European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Review showing Down cures those Lovesick blues by sgt. Ret Clement Lounder inhere is one season when food is nil Al the very forefront of jumbo Perry s mind it is during the present one Spring when my Best buddy s thoughts urn to the Pursuit however lumbering it May be of women Type Folk. Now we Are not talking your real Luthen Lic variety of love hero friends not Rue Taranco in any Folls forms but a sort of passing fancy  hits old jumbo in very Early Spring. Ii lingers briefly and then sort of Peters out altogether about the time the first asparagus begins to Ripen. It is what might be called under different circumstances Puppy love. Different circumstances requiring that jumbo s body weigh nut be More than an entire Kennel. For whatever reason. Jumbo is most often attracted to women ,1 Mere fraction of Hissie women who weigh no More than their Fin Bowling averages. These Are tiny Little ladies Bird like Young creatures who in jumbo s Shadow Are experiencing total eclipse. Worse still these women normally Dink three courses is a Tomato n boiled Ujj a and about half an Apple. You May know i he Type. Jumbo being hot for All that is Haule you can no doubt we the conflict in interests. And it normally does not take very Many sit Downs for Iho Little  to gel fed up with jumbo s need to be foil incl to make reservations Solo speak with somebody else. It was after one such sprung Spring fling that jumbo who is always willing to mend a urn can heart by breaking bread hauled me of to a restaurant in Leiden Germany to purge himself of the memory of his most recent Little lost lady. The place is called the hotel restaurant Zum b3ren, a Nice Little place that spreads crw ily Over three dining rooms All of i hem Donu up in fake Brick and real beams and inns of Copper with an occasional Ceramic oven thrown in. True to its name fit re is the from Pelion of a Black Bear stuffed and mounted Over the bar. Head for the slightly More formal dining areas in the Back if you will but jumbo and me prefer the front room close to the Bustle of i lit Street and the jokes of the regulars where Jet Linin your Glass topped off normally takes no More Uli Ort than a lift of he hand or maybe a Little nod or two. On the Day in question jumbo and me grabbed a table by the window orbit Rcd up a couple of glasses of Leiden Berg Brau  beautifully bitter i la if Beer made a but 50 Yards Down the Road from the restaurant and then settled in with the menus. It turns out various members of a family named Riehm have been running Zum Bjoren Sim sometime in the m0 a Back when Amer ii .1,1 believe was not much More  a  in King Ferdinand s Eye. Walter Helfmann a srm nl",1 Riehm runs i he plate Thi in Days serving up ill manner of meat and game and fish find Pirimi Bleul Fleer ragout to a clinic Els and him Kali Mil Mui i Mure. Lumbo almost  Iski d r or the Ivin Slot r i Iii Hin a Jumble of Purk diets  crimes with All kinds of fixings Lule i edit if lir menu irl thu Day so huh d cured a soup 4 ourm. Lit Nash Anil dessert. I Deti Ineil in us ii ii a my Villi i stir til smoked Salmon. Ii  Little Unten Juri ilm had a the Zum bite in to Cimon Germany is Bacn serving great Chow forge of rations. Practise we Raul control silting there with sweat forming on his upper lip As i worked my Way through he bowl of Chicken Broth with noodles nol bad and a Small Platter of the smoked Salmon sprinkled with fresh Dill not served up with a Dollop of horseradish Cream and a Basket of bread and Bulter. Very Lusty Lumbo s patience was rewarded a Short time later though As the waitress presented his Moscow meal in a  Copper saute pan. There were at least four or five Lender Little pork fillets in there covered with mushrooms and bristling with crispy Fried onions and with a pile of Home Fries and Green Beans with Bacon thrown in on both sides. An awesome amount of Chow and As jumbo managed to mumble Between Chews Well prepared. An eight on the International Icale i believe he said. I fish which turned out to be Perch in a Butler sauce May Luve Dot cd the drama of jumbo s soviet l in Undine Susli-n.ini.-, but it was theek Fiji Stening in Everyway being lopped with chives Anil a handful of Capers and served up with buttered potatoes on the Side.  a Lull working through his pile of fillets when my dessert arrived a Lille dish of Mil  it. Lopped Wilh we Ippel Ream and a slices of Tresh sir i berries. Wry in e. I veil being lose in the bar in look of .1 Dull Lule la order up Tofee 1 he place had Bein fairly i Uiel when a arrived bul business  built up and la e the Nail resses were busier n  Paramo  in the ides of March if you get my Drift. Waddling Back to the car jumbo and me started working out our rating. Right off the Bat i got to it la you that the Chow is very solid indeed being maybe not too fancy but Savory and Well prepared. The staff is fast anti Friendly and the locals mostly Rel Rcd gentlemen in suits Are a Lively Bunch. And Tennis freaks can drive Down thu Street and around the Corner to Boris Decker s Parent s House at no. S3 Nussloch Strasse. Do not say old Clem sent you. Zum Kiiren is located at no. 20 Rathaus Strasse in Cir twi jus South of Heidelberg. Call og2m-7ism for reservations or other information. The place is closed mondays. Expect to pay around $12 a head not counting refreshments of the liquid variety. Jumbo and me give the place three my i half pointy fingers. Ratings k 2 s b 2 awesome Al. We re talking Paradise on a plate Here. 222T very Fine dining. Crack service and memorable food and drink. 2 a 2 solid Chow. Good food of atmosphere and pleasant service. V j decent. About equal to a Ponderosa slav House. Ujj path cult. Crummy Chow so so service Semi rally Interior. 20 Tir Ipei Magazine april 30, 19s7