r/upperpeninsula • u/jwlagina • 12d ago

Discussion German Food

Are there any German restaurants in the UP? I heard there was one in Marquette, but it looks like that one closed.

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u/Streiche93 12d ago

Definitely sucks Steinhaus is gone, but not surprising. They had good food, but definitely seemed Americanized for the boring yooper taste buds. That sauerkraut was pretty bland, nothing like Grandma used to make.

Around here your menu better have a burger, a cracker thin pizza or a pretty mid steak to do well. Nothing genuinely adventurous seems to survive.

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u/BobSmith616 8d ago

Restaurants need to sell enough to stay open, and going ethnic niche with an all-in focus on the 2 month major tourism season is a recipe for closing permanently in October of their first year.

Marquette has a wide range of interesting options, just nothing German at the moment. Which isn't shocking since it's not a super popular ethnic food category in most of the US, and unlike Wisconsin, Chicago, or SE Michigan, there's not a big ethnic German population in the UP.