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Edelweiss Restaurant
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- Hours:
Mon-Thu. 11:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Fri-Sat. 11:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Sun. 11:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
19 reviews for Edelweiss Restaurant
It was a toss up between Uwe's and here. And since it was a Monday & Uwe's was closed Edelweiss won. Now we had heard Uwes had better food so we were a little disappointed until we walked into Edelweiss. It had the atmosphere of an old world German restaurant and the staff played the part.
The service was freindly (as well as Germans go at least) and as I said the atmosphere was authentic.
The food was fantastic. I recommend the rahmschnitzel and the apple strudel for dessert. Also a nice cold stein of beer to accompany the dinner. They have a great selection of German crafted beers.
If your in the Springs, do it. You'll like it.
I'd heard there was a good German place in Colorado Springs. I've never had homemade German food, so what do I know? I stopped by for lunch one day, late, and it was quiet but I loved the interior and the food was what I expected. I went again for dinner with a group, and being seated in the stein celler was great, perfect atmosphere and fun. Can't say it's gourmet and can't say much else except it is a nice change of pace and a great atmosphere. Maybe I ought to try the other place, too.
Hey, I was down here with my friends and they were going to the Edelweiss, so I went too. I had a great great glass of wine to start, of course a light German Reisling. One of my friends had beer and the other is allergic to alcohol. Really. Between us we had three different things, I love the saurbrauten, Paul, whose wife is German, said the food was great. My other dinner companion had one of the big combo platters and even though he's over 6 feet tall and has a good appetite didn't finish it. The music was live, and just perfect since it wasn't in our faces but sort of wafting around the other rooms and for a while a table was singing along. My saurbrauten was great, I love that red cabbage and the potato dumpling was solid, not like I'd make a dumpling (I make them Amish style light and fluffy or Penn Dutch) but what I imagine a solid German woman would make them.
They split a piece of the black cherry chocolate torte and demolished it between them, it was hard but I resisted desert in favor of good black coffee. Nice evening.
I used to live in Germany and recently worked for a German software company. Until now, I would suffer in silence as they tortured me with pictures of the biergarten. Well, this weekend I was able to torture back!
We sat in the biergarten at Edelweiss. I enjoyed a Weihenstephaner Original beer (from the oldest continuously operating brewery in the world - established in 1040A.D.) in perfect weather. I had the Rahnschnitzel (breaded and fried pork cutlet with a cream sauce) with spaetzle (potato noodles). The schnitzel was a little soggy by the time it got to the table from the sauce, but it tasted great. My friend had the Jagerschnitzel and was a bit disappointed in it (he wished he had ordered the same as me). He ordered the Warsteiner Dark beer and must have liked it as he ordered 3 of them.
The staff got low marks to start as the hostess seemed put out to seat us. There were only 3 occupied tables in the biergarten, and the same hostess kept sitting people right next to us during the meal. Maybe it's a pet-peeve, but if you have a huge area that's empty, don't stack people on top of each other. But, service quickly went uphill with the friendly and pleasant waitstaff who were attentive to every need for the rest of the visit.
All-in-all, this is a great restaurant and a fine example of a German experience.
I LOVE this place, and no trip to Colorado Springs is complete without stopping here.
Very simply: traditional German food, with traditional German beer, with traditional German ambiance. If these are things you crave, then you should love this place ... if you are not crazy about that ... well you might not get as much out of it.
We went here with a large group - about 20. We had a whole room to ourselves. The atmosphere was homey. The service was excellent - friendly, helpful, and efficient. The German food was very tasty. My wife had salmon, and she said it was a little dry. But you don't come to Edelweiss for salmon.
The waitress did not hesitate to separate the check six ways. The gratuity was added automatically (as expected for a group that size) and clearly marked on the receipt.
Went here for my little sister's 21st birthday. We made a reservation, which I recommend- I mean, I don't know if it's necessary but I prefer to make reservations whenever possible.
We arrived at 6:30pm on a saturday night. They seated us without problem, and our server was super attentive. She brought our drinks and took our order.
The ambiance? Quaint, but autherntic. It was like being transported into some German lodge to eat. My sister was thrilled- she said everything was "just like in Germany." She meant that in a I-backpacked-through-Germany way...
