Of course, i don’t need to tell you what they specialise in, but what you probably don’t know is that they have a surprisingly large (i just can’t help myself now) menu, with three types of sausage to choose from, homemade meatballs, low carb options for the healthy ones, schnitzel and of course, fries – delicious ones.
The fries here at Herman ze German were pretty damn good. They were very well seasoned and extremely crispy. No oil is kept on site to cook the fries. Instead, good old German engineering shows us British up and uses only heat, steam and pressure to cook these well seasoned, crunchy fries.
The wursts, which is what i really came here for are made to an authentic German recipe using free-range meat sourced from family-run, quality butchers in Germany’s Black Forest. The sausage itself was very meaty, and smokey. I couldn’t help but go for the most calorific sounding dish on the menu, the Ze Wilde Bock Roll. A crunchy baguette filled with a huge meaty sausage (again, sorry), fries – yes inside the baguette, crispy onions, curry sauce and mayo. It was pure gluttony and extremely bad for the heart, but excellent food for the mind. If you make it down to Herman ze German i highly recommend this dish.
I left Herman ze German very full indeed, i even struggled to eat dinner four hours later. The place itself looks small but is deceptively larger on the inside with a downstairs to scoff away in. The staff are extremely attentive, very bubbly and infectious. If i ran my own business – these are the people i would want to employ. While Herman ze German is not technically a food phenomenon, its sausage grilling ability and pressure cooked chips are pretty impressive – when it comes to fast food these moustache carrying sausages definitely lead the way in quality.
7/10
