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    Der Lindenbaum

    3.5 (697 reviews)
    ModerateGerman, Bars, Sandwiches
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Quiet
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    J M.

    The atmosphere took me back to Mainz Germany over 40 years ago where I met my husband. We were blown away with the menu when we looked at it online. It didn't disappoint. We took one bite of each dish and immediately were transported back to Germany. It was so good. Tender Schnitzel, curry chicken was an unexpected delight as it was something we'd never had before. So full that we couldn't finish nearly half. We had to get desert to go: Black Forest Cake and German Chocolate Cake. The server was patient because we were so excited, we couldn't decide. It was all we'd hoped for and it's worth the drive from San Antonio to come back many times. Loved it.

    Joyce K.

    A German dining experience since 1977 yes please! I was with my friend in Fredericksburg and decided to go eat at this restaurant. I really love how old it looks and seems their recipes haven't changed since they first opened. Our waiter told us this about the soup. When you first enter the first section of the restaurant is empty. I got worried for a moment but when you go to the back the place is packed! Their menu is large but I was there for one thing! The schnitzels! I got the pork one with the mushroom sauce on top and one sausage as a side. I really did enjoy my meal! It will be my go to spot to bring people visiting out of town

    wiener schnitzel
    Desi A.

    My 2nd try trying German food since childhood, and I honestly don't think I'm much of a fan of it as I thought. It was still good, though, so I encourage you to try. Just not my favorite. However, the environment is absolutely stunning, clean, and the staff were so kind! I ordered the wiener schnitzel to go & picked up my order.

    Jager Schnizel
    Regan W.

    Awesome food! Super cute place and great service! Jager and Red pepper schnitzel were delicious and the potatoes soooo yummy.

    A wiener, kraut, and tater salad.
    Bruce B.

    In Fredericksburg there is a spot, Where wieners sizzle, thick and hot. Der Lindenbaum, oh bless this place, One bite and I questioned my whole life's pace. The tater salad? Warm and crazy, Like a hug from a German lunch lady. It whispers, "Ja, you need more beer," Then vanishes like it was never here. But the kraut - dear Lord - a sour delight, It polka'd through my taste buds all night. Crunchy, tangy, borderline divine, Like angels fermented it in brine. Five stars, no question, not even a maybe. That meal hugged my soul like a drunk German baby. If heaven has bratwurst, they cater from here... Now pass the mustard and bring me more beer!

    Levi R.

    After being in Germany for a few months a few years ago, I always seek German cuisine as often as I can. I stumbled upon this place with my girlfriend as we were visiting and found it to be a good experience overall. The food tasted great. I would say most things were as accurate as you could get, unfortunately I haven't been to a german restaurant that has the same types of sausages as Germany, but this restaurant has been the closest by far!

    Jaeger schnitzel
    Elizabeth P.

    Our absolute favorite in Fredericksburg! Authentic, friendly and delicious. Adorable European atmosphere!

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    Gina A.

    Authentic German food! Cute location along Main Street in a historic building that looks to have been a bank (vault door still there). Lots of seating options in a comfortable and welcoming environment (you feel like you are in someone's home). Great service from the moment you walk in. Food came out very quickly. Lots of delicious dishes. Everything that was ordered was lovely. The desserts were very tasty as well.

    Sausages
    Wayne G.

    Best German food ever I loved the sausages sampler with potatoes and sauerkraut! Awesome friendly service and beautiful atmosphere!

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    Scott B.

    This place is nice, quaint escape from the loudness and the business of Main Street. Pretty small restaurant but excellent food and service. The Burgermeister platte was filling. Their take on German potato salad is very unique: it had a mashed potatoes consistency to it with a little sweetness and not much vinegar at all. This restaurant is ran by a sweet German lady.

    Jäger Schnitzel
    Leslie S.

    Food was fabulous and the service was great. The server was very friendly and food came out fast and hot. Cute decor

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    Great place, quiet and calm. Highly recommend the jager schnitzel with a few extra sides and rye bread.

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    5 months ago

    Food is way better then other german restraunts, definetly home made. The potato salad is to die for.

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    4 months ago

    Server was prompt and friendly. Authentic German cuisine. Topped it off with delicious black forest cake!

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    Amazing food and the staff was attentive and friendly. Fresh baked bread, and the best sauerkraut I've ever had.

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    Unique German experience for food. My traveling buddy is actually German. He throughly enjoyed our meal here.

