Good food and good staff. Needs a better wine cellar. A little bit pricey for what is served…read more To be able to eat grilled sardines and fried squid al la Portugal in the middle of Germany is a great surprise.

We go there for the shrimp. About the best shrimp in the world! You can get "All you can eat", but…read morethe standard 30 shrimp plate is plate is plenty. Make sure you have some bread or rice to sop up the left over sauce. Yum!

This was a wonderful restaurant! Felt very authentic and hospitable. The staff was kind and…read morepatient with us. The food was outstanding and the charming atmosphere really draws you in. I will go back whenever I visit the beautiful city of Aachen.

We wanted a true German experience at a restaurant for lunch. My wife picked this one using…read moresomething other than Yelp because it had high reviews. As you enter the building, you see dark wood and German style booths. Our waiter was very attentive and gave us tablets that had the menu on them. The items were in German, French and English. We started with beers and sparking water. We each ordered a different dish (see pictures) and we each took turns sampling each dish. All of the dishes were surprisingly very good. We were pleased with this restaurant and will return for another meal.

I go to Aachen once a year and stay for four days. For the past six years I have made sure that…read moreone dinner was taken at Am Knipp. This is one of the last of a vanishing breed in Aachen, the neighborhood tavern that serves good and plentiful food. It is family run with one brother in the kitchen overseeing things and the other dispensing beer and other drinks at the bar like an octopus juggling clams. On the weekends the place is carefully organized chaos with locals three deep at the bar either drinking as an end goal or drinking while waiting for a table. In fact, on a recent Friday night I watched the restaurant equivalent of the old circus clown car, but in this case the patrons kept coming in and when you thought the place would be completely clogged with humanity another group of six hearty lads with a thirst would squeeze themselves through the door and into the scrum at the bar--a wonder to behold. The beer is fresh and the place is the very definition of "Gemütlichkeit", welcoming, cozy and high spirited. The interior of this old building is suggestive of everything historically German. Now as to the food, it is typical of the region, schnitzels, chicken, calf's liver, flammkuchen, steaks, etc. I normally get the schnitzel and they have both a version with cream and mushroom sauce and a creamed pepper sauce. Both are excellent and with the large mixed salad (really great) and the roasted potatoes, you need nothing else to keep you happy. With a glass of wine this came, on a recent visit, to around €23 all in and well worth it. Now, attention class and listen carefully, it is absolutely necessary to book a table at this extremely popular place. Those who don't, all visitors to Aachen (the locals know better) will leave very disappointed because they will be told by the hard working but frenetic waitstaff that they are full and that's it. It will no doubt seem abrupt but there is no time for explanations or being open to persuasion by the most charming tourist. If you follow this advice you will be rewarded by a very rich culinary and socially unique experience.

Nice atmosphere where you share a table with other people. Some of the items not on the menu were…read morenot explained to me. The muscles looked very good, but I didn't know they were an option until the table next to me got them. Pork with pepper sauce and potatoes was good, but one of the pieces was burnt. Salad was good.