The New Schnitzel House in Miami Opens with German Food and Beer

For years, the Royal Bavarian Schnitzel Haus on the 79th Street Causeway provided one of many few really German experiences in Miami. The restaurant, which provided bratwurst, schnitzel, beer, stay music, and a biergarten at the back of the restaurant, was quietly closed on the finish of 2018.

In 2019, Gramps proprietor Adam Gersten took over the house with plans to carry the beloved restaurant again to life with some fashionable adjustments. Gersten tells New Times that the improve took a while, however he is pleased with the ultimate end result. “The again had been overgrown. We needed to change the grease lure and the awning, and we actually needed to clear up every little thing and begin recent. I wished it to really feel like a restaurant that opened in 1991.”

Gersten says like Gramps, the New Schnitzel House had loads of threads of Miami historical past woven by means of it. “The proprietor of the Royal Bavarian Schnitzel Haus was really a server and prepare dinner on the Dab Haus once I was a child. He ended up opening the now-closed Edelweiss on Biscayne, and I had nice recollections of that place.” 

Gersten says the New Schnitzel House, which opens at the moment, is just not attempting to repeat the unique Schnitzel Haus or another German restaurant. “It’s a totally new house. The meals is easy — it is consolation meals.” The restaurant has two large bars and a eating room that may give you a sit-down expertise, together with a lined exterior house that is nice for each summer season and winter.

The New Schnitzel House will provide favorites like a housemade pretzel, served with a facet of beer cheese, pickled onions, and home mustard ($13); a brat plate with an all-pork frankfurter, smoked kielbasa, Schnitzel House brat, and kraut ($26); a pickle plate with candy and bitter kraut, pickled eggs, bread and butter pickles, pickled mushrooms, and beet turnips ($14); and rooster schnitzel ($26)

A late-night meals menu presents the Schnitz ‘n frites, currywurst, pretzel, and Frankfurter after 10:30 p.m.

The beverage menu consists of a wide selection of German beers, a wine checklist curated by Sara Ypsilanti (previously of Boia De), and basic drinks highlighting German substances such because the “Schnitzel House” punch made with Jagermeister, rum, orgeat bitters, and lemon; the “Carlos Von Schmidt” made with Mount Gay and Smith & Cross rums, lemon, Becherovka, honey, and aquafaba; and the “Royal Bavarian” made with rye, cinnamon, amaro, and bitters.

In the close to future, Schnitzel House will provide stay leisure exterior and a weekend grill. Inside, count on to relax out to some mixtapes and CDs with playlists made by pals.

So far, suggestions from the neighborhood throughout the restaurant’s comfortable opening has been good, in line with Gersten. “We have nice neighborhoods across the restaurant, like Shorecrest, North Bay Village, and Miami Shores. People have been strolling right here from their residences.”

The New Schnitzel House. 1085 NE 79th St., Miami; thenewschnitzelhouse.com. Thursday by means of Monday 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.