little gretel restaurant

kolaches. i just tried chef denise's new kolache recipe and they are great. look for a article in sunday express newsfoodsection.


-----30 jul, 2009-----

fred adams. awsome breakfast. stuffed red snapper is as good as i remember it in galveston in the 60's

i would say that as i local--i will never come back to this place. uniformly badfoodand service--and i have given it four tries over the years, each time hoping it would improve. the problem lies with the contentious owner/cook. any problems encountered with a meal become yours, not hers. responses are really rude excuses, here. it's not cheap either, so you should expect better. cutesy restaurant playing on our towns german heritage gives other good boerne establishments a black eye. avoid at all costs...

loved it. i recently went to this small treasure i found in boerne on monday, labor day we found the service,foodand atmosphere to be as usual-fun, energetic and as always delicious. we spent half the morning eating and drinking in the beer garden and were never rushed. we will be back for more great food

greatfoodand service!!!. i have read some of these negative reviews and have to disagree!!! we have eaten at little gretel many times and have never had a bad meal. my favorite on the menu is the bavarian chicken or the crab cakes and my husband really enjoys the meatloaf. our waitress lauren is the sweetest and is very knowledgeable on all the different foods and how they are prepared. and the desserts are scrumptious. i have never seen the manager veronica be anything but pleasant. i have also seen her and the owners walk around and speak to the customers to make sure they are taken care of and enjoying their meal.
this is a restaurant where everything is made from scratch, not made in the morning and set under a heat lamp all day, so depending on what you order it may take longer then an hour to eat. if you don't have the time to sit down and relax, enjoy the deliciousfoodand the ambiance, or the
company your with, then this is not the restaurant for you. may i suggest brown bagging it or a drive
thru where you can order off the $1.00 menu. yum yum

good pancakes, long wait, noisy. we went for breakfast on 9/1 labor day. we appreciated that they were open on a holiday, since a lot of places we called were closed. i had some out of town visitors in san antonio and we decided to take a nice drive out to boerne to have breakfast. the weather was nice, would have been really nice to sit outside on the patio but it was full, we were only able to get a table inside, they were really busy. we ordered 3 plates, the eggs with bacon and came with toast, the apple pancakes with sausage, & the regular pancakes with over-easy eggs, coffee and a latte. thefoodtook a long time, so don't come starving. they seemed understaffed but not sure if they were just really busy. very nice decor inside and it was a bit cold but very clean and nicely decorated, friendly service. both pancake plates were very delicious. the sausages were regular links, not german sausage which i was expecting, but i guess i shouldve asked the question. the scrambled egg plate was really a fried egg like an omelet almost and no flavor to the eggs- a bit disappointing, and the potatoes on the plate were just ok. the best part of our experience was walking across the street to river road park to watch the ducks and turtles. we had a nice breezy walk along the water on the nicely paved wide sidewalk before heading back.

bad service, bad manager. i went there for lunch during my lunch break with one other person and sat down at our table outside at 12:05. our server didn't come to our table until 12:11 and didn't come back to take our order until 12:19 after we asked the hostess, who was also working as a busser, to please have our server come by our table. we ordered ourfoodand told him that we were there on our lunch hour. our server did not stop at our table again until we caught his attention as he was passing by at 12:40. we told him that we would need ourfoodin to-go containers because we have to get to work. he said okay and asked if we would like to-go cups for our tea. we agreed to that and he brought our ticket to us. we noticed that there was a $1 discrepancy on the price of my meal based off of the menu. he said in all his time working there nobody seemed to care about that. at 12:55 we walked inside and to the bar. our server was there and was finishing up our ticket. he handed it to us and just as he did that the cooks put ourfood(in to-go boxes) in the window. i asked to speak to the manager. at this point i was more disappointed than mad that i wouldn't be able to eat my lunch (i am not allowed to eat at my desk) until after work. the manager, veronica, came out from the back with an obvious attitude. she was not kind and did not try and help the situation. she came out of the back throwing out all the wrong body language. you could tell she was pissed off. (was it not my place to be angry?) i tried to tell her the situation and she began to argue with me. "this is not fast food. you got here at 12:05 and are trying to cash out at 12:45? that sounds like a quick meal to me" i don't think she quite understood about my situation. let alone that it was 12:55. i got a bit defensive and asked her if people not getting theirfooduntil 50 minutes after they get there is standard for them. she told me “you can't say that you just got yourfoodright now." i told her that yes we just got ourfoodwhile standing at the counter. this didn't seem to help at all. she yelled at us in frustration while throwing her arms in the air "what do you want me to do about it?" my answer in the back of my mind was "grow up and act like a manager and deal with your customer." what i said was “i am just ready to walk out of here without any of it." she said i couldn't do that. they made thefoodfor us. the best she could do was 50% off. i would have been pleased with that when she walked out of the back room but after the show she just put on i wasn't happy with that. she clearly made things escalate. i pointed to my tea and told her. “i don't think you understand. this is my lunch. i won't be able to eat yourfooduntil 5 o' clock after it has been sitting in a hot car all afternoon. it won't be fresh and it won't be good." she yelled back at me. "whatever! just leave." and when we were almost to the door she yelled out loud enough this time for the whole room to hear. "go to burger king next time!"
veronica, you will be happy to know that i will not be dining in your restaurant again. i can assure you that i will also tell those i know to not dine there either. while i can understand the fact that yourfoodis not “fast food” i believe that if the service was quicker thefoodorder would have been put in earlier and there wouldn’t have been a problem at all. if you enter a conversation with an upset customer ready for a fight you will get one. so try and stay calm and try and your customer will most likely calm down too.

