Ambry Restaurant

Despite its diminutive appearance, the Ambry has a maze of tables and booths and a healthy-sized bar from which to consume the thickest, frothiest brews in town. Beer steins adorn shelves, shadow boxes contain trinkets, and numerous woodwind instruments dangle from the ceiling. The crowded bar boasts a row of topped-off steins, and soccer team […]

Checkers Old Munchen

Munchen, as in Old-Munchen, is German for Munich. But it’s also a signifier of the spirited good times cooked up at this Pompano Beach eatery in that the place feels just like a beer bar set in the historic Bavarian capital. The small restaurant is lined with beer bottles and decorative steins and anchored by […]

Cypress Nook Restaurant

This cozy cottage restaurant hidden in Pompano Beach has been serving German-style breakfast and lunch since 1979. As the long lines suggest, it’s just about the perfect breakfast joint. On any given day, the whiteboard tacked on the tiny cottage’s far wall is filled with intriguing specials. There are eggs accompanied by all manner of […]

Fin & Claw

Hardly anybody beyond Willie and Donna Schlager seems to want to run a cozy little seafood café anymore, the kind of place where you order blackened dolphin or broiled yellowtail; where oysters are sautéed to order for a cream-rich stew and waitresses stagger under the weight of bristling platters of Alaskan King crab legs; where […]

German Bread Haus

Willkommen to the German Bread Haus, an authentic German bakery and retail store built in an over-the-top cute theme. The structure looks like a gingerbread house oddly located on a nondescript block on Commercial Boulevard. The inspiration behind the Haus came from owner Dieter Dauer. Before he left Germany, Dauer used to tell his two […]

International House of Schnitzel

It’s safe to say the thin, breaded meat cutlet known as schnitzel is not quite as buzzworthy as pancakes, the specialty of another, well-known international house. But even if it doesn’t always get the respect it deserves, schnitzel is undoubtedly more popular worldwide, whether it goes by the name “milanesa” in Italy and Latin America […]

Old Heidelberg

This German chalet-themed restaurant been open since 1991 and sports an adjacent deli next door where the original owners, Dieter Doerrenberg and Heidi Brueggeman, make sausages, schnitzel, and all sorts of German baked goods daily. Old Heidelberg’s menu is almost as big as the cavernous restaurant itself. There’s plenty of meaty German fare like schnitzel […]

Organic Brewery

Get drunk while doing some grade-A people-watching, or just contemplate the world’s vastness over a pint and a dramatic view of the ocean. Pull up a seat on the porch of Organic Brewery along Hollywood’s Broadwalk for both. Four great beers are brewed on-site, and they don’t carry the pretentious price tags often associated with […]