You won’t see any of the stereotypical trappings usually associated with German restaurants in America, or Germany for that matter, at Schmankerl Stub’n, a new restaurant in Downtown Orlando. No knotty pine or rough hewn timbers cross-hatched on stuccoed walls. No kegs or barrels to be rolled out. The servers don’t wear lederhosen or dirndl dresses, though they do have shoulder pouches like their Bavarian brothers, which, in Germany, are used to carry bills and coins to make change, something unnecessary here because the restaurant does not accept cash.
Instead, the decor is cool and serene, modernistic, with warm wood flooring, stylish light fixtures over booths and the bar, and bare wood tabletops decorated with white hydrangeas. And German-language radio plays in the background with pop music instead of polkas.
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