My husband and I lived in Germany for many years, and as such, consider ourselves "experts" on good German food (although you could read "expert" as: Love to stuff faces excessively)

We have searched for good German food in America for the past 4 years and after visiting 30+ restaurants and bakeries have found nothing even remotely decent.

Edelweiss is certainly the best of the bunch. It doesn't compare to sitting down at my favorite Kartoffel Haus in Darmstadt , but it's the best we've found so far.


1. The potato salad is to die for! You'll get a small portion of it with the dinner "salad" which includes some cabbage, cucumbers and green beans. But you should order a large plate of the potato salad on the side. It's truly delicious and very authentic tasting. We tried to get the recipe, but sorry! It's a secret.

2. The schnitzel is just about perfect. Thin, tender and obviously high quality meat. The sauces however, leave much to be desired. I got the Jaegerschnitzel, and the hunters sauce just tasted like weak gravy mix you can buy as a powder at the supermarket. It was tasteless and thin. I prefer mine to be thick with lots of sauteed mushrooms. This one just had a small spoonful of mushrooms. Please note this is the same sauce they serve over the bratwurst.

3. Excellent brats, although if you like German food, you would definitely call these weisswursts. They had wonderful flavor, were nice and soft with the skin falling off them. Unfortunately they were covered in the weak hunters sauce that I talked about above. And the mustard was just standard French's or similar. But otherwise very good.

4. We went back the next day for lunch and tried the Zegeunerschnitzel. This was the only dish I was really disappointed with. Again, excellent schnitzel, but the sauce wasn't spicy at all and basically just tasted like bell peppers.

5. Also had the apple struedel. Delicious! Perfect flaky crust with marzipan added ( a nice surprise for me--I LOVE marzipan)

6. The decor is lovely--lots of bavarian paintings, wall hangings and beer steins all over.

7. The BEER! Absolutely perfect Dunkel.

8. The only problem we had was with the waitress (had the same one both meals). She spent the entire night fawning over (what I assume was) her favorite customers and chatting them up 3 feet away from us while completely ignoring my attempt to get a napkin, refills, more potato salad and finally desert. If the food hadn't been so good we would have left far earlier.