VISITING ONE OF THE BEST GERMAN RESTAURANTS & MARKETS IN THE US!!! (THE GERMANS LOVE IT TOO)

hey what’s going on today guys Trey
welcome back to the channel I know it’s
been a while since I’ve made a video but
look I missed Germany so much and as
much as I would love to make the 8 hour
flight into Frankfurt or Munich you know
I decided let me find some really great
German food here in the United States
and so I tried to reach out to as many
people as I could on Facebook Instagram
YouTube you know I reached out to really
everybody that I could to try to find
the best German experience here in the
United States and everybody directed me
to this restaurant here in downtown
Sanford Florida called hollerbox now
holler box has been open for over 20
years and this place is a full
experience and it’s huge it’s literally
right there across the street it’s it
takes up an entire city block it’s
multiple levels and I’m really excited
to explore it so we’re going to eat some
food we’re going to drink some beer
might even drink a little bit of schnaps
we’re going to have a great time I’m
excited to be here this is also my first
time here in Sanford Florida I do want
to give a big thank you to holler box as
well I did reach out to them beforehand
and we are going to spend the day here
with them and we’re going to show off
this amazing restaurant establishment
and we’re only 30 minutes from Orlando
so if you find yourself at Disney World
or Universal or SeaWorld or really any
of the theme park attractions it’s only
a 30-minute drive up here so stay tuned
we’re going to have a lot of fun today
so without further Ado stay tuned let’s
get into it hollerbox German restaurant
is one place that I like to consider a
full-fledged dining experience the food
is incredible the beer is delicious and
the amount of time and effort put into
designing this beautiful German theme
establishment is truly remarkable I mean
they literally imported close to 100% of
the wood and furniture from Germany
directly stepping foot inside of this
German Getta instantly makes you feel
like you’ve been transported to the
beautiful German state of Bavaria and
even German visitors find themselves in
complete all of the authentic feel of
this restaurant if the endless amount of
awards don’t get you maybe the massive
amounts of people dining here on a daily
basis will certainly impress you people
really do come from all over the world
to experience this place the holler box
have done an exceptional job
entertaining hundreds of thousands of
diners and guests from all over the
world for years and Americans have
always had a real fascination with
German culture and the holler box have
done a phenomenal job of introducing
people to a real auth authentic German
experience now I’m going to let Chef Pat
take it from here as he gives us a
behindth scenes tour of this remarkable
establishment what’s going on guys uh
Chef Pat here at holler box been here
for 19 years and I’m going to love to
show you guys around today so we’re
we’re in official Bayern Munich bar so
we show off
GES uh the pig head was my
dad some of them the mayor of Lake
Mary’s got a couple of deer back there
nice it’s cool that people want to give
us all the all all the signs any
decorations you see here uh I’ll tell
you which ones we bought and they’re all
upstairs in the nights room for the most
part everything else has been donated
from people that you know their parents
grandparents P they don’t know what to
do with it but they don’t want to throw
it away uh we’d love to be able to you
know continue to honor that Heritage and
put it up it’s a cool story when you
bring your family back like oh look
there’s there’s almost Stein or there’s
off or whatever so that is awesome now
Chef Pat is going to take us over to
holler box out Fitters holler Box’s very
own clothing store and gift shop uh
traditional Tron schmook uh ornaments uh
Leos and dles we got it for the kids we
got it for the animals uh it was just
Easter so we’ve got you know seasonal
stuff uh Christmas time we have all the
the smoking uh smoking gnomes like the
little uh houses and uh I think you see
some of the stuff back there hello hello
we have a second location of this in the
Ovito Mall okay uh which is going to a
different location which is a little bit
better spot in the mall retail in so wow
just you know constant trying to get
going to make
moves everything half socks the the you
know the half socks that cover your
calves full socks later hos in bond hos
in shoe plater hos in the vest the
shirts I feel like I’m back in St card
all the stuff on the wall is again uh
donated or curated that we found but you
and styles of dles these are you know
your old school more traditional ones
here uh and uh yeah like said we sell
everything that we can get we just got a
new shipment of stuff in uh so we tried
to stay up on it when I was in Germany
they had the same stuff that we had in
our store cuz I was taking pictures
sending it back to Linda when she still
