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beef dishes and desserts. The pork dishes include the basic breaded pork schnitzel with potato salad, the Jaeger (hunter) schnitzel with mushroom gravy and the Zigeuner (gypsy) schnitzel with bell peppers. Beef dishes include roulade with potato dumplings and rib- eye steak with fries. The pork and Jaeger schnitzel and the beef roulade are the most requested items, Elzbieta said. The food is prepared fresh, and the wait staff is fast and efficient. The mixed salad and bread is served within three minutes of being seated. The main entrée is served within 10 minutes. The food is plentiful. “No one leaves hungry,” Elzbieta says. Serving good food is only part of the recipe to running a successful restaurant, according to the Wolfs. Elzbieta says it’s important to have a cozy atmosphere and provide a place where people can leave their cell phones off and have fun and socialize. To that end, the Wolfs make sure there are good times to be had on holidays. For New Year’s Eve, the Wolfs put out a buffet and hired a DJ that kept people dancing. But it’s their Oktoberfest where the Wolfs try to shine. The granddaddy of this annual 200-year-old celebration of a Bavarian royal wedding is held in late September and early October in Munich, and much of it revolves around drinking what is considered to be Germany’s best beers provided by its top breweries. Locally, German restaurants host their mini versions of that event. To that end, the Wolfs engaged the Bavarian Brass Band, a local 13-member group that plays peppy polkas and waltzes. “It’s very happy music,” said Bill Howard, one of the members who helped form the band for a second time in 2001. The band has performed at the Wolf’s Oktoberfest for the past two years, wearing the traditional bundhose, knee-socks and Bavarian Alpine hats. The wives of band members wear the traditional dirndl and hand out the lyrics to sing-alongs and get the patrons to participate in the chicken dance. Armin said he wants to host more of these events, perhaps a senior night or “dance café” with music from the 1970s or 1980s, he mused.CV 28|April/May • 2009 The Wolfs believe it’s important to have a cozy atmosphere and provide a place where people can leave their cell phones off and have fun and socialize.

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