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    Otto's

    Otto's

    4.2
    (1.2k reviews)
    0.1 mi
    $$$

    While passing through Fredericksburg with my wife, we were ready for a good German meal. Checking…read moreYelp, we discover that on a Tuesday evening, most of the German restaurants in town have already closed at 3pm. That's when Otto's stood out to us. Not only was it the first restaurant to show up on Yelp (very highly rated), but also it was OPEN. While it may have been an accident that we chose Otto's, it was a lucky break. They were awesome. It was very busy, so we had to eat on the patio, but our table had plenty of shade and a nice breeze from a wall fan. It's a block off the main drag, so you don't have to put up with lots of traffic going by. The staff was friendly and helpful. The food didn't take too long to come out. The selections were fairly extensive. The food quality, portion sizes and flavor were spot on. We also highly recommend the Black Forest cake.

    I found Otto's to be a bit disappointing. Maybe it's just that German isn't the type of cuisine…read morethat should be elevated... It's great the way it is, and trying to make it fancy doesn't make it better. But I've always thought that if a restaurant has only a few options on its menu, they had better all be great, and I didn't find that to be the case at Otto's. One of us had the schnitzel au gratin, which seemed more to be like a chicken Parmesan. I had the duck schnitzel. I would say they were just both OK. The fried potatoes that came with the au gratin schnitzel were left largely untouched on my companion's plate. There wasn't much flavor to my red cabbage, and my spaetzel seemed to be more like a modern day risotto. And this at a restaurant that makes you leave your credit card for a reservation and threatens to charge if you cancel less than 24 hours before. For that, it had better knock my socks off. But my socks are still on, and they won't be walking back to Otto's. Extra star for the great location.

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    The Auslander

    The Auslander

    3.5
    (1.3k reviews)
    0.0 mi
    $$

    The Auslander had a tinge to a reasonable German vibe in terms of the ambiance. The restaurant had…read morea warm beer hall feel to it. Service was prompt and friendly. Restaurant was clean. For those that have issues finding parking on the Main Street, it's good to note that they have a small lot in the back for customers as well. Alstadt Peach Radler - Top of the list of what I personally enjoyed at the Auslander. This beer was a light, crisp, and refreshing beer with a hint of peach flavor. Definitely something to enjoy on a hot day. This was my happy place drink. Beer Battered Mushrooms - The shrooms here were better than most other German establishments I've dined at. Reasonably sized mushrooms with a non overly heavy batter. Portions were bigger than expected and would readily satisfy a group of four. Jägerschnitzel - A fair sized slab of fried pork goodness smothered in a red wine mushroom gravy. The pork loin was a good thickness and not an overly pounded thin cutlet. Breading was good, but didn't stick much to the protein. Gravy was just okay in my opinion and had a hint of sourness to it for some reason. Not a terrible entree but wasn't mind blowing either. Currywurst - The bratwurst with this meal was a solid portion of meat that was full of porky goodness. Curry ketchup had the spice flavoring to it, but wasn't particularly strong. It was a fair entree, nothing mind blowing, but still a good comfort dish. Sides - All the entrees came with a choice of two sides. Fries were just fries... good, but nothing special. Mashed potatoes tasted like the usual suspect, mashed potatoes. Potato salad was properly cooked and prepared with some simple vinegary and cream flavors. Red cabbage tasted like vinegared red cabbage. All in all, the sides were just okay. Everything was for the most part clear cut of what was good and just okay. In that terms, there seemed to be a strange and wildly large chasm between what was okay and good in terms of the food. I was satisfied at the end of the meal, but at the same time not unhappy nor super happy with my meal. I was just... satisfied/okay. Food felt a bit overpriced for what we received, otherwise this establishment felt more like a one-and-done type of place.

    We love the Auslander. We visit Fredericksburg often and eat here quite a bit. I am a pescatarian…read moreand I appreciate that they have non-meat items on the menu. My wife eats meat so she had the schnitzel with red cabbage and German potato salad. I had the pecan crusted red fish with delicious green beans and German potato salad. All our food was delicious and served hot. I had a Stein of Paulander Hefeweisen imported beer which was very nice with my food. Christian was our server and he did a great job in meeting all of our needs. He was friendly and very professional. We will ask for him again when we eat there.

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    Friedhelm's Bavarian Inn

    Friedhelm's Bavarian Inn

    3.3
    (310 reviews)
    1.4 mi
    $$

    I like it. I been coming for over 30 years as a visitor and now resident. Fredericksburg dining…read morehas changed so much. A bit of a dog and pony show it is. Friedhelms has stayed very consistent. We had schnitzel and the sausage plate. It comes with soup or salad and a side. Its simple. The Paulaner Hefeweizen on tap reminded me of Munchen. Danke for a nice meal and setting without the dog and pony show of other venues. Good service courteous service.

