Siemsens Gaard - Bornholm

We have eaten here several times through the last years. And every time it was perfect, nice french brasserie style with a Bornholm twist. Somewhat expensive but good. But this year the lunch was a big disappointment. The restaurant in Siemsens Gaard have changed name to Njord, and the menu which were changed from French to standard scandinavian open faced sandwiches. We ordered two fish filets and a steak tartare. And we ordered two of the morst expensive glasses of wine on the menu. We also ordered a carafe of sparkling water which were priced at outrageously 70 kr. Compare that with the luxury restaurant Melsted Badehotel where the water is 25 kr. The waiter brought the glasses of wine already poured and we never saw the actual bottles. I have never experienced this in anything but the cheapest of cafes. Then came the filets of fish. The were large and delicious looking. However, of the ca. 2 cm. thickness most of it was batter and breadcrumbs. I think the fish were at most 0.5 cm with the batter on each side much thicker. We had to scrape off most of the batter which we left on the plate. The fish in the middle were thin and dry. We seriously were in doubt of whether the fish was frozen, since it was not soft and delicious. The steak tatare was OK and the fries were actually very good. In the future, I prefer to eat in any of the smokeries on Bornholm, where the quality is just as good or better and the prices are less than half. The only thing that have not changed since last year is the prices. Such a disappointment.

Fabulous menu and extremely well executed. It was difficult to choose from the menu because you wanted to try everything and it did not disappoint. First time we tried the evening seating but definitely not the last. Thanks.

Today we had a surprisingly good diner at Siemsens Gaard. The menu is nice and compact. The food was perfect as was the personel. Try it!

A change in ownership must not always result in weaker service, but the takeover by Hugust Holding ApS, definitely has done so to this, so many years appreciated place of kindness and hospitality. Unfortunately we had to notice today, that the great service, family style hospitality from Jens Ipsen and his team, and a simple and friendly, non biased welcome, how can I serve you , are not present anymore, at our former, first choice here in Svaneke. Having enjoyed a delicious Pizza at Bonalâs, we wanted to let the good old memories, of over 10 enjoyable stays (between 1990 and 2012) pass by again, while having a digestif on the still nice an welcoming terrace. Not only that it took a waiter 3 visits on the terrace to take notice of us, he than finally came to our table and told us straight, before we couldn 't express any wish: sorry we don 't have enough capacity to serve you here on the terrace . After telling him that we would only have liked to drink a digestiv, he continued: Oh I saw your Pizza (which we brought as leftover from Bonalâs, but certainly without any intention to eat the remainings at Siemsens Gaard) and thought you were hotel guests and didn 't wanted to consume anything . After we said sorry for the disturbance and that under these circumstances we certainly didn 't wanted to be any burden to him, he has complimented us away from the terrace and wished us to enjoy our pizza, obvioulsly happy that he didn 't had to serve pesky pizza eaters . If Siemsens Gaard und the new owership feels, that hospitality and friendliness can be replaced by simply offering stylish sounding food on the menue, we feel sorry for this playce, because anyone how knows how this place was rund by the Ipsens, will feel foolish if he 's intendet to return. It 's really difficult to loose often returning, loyal guests, but at Siemsens Gaard today, they manage to do this in perfection shame on you this is in no way any service level and we indeed enjoyed our Pizza (and in fact by far better hospitality at Bonalâs), as we would have loved to enjoy our digestif and potententially a full course dinner in remembrance for four, here as well.

The food was really good. A little boring thing on the menu if you need to put your finger on something, but we took the poussions and they were put delicious.