ran it Linda hollar uh and uh we had the
same stuff soccer point and stuff like
that that they had same shoes we had
like man I’m like this is so cool like
we got all this [ __ ] it’s really awesome
M oh dude you say whatever you want to
say man like accessories for your hats
you’ve got flower crowns the B tassel
pens that you can put on your hat a
little swaggy with it people love them
yep Cu uh you know girls don’t want to
wear the skirts all the time no they
rock those with a t-shirt or with a
little you know little lady hosen I
don’t know I don’t I don’t even think
lady
hos we’ll get some comments about that
for sure
the staff loves them like yeah it’s cool
now Chef Pat is going to take us over to
holler Box’s very own German Market in
Delhi so let’s head in and check it out
we call this the holler block cuz we got
holler block you know we got like four
or five spots right here so hey guys so
we’re in the market right now and look
at this Haribo wall right here this is
crazy I literally feel like I’m back in
Germany they literally look at all of
the look at all of the stuff here this
like I feel like I’m at a hied cut right
now Ora it’s amazing s like crocodiles
the sour brers I don’t they have the
sour B the oh my gosh so much did they
have the sour what’s Smurf sour sh where
where’s the one there’s one that I used
to eat all the time when I was there it
was the half and half it was like the
sweet and sour zo and zawa these are
good I I get these for my son all the
time right there tears those up oo these
sound interesting I don’t think I’ve
ever seen those before these guys oh
sour Smurfs those are so good oh my
gosh so much stuff and you guys get all
of this stuff from Germany yeah insane
the auction like raffled off a pair of
Hari Pumas nice uh so these were the
wrong size so we we got the right size
for the winner so but then we have a
display there that is awesome these are
good never comes down is going home with
me
and honestly I I could eat this whole
wall by myself singlehandedly
yeah oh my
God
whoa that’s the biggest bag I think I’ve
seen time get the uh cookies I mean even
like uh birthday cards stuff like that
we’ve got deodorant champ you literally
have
stuff yeah of course of course yeah you
guys you want to give them my this
birthday card cuz happy you know what I
mean we get them all this is
amazing you have a full Market too wow
and we have a
wow
crazy where this
from some unique stuff some traditional
stuff these s really well the cream
rolls nice light sponge with the Fresh
Cream in the middle go what do we have
up here
hin ah okay okay okay so it’s like a uh
a custard with a uh aot yeah yeah yeah I
think looks like a exactly these are
carrot cake oatmeal cookie oatmeal cream
pies oh my gosh frankfor cron cook how
do you how have you not gained like
1,000 lb and I go up and down 50 lb
them old cakes are really good we make
all the cream puffs when we pump them
full of aarian cream and put almonds and
honey on them oh my gosh uh banana
pudding
Tri this is one of the more American
things they’re really good what’s that
back there looks like uh coconut cream
pie
ooh bake all that make their own make
stuff as well one of our first actual
like bers we had had zelc oh okay okay
okay so she did Regular stuff but was
also big on this so she set us up really
well so we bake our own like these aree
car cake muffets that sort season we
always do a gluten glutenfree season uh
we always have black forest and ger
chocolate and gluten-free uh gluten-free
chocolate squares it’s like the most
rich dense brownie cake you’ve ever had
and we make our own glutenfree bread so
you can have sandwich on glutenfree
bread if you want uh and like down here
is our traditional stuff it’s uh you
apple strudel
uh black forest cake um German chocolate
which is not traditionally German no but
uh people CRI about had do it I know but
these are cake balls um you know so
waste not whatnot so we take the cake
tops and the cake crumbles and fill them
with uh different flavors these are
German chocolate so it’s got pecans and
caramel and peans and coconut in it uh
but we also do a brandy one we do a
raspberry one they’re loose in the case
of oh I see him getting he’s getting
some right oh my gosh uh some people
call them crack balls uh but they’re
they’re very addictive so moist they’re
like the cake pop things that you get
without the stick oh my God we all the
cookies weant every morning truffin are
the new thing that people like we’ve got
some Savory ones coming out with white
hand
ands inside that sounds
amazing got theat stuff cing
out when I tell you all that hollerbox
market is the equivalent of teleporting
to Germany I truly mean it in fact they
even have generic store items from
actual German grocery stores like IA and
Reva they even have German soaps lotions
and toiletries it’s insane I even keep
telling myself there’s no possible way
I’m going to be able to find this stuff
here and literally a few seconds later I
would find exactly what I was looking
