Edelweiss Restaurant

My fiancee and I ate here for my birthday. Food service was extremely fast but I think all my food was already prepared and just heated before it was served. Bread was good and the meal was okay but would have been much better if it was cooked when I ordered it. I would eat here again but not a first choice.

I should have been coming here for years! Great ambience, food, service, prices, beers on tap. Pork is high quality from Smithfield, VA. Not to be missed.

mmmm, Edelweiss Restaurant....

This is the other restaurant my family makes sure to visit each time we're in Waynesboro.  My mother and father lived in Germany for awhile (it's actually where they met), as did one of my aunts.  This restaurant reminds them of that time.  I've visited Germany when my best friend lived there and this place takes me back to that visit.  My maternal Grandmother was full German.

The food is a great match for what you can get in the Black Forest.  The portions are large.  The sides to the meal are served family style and we always have to ask for more spatzle, it's perfect for soaking up the gravy/sauce from your entree.  I love their red cabbage and put a little bit on each bite I take.  I don't eat much of their green beans because to me it just takes up more space in my stomach that I could be filling with red cabbage and spatzle, not because they don't taste good or are not cooked properly.  I don't think anyone in my group has ever gotten something they did not enjoy.   Most recently I ordered the Rahmschnitzel.  I surprised myself by finishing the plate.  The mushroom & sour cream sauce made my brain think of Thanksgiving when I took the first bite.  Then I piled on the red cabbage and that thought was gone.  One of my previous visits here I ordered the Sauerbraten.  So good!  Especially with the potato dumplings to aid in getting the gravy into your mouth. mmmm.

This past visit, even though I was full from finishing my plate I ordered a slice of their Black Forest cake.  This is the closest thing I've found to what Black Forest cake is actually suppose to taste like.  Most "Black Forest cake" in the US just sucks. Sorry, but it really does.  Black Forest cake is not suppose to taste like the cherry filling came out of a can of cherry pie feeling, nor is the whipped layer suppose to be tasteless. No, no.  I think the only thing missing from the Edelweiss's cake is the cheery liquor mixed into the fresh whipped cream.  I hated Black Forest cake until I got a piece of the legit stuff in the Black Forest.  Now I wish we Americans could actually make a proper Black Forest cake.

Twice now my husband has ordered a liter beer to accompany his dinner.  Each time he's finished it and his dinner and moaned with how full he was, haha.  I stick to the little 12oz beer mug.

Now for the ambiance.  The restaurant looks like a cute little German house you'd see in the hills of the Black Forest, or, what you'd see in miniature size as a cuckoo clock.  Inside is dark and decorated just like a German house.  The 3 times I've been the same man has been playing live German music on his accordion.  He's really good and I always like to pick up my beer and sway to the music.  There is an upstairs but I have never had a chance to go up there.  We've only eaten inside and outside.  If you eat outside you'll probably make a new little friend.  There is a kitty that will come around and show you how cute she (guessing because she looks to be a Tortie) is in exchange for a bite of food.  She's a rather good kitty and we've never had problems with her.  When we left after dinner this past weekend she was laying out on the gravel that leads up to the restaurant.  I knelt down to take a photo of her.  She got up and walked over to give me rubs and request pets.  Then she made her way over to my husband for him to bestow his affection on her while I took her photo.