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“Bohemian Beer Hall”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	German/Austrian	Queens	Cheap Eats	Good

still putting us off. By 6:05 though, they had finally gotten things together enough to start serving.

The grill is “manned” by two tall Czech girls who more properly belong on America’s Top Model but are for some reason flipping burgers and searing foot-long sausages. Gentlemen, need I say more? Get over there. After checking out the ladies on the grill, I volunteered to go order our sausages—no need to have the boyfriend chatting up the supermodels getting sweaty working the grill—and he went to fetch us another round of beers. By the time I returned to our table, Craig had returned with a Spaten for him and an Erdinger, a light wheat beer that was cool, fresh and lemony, for me. I was a happy woman. I presented him with a plump and juicy foot-long kielbasa ($7), scored, bubbling, and blistered, topped with zippy sauerkraut, with a bit of hot sauce, and some mustard and a side of fries. He was a happy man. That kielbasa was glorious: snappy and hot, juicy and flavorful. But I recommend asking for the fries to be cooked well done. The models know how to make a good sausage, though they tend to under fry their freshly-cut potatoes.

But one kielbasa does not a dinner make (at least not for us), so we decided to try some authentic Czech and Slovak fare from the dining room menu. The beer hall has two separate menus, one from the grill—burgers, sausages, hot dogs, fries—and one from the restaurant kitchen, with waitress service, that includes classics like schnitzel ($11), chicken paprikash ($11), pirogies ($8), and goulash ($11)—perfect for mugs of cold brew. We went for the chicken schnitzel and some potato pirogies for good measure.

If you’ve had schnitzel at Wallsé, where it is made from veal pounded thin and breaded in crumbs so golden they might be worn as jewels, you probably should not try the schnitzel at the Bohemian Beer Hall. But if you’re kicking back, having a lazy happy afternoon drinking cold beer under sunny skies, and feel up for a really good chicken cutlet, then by all means. And this is a really good cutlet—it is huge, the crust is well-seasoned, and the chicken is tender and moist. The schnitzel is served with a choice of side, and we chose the bread dumplings, which resemble a matzo ball that has been sliced. The slices are coated in gravy. I would not recommend the bread dumplings without the gravy. On their own, they taste a bi ... [more, click below]

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Posted: September 25, 2006

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