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Thursday, November 14, 2013

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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