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| - Food for old people! Very old people! I am basing this review off of a single experience that I had today. While the service was just eh, my rating refers specifically to the food I ate today. For the record, I hate to give anybody a bad review, but I can't help myself today.
I happened to catch an episode of DDD last night that showcased Sterle's and raved about it. In another strange coincidence, I happened to be at A1 restaurant supply today that is just up the street, purchasing food truck equipment and they recommended we try Sterle's for lunch. I thought to myself, "how cool!", I just saw this place on DDD last night. I was excited!
The place is huge! It's seemingly well kept and the staff, while preoccupied teenagers were nice enough. The menu is small, simple and consists of German/European comfort foods like Paprikash, Sausage, Pretzels, etc... Menu items are over priced, which I don't mind if the food is awesome. To try it our I went for the least expensive item that should be a no brainer and a staple for any German restaurant. And here is where for me, Sterle's goes wrong. The food was BBBoring. I mean really really boring! I ordered the $9.00 Weinerschnitzel sandwich as did my business partner and a couple of house made beers. The beer was ok. The food was tasteless. I can't express exactly how tasteless it was. I've had saltine crackers with more flavor. The tomato had the most flavor of anything on my plate and that's not good folks. Plain white bread, iceberg lettuce, over ripe tomato and a piece of Schnitzel with lays potato chips on the side. Not a terrible combo if anything had flavor. Two words for the cook, Salt & Pepper. The Schnitzel was as it should be, pounded thin and fried. But it was so thin that it was basically just breading and was dripping oil. The whole plate screamed senior citizen or cafeteria food. Needless to say, I didn't finish my meal and hit a drive thru on my way home.
For the price and for the extreme lack of flavor, I will not return unless to have a beer in the Biergarten. If you have kids that don't like spice or are over the age of 70 this may be the place for you! Palettes are like opinions and everybody's is different. For me, this was not food that I will crave anytime soon.
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