Right. We will continued to searches a good German restaurant. I haven't ate at German restaurant for a long time.

Yep, you can definitely get Saumagen in some places here if you should so desire.

I'm with you in respect to the kebab places. I was mentioning to my wife the other day that it is a shame that there is so much great Turkish food elsewhere, but here it is kebab place after kebab place, seemingly one on every corner.

I haven't really seen anything to indicate an overabundance of fast food here, compared to elsewhere. We have a few McDonalds around, but not much else. Nordsee is in the slightly bigger towns, but I guess you could consider them fast food of sorts.

Haven't actually tried it yet, but eating a lot of offal here in Asia so would suit my taste quite well, I suppose. What else is local to the Pfalze and maybe even to be recommended? ;)

In Berlin and Cologne where I normally spend my time in Germany, Doner really is just a sidenote in the Turkish restaurants. Ah, some of those chicken and lamb dishes, especially from the provinces bordering on Syria, are just too delicious with their Arab style rich flavours.

I'd call all those discount bakeries and supermarket el cheapo Imbiss stands fast food as well. And Nordsee is at most a poor cousin of the brilliant lunch sets you can get at a good fishmonger. I do love my herring in cream sauce with onions, not just on Fridays...

Fresh spargel (white aspargus) in season, steinpilz mushrooms, forellen (trout) filets. But I believe those are all available in most parts of Germany, not just the Pfalz. We actually do like this restaurant for the ochsenfilet am stuck, which they serve by the portion of your choosing and cooked to perfection:

http://www.burgschaenke-neuleiningen.de/

It's about an hour south of Frankfurt so I can't swear if it is in the Pfalz, Hessen, or Baden Wurtemburg. Exceedingly difficult to find without a GPS. Believe it is Polish run as we have heard the staff and owner speaking Polish amongst themselves, but I can't swear to that.


No kidding. We ate in the Turkish House in Muscat last night. Simply outstanding...

Rolf's...really?

Last I heard, most folks only go there for drinks and the garish seasonal decorations.

Sadly my favorite NYC German Restaurant/Bar (Silver Swan) closed a few years back. It really was a wonderful neighborhood haunt attracting an extremely interesting mix of customers.

http://www.schnitzelhausny.com

It's in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

I haven't tried it yet, they delivered a menu to the office and it got put in the rotation of menus for take-out when we're in the mood for schnitzel.

Zum Schneider in the East Village, NYC. They have Schneider Weiss hefe weizen and Aventinus on tap. A rare find in the States.

The Ambry on Commercial Blvd in Ft Lauderdale. Two wheat beers on tap, along with a German dunkle and some others. It is owned by a family from Munich. It's a small neighborhood place with very attentive staff.

Both these places serve my favorite German dish, Schweinehaxen (roast pork knuckle) with red cabbage and potato dumplings. They're pretty authentic.

Also in South Florida, there is a Hofbrauhaus on Lincoln Rd Mall in South Beach. The food is so-so and I'm not really that crazy about HB's beer, but they have a nice selection of HB beer on tap and it's a fun place to hang out, drink German beer out of huge litre mugs and people watch.

Man, I want to go back to Munich!

Thank you. Their dinner menu and the reviews about it make me sure that we'll try it! I see they serve rouladen; I remember making that when I was 12 spending the summer in a small town outside of Freiburg.

A couple additions...

#1 - The Bavarian Chef, outside Charlottesville, VA. I haven't been here in years, so I can't honestly say if they're still decent, but they used to be wonderful. We used to drive from DC to go there. Their website still exists -

Bavarian Chef

#2 and #3 - I like both the Penn Brewery and Max's Allegheny Tavern in Pittsburgh, PA. The Penn Brewery brews their own line of beers which are very good.

Penn Brewery

Max's

#4 - The Edelweiss in Colorado Springs, CO. It's not amazing, but it's pretty good and the best German restaurant in town, IMHO.

Edelweiss

Yes, Saumagen is a speciality of the Pfalz, although nowadays it doesn't tend to be made with offal, but with lean(er) cuts of pork, potatoes and onions. My parents-in-law bring Saumagen back whenever they are visiting the Pfalz.

Other specialities include Leberknödel (liver dumplings), Grumbeerpannekuche (potato pancakes), Zwiebelrostbraten, Zwetschenkuchen, Grumbeersuppe, Dampfnudeln...etc. etc.

I agree completely, saying German cuisine is all about sausage and schnitzel is like saying American cuisine is all about burgers and fries.

Funny you should say that, my husband's aunt lives in Neuleiningen and it's definitely Pfalz :) I haven't been in the restaurant itself, but I have been on the Burg in Neuleiningen.

Chicago Area
 

Best German Food in the Chicago area (from a German born there) is at Kuhn's Delicatessen in Des Plaines. German food store in front, restaurant in back.
Find on Hilton Head Island: Alfred's. Owner Alfred Kettering does superb schnitzels with red cabbage and spaetzle, and a crisp roasted duck.

That's a LONG roundtrip drive for dinner. No good German restaurants much closer in DC?

Closer in there's the Old Europe or Cafe Berlin... but this thread is about quality

The list is updated at the beginning of this thread.

We're up to 57 restaurants in 25 states.