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Cafe Katja is a Lower East Side restaurant serving contemporary Austrian and American food since opening in 2007 at 79 Orchard Street in New York City. The neighborhood mainstay is known for classic Central European comfort dishes with a light touch, from schnitzel and sausages to pretzels, alongside cocktails and Austrian-inspired plates.Guests find a warm, wood-and-rope interior that feels like Read more...

The German Society of Maryland, founded in 1783, preserves and promotes German heritage, language, and traditions in Maryland through educational, social, and benevolent programs. Originally organized to aid German immigrants arriving in the state, the Society today builds unity in the German-American community with scholarships, high school awards, cultural events, and an annual business meeting.Membership is open to anyone interested Read more...

The Cincinnati Donauschwaben Society is a nonprofit cultural organization of Danube Swabians dedicated to preserving German language and heritage in the Cincinnati area. Based at Donauschwaben Park at 4290 Dry Ridge Road in Colerain Township, the society hosts community dances, German folk dance groups, and seasonal festivals, and offers hall and pavilion rental for private events.Its signature celebration is an Read more...

Edelweiss Bistro is the German restaurant at Bayern Brewing in Missoula, Montana, serving Bavarian plates such as chicken schnitzel, bratwurst and kraut, house-made pretzels, and Udo’s Dragon Soup alongside Bayern’s German-style beers.The brewery campus at 1507 Montana Street includes an outdoor biergarten with picnic tables, shade umbrellas, and a life-size chess board. Edelweiss is open Monday through Saturday; the taproom Read more...

Das Stein Haus is a German pub and eatery on Spokane’s North Side, serving homemade German classics such as schnitzel, bratwurst, käsespätzle, and weekend breakfast plates in a welcoming neighborhood dining room and bar.Located at 1812 West Francis Avenue, the restaurant offers lunch and dinner daily, banquet space for groups, and catering. The kitchen draws on decades of German culinary Read more...

Gilde Brewery brings authentic German brewing to Charlotte’s Lower South End, with a Caspary German-made brewhouse from the same family company that has built brewpubs from Munich to New York since 1788. The taproom pairs traditional German craft beer with German cuisine and American classics in a modern industrial dining room that looks onto the copper tanks.Find the brewery at Read more...

Silke’s Old World Breads is a German bakery, cafe, and delicatessen on College Street in Clarksville, Tennessee. Silke and Tim began baking from home after the Army brought them from Germany to Clarksville in 1991; their still-active sourdough starter dates to 1995. The cafe opened in 2005, and the bakery and deli followed next door in 2012.Guests find hand-shaped German Read more...

Annelore’s German Bakery has baked for the Research Triangle for more than a decade from its downtown Cary flagship. The shop draws on old-world family recipes for Black Forest cake, Donauwelle, Bee Sting cake, artisan breads, pretzels, macarons, and other German and European pastries made without preservatives or synthetic additives.Inspired by Munich and Viennese coffee houses, the 3,600-square-foot bakery cafe Read more...

Rheinlander Bakery has served Olde Town Arvada since 1963, when German immigrants Jakob and Katharina Dimmer opened the shop as Dimmer’s Bakery. Today Loren and Luke Naftz continue the Dimmer family recipes, baking German and European strudels, kuchen, rye breads, tortes, and pastries from scratch alongside gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, and sugar-free options.The bakery sits at 5721 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard in Read more...

Ludwig’s Bakery in downtown Arkadelphia continues a German-American baking story that began when owner Lorraine McSwain’s grandparents emigrated from Germany to South Dakota and ran the original Ludwig’s in Estelline. McSwain revived the name in Arkansas, baking European-style breads, pastries, tortes, and cookies for retail customers and local wholesale accounts.After outgrowing its first shop, the bakery moved to a larger Read more...