    Most German restaurants in Fredericksburg are tiny, but Friedhelm's is an immense restaurant with…read moremultiple large dining rooms. But on our visit on a Sunday night, these rooms were nearly empty. My diet coke was flat and had no bubbles. I asked for a replacement with carbonation, but the replacement was no better. I'd been looking forward to having sauerbraten. It's one of my favorite German dishes but is hard to find. When I ordered it, I was astonished when the waiter said, "Can I steer you away from the sauerbraten? It's... inconsistent. It can be fatty with grizzle." He continued on, "One lady sent it back. I chopped it up and gave it to my dog - and the dog wouldn't eat it." Well, that ringing endorsement certainly didn't make for an appetizing start to dinner. I changed my order to roulade with red cabbage and a dinner salad. My wife had the jaegerschnitzel with spaetzle, red cabbage, and a dinner salad. The food itself was fine. The dark German bread was excellent. All of the food was good, though the red cabbage was too vinegary for my wife's liking. 3 stars for the food we had, 2 stars for the experience. Friedhelm's feels like a once-great German restaurant in decline.

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    Fredericksburg Brewing

    Fredericksburg Brewing

    2.9
    (766 reviews)
    0.1 mi
    $$

    We went on a Saturday evening. It was relatively empty which should have been a clue. We ordered…read morechicken fried steak. I had garlic mashed potatoes and coleslaw and my wife had garlic mashed potatoes and sweet potato fries. So - if we were only rating them on the chicken fried steak they would get a '5'. The steak wasn't a large portion but the gravy had a great flavor. The breading wasn't overly done and it wasn't greasy and there was no gristle in the steak. It was really good. The meal went downhill from there. The coleslaw wasn't actually bad - it was mayo based and fairly creamy - very creamy - actually too creamy. The garlic mashed potatoes were just not good. They were dry, not smooth and the flavor was definitely off. We each only had two bites. The sweet potato fries were waffle fries and they were rubbery - not crispy at all. Given all of the other food options in Fredericksburg we definitely won't be going back.

    On a whim about a month ago, I planned a vacation to Fredericksburg based solely around how much I…read moreloved the brewery when I lived there with my dad 32 years ago, when I was 14. The brewery was the first place I ever had a scotch egg, my dad would get a small beer flight, maybe we'd get a brat, he made it fun. I'm pretty sure it had just opened back then. We got into town, checked in at the Trueheart Hotel, and immediately walked to the brewery because I was so excited. I probably went in to this with the unrealistic expectation that it would be the same as when I was a kid. It had a great start. The hostess was nice, and our server was, too. I wish we had gotten to sit in the back room with the long tables, We started with the beer flight and a scotch egg. The beer flight was okay. I was expecting really good German beers, mind-blowing, but these were just fine. A pale ale, an IPA, a flat porter were on the list, just not a memorable selection, although the red ale was good. The flight was a good price, though. For our appetizer, I wasn't expecting such a small scotch egg for $9. I mean, it was really small. I've been to several places around my area for scotch eggs, and they're usually $11-12 for two and they're properly sized. But we're on vacation and I wanted nostalgia so fine. It was delicious, and the creole mustard the scotch egg comes with was divine. More on that later. For our meals we tried both schnitzels. I was disappointed they don't have spaetzle, I'm pretty sure they used to. My boyfriend had the schinken and I had the jager. I don't like ham but his was infinitely better because of the gravy. The gravy on the jager schnitzel I got was heavy with some seasoning, maybe sage. It's all I could taste, and I couldn't just push the gravy off because my pork was fried to death. I barely ate any of mine. The sides we got (you get two per plate) were German potato salad, fries, onion rings, and vegetable medley. The fries and onion rings were great, especially when dipping in the creole mustard we saved from the scotch egg. The German potato salad is supposed to be sweet and sour and my boyfriend usually likes it, but this was way sweet, he wasn't a fan. The vegetable medley was good, but seemed really out of place as a side, normally with schnitzel you'd expect green beans or a salad or something, we got broccoli and squash. They did have a side salad, but it was $5. Not sure why a side salad couldn't just replace the two sides for no upcharge. I will say the rolls were awesome. At the end our server let us sit and hang out for a few minutes, he didn't rush us. We asked if they sell the creole mustard in bottles but they don't, so he said we could pay $5 for a togo container of it. We got probably a cup, so I was fine with that, I really loved it that much. We paid, I noticed he charged us $5 for tarter sauce that we didn't have, figured it was the only way to ring up the mustard. We left with our prized creole mustard. Cut to this weekend when we opened it to make a sandwich, and what we actually got was tarter sauce, so somewhere along the way he'd forgotten what we asked for. We live 200 miles from Fredericksburg, there's no fixing that, but maybe that's on me because I should have checked it. They really should sell bottles of that mustard, it's very good. Overall, it just wasn't the experience I was expecting. It's not the same, it's been over 30 years so I totally understand, and I did try to be fair with my critique. It wasn't great, it was just okay.

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    Beer brewing tanks and bar
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