What food is good in Germany ?

[Lardlizard]

What are they know for other than sausages

Cake!
Huge portions of amazing gateaux, baked cheesecakes, fluffy doughnuts.

The Döner kebabs are amazing. Way better than here.

Bread. Any bread. All bread. It is just so damn good.

And schnitzels, chips with curry sauce, fried potato cakes with apple sauce, funny noodle pasta a bit like macaroni cheese, and cheap all-you-can eat Chinese buffets.

Wurst! German sausages are superb. Try traditional Bavarian weisswurst (white veal sausages) served with sweet mustard, a freshly baked pretzel and a glass of weissbier. Delicious!

Pork knuckle, spaetzle

Reibekuchen, I've only had them at markets. They are shredded potato, formed into patties and deep fried until crunchy. The other thing I love is chicken, bought from a man with a van, where he roasts them all on a rotisserie. I don't know what coating they put on it, but it is the most delicious thing I've ever eaten.

Frankfurt Green Sauce
Herb quark with new potatoes and green salad
Game
Sauerbraten
Potato dumplings
Bavarian roast pork
Rouladen
Asparagus
Hackbraten made with veal and served with a creamy mushroom sauce
Dill and cucumber salad

Dumplings, bread, wine, beer ( of course) , sausages - hot/cold, sauerkraut and pickles

Bread, cakes and pastries, Spätzle (like pasta / gnocchi often served with cheese, ham and fried onion or plain as an accompaniment), Obazda (a cheese dip served with pretzels in beer garden - okay, that’s Bavarian), soups and salads are often very nice in restaurants for a light lunch, Leberkäs (also Fleischkäse) which is sort of a flat sausage, usually served in a roll with mustard (ketchup if you are a foreign heathen like me), rollmops, potato salad, roast goose with cabbage and a big dumpling, knuckle of pork, green sauce (a Frankfurt thing), meatballs (Frikadellen), venison goulash, schnitzel is popular although really Austrian. Döner is good if not strictly German - it’s the bread that makes it.

Also all the Christmas biscuits. Kaiserschmarr’n is strictly Austrian, but popular too. It is like a cut-up pancake, served with raisins and maybe apple sauce. Can you tell I love German food?!

Amazing amazing fruit flans. That are as big as a table.

I’ve always thought greman food sounds quite gross, but actually hearing this sounds like a good choice

@Lardlizard, I think German food is generally good quality and there is a pride in crafts such as baking, so although the food is not always very complicated (e.g., rotisserie chicken in a beer garden) it is usually quite tasty. Service is good in restaurants and people seem to take pride in doing a good job whether the chef or the waiter. Well, that’s generally been my experience anyway.

Sekt -sparkling wine
Hock - gorgeous floral fruity white wine
Eiswine - wine made from grapes that freeze on the vine in cold weather,
Marzipantorte - layered marzipan cake
Mozartkugeln - marzipan alcoholic chocolates
Strong coffee
Sauerkraut
pretzels
Pfeffernusse and Lebkuchen - spiced gingerbread in decorative shapes

All of the above, plus Kasebrot, which translates as cheesebread, but means a meal with bread and cheese and salami and salad and other bits and bobs.

Hanuta. The fakey ones you get in Lidl over here are not the same.

Anything from a Schnelli

German bakeries are to die for

Bienenstich is my favourite cake (sort of a layer of sponge, buttercream, topped with roasted caramelized sliced almonds)

German food is really good quality. There are very strict laws about additives and ingredients. I'll buy burgers and sausages from a German supermarket but I won't touch the stuff from the Dutch ones. Fortunately I live on the border.

It's all too salty for me. That said, some of the breads are great. I love the dried apple chips.

Bretzels. Bretzels are the reason for Germany.

Oh, and Christmas biscuits of course - cinnamon stars/lebkuchen etc, but you want to hit a Christmas market for those.

Maultaschen if you are in Swabia (also Spätzle as mentioned above) delicious ravioli type thing served in broth.

Röte Grüetze a sort of fruit compote made with all the red berries.

DS likes the weird green jelly, which is flavoured from a white woodland flower. I think it's called Waldmeister? It's an indescribable flavour. As are all the mini shot-sized liquor things you can buy at the supermarket checkout.

Curry wurst. Dickmanns.

Where about in Germany will you be going? There are lots of regional specialties.