What does a vegetarian eat at a German restaurant? Well, given the unknown origin of the brown in the brown gravy on the spaetzle, I'd say, "not spaetzle." And the potato salad was, uh, not recommended. But I did have a small bowl of mac and cheese (er, make that shells and cheese), a house salad (with shredded carrots and a few garbanzo beans!) and an apple strudel for dessert. Not the healthiest meal I've ever had.
The apple strudel was the most expensive of the items I ordered at $5.25. For that price, I expected something really good (like this) or, at least authentic. But what I got was a small, thin slice of something that obviously was cut from a large pan and looked a bit like a short piece of apple lasagna. It tasted okay, but was not my idea of an apple strudel.
Regardless, Claudia's mission at the restaurant was accomplished. Inasmuch as it could be considering what she came to eat--the oyster roll--was no longer offered in its original form. Word has it that the original recipe was lost in the move from the original location to the current location. What was served in its place were these sort of oyster hush puppy things. Let's just say it was a great time to fall back on the excuse that I don't eat critters in order to avoid having a taste.
The restaurant looks like a pretty cool place to have a beer, though. And, hey it's well ventilated so I don't stink of schnitzel. Which is a very good thing. And, thankfully, the the good company made up for the not-so-good food. However, if you love all sorts of meats ground up and squeezed into cylindrical shapes or pressed into other non-natural looking masses, this might be a great place to visit. Take your nitro pill with you, though.
4 comments:
Potato pancakes and applesauce!
Lesley: Kate has the same problem when we eat there...but frankly we've been so disapointed with the food that we probably won't return. Coming from Milwaukee it's been kind of depressing the state of German and Polish food here. Lannae had to travel all the way to Oak Ridge to get decent perogi. Beer always helps though, doesn't it!
the strudel was TERRIBLE. lesley you are being waaaaay too easy on them. it was DEsgusting - although Z's fries were good and his sandwhich looked good too. hard to destroy a reuben.
but no chef and as you commented - they are phoning it in...
thanks for the 3 bites of the mac and cheese. that was ok but also - hard to screw up pasta with cheese sauce...
i hardly ate anything and i calculated i had 470 calories and 20 grams of fat...
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seeing you guys was the best part. thanks for getting me out and about.
I like the potato pancakes and that's about it...and the beer...there is no better beer than a big, frosted fishbowl of ice cold brew at the Gerst Haus.
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