The bartender took the time to give me the history of the restaurant - it has been around for more than 100 years! - and pointed me to check out the first liquor license in Chicago after the prohibition. The staff was friendly and helpful with recommendations. The food could compete with what I had in Germany. The chilled asparagus and pepper salad cut through the richness and brought balance to the dish. They tasted downright potato-y and stole the show. I don’t know how they were cooked, but the outcome was a stack of potato slices, crusty on the outside and creamier than cream on the side. The word “fried potatoes” might be a misnomer they were not fries. The schnitzel came with a side of refreshing, chilled asparagus and pepper salad, and German fried potatoes. The beer was delicious, and the Wiener schnitzel was perfectly breaded and fried the pork was pounded to tenderness, the crust crunchy and not thick, and there was no extra grease oozing out. There were dining rooms and a bar area, so I seated myself down at the beautiful wood bar and ordered myself a liter stein of house-made lager and Wiener schnitzel. The wood panel, the original furniture, the stained glass reminded me of a Rathskeller that I visited in Darmstadt, Germany. I was transported into a place trapped I time. I saw the brightly-lit, old-fashioned sign of Berghoff, a few blocks from where my hotel was, so I dashed there before it closed at 9 pm. I was too tired to even take a cab to restaurants in River North. My flight was delayed, and I didn't make it to the hotel until 8:30 pm. I thought that I was going to end up in a food desert. My office booked me at a hotel in the Loop but south of the River. You can also read about Berghoff’s on their website.Ĭongratulations to Robin Kessler who won last week’s drawing of the Lidia Bastianich cookbook, Lidia’s Italy in America.I had to go to Chicago for work two weeks ago. Good luck! You will love this book, rich with recipes and history. Winner will be notified over the weekend and also posted on next week’s giveaway.
Entries close Saturday, Septemat 11:59 pm. Enter now and you will be entered in the random drawing.
If you would like to enter the drawing (Continental USA only) for this one-of-a-kind cookbook, leave a comment on this blog about your favorite German food or what you would like to learn to make, or maybe you even dined at the old Berghoff and you can tell us a story about it. The Berghoff as we knew it is gone, but still lives with its catering business and cafe, offering lighter and healthier fare with the next generation of Berghoff family members still running the business.
You can make all the Berghoff classics with this cookbook. Sadly, on February 28, 2006, the Berghoff Restaurant closed its doors after 107 years. Of course all that changed, but the menu of classic German fare such as Sauerbraten, apple strudel, Black Forest cake, German potato salad, Weiner Schnitzel, and the famous creamed spinach remained the same for over 100 years. The original old tavern enforced a no-women policy.
#Berghoff sauerbraten recipe free#
In 1898, one could order a 5-cent beer and get a free corned beef sandwich with it.
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