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The Cafe Berlin Menu

SCHLACHTEPLATTE							$8.95

A selection of meats and sausages served with various condiments; 
for two additional persons	$2.95

HERING								$3.95
Herring in wine sauce

KOMBINATIONSPLATTE						$5.25
Combination of herring, pickled beets, and pickled mushrooms

KARTOFFELPUFFER							$3.95
Potato pancakes served with sour cream and apple sauce

GERÄUCHERTE FORELLE						$4.95
Smoked trout

SPÄTZLE								$5.25
German style dumplings with a shiitake mushroom cream sauce

ERBSENSUPPE							$2.50
Split pea soup, the house specialty

FLEISCH SALAT							$4.95
Mixed meat salad in a beet mayonnaise dressing

	

MITTAGESSEN (LUNCH)

BOULETTEN							$5.45
German style ground beef patties topped with our 
special gravy and served with red cabbage and fried potatoes

KOHLROULADEN     						$5.95
Meat stuffed cabbage rolls topped with our special 
gravy; served with German potato salad and vegetable 
of the day

PILZE KOTELETT							$5.95
Mushroom cutlets made with shiitake and champignon
mushrooms; served with sauerkraut and vegetable of the day

BRATWURST							$5.45
Your choice of veal Bratwurst, smoked Bratwurst, or Knackwurst; 
served with your choice of two:

	Heisser Kartoffelsalat - hot German potato salad
	Bratkartoffel - fried potatoes
	Rotkohl - red cabbage
	Sauerkraut
	Gemüse des Tages - vegetable of the day

HOPPEL-POPPEL							$5.45
A breakfast skillet made with potatoes, onions, ham,
mushrooms, and scrambled eggs

WIENER SCHNITZEL						$7.45
Breaded veal cutlet topped with fried onions, served
with lemon, sauerkraut, and fried potatoes

FORELLE MIT DILLBUTTER						$6.95
Ruby trout pan fried in butter with fresh dill; served 
with fried potatoes and red cabbage

KASSLER RIPPENSPEER						$6.25
Boneless smoked pork chop served with
red cabbage and German potato salad

GEMISCHTER SALAT						$3.25
Mixed greens and fresh vegetables served with 
your choice of Ranch or our house dressing

SUPPE DES TAGES							$1.95
Soup of the day

ERBSENSUPPE							$1.95
Split pea soup, the house specialty

SUPPE UND SALAT							$4.50
Soup and salad

ABENDESSEN (DINNER)

SAUERBRATEN							$11.95
Marinated beef roast served with spätzle, 
gravy, and red cabbage

HALBE ENTE							$12.95
One half duck roasted with fresh thyme and onions; 
served with plum sauce, spätzle, and vegetable of the day

KASSLER RIPPENSPEER						$11.95
Roasted smoked pork loin served with fried potatoes 
and your choice of red cabbage or vegetable of the day

FORELLE MIT KAPERN						$10.95
Pan-fried ruby trout topped with a caper sauce; 
served with boiled potatoes and red cabbage

WIENER SCHNITZEL						$12.95
Breaded veal cutlet topped with fried onions; served 
with lemon, fried potatoes, and sauerkraut

JÄGER SCHNITZEL							$13.95
Breaded veal cutlet topped with mushrooms and gravy, 
served with lemon, boiled potatoes, and sauerkraut

SCHNITZEL A LA HOLSTEIN						$13.95
Breaded veal cutlet topped with capers, anchovies,
and one fried egg; served with lemon, fried potatoes,
and sauerkraut

KOHLROULADEN							$8.95
Meat-stuffed cabbage rolls topped with gravy; served
with boiled potatoes and vegetable of the day

PILZE KOTELETT							$8.95
Mushroom cutlets made with shiitake and champignon
mushrooms, served with sauerkraut and vegetable of the day

BRATWURST							$9.95
Your choice of two:  veal Bratwurst, smoked Bratwurst, or 
Knackwurst; served with fried potatoes and sauerkraut

LEBER BERLINER ART						$8.95
Beef liver, Berlin style, with onions and apples; served
with boiled potatoes and vegetable of the day

HÜHNER BRUST  BERLINER ART					$9.45
Boneless, skinless breast of chicken topped with
Westphalian ham and a brandy pear sauce, served 
with spätzle and vegetable of the day

SODA					$1.00
Coke, diet Coke, Sprite

FRUCHTSAFT				$1.50
Tomato, grapefruit, orange, apple

ICED TEA				$1.00

TEE					$1.00
Darjeeling, Earl Grey, English 
Breakfast, Caffeine free herbal blends

