Food and drink are actually pretty good. I guess the thing that bugs me is the attempt at german culture, and then the total commercialization / selling out of it. $9.5 plus tax for 0.5L of beer? Serving beer in a glass not from the actual brewer? You'd go to jail for either of those things in Germany. Even at mega touristy oktoberfest in expensive munich, beer is easily 40% cheaper. But I guess they have a monopoly on german places in calgary. If I had the time, I'd open an authentic german place across the street where it didn't cost $50 to get drunk and we didn't try to make the place like Earls or Joeys. That said beer and food are solid. It'd just be nice if someone actually spoke german there and it wasn't run like a marketing trap.