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| - Café Berlin is a very nice, comfortable diner for a variety of German bratwursts and schnitzels! Yes, German beer and wine, too! Go enjoy!
LONG VERSION:
- It's a medium size, bright, comfortable café/diner with family style atmosphere; located in a small plaza by a gas station and Popeyes.
It has an impressive lunch and dinner menu [See Pics] with several choices of bratwursts and schnitzels; along with a few kinds of German beers and wine by the bottle.
I went there for late lunch around 2:30pm on a Tue, it was understandably not too crowded, with only 3 tables of customers there. The owner was working all alone by herself, from taking/bringing out orders to bussing tables and manning the register! She was very friendly and helpful, chatting up with customers, to some of them in German. I take that as a sign of a place for good genuine German food!
I had a Nuenberger bratwurst sandwich with sauerkraut and grilled onions ($8.99), and a bottle of dark beer ($4.99). The bratwurst was grilled to perfection with somewhat cripy skin outside and juicy and flavorful inside, tasty in every bite. The grilled onions added wonderful aroma and taste. The sauerkraut had the right acidity I liked, but was a bit overcooked. The mustard came in a small squeeze bottle. It did not have any special taste. So, I decided to do without it on my bratwurst. The bottle of dark beer, Warsteine, was excellent, though on the expensive side. I wish Café Berlin would eventually serve draft beers! I also had coffee, which was hot enough, but pretty weak.
Overall, I enjoyed my lunch experience very much, and will go back with friends to sample some more good stuff from their large selection of wursts and schnitzels. I'll update my review after that.
I am very happy that we now have two places in Vegas, where we can get some good genuine German cuisine. Dita's is a fast food place where its German dishes are good but limited to only bratwurst, $4 and currywurst, $6. Café Berlin, on the other hand, is a very nice family restaurant/café, which offers a good selection of wursts and schnitzels (at much higher prices, of course), as well as German beer and wine! So, take your pick to suit your mood of the moment.
A few KIND NOTES to Café Berlin management:
1. A WISH:
- PLEASE start having "Happy Hour" soon with small sampler plates, over German "draft" beers? Well, I said it was a WISH!
2. MINOR CRTICISM:
- The mustard bottle with my bratwurst order was almost empty, DIFFICULT to squeeze anything out. I think a good restaurant needs to pay more attention to details like that.
- The lady owner gave some holiday cookies at the end of our meals - a very nice touch for the holidays! So I even ordered coffee for that. But, the owner never did ask if I needed a coffee refill (- the coffee is listed as "bottomless" on the menu). Perhaps, the owner really did not normally wait on tables. She did it that day was possibly ONLY BECAUSE her regular waitress was NOT on duty?
- Yes, I know those are very minor stuff, but minor stuff like those could sometimes put customers off. If the restaurant do it right, such as offering customers coffee refills and asking how the meals are, it will make customers feel welcome and special.
Peterskis3, Dec 2012
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