Wurstkuche

• Cuisine(s): Hot Dogs, Sandwiches, Vegetarian
  Hours: Sun 12pm-0am, Mon-Sat 11am-0am
  Price: $$
  Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express
• Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout
  Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
  Entertainment: Live Entertainment
  Alcohol: Beer/Wine
• Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
  Parking: Lot Available, Street

Description

Just beyond the range of the alternate jurors who lunch, Wurstkuche occupies the kind of way-downtown location everybody loves, a short walk from SCI-Arc but leagues away from Bunker Hill bankers; a few steps from the center of the Arts District but hidden from casual passersby, especially if they are looking for the actual street address, which corresponds with an unmarked exit from the bar. The restaurant brings in its sausages from artisanal butchers instead of making them in-house, which theoretically leads to flexibility, and the toppings are customizable only insofar as you have the choice of sauteed hot peppers, sauteed sweet peppers or sauerkraut to put with the grilled onions on top of your sandwich. The PETA crowd can get veggie bratwursts, kielbasas or Italian links, the sausage-joint equivalent of the Landlubbers" Platter that used to be on the menu of seafood restaurants, and for the abstemious there is dandelion & burdock, a soft drink reputed to have first been concocted by St. Thomas Aquinas, with the anisey herbal complexity of an obscure monastery liqueur. It aims to be all things to all people, at least all people who don't mind a sausage or two for dinner, people who think it might be a good idea to down a high-proof Unibroue La Fin Du Monde or two before going back to work. See full review.