The food. Lots of non-fusion German fare. the was a lot of cooked cabbage, and potato dumplings. I'd recommend the Veal and scallops dish one guest ordered, or the pork.
I told our server it was my sister's birthday. The guy in lederhosen playing guitar sang her a special birthday song, they gave her free shots and generally made her birthday fun times. She left, gentley swaying.
Like others, we'd heard that Uwe's had an edge in the kitchen. They were closed thru 9/17 (love those Euro vacations) so we decided to try Edelweiss. The place has a real gasthaus feel to it with a decent parlor, basement bar, well appointed dining room and awesome patio. Service was friendly, if anything the hostess was a little shy; our waitress was a pro and knew her business. Atmosphere here is 100% and the food and service was 90+. Easy recommendation for dinner in the Springs.
Colorado Springs. Beautiful mountains, religious extremists, faux intelligentsia, no sidewalks and endless, sprawling ticky-tack subdivisions. What a great place to never go.
Before the Californians made it a miniature LA, lots of artists and thinkers found the place inspiring, and many families took their annual vacations here. These people came from the east, and they loved good food. Today you can escape to a few - okay, like two - really neat places that recall a more interesting Colorado Springs. With the heart-wrenching loss of Michele's, this is at the top of the list.
Edelweiss serves German food and beer. Period. They serve big plates, they are reliable and professional, and maintain an intimate, family feel despite their large, labyrinthine dining areas. It isn't the place for cutting-edge fusion cuisine, but it's simply delicious, and a reminder that not so long ago, Colorado Springs was a fun place.
The parking was a nightmare.
Other than that though, the food was good, (we were with my company Christmas party) wait staff seemed overwhelmed. Probably could have used another staffer or two. But the staff was very kind and responsive to needs when they were pointed out to them. (Too many people I think to worry about one person's water glass needing refilling, but they were prompt when I pointed it out.)
It would be interesting to try this place without being in such a huge group to see what the service was like.
The food was very interesting. I don't know that I have had "German" food before. It was an interesting experience.
If you haven't tried it before I would suggest you check it out.
Gosh, coming to Edelweiss Restaurant in late June really brought back tons of memories of what it was like to eat traditional German meals in little German towns. I spent 13 years of my adolescent years living in Southern Germany because Dad was in the army, and I always had access to delicious filling food! It felt great to have it again!
I suggested to my family that we come here since we all hadn't had any kind of German food since living in Bamberg. My parents LOVED it. They don't like to go out to eat very often either, so that was a plus. My brothers and I all had schnitzel cooked and prepared various ways. I think one of them had the wiener schnitzel, the other had jagerschnitzel, and I had the zigeunerschnitzel... so delicious! They were even able to make us colaweissen (sp?), coke mixed with hef beer, I THINK. Don't quote me on that, ha!
I would definitely go back again when I go to visit my parents. We're Filipino, so we're always eating Filipino and other Asian dishes at home. Mmmmmm...
We had high hopes for this place. Initially, between the atmosphere, the service, and the drink menu, our hopes were still really high. Once we go the food, it was all lost. It just really wasn't good. Too bad.
Oh, what a wonderful place. Being from Germany, I liked coming here for the atmosphere as much as the food. The service was good, too, in fact I noticed a lot of the servers were actually German and spoke it, too, which I loved, since I had nobody else to speak German to. Anyways, the reason for four vs. five stars is that sometimes the food was, while good, just not up to par with my expectations. The menu didn't have much variety either.
German beer, fraulein waitress in them German getups, and Schnitzel! service was kinda whatever on a slow afternoon and the food isn't exactly amazing. However, it's a nice atmosphere and the food ain't too badly priced and overall it's a different experience. So all i can say to that is JAWOL!
I've been to Colomorado Springs twice now and both times I've patronized the Edelweiss. But first, before I go into a review about the restaurant itself, a little back story about Edelweiss...the flower.
Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), one of the best-known European mountain flowers, belongs to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The name comes from German edel (meaning noble) and weiss (meaning white). The scientific name, Leontopodium means "lion's paw", being derived from Greek words leon (lion) and podion (diminutive of pous, foot)...
In my head this history lesson was funnier...trust me.