for and even funnier this exact day that
I was here literally every person I
heard speaking in the store was speaking
German it was incredible which proves
one thing this place is a popular German
pipeline for Germans visiting the United
States Chef Pat has also inform me that
the market has regulars from Germany
that have been frequenting this market
for years because it literally has
everything that they need now where this
Market really shines is in its
delicatessa now in my opinion no German
Market can be complete without a really
solid Deli and hollerbox does not
disappoint they have meats from all over
Germany I mean look they have a freezer
full of this stuff and look I’m a big
soft drink guy and their selection is
just exactly like you would find at a
Reva or a Klan they have nearly every
German soft drink you could think of
here another bright spot of this Market
is the incredible beer selection they
have it all here and what’s really cool
is they partnered with three daughters
brewing and St Pete and they actually
created their own beer and what’s really
funny they have the largest selection of
gerina I’ve seen outside of deuts this
place is a true
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gym then this is this is what we call
the
uella over seller yeah last year when we
started we were going for very like
craft cocktail driven um that kind of
stuff more sleep uh that that didn’t
sell people still just want the German
stuff and the German beer so we’ve
tweaked the menu a bit uh but we’re
doing flights up here which we’ve never
done before so you can get smaller beers
awesome uh cuz we have 16 beers on draft
that is insane that’s that’s the one
thing that we’ve never done flights is
crazy to me but so we’re trying to make
up here a more casual experience uh come
up you don’t want to wait you know an
hour to get a table and you know wait
hour to get food whatever when it’s busy
uh come up here get some smaller version
of that food um a little bit quicker uh
if you’re on a weit come up here while
you’re hungry so you’re not so cranky
when you get in uh grab a little pretzel
grab some schnitzel bites little Curry
that’s awesome like I said a little bit
it’s more toas sharable type stuff up
here everything’s QR code QR code so
every table’s got an individual code so
we know where to bring the food and
drinks whenever there’s no service up
here besides you know more cocktail
service like you order it they bring you
your drink they bring you your food this
is at the butcher shop in
kilberg and then W yeah this is all in
kilberg that’s Theo’s grandpa again it’s
I think they’re two different grandpas
uh but this one he’s we have a mural
downstairs this is the grandpa that’s in
the mural downstairs wow
um and uh but then Theo’s grandmother
was the first certified woman Master
butcher in their region really uh so
that was in back back in the day
whatever what region of Germany rinin
pal Palestine palen pal the rhyland yeah
yeah Ryland FS yeah yeah yeah I I don’t
know why the English translation is uh
palatinate or something weird like that
why can’t we just call it what y’all
call it exactly Rin FS yes exactly um
awesome yeah and then that’s Theo when
he was a little boy in his later hosen
and then that’s baby Christina
this is amazing man like this is the
church in kilberg this is the train
tunnel in kilberg this is actually the
gas house where I worked and stayed
right here I stayed in the top floor up
here there’s a window looking out the
roof that you can see the top of the
tunnel from but that’s a train tunnel
like you go that way you go to bitberg
W
uh they’ve they’ve been on on many of
doorway around the restaurant but we
always try to keep them together nice
are they like a good good luck charm or
something a couple of those that I try
to make sure stay around here so nice
holler box art house this is our art
gallery we have a rotating art show on
this that in that hallway nice and then
this hallway is always Linda hollerbach
the uh the owner one of the owners uh
this is all her art that she makes right
and we sell this and all the proceeds go
to our in-house charity we have a
nonprofit uh called holler box has heart
uh and we it’s there for the staff
pretty much if they’re having hard chips
uh app for Grants from the from the
charity and try to take care of them
that’s awesome kind of did a number did
a number on we had a lot of very
gracious guests that uh donated and uh
that is awesome you know we we helped a
lot of people stay in houses stay with
cars and you know you guys are
incredible gave groceries at cost to
employees like we couldn’t do free stuff
but you know when stuff was hard to get
we were still open we
laid what we have 100 people on staff
when we went into Co we laid 60 off 65
something like that we had like 35 uh
but we still tried to feed people and
still like I said did groceries paper
towels toilet paper we had a constant
Supply from from our vendors uh so we we
made sure staff was taken care of in
