{"id":4585,"date":"2014-01-24T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2014-01-24T21:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:17:21","slug":"the-best-restaurant-in-fort-wayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4585","title":{"rendered":"The Best Restaurant in Fort Wayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t drag this out; it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Das-Schnitzelhaus\/175264502647538?ref=br_tf\">Das Schnitzelhaus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Favorite nephew Tom and I went to Das Schnitzelhaus for lunch today.  Being the wind chill&#8217;s below zero we came up with a lame excuse to go into Ft. Wayne rather than to work outside.  And since we&#8217;re both hungry and growing boys, we arranged that trip to town at lunch time.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch at Das Schnitzelhaus started off with a sweet and tart cole slaw.  Then Tom had the German Platter &#8211; roast pork, schnitzel, sausage, spaetzle, and sauerkraut.  I had the sausage platter, 3 kinds of sausage, potatoes and gravy, and sauerkraut.  Served with a big pot of German mustard, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I like hyperbole.  I love to exaggerate and inflate. But the &#8220;Best Restaurant in Fort Wayne?&#8221; Really?  Up against Joseph Decuis and Eddie Merlot&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break it down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We walked in and a smiling person greeted us, made us feel welcome, and got us settled.<\/li>\n<li>The restaurant was immaculately clean.<\/li>\n<li>The decor was pleasing: German flags and colors, family photos.  All you&#8217;d want and expect.<\/li>\n<li>The server took our drink orders upon our sitting down and kept our glasses full.<\/li>\n<li>The food was delicious, expertly prepared; textures, seasonings, temperatures were all faultless.<\/li>\n<li>The server was attentive.<\/li>\n<li>The chef came out and greeted the customers, making sure all was as it should be.<\/li>\n<li>The check was correct and presented promptly at the end of the meal.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking at that list it doesn&#8217;t seem like much actually.  But I&#8217;ve been to the &#8216;best&#8217; restaurants in the area and even charging 10 times what Das Schnitzelhaus does they can&#8217;t seem to pull that off.<\/p>\n<p>All Das Schnitzelhaus needs is das Bier!<a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a name=\"1\">1. <\/a>Beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which we reveal Fort Wayne&#8217;s best restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}