Golden Europe Restaurant - Arvada, CO

September 28, 2013

 

Hungry for a Schnitzel we stopped in for an early dinner.  Soon after being seated our waitress came and took our drink orders mom had an iced tea, dad and I both ordered a Pepsi. 

 

 

 

In a few minutes she brought out our drinks with the Pepsis still in the can.  Our waitress explained the special which was a pork schnitzel with a creamy dill sauce along with red cabbage and spätzle.   In a few minutes she came back to take our order mom and dad got the special. I went with the Jaeger schnitzel, on the menu they list the sides that come with each schnitzel but the waitress did ask if that's the sides we wanted. So I decided to try the red cabbage instead of the sauerkraut along with the spätzle. These schnitzels also came with a salad.

 

Soon after this the waitress brought out our salads and a basket of bread.  The bread was all right

 

 

and the salads were just basic salads with carrots, tomatoes and a slice of cucumber on top.   The Ranch dressing was really thin and runny. Once our salad plates were taken away we only waited a little bit before our meals came. 

 My Jaeger schnitzel was a pork schnitzel with a brown gravy with a large amount of mushrooms and onions on top. This came with spätzle and the red cabbage that I substituted. This was quite good but I think they were kind of too many mushrooms and onions and more than enough gravy, but the extra was good with the spätzle which was rather plain but good. Also the gravy covered most of the schnitzel so I wish there would've been a little less so I would've had more of the crispy fried part of the schnitzel.  It all still tasted very good. The red cabbage however I wanted to try out had a strong vinegar taste and was also very sweet and after a few bites I couldn't handle it anymore.

 

Mom and dad both enjoyed their meals. I tried the sauce from dad's schnitzel and I didn't really like it as well as the brown gravy on my. After we're done eating the waitress brought the check in a little glass which was different but it gets the job done. After paying we went outside and there was quite a bit of a line waiting. One guy waiting held the door for us on the way out and said it must be good for such a line. This guy was in luck if he was ready for a very good German meal. As we left to head home I was fat and happy and had a box of leftovers for the next day minus the red cabbage.

 

 

 

  

  

6620 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO 80003

 

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A Taste of Home Cooking - Wheat Ridge, CO

September 21, 2013

 

After just seeing this place featured on Diners Drive ins and dives, I wanted to try it out especially for the krautburgers which are something I’ve always enjoyed.  I was assuming this place would have cheap prices and be way too much food to eat, but I was wrong on both.

We arrived close to 5 o’clock; the place seemed kind of empty.  The hostess said it would be a 5-7 minutes to get a table ready. I’m not so sure why, but we waited for a few minutes.  When there was a table ready we were seated.  All three of us ordered iced tea.  When I opened the menu, I realized the prices weren’t so cheap and I also couldn’t find the items from DDD.  So we asked about it, the waiter said didn’t you get and insert in the menu.  He said there was a new girl up front and maybe she didn’t put it in, so he went and got them.  After reading the insert dad and I both got the krautburger dinner ($20). Which came with a salad or soup and fried calamari or a dessert, we both got salads and went with the dessert.  Mom after reading the regular menu got the jaeger schnitzel ($21) this came with Spätzle and red cabbage as well as a salad.  After seeing the prices and reading reviews saying they have big portions, I was thinking the portions must be huge.

 

I thought the salad was not exactly fresh and had seen better days; the homemade ranch dressing was really good and was thick.  Our waiter told us about it being homemade as well as telling us about everything that was homemade, it’s good to know things are homemade but I kind of got tired of hearing this after a while. 

 

The bread was great and homemade and had real butter with it.

 

My krautburger was good, but was hard on the outside and too cooked.  I thought the meat and cabbage mixture was very good, but I thought it could have used more of it and less bread.  The honey mustard dipping sauce was really good to go with it also homemade.  I never thought about honey mustard with krautburgers but it was very good.  I also didn’t know I needed such a heavy duty knife for a krautburger.  Mom enjoyed her meal very much and I approved of it.  Once we were all done the waiter came and gave us our dessert choices. 

 

I chose the palisade peach dessert which I don’t recall the exact name of.  This was very good and fairly simple just a pastry shell topped with a whipped cream with fresh fruit on top. I wish it was larger because it was really good. 

 

 

Dad had a mocha brownie ice cream dessert which he enjoyed very much.

This place turned out completely different than I expected not exactly cheap prices and not really huge portions.  Also it seemed like they were trying to be fancier than I thought it would be.  I didn’t think my meal was great, good but not great. That was until the dessert came, which was great.

 

 

 

 

4101 Kipling St, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

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D' Corazon - Lakewood, CO

September 7, 2013

I wasn’t   a big fan of the salsa, it wasn’t too fresh and probably out of a jar, but mostly there was some flavor in there that I didn’t like.

 

 

I had a chicken chimichanga.  This was just ok the shredded chicken inside was good, but the whole thing was kind of fried, but not fully and not really crispy on the outside even the part that wasn’t covered in green chili.  The green chili was good, but had a different taste that I couldn’t figure out. 

 

 Mom and dad both had the chile relleno dinners, these were a lot better than my chimichanga and I wished I would have had them instead.

 

 

 

 11903 W 6th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80401

 

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