Schaller & Weber

Great food & even better customer service. It’s refreshing — the way a business should run. They were helpful in the store & even more so on the phone in assisting with a web order .
Can’t go wrong with anything you buy

Do you like porcine meat? Of course you do! You need to be here buying stuff.
I would suggest just walking in with a fist full of money and saying «please give me something delicious»
Not only do they have the best product in meats and cheeses, but they are just awesome people.
I couldn’t point any one thing out without mentioning everything in the store.
Just go. Get a bunch of stuff you like elsewhere and you will like it better here. While you are there get a bunch of stuff you never tried. Doesn’t even matter what it is, it will be good.

This place is amazing! Established in 1937 and still going strong! Located in the heart of the old German Yorkville. My grandfather used to shop here in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The best award winning German meats and groceries. You can’t beat the quality of product and service here. I love their sausages and meat selection, and also good beer selection as well. Also the attached Sausage Bar is great!

Stopped in and enjoyed a small size of the potato salad with bacon. The best potato salad I have ever had. Butter and soft, cold potatoes with plenty of bacon. Place is small, but they use every inch to offer many unique deli products from desserts to various canned items (sauces, condiments etc). Place was very clean, service was quick.

Bratwurst, cheese, meat… all the good things about a German food shop you will find here. There looks to be a healthy selection of German beers, snacks, and canned goods too, but my eyes were on the prize — brats!
They have quite a few sausages to choose from with different amounts of fat and spices in them, all very good in my opinion. I ordered a meat and cheese platter and let the very informative Pete pick everything out; there was prosciutto, speck, hams, salamis, funky cheeses, melty cheeses, you name it! (Even got to sample a bunch of them while he prepped everything) Heck of a place if you ever want some quality charcuterie.
Auf wiedersehen for now, but I will be back for more!

Win the game simply because the good food, there’s always customers whenever I walk by.

Disclosure: shopped here 20+ times
Best German food I can find outside of Germany. German spouse actually thought the charcuterie meats were imported from Europe as they are authentic in flavor. Great sausage, cheese and prepared food selection. Harzer kase, seeded bread rolls, landjäger sausage, wieners, hunter sausage, sauerkraut, fried chicken, potato salad, haribo gummies, braunshweiger, cervelatwurst, curry ketchup, german mustard, kartoffel knödel… I’ve been shopping here for years and don’t plan to ever stop (and I live in NJ, this place is worth the trip!).

You can’t miss here. Real food made with care and love. Just go and experience it yourself. If they make something that you normally like, buy it because theirs will be perfect. If something looks good, buy it because it will be amazing. Also just listen to what other customers order for ideas.
Some of my favorites… bratwurst, fried chicken, German hamburgers, double smoked bacon, tongue in aspic, pork sauerkraut.
They also have a butcher, fresh bread delivered daily, a great cheese selection, canned fish and tons of German beer.

This place just opened in my neighborhood and I’m so glad I stumbled upon it! Many options for meats as well as toppings, or you can order one of their creations. It’s a walk up window, and right next door there are a few seats inside, but hot dogs are meant for eating on the street!

Had the Saigon Special. It was sooooo juicy and filling. All the ingredients was fresh and so flavorful with a kick of the jalapeños and srirachi aioli. I Would definitely recommend this place.

I like this little shop full of German goods. I got a couple of different wursts, a country sausage, chedder bratwurst and weisswurst. I usually prefer grilled sausages but didn’t have a chance to try weisswurst when I visited Germany so decided to give these a shot! Liked all of them! Also got some German potato salad (excellent) and purple cabbage, which was a little sweeter than anticipated. I also got some of their fresh bread, looked like rolled but unbent crescents, not sure what kind of bread it was but very good. Also liked the fresh sauerkraut. Even better, they opened a little wurst stand next to the shop, Schaller’s Stube, so you can enjoy some of their great wursts without doing any of the work.

This place would actually get a five if you go inside and order in the traditional store. But they recently got a take out counter along the sidewalk, and I think it is a rip off. Plus they do not know their cuts of meat. I ordered chicken thighs and when I went home I realized they were chicken breasts. You really should not work there if you do not know the difference.
But if you go inside and order different wursts it is a much better value. Delicious worst, some of the best fried chicken, and delicious stuffed cabbage. The food inside is a five but I was annoyed with the sidewalk counter that is why I only give a three star rating.

Hard to beat the possibility of a plate of meats. This is a true relic of germantown with real butchers. But, you know what? Everything is fresh, and everybody there is not only knowledgeable, but complementary. Woah, you’re going to love that!

