Wednesday, August 29, 2012

German Fare

When we finished up the Chocolate Museum, the sun was beginning to set. We decided it was time to grab some dinner and then head back to the hotel for some shut eye.

I think we were delirious/tired/confused so finding a restaurant turned into another adventure. We referred to our Rick Steve's guidebook and ended up walking to a plaza with several restaurants. Most of the restaurants were pretty full and there was patio seating everywhere. Perfect.

Or so we thought. We quickly learned that in Germany, you seat yourself and the waiter will come to your table when they are ready. After awkwardly standing around for a while, we asked the waiter for a menu. He looked at us like we were crazy and hesitatingly gave us menus. We stood around a while with our menus and pestered the waiter about the difference between sitting inside or outside. Nobody was sitting inside.. and it turns out it was cheaper to sit outside. One of the waiters gestured that we sit down at an open table. We ordered beers all around and sat around for a while. Kolsh is their specialty. It's a light, fresh beer. We impatiently flagged down our waiter to place our order and he came over reluctantly.
Of course, we had several questions about the menu. For example, "what is a scallopine?" He was more annoyed with us, couldn't describe it, and told us he would come back when we were ready. We decided to just go down the specials and order one of each. 

Finally, the food came out and we were pretty satisfied. It turns out a "scallopine" is a fried veal cutlet. It ended up being one of my favorite!
We quickly learned that Germans are no-nonsense. We should know what we want to eat. We should know what kind of beer we want. We should be decisive. HA.  

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