schweinhaus biergarten

great place for beer, sun and some greatgermanfood! they are seasonal but the place to be in bham for sure. my friends love the atmosphere and great place to watch the hawks and sounders.

friendly couple on the street directed us to this place on a recent visit to bellingham.  really glad we checked it out!
nice large covered patio atmosphere, but no interior space. food is prepared out of a converted truck. tastygermanbratwurst sausages, great beer options. felt a little expensive for the volume of food received, but still delicious.

so ein scheissdreck. first of all if you translate something with google it’s not correct. schweinhaus ingermanmakes no sense it should say schweinehause instead.
also a traditional biergarten is on gravel and under a chestnut tree and without a fence. but the most disgusting thing is by far the food. where in the world is a currywurst made of some kind of nuernberger with curry in it. a currywurst is kind of polish or white sausage (not weisswurst) with ketchup and sprinkled with curry. it is never eaten with sauerkraut potato salad or mustard. french fries are ok.
as for the potato salad, that was very disgusting. not sure where they got there recipe but that is not a potato salad as eaten in germany. i would rather give it to the pigs.
all in all typical american scheissdreck.

schweinhaus biergarten serves up a dozen or so high-end beers/ales along withgermansausage plates with sauerkraut,germanpotato salad and three different mustards. they also have a few items on the side, like soft and hard pretzels. my wife and i really liked our beers, and we shared a soft pretzel, which was also excellent. she had the one sausage plate with nurenberger sausage and i had the two sausage bratwurst and weisswurst plate (there are generally five different sausages to choose from). all three sausages were very good. they were not overly spicy and not at all greasy. the sauerkraut was fine, i guess (i admit as to being completely ignorant of how to judge sauerkraut quality); however, the potato salad was so-so at best. it seemed to have onions and vinegar but no bacon- which is almost always present in this style of potato salad. it needed more vinegar, but the real problem was that the potatoes were overcooked. still, we both polished off everything on our plates.

this place only has outdoor seating, so get your sausage and beer now before the fall weather sets in. one suggestion: they ought to offer the option of swapping the potato salad for a good quality hot dog bun, and have some condiments like relish, chopped onions, etc. available.