Located on the far side of what the locals call Transdanubien (meaning the otherworldly region over the Danube river), the Leopoldauer Alm may not have landed on your radar before reading these lines. In this stand alone location, where the high rise apartment buildings of the city are no longer in sight, looks to mirror on its insides the look of an Austrian alps Hütte, with all of its wood-covered, beer swilling cosiness. The waiters wear Lederhosen while the waitresses are in Dirndl.
Whether you think of this as Kitsch, or an experience, Leopoldauer All is serving up one of the biggest Schnitzel serves in the city. And they should be. We mean, they are a self-proclaimed XXL restaurant (we didn’t even know this was a thing before coming across this place). It’s won a couple of prizes in this category as an XXL restaurant as one of the best in the German-speaking world.
In terms of ‘what kind of monster animal did that come from?!!’ kind of Schnitzels, you can go the ‘Schnitzelplatte’ which is a platter big enough to feed a small family, but recommended for two. Then there’s the XXL-Schnitzel for those that don’t like sharing food (even if the food is larger than their head).
If you’ve got space in your belly for it, we’d recommend washing the ‘Schnitzi’ down with one of their house beers.