sadly i will not be going back. having spent much of my childhood in germany i would say that they either need to hire a german chef or switch to a czech menu. my schnitzel was not a bavarian style schnitzel. i like every other german cook have my own interpretation on what the schnitzel should taste like, this one had a consistence issue. it needed alittle more time in the fryer. the breading did not stick and it was soggy even without the jäger sauce. my husbands bavarian meatloaf too left us questioning technique and interpretation. while the restaurant was a present meets old world environment sadly thefooddoes not complimenting to building.

shaping up some. i will start by saying the first time we went here, my husband and i hated it. we went for breakfast and it was terrible. that being said last week we came in for dinner and it was much improved. they had just had their czech chefs in. *i don't really know much about that, i am guessing they were guest chefs* i got the sauerbraten, which while nothing like any other sauerbraten i have ever had, was really good. it came with some steamed dumplings and i really enjoyed it, though i thought it would come with more then just dumplings and meat hunks. my husband got the salmon salad, i don't know if it said it on the menu and he missed it, but it was not a piece of salmon on a bed of greens. it was a mayo-based salad scooped on top of some lettuce. it wasn't really pretty, but he said it tasted good. our server was ok, she was doing great until she got a little too wrapped up in a conversation and forgot about us. it didn't bother us too much though. we also got dessert, the apple bread pudding. it was really good, but would have been better if it hadn't been microwaved. overall, it was a little steep in the price for what you get, but thefoodtasted miles better then the first time we came in.

my husband, son, and i came to little gretel's for dinner tonight. first off, we were shocked at the prices. not wanting to spend $60 on a meal for the three of us, he ordered the clam chowder and i ordered the blt salad. they offer abysmal choices for children, so my son settled for the grilled cheese. all of the kids meals come with fries... no healthy veggie choices. ourfoodcame quickly enough and the waiter was friendly enough, but i was saddened by my salad. it was basically a full head of lettuce that wasn't even cut up. i had to cut my salad up just to be able to eat it. it was supposed to be lettuce (which it had in spades) bacon (which it had, but only maybe one piece crumbled among the lettuce forrest) tomatoes (5 grape tomatoes cut in half) croutons (which were not present) and a buttermilk dressing (which was sparse and watered down). i was disappointed. my husband's clam chowder was pretty good however, but tasted more of bacon than it did clam. it's hard to screw up a grilled cheese, and it was a passible sandwich, but the fries are gross and arrived late. not coming back, which is sad because i long for german food, but not at those prices.

dont go here. let me start off by saying i never have written a review but i feel on this one i need to. the prices are way too high andfoodis terrible. first off i ordered the jaeger schnitzel it comes with mashed potatoes cmon should be spatzel so substituted and was charge an upcharge for spatzel. my sister had order an entrée with soup and side order of spatzel. never did see the soup. the spatzel was overcooked to the point of mush we sent it back and still came back mushy and not only that with so much pepper your could not eat it.
i sent a note back to chef that i was out there to show her how to make the spatzel what a waste if tune and money. we demanded that the spatzel be taken off of your bill and when we left got dirty looks from manage.r

disappointed in all ways. my sister and i had a recommendation to little gretel's, even though i had read the many negative reviews we tried last friday night.

we ordered the same entree- pan fried red snapper stuffed with crab. the plates were totally different looking in portions offoodand sauce on the fish and pasta. both plates were sparse on the pasta and veggie and sauce. neither of us found the crabmeat that was suppose to be in the fish. the fish was tender-- but this is the only positive i can say.

if you want ambiance and good waitstaff-- this is not the place. we had chipped wine glasses, a big chip on both of our entree plates-- really with $$$
spent go someplace else.
a little girl was running thru out the restaurant while we were there, climbing on a chairs, rolling around on the floor-- apparently she was the daughter of a young woman that worked at the restaurants. yeah-- bring your kid to work with you.
the waiter looked like he had just rolled out of bed- shirt so wrinkled. and he was totally disengaged.
i agree totally with disappointed diner's comments.
this is fine dinning $$$ without the fine dinning!!!
try someplace else-- you will be glad you did.

wish the service was better, then thefoodwould probably taste better.

i guess get em drunk at the beer garden. that's a solution. i read some of ??? chef's responses (typo) excuses.. pretty sad.. need to taste your food.


-----18 jan, 2013-----

horrid strudel and ...... shocked at some reviews ... must have lots friends...
i've had the best ever so far from czech and german grandparents.
thefoodwas way overpriced
the strudel was bland and mushy. yuk..yuk..yuk !!!
the meal had no flavor at all.
that was wilted cabbage with the weirdest flavor ever... yuk...
service was pathetic. never again

disappointed diner. agree wholeheartedly with elizabeth on 11/10/2012!!! menu was deceiving;foodwas sparse and poor, especially for the price; service was very slow with an hour wait forfoodafter ordering; further more, i personally intervened for an elderly couple at an adjacent table after they had been seated and then were not approached by a waitress for ordering for over 20 minutes!! i received my meal after eveyone else at our table had completed their meal. although charming looking from the web site, little gretel isn't worth a visit. this is the first review that i have ever been motivated to write on a restaurant - that's how upset i was at this place.

food was terrible. the top three items on the dinner entree menu were not a available for ordering. they did not tell us this until after we had our drinks and appetizer. so we were basically left with two choices, german sausage or red snapper stuffed with crab. we ordered the snapper and it was fried and no crabmeat to be found. also nothing more than a piece of fish on a plate without any sides. the salad was lame, just lettuce and a small amount of shredded carrots. the clam chowder was wonderful and the german chocolate cake was delicious. our waitress was sweet but will never go back again. total cost was $91.00 before the tip (wster with lemon for drinks), and was definitely not worth anywhere near that. if you want good germanfoodgo somewhere else. if we had wanted snapper we would have gone to a seafood place, not a german restaurant!