For me Heinrich's German and Solorzano's Italian Restaurant are a must stop every time. The sit down place not the pizza joints. It is a romantic if somewhat over the top kitchy Italian experience. Fantastic food and ambience. We went there for an anniversry dinner and will not visit without Sarasota without visiting them. It is authentic and it is fantastic.
And Heinrich's also had an extremely delicious and authentic home made flavor. I must have das boot of beer my next visit. If the Mrs. will drive home :-) My god they have Spaten beer on tap!!! and will give it to you in a 64oz boot!!!
I have photos of both place if I can ever figure out how to show em :-0
This is Heinrich's German Grill and my review from T/A a year ago. A must stop for schnitzel.
Address: 8420 Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota, FL 34243
Tel: (941) 355-5453
Sorry if it doesn't paste well but here goes and you wont regret it!!!
We had a superb experience here for dinner after finding out that our first choice which was Solarzano's but they were closed on the day we were trying to go.
What luck!!! We just decided to try the #1 rated on TA, Heinrich's. We were extremely satisfied with every aspect of our dinner from ambience and quality of food to friendly service and ownership that is right out of the old world.
Authentic food that was prepared in front of us and reminded me of my grandma cooking.
Great beers, great wines just an all around excellent place. I like schnitzel and have never seen so many varieties of it before.
I was surprised to see what seemed to me like strange #1 and #2 restaurants when there is a Ruth's Chris in town.
TA people once again did not let me down. We did in fact go to Solrzano's the next night and everything I wrote about Heinrich's could apply to them too. You may hesitate when seeing a restaurant located in a strip plaza. Don't. You will enjoy this place.
If you plan on drinking the boot you will need to make sure you have someone else driving as it is an impressive glass of beer.
The place was near empty but it was a Monday night Dec 1st so it is still low season.
This is Solarzano's and my review for them
Address: 2117 Siesta Dr, Sarasota, FL 34239
Phone: 941 906 9444
Website:
http://www.myspace.com/srqitalian
This was to be our first anniversary dinner and we wanted Italian and looked to TA for the usual advice. I was shocked when I saw that Ruth's Chris was not at the top. (Obviously, not Italian.)However we decided to try Solorzano's and were quickly disappointed because they were closed on the Monday we needed. Wasn't that bad of luck after all since we went to Heinrich's German Restaurant and had a fantastic dinner there.
We did come back to Solorzano's the very next night. While Heinrich's was nearly empty the night before, Solorzano's was busy on Tuesday and perhaps being that it was off season simply explains the lack of business on Monday's. Anyways, a young hostess checked to see that we were welcome without reservations. We were and it was a wait worth waiting for as it was a phenomenal Italian dinner that was so satisfying. We both had Veal Parm and remember it being damn near perfect. We ended up spending a long time in there and were one of the last customers to leave. It is a small place and i would highly recommend getting a reservation to avoid disappointment, particularly in season.
Much like Heinrich's the owners are on premise and make the restaurant a unique and most enjoyable dinner venue. We were treated warmly and the food was great. The ambience was thoroughly authentic and fun. They had their customary singer doing Frank of course and we really enjoyed him but a woman close to us was put off by him and stated he was too loud.
We did not think so at all. Way cool to enjoy during dinner.
We mentioned to our hostess I guess Franca, that it was our anniversay and we were trying to come the night before and she bought our desert which was scrumptious.
We chatted with her about living in the area as it is a place we are considering to re locate to. She simply told us do it you will love it here. We are thinking we agree. We are from Buffalo and she and her family are from Jersey which is a long way from us but none the less we could relate and enjoyed our conversation with her.
During our conversation as I had told the folks at Heinrich's I mentioned that we only found them because of TA. Which led into a discussion where she said she was surprised at how much of an impact it has had and that she has a piqued interest with Heinrich's about being number 1 now.
Absolutely recommend them. We're sorry we didn't get to have the family pizza but we will be back in town and will frequent the restaurant again and will also try the pie next time!
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The 64 oz boot is a cool glass but they are not frosted that I know of. They should be if there not because that is a lot in one glass. I love Stella and will take it regularly from a tap. It is so rare to find Spaten and even rarer to find Spaten on tap though.
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