Consultatory exists, but I'd probably go for consultative. From the Oxford English Dictionary:
Consultatory: pertaining to or serving for consultation (e.g. of an oracle, etc.); having the character of consultation or deliberation, consultative.
1600 Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 80 Here the lot is consultatorie+because they could not tell who it was that had done the deede, they will put it to their Gods. 1664 Evelyn Sylva (1776) 168 Formerly they made consultatory staves of this tree. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. viii. 395 Their decision would be only consultatory, and have no more weight than royal instructions.
Consultative: of or pertaining to consultation; having the right or power to advise or join in consultation; deliberative, advisory: said chiefly of a body whose function is to take part in a consultation, but not to vote upon the decision.
1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 107 To have a consultatiue, exhortatiue, or consentatiue voice onely. 1846 Grote Greece i. xx. II. 91 The Council is a purely consultative body assembled+solely for his information and guidance. 1878 Gladstone Prim. Homer 117 In this consultative and executive body, discussion is quite free.
Moralist reproduces the good denotation of gutmensch with a similar dark connotation:
noun
1.0 A person who teaches or promotes morality.
1.1 A person given to moralizing.
ODO
Almost everyone considers their own morality to be good. Most consider their moral judgments to be superior, or at least on par with the best, but in the modern mind, a moralist is often portrayed with an irrational moral opinion used unsympathetically to cajole and coerce others into conformity against their will.
John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait, by Sidney Hook, reveals the positive denotation of one who constructs a superior moral framework:
To those who know him by his less technical writings, John Dewey
appears as a great moralist and educator.
In his introduction of The Unity of Plutarch's Work, Anastasios Nikolaidis used moralist with the dark connotations of irrationality and coercion:
These findings, however, do not entail that Plutarch was a crude
moralist who stigmatized deeds and conducts, meted out prescriptions
for correct ways of living or put forward ideal, and therefore
unattainable, patterns of behaviour.
Although the preacher from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was predominantly a hypocrite, he was primarily a moralist, who struggled against his own gutmenschlich qualities at the expense of his secret mistress, Hester Prynne:
The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame. Throughout them all, giving up her individuality, she would become the
general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in
which they might vivify and embody their images of women's frailty and
sinful passion. Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast—at her, the child of honourable parents—at her, the mother of a babe that would hereafter be a woman—at her, who had once been innocent—as the figure, the body, the reality of sin. And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument.
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sounds like the closest corresponding term in English.
In the US, restaurants primarily serve everything 'a la carte'. There may be specials of the day, but they are in a sense simply just like other a la carte entries that change from day to day rather than always available. In other words, the conception corresponding to the continental meaning of 'menu' has no real word for it because it just doesn't happen. If it does, the word 'menu' is not used but the French 'prix fixe' or 'table d'hôte' is instead.
And it is common for more informal restaurants to have one or two changing items every day, called 'specials' or 'lunch specials'. In American diners in the 50's, these were often called:
after the blue rim on the plate that they were traditionally served in. This is the closest term for the German concept but is not identical.