Our first meal in Leavenworth, WA was at King Ludwigs Restaurant. We started out with mugs of beer and an appetizer of warm Langos bread served with garlic-sour cream dipping sauce. For my main entree  I had the Chicken Schnitzel, two lighty breaded chicken breasts “prepared the old world way” covered with mushroom sauce and served with Spätzle and Rotkraut (Red Cabbage). We came during Thanksgiving, which is a quieter period for the town between the insaneness of Oktoberfest and the Christmas Lighting festival, so we found ourselves alone as we were trying to finish our second round of beers. They had a beer menu of about a little more than a dozen beers, including local as well as imported German beers, all served in the correct German glass.

We then finished up our night with tasting trays at Icicle Brewing. The beers we tried included two seasonals, as well as Icicle Brewing’s regular lineup samples of Khaos Kolsch, Lokai Lager, Colchuck Hefeweizen, Dirtyface Amber, Bootjack IPA, and Priebe Porter. The large beer experience we have had in microbrews resulted that the flavors of the beer here were just ok, nothing memorable for us, though we did enjoy the live music although it was a little loud. The space for seating indoors is small, although they have two sections (a downstairs and upstairs). The area outside was quite lovely, including a live fire pit to drink around.