Helen is a
small town in North Georgia that has traditionally had a large German
population and has become a popular tourist attraction for its faux German
style, stores and restaurants. Many of these restaurants are pure tourist
traps: very kitschy and with poor overpriced food. Bodensee Restaurant gets good
ratings online and turns out to be not that kitschy. Today it is busy because
of the start of the Christmas Market, one of the main events in Helen. The waitresses
are not in a very good mood.
We order
from the lunch menu. I get the Currywurst
($7.50), which come with fries. The sausage is good, thick with solid
consistency, and drenched in a (bit too) string sweet curry sauce. Even the
fries are authentic: as so often in Germany, they are the frozen, crinkle cut
kind, deep fried crispy but a bit too dry. M. gets the Hungarian Gulash ($7.50),
a beef stew with big chunks of potato. It has a good taste, but is a bit weaker
than real (German-style) Hungarian Gulash. The side of warm red cabbage was
delicious.
VERDICT: 86/100
Unlike
several other German restaurants in Helen, Bodensee is definitely not just a
tourist trap, serving very acceptable German food.
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Aha, Bodensee Restaurant, we have them too here :))
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