![]() The atmosphere makes you forget that you’re sitting right off the road in Woodfin and the food is mostly a home run. The bottom line: If German food in a Bavarian-themed log cabin sounds like the evening out you’ve been looking for, Bavarian Restaurant & Biergarten is where you’ll want to head. ![]() What to try: The muncher sauerbraten: The beef is tender, the gravy is flavorful and, whether your side is red cabbage or Bavarian fried potatoes, you can’t go wrong. Hours: Monday-Wednesday 5 p.m.-9 p.m., Thursday-Sunday, noon-9 p.m. The restaurant: Bavarian Restaurant & Biergarten, 82,, 332 Weaverville Road. Matthew DeRobertis is a chef, writer and father to a kid who loves food more than her dog. It is a very liberal interpretation of an eisbombe and definitely easier to make. The eisbombe layers warm Black Forest cake on the bottom of a large wine glass, covers it with cherry ice cream, a cherry compote of sorts and, finally, whipped cream. This is a plate I’d order again and again.īavarian offers a few desserts but only two are made in house, the apple strudel and the eisbombe. On the side was a warmly spiced red cabbage. The gravy was reminiscent of the way my mother’s German family makes it, with ginger snaps adding a sweet tang to the rich sauce. Thick slices of roasted beef, marinated for at least a few days, came drenched in dark gravy. My muncher sauerbraten was an excellent rendition of the classic dish. There’s a trick (see YouTube) to keeping the beer away from your shirt while you drink from the boot, and I had no beer-spilling incidents to report. Once you’ve chosen what beer you want, pick either a half liter or full liter, otherwise dubbed das boot. I grabbed a taste of a few taps first, all brought in shot-sized steins. I recognized the Dopplebock and Spaten’s Optimator, a classic German dark beer with plenty of malt. Brews are listed by type, and the taps offer plenty of German breweries. German beers on tapīavarian is not the place to go if looking for lots of local beer. ![]() Sitting in the little log cabin with a stein of beer on a cold night suddenly seemed like a terrific idea. Over the bar hang beer steins and nearly every inch of the log walls is covered with German relics of every sort. Inside, the creaky wood floor has enough lean to lose a bag of marbles. My kid offered a top compliment, for her: “It looks like it’s made from Lincoln Logs.” So we went, a group of eight of us and we drank.Watch Video: Dine inside a log cabin at Bavarian Restaurant & BiergartenĪ trip to Bavarian Restaurant & Biergarten in Woodfin is like a trip back in time, full of sentimental feelings from my last visit when it was a French restaurant. While it's not necessarily just 21-year-olds folks, I doubt anyone else would be curious enough to give it a go. I know, that's a lot of alcohol for just a T-shirt, but it's not about the shirt, it's about the bragging rights! Plus, as my friend described it, seemed to be some weird 21 rite of passage, although personally I think it sounds like a massive hangover followed by three days of regret. Upon finishing that establishment's birthday drink special (the huge margarita at Bomber's, the massive teacup at Old English's and "das boot", at Wolff's, you get a staff person to check off the postcard showing that you completed that section of the drinking challenge- and yes, you must complete all three drinks in order to get your postcard signed!Īfter you drink all three, you get a T-shirt (the one pictured). (Bomber's, Olde English Pub, or Wolff's Biergarten) on your birthday and you pick up a postcard. So here's the deal: You go to any three bars That's where she told us about it the grand-daddy of birthday challeneges: It's amazing what you'd do for the sake of a free t-shirt.Ī few years back, while playing a game of Kings at the round table over in Empire, one of my UAlbany college buds started discussing some of her plans for the upcoming weekend for the arrival of her 21st birthday.
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