German Food and Cooking

Where to Celebrate Oktoberfest in S.F.

It's the most magical time of the year, at least for those of us who love liters of German beer flowing like water: Oktoberfest! Like the good festival city it is, San Francisco has plenty of options for celebrating the traditional German party, from the official Oktoberfest by the Bay to more sedat ... More >>

Cafe Prague's Holiday Block Party is the Wurst

Yelp/Nice L.The party block.​What: Cafe Prague's Wurst Holiday Block Party Where: Cafe Prague When: Fri., December 16, 4-8 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: All the party people who are willing to head into the Financial District at 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon will be rewarded with discounte ... More >>

Leopold's: Austrian Food Served with a Bootful of Beer

No. 72: Sauerbraten at Walzwerk

Earl G./FlickrWalzwerk's sauerbraten, $18.​SFoodie's countdown of the 92 best things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition. SFoodie has eaten sauerbratens so vinegary we worried that the meat had spoiled. But Walzwerk's sauerbraten, one of the Mission restaurant's best dishes, hits just ... More >>

Leopold's Brings Austro-Italian Food to S.F., One More Steakhouse Joins the Fray

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Both Inside Scoop and Grub Street hail the opening of Leopold's (Leopold's: 2400 Polk, 474-2000), which started serving dinner this weekend. The pitch: Austro-Italian food ― pappardelle w ... More >>

Spire's Spaetzle Gratin

John BirdsallOven baked spaetzle gratin ($8).​Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Requirements for opening a restaurant in SOMA's ballpark corridor: big bar, dishes you can eat without the dangly tails of your panda hat wicking up extraneous sauces, slouchy lounge. Once its liquor license arrives (possi ... More >>

Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce German Beers

​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more taking on the accent of a language you don't speak.Something always happens to us when orderi ... More >>

A Schnitzel Sandwich You Can Linger Over: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

Janine KahnTake your time with it.​Tue., Jan. 5, 2010 Schmidt's, Christiana Schmidt and Isabell Mysyk's tribute to the German wurst haus, feels right at home at the quieter residential end of Folsom. It's an airy, contemporary urban space that seems perfect for lazy contemplation of the veal ... More >>

Foreign Cinema Finds Its Inner German for Oktoberfest Menus

pilzeleben/FlickrReally into it? Wear your own.​Foreign Cinema (2534 Mission at 21st St.) is busting out the lederhosen and offering two Oktoberfest dinners, tomorrow night and again on Thursday, Oct. 29. Chefs Gayle Pirie and John Clark are cooking special three-course meals designed as odes ... More >>

Local Flavor: Braised Rabbit and Red Cabbage at Schmidt's

Achtung, baby: Hasenpfeffer and spiced cabbage.Mission neo-German würst hall Schmidt's (2400 Folsom at 20th St.) started serving dinner last night, a result of landing its wine and beer license. The expanded menu showed off more of chef Matt Shapiro's range. By 7 p.m. the place was roughly two-thir ... More >>

Eating German, Partying Untucked, and Drinking Away the Pee: A Foodie Day Planner

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Let's do lunch: Really, be honest: Are you eating enough German food? Begin to address the lacuna in your global eating with a mouthful of veal schnitzel sandwich (SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody's fave) at Schmidt's (2400 Folsom at 20th St., 401-0200). Drink therapy ... More >>

Hot Meal: Schmidt's Deli

There can't be too many German restaurants in San Francisco to suit us -- we're BIG schnitzel fans! -- so learning that Christiana Schmidt and Isabell Mysyk (owners of the gemütlich East German Walzwerk on South Van Ness) were opening a deli on Folsom brought a tear of joy to our eye. So did ... More >>

Serious Bread: Pure Grain Pumpernickel

This 100% rye bread is lighter and less sour than most of this style, and has a wonderful nuttiness.

Quaffing The Vino During Riesling Week

Meeting And Exceeding Your Beer Needs

Dieter Gone Wild

Infiltrator tries to break into porn using the "German Method" and a pitch for pornographic bowling

Best Sausages

The Best of the Wurst

Satisfying meals on a bun at an old favorite and a new one

Best German

Suppenküche

Innocence Well-Fed

The S.F. Symphony's summer festival of German music sends us in search of sausage, schnitzel, and sauerbraten

Best Sausage and Beer Pick-Me-Up

Best East German Restaurant

Walzwerk

Chow Fun

One restaurant brings folks together in three different neighborhoods

Berlin by the Bay

Fine German fare sandwiched between two viewings of the fine German photographs of August Sander

Knodel

Dawn of the Butterfly (My Pal God)

Best Gemütlichkeit

Schnitzelhaus

Best Sausages

Rosamunde Sausage Grill

Best Way to Save $15

Eat at Sno-drift

Sweet Sauerkraut

Schnitzelhaus

Leaving the American Sector

Home for the Holidays

Schroeder's

Lightmotif

SuppenkYche brings a German accent to Hayes Valley; Mad Magda's gives it a sense of humor