Swabian food is a regional cuisine, near Stuttgart, as I learned on my recent visit. This…read morerestaurant came highly recommended by the hotel I was staying at a week ago. It had sour tripe, under the soup section, which is vey similar to menudo, but only with tripe, and it's huge for an appetizer. Perhaps one of my favorite dishes of all time. Whenever I think about Swabian, I think about that. But that's not all. I tried their beef, and then their pork, their pasta pockets, which is a Sindelfingen local speciality. I have been a long term fan of Hafeweizen, I'd venture to say that my pronunciation is fairly accurate - resulted from practicing saying that every time I need a beer. Of course it has a lot of good bier and not just Hafenweizen. Pork with mushroom sauce, with spaetzel and pasta pocket is a must have here. The best part is sitting outside of the restaurant after it had rained earlier in the day, just take it easy and drink some beer and have some local food in the middle of the town square. Be aware of hamburger, it's technically just beef patties with fries. There is no bun. But how perfect is that?! It's exactly what I like to eat.
Though Yelp tells me this is going to be the first English review of this restaurant, I can assure you that you don't have to speak a lot of German to order your food here. But given no English reviews, I'm guessing this is more of a local people's joint, which, in my opinion, is a good thing.
I'm not sure if I could find another place that served tripe stew, it's not exactly a thing that most Americans like to eat but I'm pretty much sold on that dish in that restaurant. It's going to be one of the reasons that I'd stop by Stuttgart on my future trips, that, and maybe a tour of Porsche factory.