that aspect uh and then as soon as we
were able to get back open uh this was
this was finished being built out so we
added this to the original back to the
restaurant so when we opened back up we
were technically back at the same
capacity where when we closed because we
were just downstairs when we closed like
I said everything everything we trying
to be kind of technological uh we got QR
codes for all the art so you can pay for
it immediately through the website
that’s awesome I think these you can go
home with immediately but all the other
art is uh whenever the show is over one
of those kind of things uh then you can
get it I’ve never seen a restaurant like
this in the states I don’t think there’s
a restaurant like this in awesome this
is awesome right here oh there’s some
cool stuff all right guys so this is the
first time I’ve had a beer all year
I purposely waited to drink a German
beer for my first beer of
2024 um it is a fist via from takaka
Shore and I’m really excited for it so
let’s get into
it that is so good all right so as
promised we are going to be eating a lot
of different Foods today from all over
Germany so I basically told everybody in
the kitchen look just send me out like
your best three to four dishes and the
very first dish that was brought out to
me was cart Kua so I am really excited
smells so so good let’s get into
it brother I’m doing great thank you man
thank you y doing good would you like to
order anything at the moment yes ready
can I get
Reuben that comes with fries is that
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okay
yeah
good about for
you that comes with french fries and a
salad if that’s okay in true German
fashion you have to dip it in the cream
the the cream sauce and you have to dip
it in the
applesauce so if your fork doesn’t look
like this
you’re doing it
wrong that is
fire now look no German meal can be
complete without theot looks good smells
good let’s get into
it finish this off real quick first
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that so
good
carrots so when I eat salads I’m usually
more into like vinegar rettes I try to
avoid the cream sauces but this is like
the perfect hybrid of like a cream based
sauce and a vinegarette it’s got a
little bit of sweetness little bit of
sourness little little bit of tanginess
it’s really good and I think this will
help balance the offset of the really
unhealthy things I’m going to be eating
here
shortly so
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tomato get your a h to
my brain is just fried from how amazing
the food is
and this is only the
beginning
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here did you get the
S all right guys so next we’ve got the
zawa Bron
so I’m telling you right now this is
passing the vibe check the aroma check
it just looks so good this takes 10 days
to make right this isn’t something that
you can just go into the kitchen and
whip up and I’m sure some some people
probably do that but this is a process
this meal is a process I’m super excited
to try this let’s not waste any more
time and let’s dig
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in oh my gosh it just I don’t even need
a knife at all
my brain is just an overdrive right
now where I mean where do I
start there’s well first off the meat
is tender beyond
belief um there’s a little bit of
sourness and tartness to it to the
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sauce you can taste you can taste the
amount of love time and energy that has
gone into this
dish now the chef did tell me that I
should mix everything together into one
bite so I’m going to take his advice
we’re going to see what’s going on
here okay got
it oh my God
I can’t even breathe right now that’s
how good this
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cabbage
look I’ve had cabbage from all over the
world I don’t know what it is I mean I
know what it
is but Germans make the best cabbage
I’ve ever had better than you’ll find in
the Caribbean better than you’ll find in
Asia better than you’ll find in Canada
the United States South America Germans
really know what they’re doing when it
comes to Cabbage it’s
amazing all right up next we have my
favorite favorite German delicacy called
Oba so they did give me the Kina britz
so it is a little bit smaller CU OB see
as we all know bretos are huge in
Germany so I’m excited to try this it’s
been
forever it’s been 6 months since I’ve
had uh old bo so
good I can’t even focus I can’t even
breathe right now
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that is so good so if you guys have been
around for a while right you’ve been
around my Orbit for a while you’ve been
orbiting me for a while you will know
this is the greatest condiment ever
created on Earth it’s called Bavarian
sweet mustard they sell it right here in
the United States but my favorite brand
personally is hondel Maya so hondel Maya
if you want to sponsor me moving forward
reach out and let me know because I can