KAFFEE					$1.00
Fresh ground Costa Rican coffee

HENESSY, ASBACH URALT, COURVOISIER		$4.50

SCHNAPPS					$2.00
Steinhäger, Fürst Bismarck Vodka, Rimanto 
Potato Vodka, Schönauer Apfel Schnapps, 
Stroh Obstler, Jägermeister

ECHTE KROATZBEERE, MOZART LIQUEUR		$2.50

SCHWARZWÄLDER KIRSCHWASSER, 			$3.00
DER LACHS GOLDWASSER

How to get here:

Rocky Mountain News, Bill St. John, June 2, 1995:

"If you want your belt to feel guttentight, zoom zoom to Cafe Berlin.

It's nice to see the Denver area once again home to a vogue-defying German restaurant, a place for disks of potato pancakes slathered with sour cream; crocks of steaming split pea soup and sausage; skin-bursting wursts beside pan-fried potatoes; and fist-sized cutlets topped with fried eggs. Jawohl...

Cafe Berlin also features all the German niceties: it's clean and efficient; the wall art is modern and avant garde; and the beer and wine come from the old country, are unpronounceable for American tongues -- and are delicious.

You would expect a good German joint to offer soups with layers of flavor. Cafe Berlin certainly does...

Meat matters in a German restaurant, and Cafe Berlin delivers from the haunches with slices of pork, beef and veal. The typical Wiener schnitzel ($11.95), a breaded and fried veal cutlet topped with a fried egg, is larger here than elsewhere -- and crispier, spicier, more moist and delicious. The perfect side: the bacon-y pan-fried potatoes (what's a deutsch Restaurant mit no potatoes?)...

Good Hacker-Schorr beer flows from the taps behind the bar, in large or small steins, and it is delish."

Best of Denver, June 28, 1995:
Best Potato Pancakes
Cafe Berlin
2005 E. 17th Ave.

"No flash in the pancakes, Cafe Berlin's kartoffelpuffer are the ultimate in German comfort food. These hot potatoes are half-grated, half-mashed, fried oily-crisp and served under a slab of sour cream. But the crowning glory is the applesauce, a simple, sweetened meltdown spiced with cinnamon. Would we like some more? You're darn Teuton."

Westword, "Teuton Their Horns", by Kyle Wagner, Mar.29-Apr.4, 1995:


"[They] serve up quite an assortment of traditional, tried-and-true German offerings...[with] the light touch with the gravies, the attention to detail and the emphasis on seasonings rather than lard for flavoring.

The marjoram in the house-specialty split-pea soup ($2.50) was a fine example. If the base was made from bacon, the meat was used sparingly, because this staple -- lentils and peas are the stock soup ingredients in Germany -- had none of the usual pork overtones, despite the few bits of ham floating around. It did, however, have peas aplenty -- and lots of the marjoram, which gave it a more sophisticated quality than the standard peasant dish. But we still welcomed the homey tones of the applesauce that came with the appetizer potato pancakes ($3.95). The three pancakes themselves were light and crispy fried on the outside, partly mashed and partly grated on the inside, with not a greasy stain in sight. The applesauce, made on the premises from Granny Smiths, was truly special -- chunky but soft and just sweet enough to counteract the accompanying sour cream...

Enough hours had been invested in the sauerbraten ($11.95). Two frisbees of roasted beef (the name means "sour roast") soaked in the time-honored duo of vinegar and wine had been slow-cooked into submission and then covered with a gravy of the marinade and the meat's juices. The side dishes of -- what else?-- spaetzle and red cabbage met our expectations of authenticity: The spaetzle had been lightly fried with parsley after boiling, and the cabbage was caramelized around the edges from a healthy shaking of sugar.

More cabbage cropped up next to the tender chicken frikasee ($10.95) as a side of sauerkraut -- one of the most recognizably German foods even though it was invented in China about 2,000 years ago. Cafe Berlin's sauerkraut had been rinsed of its brine and drained to dryness, but it still wasn't too dry. It had been put in a separate dish to keep it from tainting the creamy frikasee sauce that was studded with capers -- which are not recognizably German but are often used in the northern, sea-accessible areas of the country. The capers' piquancy kept the butter sauce from becoming too rich and added needed flavor, since the German version of this French dish contains no vegetables.

Of course, no German meal would be complete without an apple strudel ($2.50). Cafe Berlin does its namesake proud with an inch-thick slice of pastry dough wrapped many times around gooey, chewy apples and walnuts -- the signature way Berliners like their strudel."