NYC Tastes

For some reason I really seem to be hitting the German spots hard these days. We were meeting Mr. T's sister and brother-in-law for dinner Thursday night and she suggested Hallo Berlin. We got there right about 6:00 and took the last outdoor table. We were all having trouble deciding what to order so we went with the Sausage sampler platter. Look at all those sausages!!! My arteries are clogging up just thinking about them! I was surprised to see that they came all cut like this but it ended up being better for sharing. We also got some herring which was actually really good. I grew up in a Polish household so my herring consumption was quite large. This was very good for herring. Much better than I could have imagined. The potato pancakes were kind of meh...No where near as good as Zum's and really a little mushy. The fries were just like the pancakes- a little too soft and lacking an overall crunch. If I'm going to injest this many calories I want to hear the fried crisp...