Restaurant has absolutely nothing that can make us recommend it. |
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