eat this stuff on anything for the rest
of my life I love it love it love it
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love you know Super’s up one zero I’m
stunned right now me stunned got money
on suit card they need to win oh good
good I got money on they need to
win
kyat uh there’s a little left over so I
figured you thank you so much we make a
BAL sauce with Dijon and Grier and IM
swiss cheese put it on the freshly
sauteed homemade egg noodles a little
extra Grier on top and then homemade
crispy fried onions this looks beautiful
too it’s great so we used to do T as a
side dish more like like sauteed onions
noodles and cheese uh but doing research
and seeing it in Germany it more of a
dish like a sharable thing or uh you
know something for the table almost uh
and let’s let’s make a vegetarian outree
with it you want to add wor to it or add
shrimp to it or add schel to it go for
it uh but it it took a full year I would
say to train people on it then not
complaining about it teach them how to
order the right way it’s stuck and we’re
good I cannot
wait all everything you have my favorite
I cannot wait thank you so much
man you heard the
man
spitzel
whoa look at that
that this might be the best thing I’ve
had today seriously I’m not
exaggerating it’s so
simple it’s like the flavor explosion in
your mouth is next to none and the
crispy onions on top just add that
perfect amount of texture to a naturally
softer
dish it’s like a match made in the
crispy onions
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good all right guys I had to do a little
bit of an outfit change because CU When
You Love K Spitz as much as me um it
gets everywhere and so I I had to do a
quick outfit change I also did a table
change as well cuz this place gets very
busy um but yeah we’re going to get back
to the eating I did get another beer as
well I got a heath of Vis in this time
so I’m really excited for these next two
dishes I was told that they are two of
their most popular dishes so we’ve
already had the zawa brought in which
was incredible
but these next two dishes I’m really
excited to share with you so stay tuned
so I have a quick question for you guys
too so I noticed the bartender doing
something quite interesting so beer
combinations are very uh popular so beer
combinations are very popular in Germany
and you can actually go back and watch
one of my videos where I pair beer with
like soda and you know snaps and all
different types of drinks but what I
have never seen before is I noticed the
BART tenders they were actually mixing
bardi rum and bardi Dragon Berry
specifically with beer and so just
curious if you guys have ever tried that
before let me know down in the comments
section below um I did get another beer
so I didn’t get a chance to mix it with
the bardi dragonberry but I’m quite
interested to see what that combination
tastes like because I love rum I’m
boriqua so and I love beer so I think
that would be something that’s really
amazing so I might have to get one of
those next all right the food is here so
excited the food comes out so quick here
it’s so crazy and these are not easy
dishes to make by any means but so um
the final two dishes I decided to get
were the bellina Schnitzel which comes
with the giz spit and the uh very
popular German red cabbage which I’m
super excited for I already polished
some off earlier but I’m really excited
for this one so let’s go ahead and dive
into it all right I’m not not really a
big knife guy I know that’s not the best
way to eat but ooh that is tender enough
to cut right into it with a fork so let
me get a little bit of the apples and
the
onions look at that look at how good
that looks it smells amazing
too that is
amazing oh my God
the texture on the
Schnitzel
incredible so I’ve never had bellina
schnitzel in my life um but I can tell
you after one bite what I love about it
the
most that apple and onion topping is
just in just it’s unbelievably good
right and um it that’s sweetness mixed
with the saltiness of the Schnitzel
itself you know that’s like
you know that’s like Kobe and Shaq right
there like it’s a world class
combination and um I’m super excited to
keep eating
this look at that look at how beautiful
that
looks that is so
good
M that is so good
let’s try some of the red
cabbage oops
oops when I tell you guys I’m serious
Germans make the best red cabbage
ever is it really an amazing meal if you
don’t make a mess it’s so you know what
I love about this place is I’m actually
hearing German right so I’m looking
across the bar and I see people that are
from Germany that are here right and
it’s like why why would you come to
Sanford Florida right there’s plenty of
reasons this is a beautiful town you
know Chef Pat is actually from Sanford
and we got a chance to talk for like 30
minutes about Sanford and about him
growing up here and about all the
amazing restaurants and you know the the
music scene and all the different
art venues and like they have like a
