"We had been here a number of different times to eat in the last 3 years of living here in Germany and it had never failed to please us before, the service was friendly and timely. We went just yesterday and it was our last time going to Rothenburg before we move back stateside, it was busy, so we went inside hoping for a great last meal. We sat down and waited for our drink orders to be taken, and the server came out, apparently then noticing I was American and promptly turned around and went into the kitchen asking if anyone spoke englisch (ok he was afraid I knew NO german, I get it), but I CAN order in German, Sprechen zi kleine deutsch! Anyway, he came back out and I proceeded to order (albeit not in PERFECT german, but I was getting names of the food right), we had a little glitch but I thought it went smoothly, I ordered one drink for each member of my family and 3 meals (since neither of our children will eat a full meal themselves). We waited about 10 minutes and got our drinks, 20 minutes later, the people who came in about 5 minutes after us got their food, and food was FLYING out the door, 30 minutes, still no food, but food was flying by us to other tables and the waiter had time to seriously flirt with two asian girls in the restaurant, 40 minutes later, the waiter comes out and says "2 more minutes", my hubby is ready to put money down for the drinks and leave, about 5 or so minutes later our food comes out, literally as we are getting ready to pay for our drinks and leave. So we decided (as our children were both irritable and hungry) to stay, no explanation as to why we were pretty much THE last family to be served in the restaurant until after he picks up our plates. He then explains, in PERFECT english (I fully didn't expect it, honestly) that he got confused and that I had told him we wanted 4 plates of sausages (ummmmm NO...I did not!) supposedly that's why our food took so long, however it was all hot when it came out, even our children's kinderschnitzel und pommes (so needless to say it had NOT been prepared in a decent time and our order probably got buried). If we had time to go back we would not return to the Goldenes Lamm. We have never been made to feel so SUBLEVEL human as we were made to feel yesterday. I was SOOO disappointed, this very much used to be our "go to" restaurant, the food really wasn't even as good as it used to be, not too sure what happened there, but the changes they have made have not been for the better."
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
