Cheering all good things German at the Cinnamon Grand

The Cinnamon Grand welcomes Chef Wilfried Pfeiffer to cheer on all good things German as he prepares to present an authentic and diverse German food experience. The Grand’s Cheers pub will give up its English pub ambience for a week as Germany asserts herself along its walls and spaces.

Flown into Sri Lanka courtesy Sri Lankan Airlines, Chef Pfeiffer brings with him the varied flavours of Germany, celebrating all the different tastes of the cuisine, which has evolved through centuries of social and political change with variations from region to region.  

In this light, this fully fledged buffet will explore dishes from southern provinces of Germany, including Bavaria and neighboring Swabia, across the border to Austria and many other regional dishes. In fact, this menu will redefine your usual German experience as the emphasis is on providing the very best in authentic food and beverages.  

In this honour, Chef Wilfried will bring with him specialty herbs and spices from Germany, so as to hand make traditional sausages at the Cinnamon Grand. He has also created his own bona fide menu, including a spread of entrees, salads, soups, desserts and actions stations.

Dismissing commonly held notions that German cuisine is only about sausages and beer, this feast will lay out the most exquisite of the eclectic German cuisine, a selection of cold cuts, lime and ginger smoked salmon, pickled herring, pork brawns with remourlarde and over five salads to start off with.

 Move onto the twelve delicious entrees available, pan fried beef liver with onions and apple, bread dumplings, roulade of pork with potato bay leaf sauce, grilled leberkas (meatloaf), oven braised pork knuckle and grilled fillet of white fish on paprika fond, to name a few. There is also a special fusion option for a spice loving palette, introducing for the first time, the Berliner curry bratwurst and chili sauce.

Of course, the pub will host an action station dedicated entirely to bratwursts, bockwursts, Nurembergs, Weisswurts and blood sausages, as no German meal is complete without traditional sausages. The bread station, a significant part of German cuisine, will display an array of pretzels, farmers, oatmeal, caraway seed and German beer breads to fill your side plate.

End it all with a choice of the most delightful sweet indulgences, Bavarian cream and red currant jelly, apple strudel with vanilla cream, walnut ginger cake, milk puree with red berry sauce and vanilla ice cream with egg liqueur and fresh strawberries.

This hearty dinner feast waltzes off at the Cheers Pub on 25 October, till 4 November, for Rs. 1,650 plus taxes. The a la carte lunch menu will also offer the most authentic of German options. For reservations call 2497361/2 or 2497373. So, if you can’t go to Germany, at least go to Cheers!