{"id":631,"date":"2023-05-31T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ib.eco\/?post_type=recenzii&p=631"},"modified":"2024-09-22T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T10:07:40","slug":"tonka-rafinament-culinar-sustenabilitate","status":"publish","type":"recenzii","link":"https:\/\/ib.eco\/en\/recenzii\/tonka-culinary-sophistication-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonka, Frankurt: culinary sophistication and sustainable details"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'm only passing through Frankfurt. I have a few hours for a culinary experience, during the most unsuitable time of the day. It's not lunch yet and I'm having a hard time finding anything open other than coffee shops. On the Happy Cow map, I can only identify two options close enough to my train station. One of them has appetising pictures, but almost no experience, since it has been inaugurated recently. Why not, I encourage myself, as I start heading for Tonka.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After exiting the surface train, the road takes you through the narrow streets of a quiet neighbourhood. Nature really exploded this May, painting all the plants in raw green. The restaurant\u2019s entrance is located on the corner, at the intersections of two streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is almost empty inside, with a single table taken by a senior couple. The waiter greets me, assuring me that it is indeed open, and thus learns that I do not speak any German. I sit at a table in the middle of the salon, from where I can observe my surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classic design, with natural decorations<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

When I said salon earlier, I meant it. The large room reminds me of old-fashioned halls, with wooden panelling on the walls and tiles on the floor, decorated a few decades ago. The furniture and the bar are also made of solid wood, and the only splash of colour is given by the round burgundy cushions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the table with its worn-out legs, there is a small vase and a menu with 5 brown pages, tied together by a metal ring. I start browsing it quickly and I realise that it's in vain, since it's only in German. As the waiter approaches me, I admire the gorgeous decoration in the small crystal vase: a few natural pink and white four-petaled flowers, a few dried purple ones, a green sprig of wheat and a small orange cudgel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n