Sunday, January 31, 2010

California: Wurstkuche, speciality sausages (Los Angeles)

Back Blog #6:

We wanted to visit Royal/T but once again we were thwarted because I didn’t pay attention to hours/days of operation and they were closed on Mondays. Instead, we then headed to Wurstkuche for lunch. Specialty sausages, for the win!

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Don’t let this brightly colored front fool you into thinking that you can’t possibly drive by this place and miss it, because you can. In fact we did and I was specifically looking for that striped door!

Parking is pretty bad here, it’s all street parking and some of it you aren’t allowed to park by. One of the patrons let us know that we were parked in a “no parking” spot, the first time we stopped the car.

We went in and I started to stare intently at the display case full of specialty sausages.

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So many choices, but eventually I decided to try the rabbit, veal, and pork sausage seasoned with white wine. My boyfriend bought an alligator, pork, and smoked andouille sausage. Our friend tried out the duck and bacon with jalapeno peppers. We also got two different sauces, the pesto and curry ketchup.

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Clearly we needed liquid refreshment, so we bought a bottle of sarsaparilla and sweet blossom soda.

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The sweet blossom wasn’t too great, just a forgettable sweet soda. The sarsaparilla tasted like root beer, but less sweet. Next time though, I would just opt for a regular soda. ^_^

Anyways, with our drinks in hand we took our number and moved down the long bricked hallway to the dining area. Someone made an analogy of walking down that hallway to walking down a dark alleyway from a horror movie. XD If only I wasn’t afraid of the dark…but never fear, the light of the dining area was not too far off!

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I thought the dining area was quite breath taking. But then again I like the clean, slightly modern and industrial look. Seating was like eating at a picnic pavilion at a park, long tables with butcher paper covering the top. There were also some smaller tables along one side of the wall on a slightly raised platform.

If I was a beer lover, I probably would have been in heaven judging my the multitude of choices offered just staring at the beer tap. Alas, I don’t drink and neither do I intend to start (which some people see as a killjoy, but I just don’t enjoy alcohol =( ).

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So we sat down, had a nice conversation and waited for our food. About 10 minutes later our sausages and fries arrived!

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They even write on the parchment paper the type of sausage that it is! Pictured in the image above are the rabbit/veal/pork and the gator/pork/andouille. We ordered the fries with truffle oil, but the oil was so subtle that we couldn’t taste enough of a difference to warrant the extra money spent (as compared to our friend’s French fries).

The rabbit sausage though it wasn’t lacking in flavor was sadly a bit too dry for my tastes. The gator was a bit chewy, but still yummy! The best hotdog however was our friend’s duck and bacon sausage which was tender, juicy, and succulent. I guess we should have known, since the age old saying is that “bacon makes everything better.” However, I’m guessing that the duck was the key ingredient here!

Overall it was a fun visit, the ambiance was great, the food was moderately priced, and you don’t get the chance everyday to try sausages with meats like alligator, duck, rabbit, rattlesnake, etc.


Wurstkuche
800 E. 3rd St.
Los Angeles, CA, 90013
(213) 687-4444
Wurstküche on Urbanspoon

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