It's a Sausage Fest! Doggy-friendly Wirtshaus Starts Serving Up German Food & Drink This Week

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Hot dog! We can thank the Germans for our favorite ballpark treat, but we can also head out to dine in several German sausage-focused establishments opening up around town. Who knew L.A. was so sausage-centric? Joining the fray of kutches, hauses, and currywursts is Wirtshaus, which will have its grand opening this Friday, July 29th.

The restaurant is owned by two actual Germans, has a German chef, and a whole lotta German eats on the menu, not to mention over 30 German and Austrian beers and wines. It's total Germania! We've been tipped off to one dessert curiosity: Wirtshaus' featured dessert is 'Spaghettieis', a German ice cream specialty that resembles a plate of spaghetti.

Bonus: Your love of hot dog's German pater familias the sausage doesn't mean you have to leave your actual dog at home. The indoo/outdoor restaurant will be doggy-friendly, and they'll even have a separate doggy menu.

Wirtshaus is open in the former Sante La Brea space, which tanked despite the intervention of chef Gordon Ramsay on his "Nightmare"-ish TV show.

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By Lindsay William-Ross in Food on July 25, 2011 3:50 PM

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The_SwedishFish

Hmmm, eating and drinking with other people's dogs, no thanks. I had planned on checking this place out but not any more. I'm sure they will see plenty of traffic from people who do want to bring their dogs though.

lucytwoshoes

Seriously? Obviously the dogs will have to be outside. If you genuinely wanted to check this place out until you saw it was dog-friendly, you can still eat inside sans dogs... I think it's awesome that there are dog-friendly places. It's also very authentic German of them, as I've seen many many dogs in restaurants in Germany. But US health code means they'll stay outside here.