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| - My first Yelp Elite event! Yay! :o)
My husband and I had a great time. We hung out at the event for a little while and made some sweet pretzel necklaces. We tried a variety of appetizers (sausages, pate, potato pancakes, sauerkraut balls, chicken wings), and my husband tried two beers (one Czech, one Austrian). My favorite of the apps were the sauerkraut balls, and my husband (who is not normally a huge wing fan) raved about the chicken wings.
Then we made our way back into the main dining room to try out some of the other things on the menu. We split the Reinlander Platter (smoked pork chop and bratwurst with dumplings, red cabbage, and a tossed salad) and a bowl of the German potato soup. I really enjoyed the house sour cream and chive salad dressing. The potato soup was just ok though - kinda bland. We both enjoyed the two meat selections, and I really liked that they brought both horseradish and mustard on the side. We also noticed that the dinner rolls were exceptional - warm and soft. The "dumplings" were served with brown gravy, which was good. Neither of us are very experienced eaters of this type of cuisine, and we both said "I thought this was spaetzle." They also have spaetzle on the menu, so I assume there must be some difference. I guess I'll have to eat more German food to figure it out. The cherry strudel we had for dessert was not particularly good. It was warm, which was nice, but the cherries tasted like they came straight out of a can.
I definitely admired their bar menue - a nice variety of German beers on tap and not one, but three(!) different hot boozy drinks to warm you up on a snowy night. On another night, I would have been all over that.
Overall I give it a thee because while the food and service were pleasant, nothing was good enough to make me say "Yea, I definitely would want to come back here."
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