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Let's say I'd came for a visit in your town and you have to guide me to your favorite places for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Where would you take me and what's on the menu?

Keeping it strictly local (if possible), I would take YOU for ...

breakfast at BackWerk (BakeWorks). It's a German self-serve bakery/snack chain with fresh, high quality food. I would recommend their tasty 12 inch beef sausage wrapped in cheese and puff pastry. Warm and delicious. Or their classy Panini sandwich.

(http://www.back-werk.de/images/upload/1/snacks/backwerk-panini_tb.jpg)

It's mozzarella or turkey on Ciabatta with a creamy, home made dressing! For dessert: a Coconut Vanilla Banana smoothie across the street at the mall.

Quick snack before lunch: coffee to go (best in town) and the best (yes!) strawberry glazed donuts ever, both at Café Baier. The donuts are expensive but totally worth it.

Lunch at my favorite Turkish hole-in-the-wall deli Obstkorb (Fruit Basket). Their hearty and huge but cheap doener platter are great. People stand in line during "lunch hour".

Dinner: If its carp season, I would recommend deep fried pepper carp with shredded green salad and tater salad. They are equally good at every restaurant in our area.

(http://www.sgf-lichteneiche.de/bilder/siedlerheim/karpfen.jpg)

or may an XXL schnitzel with a creamy cheese gravy and fries would tickle your fancy:

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In Preston, for breakfast we'd go to Brucciani's for a full-english breakfast.

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We'd go for lunch at my favourite biker pub, The Dog & Partridge and probably have a curry burger with side salad. We'd have a hobgoblin dark ale too.  :drink:

(http://www.ciderspace.co.uk/photos/pubs/preston-dog-and-partridge.jpg)
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And for dinner, to the Café bar for a penne diana (pasta, chicken, mushrooms, french mustard sauce, parmesan)

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Always wanted to try a full-english breakfast, though I had similar (minus beans) at brunches. It looks fabulous.

Oh god we're a foodie city so I wouldn't know where to begin.

It depends on the person coming over, as I'd try and open their minds a little to some interesting places outside of their normal comfort zone.  If you're from overseas, going to see the Australian Rules Football whilst having a meat pie is probably on the list [last time I took an American, he kept questioning why we make such things]  Not exactly a feast but still.

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We destroy brunch in my area, so many good places.  A good chicken parma is a pretty stereotypical Australian meal.

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I've also been obsessed with a Pulled Pork Burger from a pub around the corner.  It is absolute heaven.

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[I swear there are actually healthy, quality options available but I haven't had dinner yet and am craving meals like the above.]

Too many good places, I really don't know where to start! But I'll try.

For breakfast, we'll go to PJ's Coffee for treats and drinks (If you're not into coffee, there's always tea and other beverages)

For lunch, we would go to Adam's Street Deli and Grocery for some po-boys :tongueout:

Dinner, we would....geez, that's really a hard one. :teddyr:

Papa's Tomato Pies, Trenton New Jersey :thumbup:

Delorenzo's pizza, Trenton New Jersey

The Jerzey shore has alot of good food as well.

Breakfast?  How about the Black Bear, just west of me in Beaverton.
Good chicken fried steak!  Yummers!
(http://www.chefseattle.com/images/review/126-fried-steak.jpg)
For lunch we'll go out to Helvatia Tavern for their knockout burgers, just off of 26W.
(this is one of their smaller burgers, but they all taste wonderful)
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Dinner?  If I didn't have to go strictly local, the Olive Garden is awesome.  Bottomless soups!  Great pizza!  Hell, everything I've had there is great!
But local..?  Hmm, I'll spring for an expensive but crazy good steak dinner for ya at The Ringside.  With a big ol' potato cheese soup too if ya like.
(http://www.portlandasap.com/gfx/ad-ringside-steakhouse2.jpg)
The Portland metropolitan area really has everything you could possibly want.

Curse you! I feel fatter and hungrier just lookin' at that stuff!

I grew up with hot breakfast but its totally not the norm in Germany. Usually the only thing hot is coffee, and maybe an boiled egg. Different cultures indeed.
Germany has adapted over the years though. Some places now serve breakfast "American Style" consisting of eggs, bacon (very thin sliced), toast, orange juice and if you are lucky, sausages or ham.

I can't even imagine the reactions when serving chicken fried steak for breakfast here  :teddyr:

Claws, can you recommend some good German food? Please, danke!. < 'thanks' right? :smile:

There's a German restaurant at the shore, if you recommend something and they have it, we'll try it.
My girlfriend is half German and I want to surprise her. Thank you.

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I hope the food isn't as bad as the writing on the menu  :wink:

I noticed that pretty much every restaurant in the states offering German food always seem to add red cabbage to every dish. Nice bonus addition maybe, but not correct. Red cabbage is served in Germany only with the accompanying main dish that it was meant to be eaten with. They do not serve red cabbage with schnitzel, chicken or (yikes!) bratwurst (seen that on many US menus).
If you view the addition of red cabbage as part of some sort of sample platter then it's ok. But still not authentic.

Basically you can never go wrong with Schnitzel, but the addition of spätzle (some sort of dumplings) as seen on the menu is mostly unheard of in our region. If you should decide to order the Wiener Schnitzel (or Jäger Schnitzel) tell them to remove the red cabbage and ask for lots of fries instead of spätzle. That's how most Germans enjoy their Schnitzel.

Knockwurst and Bratwurst dish seems to be authentic, and both are also recommended.

Huhn Zigeuner sounds weird, since they are using chicken breasts. Zigeuner Schnitzel is a real dish but I guess that restaurant was aiming for some variety and threw in the chicken breasts instead  :lookingup:

Sauerbraten is always recommended but the addition of spätzle is (again) very distracting. I have nothing against spätzle but they do not belong with Sauerbraten. There should be Klöße (Potatoballs) to go with Sauerbraten. Seems like that restaurant does not offer Klöße at all (the number 1 German food) so technically that is a huge fail. If you should order Sauerbraten ask them to make you some friggin' Klöße to go with it, and that they should shove their spätzle  :wink:

Konigsburger Klopse (should be Königsberger Klöpse *sigh*) and Maultaschen sound about right as well.

Cool. Thank you, claws. :thumbup:

Yeah, I had to edit my post, it seems that's the wrong restaurant anyway. I needed the one by Wildwood, NJ.

K. We'll try Schnitzel or Sauerbraten and Klöße maybe some Bratwurst. Thanks again. :smile: