“Our wurst is ze best” the Herman Ze German website says. My fond memories of German sausages are, me trying to devour them carefully with my head tilt to the side at fair grounds like Winter Wonderland.
I visited 2 of the shops already but the Fritzrovia one. The shop exterior is a lot classier than the other two with actual spaces to sit down and eat instead of the hole in the wall truck shop. Usually, at the other spots, I have to fight for a spot by the window.
Downstairs is a basement cocktail bar and there are even table services with waiters ready to take orders. It was a weekday evening and the crowd seems to be young students, tourists, and some business people.
Herman Ze German invited me down to try a selection of their food and cocktails. Three kinds of German sausages are on the menu, chilli beef, bock wurst, brat wurst. If you want to find out more about the entire different wursts out there check out this link. The sausages and ingredients are authentic straight out of Germany. You are handed a menu where you can mark what you want in the tick boxes and hand back to the server.
If you order anything in the rolls, be mindful of how thick it is you are quickly stuffed by bread. The roll comes frozen but is baked daily on the premises. My half ze Wilde beck roll was crammed with a puddle of thick chip shop style gravy tomato curry sauce, pile on the crispy onions and lashings of mayonnaise with sprinkled powder. Most extra toppings come with an extra cost besides the crispy onions.
I managed to try out all three sausages, with the pork and veal being my favourite going well with the extra curry sauce I dunked with each sliced piece. I’ve been told the curry can be ordered with four different heat levels. The wurst are really good thick sausages bursting with juicy meat with great flavouring.
The cocktails are also worth a try the two I had barely tasted like it had any alcohol. Herman Ze German is a great place to get that quick fast food that tastes good.
41 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1RS
http://www.hermanzegerman.com/
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