If you live in the particular neighborhood I live in, you have to know how to get to one place from anywhere. Schmidt's Restaurant and Sausage Haus. It's a campy tourist trap at the end of a romantic little block in the center of a neighborhood of impossible-to-navigate brick streets, cobbled alleys and one-way deadends.
Importantly, it's the one place that everyone who doesn't live here wants to get to. Walk around this neighborhood for an afternoon and it's virtually guaranteed that someone will pull up slowly behind you and call out - excuse me, do you know how to get to Schmidts. Happily, I live here and - although I'd never actually go myself - I absolutely do know how to get there.
If you live enough of your life online, people start to think you're a native here, too. Able to speak the language and give direction across the whole motley landscape of the place.
So, here it is. A series of answers to the questions I'm always asked. A few Internet sausage links just for you.
I live right up the alley and I will tell you one thing, if they had a little cart outside selling brats, I would eat one everyday. It's worth one trip for sure, you can't live here and never have eaten there! Great blog by the way, its my first day exploring it.
Posted by: Joel | January 09, 2009 at 03:03 PM
You know, Schmidts could cut down on the confusion by just lining the sidewalk to the store with creampuffs. Hmmmm...creampuffs.
Posted by: Condo Blues | December 16, 2008 at 04:35 PM
Funny...I was outside on Sunday and two guys drove by, stopped in front of our place, rolled down the window and asked for directions to Schmidt's. So true, probably happens in GV once a month for us.
Posted by: Lauryn Byrdy | December 10, 2008 at 03:21 PM
Haha. Well, you'll be happy to know my snobbery is limited to entering the building with the wood cutouts of happy germans out front. I still chow on the hotdogs and cream puffs at all the local festivals.
Posted by: Leigh | December 07, 2008 at 07:12 PM
Leigh, I'm disappointed. Schmidts is GOOD STUFF! I can't believe you'd never go.
However, I'm not a native Columbus resident, so I think I'm allowed to enjoy it :)
Posted by: Andrea Hill | December 07, 2008 at 06:34 PM