I could probably go ten different ways with this review...so I'll just say. This was a lot of food, a "par-for-the-course" traditional German fare restaurant, and a pretty robust meal.
I was impressed by the amounts of food. The clinic we were visiting in Frankfurt likes to take all of the current visiting patients to a traditional German dinner during their last week of stay. So they've done this before, many times, and probably brought a decent amount of visitors to the restaurant.
It was crowded. We were 17 people and it was a tight squeezed. There were tons of apps including dips, hand cheese, breads, and a soup. Our tables had massive samplers of all the regional foods; Pork knuckle, pork shoulder, blood sausage, a variety of wursts, sauerkraut, pickled onions, boiled potatoes, some kind of puree of potato, and a baked fish dish too.
We ate, drank wine and beers, they brought shots of an apricot schnapps, and we even had a sample of desserts...it was a smorgasbord to say the least.
Did I eat too much - yes.
Did I enjoy myself - yes.
Would I go back to this specific beer garden/restaurant - maybe.
The only real turnoff was the server(s) who disappeared for long periods of time. We were also witness to a slight server war between the main guy and another server we asked to bring us stuff when we couldn't find our main guy. They really got into it, as I guess being a big party a nice tip was on the line and he didn't want to split it. I mean there's other ways of going about handling that and berating a young female waitress in front of the customers was totally unexpected and really not called for. But otherwise this was a pretty good experience.
Note this place fills up. It's huge, and there's a massive outdoor beer garden as well. It's been open a long time and is a really famous stop for folks looking for 'real' German food.
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