Housed within an Old World Bavarian-style cottage built in 1914, St. Louis' own Feasting Fox Restaurant & Pub offers a host of dining options, including the main dining hall, the bar area, an upstairs banquet room and an outdoor beer garden. The interior features fireplaces, arched doorways, hardwood furnishings and chandeliers. Serving up lunch and dinner, the restaurant offers such German fare as Black Forest sweet and sour pork, German black bean soup, and chicken and veal schnitzel. The restaurant screens weekly movies during the spring and summer months.
Feasting Fox Restaurant & Pub
4200 S. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63111
314-352-3500
feastingfox.com
Located in the city of Independence just 13 miles east of Kansas City, the Rheinland Restaurant offers authentic German cuisine. The interior resembles a large German beer hall, complete with two separate dining rooms. Guests may dine in the more formal room, or in the back hall outfitted long wooden tables. Entrees include various schnitzels, bratwurst, smoked pork chops and roastbraten, or grilled beef with onions and butter. The restaurant hosts a series of special events throughout the year, including an Oktoberfest celebration.
The Rheinland Restaurant
208 North Main St.
Independence, MO 64050
816-461-5383
rheinlandrestaurant.com
Hermann, Missouri, located 80 miles west of St. Louis, is a small town with a rich German heritage that is plain to see in its architecture and history. In Hermann is the Stone Hill Winery, which has as one of its features the Vintage Restaurant. Found in a restored brick carriage house and barn, the restaurant offers an up-scale dining experience. The menu includes such German dishes as Schweinshaxe, or ham hock basted in beer, and a German sampler platter filled with schnitzel and sausage. Side dishes include braised red cabbage and German potato salad. Diners may also partner their meals with a glass of in-house wine.
Hermann holds a month-long Oktoberfest for four weekends running each October, which is a prime time to visit Stone Hill for some wine tasting and fine German cuisine.
Vintage Restaurant
1110 Stone Hill Highway
Hermann, MO 65041
573-486-3479
stonehillwinery.com
