Muncher Haus Deli is now closed in Fremont.
Those of you that have been to both places mentioned in the subject, are there some similarities between the two?
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I have been to Munchener Deli quite some time ago and I would say they are quite different as the one in Fremont was more a (German) sandwich shop with also German stuff to buy (and many sandwiches didn’t have much to do with German sandwich). The one in RWC isn’t sandwich focused but a restaurant with decent German dishes (or more like every German restaurant in the US mainly Bavarian dishes) with a quite good beer and draft list (which covers German but also US craft beers). It has also a small shop which sells German stuff but tends quite overpriced even compared to other German shops in the Bay area like Lehr’s
If you want good German/Bavarian food I wouldn’t recommend none of them but either Suppenkueche in Hayes Valley (best in Bay area) or Bistro Mitte in San Carlos
Thanks. I hadn’t been to Munchner in years. And when I found out they closed a few years ago, was disappointed that I had let so much time go by.
I was trying to remember what it was like. Did you like the sandwiches from Munchener? Or any sandwich?
If I remember correctly, it was OK - nothing bad but also nothing really standout. If you look on their menu, it looks very much like your “regular” sandwich shop and I was hoping to have a bit more “German” influences - I think I tried the sandwich with veal loaf hoping it would go a bit in the direction of a frikadellen broetchen which quite popular in Germany
https://places.singleplatform.com/munchner-haus-delicatessen/menu?ref=google
How do you compare Suppenkuche to Leopold’s in SF?
We haven’t been yet to Leopold’s (but it is on our long, long list of to-be-visited restaurants) but another German (yes, Leopold’s is technically Austrian but the dishes in both restaurants have quite an overlap) we know recently went to both and preferred Suppenkueche. Leopold’s wasn’t bad but he felt Suppenkueche took a bit more care to have higher quality dishes. So overall, it seems for reasonable prized German food Suppenkueche is the place to go in the Bay area. The only exception is Naschmarkt in PA and Campbell which are another (bigger) step up but prices are also significantly higher and more on fine dining restaurant levels
Thanks. I think that describes what I thought most of the time I went there.
I’d look at their menu, and there weren’t enough things that looked very unique and German. It looked a little too regular. So that’s probably why I only went there once.
And walked out the other times and opted for someplace else.
With that said, I still wish I would have tried it at least 3 times, if I had known it would have closed. I think after 3 times, I’d have a better sense of how much I liked it.
I drove by there often, so it was close. It’s harder to find places that try to be German, so I wish I would have gone there a few times, or maybe even gotten some beer, for the unique setting.
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I like the food at Speisekammer in Alameda, though I haven’t been in a while.
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It is not what it was, at least the last couple of times that I was there.
No intention for returning except for a Beer.
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Just as a note about Naschmarkt, the PA branch has good cocktails. I don’t go there often, I prefer more casual places, and we’ve got a lot of action on the casual-ish front between RWC, PA, MV.
On the fancier side like Naschmarkt, I probably end up at Sekoya and Protoge within the California Ave cluster. Bodeguita del Medio also gets our business fairly reliably.