At any rate, Edelweiss...the restaurant is a Colorado Springs institution that has been satiating patrons for over 40 years with excellent German treats ranging from Schnitzel, Bratwurst, and Sauerbraten, to newer-age items such as Flammekuchen and Maultasuchen. Both of my visits were punctuated by knowledgeable and attentive service that paired well with the Alpine lodge-style interior. To top everything off, they offer a fairly extensive menu of German beer, including an excellent hefeweizen from Erdinger Weiaabrau (the largest wheat beer brewery in the world) that complimented the Munchner Platte that I selected.
This review is getting lengthy, so in order to make a long story short, if you're in Colorado Springs and you're in the mood for German cuisine, the Edelweiss won't disappoint.
We ate at the Edelweiss recently for an evening meal. There wasn't too many people in there the night we stopped in and things seemed slow.
There was a sole server that night. We'll call her Helga. Helga seemed slow to take our order, slow to serve our food and she didn't notice our empty water glasses until we brought it to her attention. We were paying for our meal by the time a water refill came out.
Helga surprised us with a nearly 20% tip SHE wrote on our final bill. (over $6) WOW what a stunner. Weak service and a record tip for her mediocre service. The food was good but the slow service left much to be desired.
I have lived in Germany twice, love German food, and make a habit of seeking out German restaurants wherever I travel.
In the US, I have eaten at German restaurants in New York City, NY, Chicago, IL, San Jose, CA, Danbury/Bethel, CT, Washington DC, Charlottesville, VA, Gaithersburg, MD...and now in Colorado Springs.
I am sad to say that in the Edelweiss, I have found the worst German restaurant I have ever been to.
The prime culprit? As it should be -- the FOOD.
Let's begin with the salad. The salad was limp, soggy, sodden -- it looked and tasted as if most of the ingredients (some of them clearly canned) had been marinating in a vinaigrette together for several hours. Additionally, even if the ingredients had been fresh, there were too many of them, tossed together in a confusing mash that made no sense. A house salad, even a German version, should never have a thick dollop of potato salad tossed into the middle of it. This one did.
Now continue to the main course -- jaegerschnitzel (hunter's schnitzel). Jaegerschnitzel is supposed to be veal or pork medallions or cutlets sauteed, then topped by a "hunter's" sauce that is traditionally a beef stock-based sauce sometimes including wine, paprika, onions, mushrooms, etc.
My jaegerschnitzel at the Edelweiss was TERRIBLY overcooked. The meat was tough, dry, and stringy. The meat had been so badly overcooked that it had curled up in several places -- this should have been a clue to the chef that it needed to be tossed out and redone.
Then, the hunter's sauce, instead of having a beef base, was clearly made with a chicken stock base -- and because it was not properly reduced, the sauce tasted nearly like chicken soup. Between the tough, dry, stringy, overcooked meat and the poorly (and wrongly) made sauce, it was an awful, awful rendition of jaegerschnitzel.
The food was so bad, I could not figure out why so many people were at the Edelweiss. We ate on a Friday night around 6:30, and the restaurant was packed. Do people from Colorado Springs just have no clue what good food is, or is not?
In reading other reviews, I think this place is popular, and has gotten a pass, because of its atmosphere. I will say that the restaurant's space was dressed up in the manner of an authentic German restaurant, complete with antlers and taxidermied animals hanging from the walls, lace curtains on the windows, and in a bit of over-the-top kitsch, nutcrackers on several of the tables. Additionally, a two-man accordion band dressed up in lederhosen entertained the crowd, which at 7 pm was already in full-throated support of "Roll Out The Barrel". That's when we rolled out, horribly disappointed by a not-quite-mediocre restaurant.
We went for dinner, the atmosphere with the live music, the food, it makes for a perfect german dinner. The choices are perfect.
Great looking place with an old time feeling and a very nice outdoor patio. The weissbier is great but there ends the good things about the place. The food is old time German meaning boring and not particularly well done.
Really good German food, and I'm not even sure I like German food. They have good beers including beer from the oldest brewery in the world. When I went they had live musicians playing the accordion and singing in German. You can buy steins there if you want, too. Dessert menu wasn't really impressive. Great atmosphere.
