Was on the hunt for something new to try. After watching too much travel channel I decided that I really wanted to try blood sausage and pirozhki. Gave up on finding pirozhki today because to many places were closed :(
I remembered this place was up the street and decided to give blood sausage one more try. To my surprise when I called they answered and had what I was looking for. This was way outside the scope of luck I seemed to be having today.
I took a quick drive up there. I walked in and was one or two customers in the very tiny but cool shop. The other customer spoke fluent German and there was mass native tongue flying all around me. Kinda cool but also made me feel very out of place.
The only gripe I really have was there were 3 people in the back smoking and chatting and one lady in the front talking and helping the other customer. I was in there for a good 10-15 minutes before someone in the back came to help me. Also bring cash unless you plan to spent at least $10 because they won't run a card for any less then that.
The lady was very nice and quickly got all I was looking for. Decided to grab some blutwurst(blood sauge) and some kasseler smoked pork chop. I've had kasseler before and figured at least I had some protein for lunch if I hated the blood sausage.
I quickly went home and grilled them both to a nice toasty temp. The pork chop was good. Nothing spectacular but its smoked pork.. it really can't be bad.
The blutwurst was.... AMAZING! This may now be one of my favorite tube shaped foods, as Bourdain would call it.
It had this amazing dark rich flavor followed by a strong flavor from the barely that was also in the sausage. Very earth.. very.. I would say blood like but I can't say with any certainty I've had another blood product before.