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| I took a bite into my pastrami sandwich before taking a photo! |
A friend who drove from Orange County to San Diego to visit me wanted to have lunch at a German deli and I didn't say no.
So after we did some shopping at the nearby Carlsbad Premium Outlets, we stopped for lunch at Tip Top Meats.
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| Customers order here before eating at their table |
The restaurant is actually more of a cafeteria where you order at the cashier and then the food is served to you at the table. But the day we went there was quite a line so we checked out the grocery part first and it was impressive to see all kinds of items, from apple strudels to marzipan, cookies, many kinds of sausages including currywurst, lots of Haribo products to keep kids on sugar highs for days, chocolates and giant slabs of cheese.
We went back to the lineup and perused the menu printed on a brochure. For a small eatery, it has an impressive array of dishes from breakfast served from 6am to noon, then for lunch and dinner there are cold and hot sandwiches, soups, burgers, meat loaf, osso bucco, beef stroganoff, liver and onions, schnitzel, smoked pork chops, chicken cordon bleu and zwiebel rostbraten or sweet onion stuffed pork roast, all very reasonably priced.
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| The grocery is stocked with lots of German foods |
I was conservative and had a hot pastrami sandwich that instead of fries came with German potato salad -- with bits of bacon and slightly vinegary.
When it arrived I was surprised to see three half sandwiches of hot pastrami with melted cheese in between two slices of toasted rye bread and pickles. I only had room for two halves and took the third half home with some potato salad.
If I was hungrier I would have tried the schnitzel but was trying to save my stomach for later.
Nevertheless what an interesting place to eat at and have a taste of Germany!
6118 Paseo Del Norte
Carlsbad, CA
92011-1116
(760) 438 2620
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