Schnitzel Ranch Restaurant Review and Menu: Huntsville, Alabama AL (glass beer boot)

Full Restaurant Menu and Bread Menu at bottom of post!

If you are looking for cheap authentic German food and delicious Paulaner Pilsner served in DAS BOOT you will love this Oddly named and clip art logo-ed establishment. You can order the men's boot (1 liter) or the ladies boot (.5 liter). Eventually they said they are going to try to sell the boots, but they have to import them.  The decor is homey, not fancy, with a ceiling full of hanging beer steins, and when you want service at your table, you pull up your table number flag. Very creative, and very cute when the owner said they have a patent pending on it.   You can't beat this price in town for German food. I still love Ol'Heidelberg and Cafe Berlin for fancier German food, they have the best blue cheese salad I have ever eaten, but they are very expensive compared to the lunch prices at Schnitzel Ranch.

For an appetizer we started with a fresh baked German pretzel with mustard. So delicious!

We ate Jager Schnitzel (mushroom brown gravy) and Rouladen (beef filled with onion, relish, and bacon in a thick gravy).  They were amazing!

Jager

As cute and delicious as Schnitzel Ranch is... I must confess they do have a few shortcomings in some of their sides that you should take into consideration when ordering, but this should not overshadow how delicious the rest of their food is.  The red cabbage tastes like it was plopped out of a can instead of being homemade, the salad is iceberg out of a bag, the butter is some other type of spread, and the bacon in the German potato salad is real bacon but chopped up chips from a bottle.  All other sides were amazing:  cucumber salad, potato dumplings, spaetzle, and pan fried potatoes. 

Now I come to the best part about the restaurant:  the owners! Renja Reinig-Schmitt and her husband, Joachim Reinig came from Germany after they had researched the country and choose Huntsville as a very German friendly area.  They used a special visa to open a business as she is trained in business and he is trained as a butcher. Renja was our waitress and was so nice and talkative explaining the food, telling us her story of how she opened the business, and where she came from in Germany.  My mom lived in Germany when she was little so they were discussing Stuttgart and the Black Forest.

Fun Dessert:  Spaghetti Ice Cream Sundae..... Vanilla ice cream extruded into noodle shapes topped with whipped cream, strawberry sauce, and coconut.  Delicious!

Please try this restaurant for lunch sometime with friends or to go to watch a soccer game at night.  Also, they serve an extensive variety of fresh baked breads now.  The pumpkin seed is particularly delicious!

Menus are below.  Click on picture for larger image.