Checkers Old Munchen

Nice place for lunch. Reasonable prices, especially considering you get a bread and pretzel basket with your order. I had e chicken schnitzel sandwich. Chicken portion was good sized and the bread was a decent multi wheat instead of a white bread bun.
Beers are big but so is the price tag on them.
Very friendly staff at lunch and great collection of regular customer beer steins on the walls.

I can't believe it's taken this long for me to hear where the old Cypress Nook crew ended up. Great move Matt and you're a Detroit Red Wings fan, too! You want proof... check out the bathroom!! We absolutely enjoyed our breakfast and Denise took great care of us, just like the old days! We'll definitely be back for lunch and dinner!!

I had not been in here in a while, so I was surprised to see the new bar they added on. I looked great, was nice and cool on that side, so we sat in there. Also there was live music which was nice. I ordered my go-to Jager Schnitzel, spatzel, and red cabbage. The Schnitzel was made perfectly, the Jager gravy was very bland, and the red cabbage was so strong it made my tongue feel burned. We tried 2 other gravy options but still very bland. It seems like it's the same gravy base with different add-ins. I will go and try again and will update this review if the food is back to the amazing experience I've had so many times before. The staff was fantastic, very friendly and attentive.

This was my first time trying German food, outside of a pretzel or bratwurst. I visited during lunch hours - the place was nicely tucked away and not crowded. Plenty of German decorative drinking mugs line the wall - if you want to earn a mug on the wall you can.

The server I had was fairly new to the lunch hours, so there were some delays. She was a bit old, so to the point! If you know the northeast attitude, then you get it.

I like the chicken schnitzel (they have a variety of different schnitzels) which comes with gravy. Two sides came with the meal: I got the red cabbage, which is a pickled cabbage (the pickledness was very strong) and I got the potato dumpling (kinda like a giant gnocchi).

For dessert, we got the German chocolate cake and the apple strudel. The strudel was my favorite - it was light and not overly sweet. Highly recommend the strudel.

I love everything about Germany; I also lived there many years ago and still crave their food, even though… I’m Italian (so please, don’t repeat this to my Italian family and friends!).

I was therefore very happy to find out about this restaurant and to hear good reviews about it; and of course, I went to try it as soon as we could.

The restaurant was opened back in 1982 by a German chef, and the tradition is now continued by his nephew.

We came here on a Saturday for lunch: it was barely noon and the place was already packed (they open at 7am). Their parking lot is very small and was already full when we arrived, but we did manage to find a spot across the street.
You first enter their long and narrow bar, and from there a door takes you to the dining room.

In the dining room you feel as if you were in a German restaurant, and their walls are literally covered by German Beer Mugs and Boots – all of them with plaques with names on it.
These plaques are part of the “German Beer Tour” that the restaurant began in 2012, which sounds like fun! What you have to do to participate is first to request a “German Beer Tour Passport”, which list all of the 30 draft (imported) beers offered by the restaurant. This passport will keep track of your drinks: once you have drunk all the 30 German beers, you become a “Deutsche Bier Meister” (German Beer Master) and receive your own plaque on the wall, a German beer tour T-Shirt, and “Das Boot” to take home.
Apparently you can complete your “journey” at your own pace, so even if we don’t live very close to this location, I may request my passport next time we go!

I love “Leberwurst”, so once I saw it on the menu, I ordered it without even checking the other dishes. Even if I ordered it in the size of “appetizer”, the portion was really big. It was so good that I ate it all nevertheless.
I also tasted some of the food that our friends ordered (pancakes and various sausages), and liked them all!

The service is very good and fast, and the prices are very decent, above all considering the big portions.
They also have HH from Sunday to Friday, offering ½ off all their imported draft beers.

I look forward to coming back!