Ah, Das Schnitzel Haus! I love me a good schnitzel! My husband and I made plans to meet another couple there and arrived at around 6:30 last Saturday. When we walked in, there was no hostess stand and nobody greeted us, so we spotted the bar in the back and headed for it. A staff member stopped us on our way and asked how many would be in our party. We told him "four" and he told us that a couple booths would open up shortly. Cool! At least someone was looking out for new faces! The place was fairly busy but we got seated fairly quickly.
Our waitress, a mature woman with short grey hair, came by immediately to take our drink orders and noticed we already had beverages from the bar, so she said she'd give us time to look at the menu and she'd be back to take our orders. A very short time later she was back. The menu has a lot of options and one of our party wasn't quite ready yet but our waitress appeared to be in a hurry so the undecided one offered to order last. Not a huge deal. I just felt like we were being rushed. In fact every time we interacted with her I got the feeling that we were taking up too much of her time. More on our waitress later...she's the reason I couldn't give this establishment any higher than 3 stars...
We split an order of potato pancakes to start. These were perfect! Crispy outside and creamy inside, I don't even think they needed the apple sauce and sour cream that accompanied them! (But I plopped a little apple sauce on mine anyway.) The order was huge! 4 good-sized pancakes...I can't imagine NOT sharing!
For my main course I opted for the Weiner Schnitzel and spaetzle and the cabbage & noodles as my sides. The cabbage & noodles were just ok. The spaetzle was delicious...tender and buttery. The Weiner Schnitzel? WOW! Possibly the best Weiner Schnitzel I've ever had! And that comes from the girl that grew up on Sterle's Slovenian Country House's Schnitzel! The portion size left plenty for lunch the next day!
So let's get back to our hurried waitress. Our friend that dined with us stutters. At one point he ordered a Warsteiner, only it came out "Wa..a..aa.arsteiner". The waitress parroted back to him "Oh, you want a Wa.a.aa.arsteiner?" Holy Cow!!!! I'm thinking, "Did she really do that?!?" She completely mocked him! The look on my face must've shown everything I was feeling because as soon as she walked away our friend tried to calm me down a little. I cannot believe she completely mocked him! How incredibly rude!!!
So there you have it...
Good food....AWESOME Schnitzel....but the friendliness and sensitivity of our waitress left MUCH to be desired.