little market going on out here right
now this is a really cool town to be
right probably the last place you would
think to find you know one of the best
German restaurants in the United States
but here we are and this food’s amazing
so if you ever find yourself in Orlando
just take the 30 minute drive north of
Orlando and come here to holler box this
place is amazing and like they’re even
playing you know German house music
music this place is just it’s
ridiculously fun here it’s
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amazing we’ve been drinking since 11
go go
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go has
like she show with
theel Dr
sh boy oh yeah
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at
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me let’s
go go
wild over here it’s not my birthday
your Carly
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the tinest drop come on
Tyler
that’s finish the queen she goes there
she
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goes
victory at the hook box German
restaurant right here in the heart of
beautiful down Town historic Sanford
Florida we invite you to stick around
have some fun drink some of our
fantastic beers we got some great wines
mix string Shots Coffee sodas teas You
Name It We got it if we don’t have it
guess what you don’t need it just find
something else
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on the
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oh
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thank you so
much thank you very much
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we got e on the STS everybody
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help
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oh now we got the traveling handmade
Mallet that’s made out of the same wood
as the notes so be careful that card
it’s bouncy
oh I told you be careful you can you can
put out the eyeball with that thing and
it’s also believed to be the predecessor
of the modern days Ison so who’s ready
to hear atart play this thing say
y eard when you’re ready to play this
thing you say
yeah uhoh aart oh hold on a second we
had we had this issue last week hold on
airart airart my
FR if if I buy you a Yer Meister when
you play this
s okay I’ll get you two all right two
all right he’s he drives a tough cuz
everybody’s got a
price so ladies and gentlemen without
further Ado here
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hey give it up
everyone yeah yeah okay well here we go
here that
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AL all right guys I have been here it’s
been like 2 hours since I took my last
bite of food cuz I’ve just met so many
great people and I went and watch the
band just now um but I want to try this
Reuben because it looks amazing and I
had to warm it up for me so let’s go
ahead and try
it you are amazing oh my try you know I
just do what I do you
know we’ll keep up the great work you’ll
see me a lot in here all right sounds
great I understand you get a a YouTube
channel I do all right I’m have to make
sure I subscribe yeah that’s awesome
stard yeah he knew he knows the exact
neighborhood oh yeah that’s his old
stomping br
yep you know he’s been around so long he
remembers when dirt was
invented take care have a good night all
right so real quick I just want to give
you my thoughts on the Reuben that red
cabbage you could I would just I could
eat that every day of my life I never
get sick and tired of it um the corn
beef itself is amazing the rye bread is
delicious um I don’t I’m not too sure if
they’re using a th000 island sauce or
not that’s what I love most about the
Ruben is just I’m a big like sweet and
sour fan so the traditional use of the
Thousand Island dressing plus the
sourness in the Cabbage it’s like a
match made in heaven and while I’m not
quite sure what the sauce is in here
this is just better this is better than
a traditional Reuben then you were fine
so this is amazing I love this place so
much and the food is just so good so so
good popular just mushrooms
all right guys that is going to do it
for me I do want to give a big thank you
to hollerbox and Chef Pat for having me
out this place is just incredible my
stomach’s full I’m a little bit tipsy
I’m feeling great this is a place that I
would highly recommend visiting if
you’re here in the United States on
vacation if you live here in the United
States make the trip over to Sanford
Florida this place is incredible if you
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section below and I will try to hit as
many different German establishments
here in the United States as possible
but obviously the goal is to get back to
Germany which I will be there very very
soon I am going to head back in there
because this place is just too much fun
and I’ve got more beer to drink so as
always thank you for the continued love
and support thank you Mahal for watching
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