I'm so happy to see that one of my favorite restaurants while living in Bamberg is here on Yelp!…read more My first time here (1998, I believe?), I arrived with my theater group from the nearby Army base in Bamberg. They always liked grabbing a nice bite to eat after a weekend performance, and so one day, they brought me here. I was 17 at the time and did not know too much about different restaurants in our area, but luckily, we had a lot of German members of our group, and they always showed us some great and tasty places! Blaue-Grotte (I've always known it as Blue Grotto in English) is this cute little restaurant located in the small town of Stegaurach. When you first enter, the place DOES resemble a grotto (think of that attraction in Disneyland - Ariel's Grotto). It's a dark, cavernous-looking kind of space with tables all along the walls and a random disco-dance floor in the middle. If you have a larger group, they'll take you towards the back room where it looks like a more traditional restaurant with lots of windows and bright light. The food at this restaurant is absolutely amazing. It's the kind of food that I wish I could show a lot of my friends here in California. I bring friends to German restaurants in the Bay Area all the time, but I still think back to the days of when I'd eat at Blaue Grotte. I still compare everything that I eat in America to the delicious meals I had here. The dishes I ordered often were their variety of schnitzels (regular wiener schnitzel, zweibeltreter schnitzel and jagerschnitzel). My favorite of the three I mentioned is the zweibeltreter schnitzel, which was fried like a regular wiener schnitzel and then topped off with melted cheese, onions and some peppers. It was amazing! Every time I look at a German menu, I always try to find it, but I think this may be a Bavarian specialty that is not common in all German restaurants. If you're ever in and or around Bamberg, you should try coming to this place. It's a nice drive out of the city (I think it's around a 20-minute drive). You'll have a nice drive with a view and you'll get some delicious food!

This is by far my most favorite place in Germany for the best schnitzel's!! They have a few…read moreselection stuffed with some of the best vegtables. My favorite is the one stuffed with onions. My wife had a turkey meal and that too was great. The salad and fries are always the best. Being inside a cave is pretty cool, seeing it used to be a club back in the day. And the bonus is the bucket of treats. I always grab a good sucker. We've been here 4 times already and can't wait for the 5th. A must visit if your looking for some great food and sick of your normal German food.