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| - I was really excited to try the Schnitzel Haus but was left disappointed. I was married to a German, have traveled all over Germany, have had German food across the US, so my expectations are high.
We started with the kartoffel pancakes, and they were delayed coming out. The cakes were huge, but oil oozed from them when slicing into them. Served with a small portion of canned applesauce and sour cream. I didn't care to eat more than one.
I ordered the jaeger schnitzel and while the cutlet was moist and had a good crust, it was also oozing oil. The jaeger sauce was bland without any punch. I would've thought the mashed potatoes were flakes until I hit a chunk of potato, so that's good, I suppose. I really love spaetzle and this was not my favorite. It needed to be fried in the pan more (to give a better crunchy texture), or it needed to be drizzled into the water at a smaller density. Instead, you just had large, chewy, flavorless curds. Normally spaetzle is the first thing to leave my plate, but I wasn't interested in finishing.
My wife had the seafood alfredo pasta and it was equally unimpressive. The sauce seemed to be nothing more than cream and a bit of parmesan and was one-note (I know, alfredo isn't much more than that, but this was pretty uninteresting). The shrimp was overcooked and the "krab" was imitation...so both items were rubbery.
I just got the sense that perhaps the food has been "Americanized" to fit the midwest palate.
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