PrintEat This Now: Massive Pretzels at the Standard Beer Garden
Ed Levine, meet giant pretzel. [Photograph: Robyn Lee]
Nothing says Oktoberfest like a German guy running up to you with a giant pretzel.
That's what happened when Ed stopped by the Standard Hotel, where Kurt Gutenbrunner (of Wallse) is running the food program at the Standard Beer Garden. "You've got to try this!"
Sold at the Beer Garden and at Blaue Gans for $7 each, these behemoths fall somewhere between soft pretzel and fresh baguette—crusty on the outside, with a bready crumb, yeasty and salty and malty all at once. We couldn't think of a better bar snack. Just please don't try to finish one off yourself. No matter how many beers you've put back.
Standard Beer Garden
848 Washington Street, New York NY 10014 (map)
212-645-4646
www.standardhotels.com
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3 Comments:
Ed looks extraordinarily proud to be sharing picture space with this pretzel.
Carey Jones at 5:28PM on 09/21/09
Still kinda small compared to the real ones you can get at a typical German beer fest, where the frauleins carry a stack by sticking their arm through the holes.
drmoze at 6:02PM on 09/21/09
I don't think a food item very healthy if the item in question is bigger than your head.
Just sayin'!
fritesandfries at 2:09PM on 09/22/09