I was convinced I had written a review for this spot — apparently, I’m somewhat air-​headed.
Steins. I have to start off with those. I am lusting for their steins, and have yet to buy one, as I cannot justify it. Yes, I love beer. But I love beer out of the bottle (which is contradictory to my alleged ladylikeness, but there ya go — I drink from the bottle/​can, unless I’m hiding my beverage from my mom and drink from a huge black coffee cup — if I drink from a stein, it would defeat the purpose). Yes, I’m approaching 50 and I still hide drinking beer from my mom.
Doesn’t everyone???
So — STEINS!!! I want them all.
But as I cannot justify buying one (working on it — ask me in a month or so), I go bonkers on the edibles.
Do you like bloodwurst and blood-​and-​tongue? I don’t know if I do. But my mom does. And she’s very picky. And as I need to feed her, I only go here. Because theirs are the only ones she will eat.
Their franks are yummy.
Their hams are perfect.
Their salamis are beautifully plentiful.
Their prepared foods are exceptional.
Their cheeses are stinky (only stinky cheeses are worth eating — but, should you buy any, be kind to your fellow humans and don’t take the bus — sharing my know-​how here: those isolated fridge bags/​linchboxes work great to isolate the stinkyness).
There are many very handsome gentlemen in any age group who serve you — that’s always a plus. It’s the old-​fashioned individual service we all miss. I can’t get enough of it. Very gallant, and very knowledgeable. You feel VERY important. You practically feel like they’ve been waiting for you to grace them with your presence.
I always ask for «¼ pound of your choice» — based on what you’ve purchased, they’ll introduce you to something you’ve never tried, yet love. I found quite a few new faves that way.
I try to get one of the older gents — they’re insanely intuitive. But there’s a young tatooed guy there whose service is like a ballet — seamless, smooth and singular.
Breads are fabulous — if you, as I, prefer white, get there early, as they run out fast. I barely fish out 2 packs if I’m there 11-​ish. Several types of rye and sourdough and pretzel. Beautifully done.
There is just one thing I dislike — sometimes, there is a very talkative chick with a horribly annoying voice at check-​out (have you ever noticed that the more annoying the voice, the more people talk?). But everything else is so stellar, I just ignore and pop an Advil later. I feel bad for saying that — I’m sure she’s lovely, but OMG shhhhhhhhhh.

Holy Momma Jomma, I love this place. Many years ago, the UES had a very strong German presence in the neighborhood but today, few stores and restaurants have remained. Schaller & Weber is one of those institutions that has been around since 1937. Their website states «Masters of Charcuterie» and that pretty much nails it perfectly. The store is basically a deli and butcher counter with some excellent looking chops, meats and cured meets. They recently opened up something they call a café, which is a small standing counter that could fit about 6 people where you stand and nosh on some German excellence. The guys behind the counter were very friendly and they seemed to know their stuff. I can’t wait to come back.
The food:
Cheese & Charcuterie Board– It. Was. Excellent!!! Four different types of cheese, six different types of meat, mustard, a whipped meat spread with bacon and toasted country bread for $ 12, I think I could stop the review now, enough said lol But the blue cheese, which I don’t normally like, was the best I ever had. The whipped meat spread was slightly sweet but I thought it paired with the blue cheese wonderfully. There was Black Forest Ham, Bologna, Genoa Salami, Sopprassata and a few other items. Next time I am here, I want to try the Pâté with Goose, Pâté with Truffle, sausages, headcheese, and other goodies. Nom Nom Nom

S&W just opened a new eat-​in/​take-​out café in the back of their restaurant. I decided to give it a try today, and boy am I glad. I had their double-​smoked BLT and it was absolutely delicious! Even the red cabbage was amazing… much better than any I’ve had before. It went down well with this imported German «herb» soda that S&W sells.
The prices are very reasonable. I just wish there was more space in the back for the café.
The staff was incredibly friendly and helpful. I’ve never met felt more at home at a neighborhood store.
I’ll definitely be coming back again and will be bringing friends. Their café would be perfect for picking a nice picnic spread to enjoy in Central park.

Went there to get real German Bratwuerste for a BBQ.
You get real German sausages there. period. No frills.
They also have some special German/​Austrian sweets but there focus is for sure around meat/​sausages.
And not more pricey than your Trader Joe’s dealer

These guys know wurst!
You can find in this odd, old little grocery store everything Alsatian, German, Swiss and Austrian plus an excellent meat selection with products you can’t find elsewhere (rabbit!).
Their landjagger are perfect, the double smocked bacon is to be damned for.
All the candy and chocolate are excellent European imports… They even have import cosmetic products like Nivea deodorant…
Finally if you want to impress your friends, go there to buy some Russian mustard (in the fridge by the cashier booth), this mustard is the HOTTEST EVER!
Finally the personnel is super nice all with their white aprons…
Danke Schön Herren Schaller und Webber!

When Max Weber was taking time out from writing the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, he partnered up with some dude named Schaller and opened up this butcher’s in Germantown. Schaller und Weber have a reliable selection of meat products, but I have come only to offer my review of its fried chicken. This can only be described with profanity.
This is by far, the best motherfucking fried chicken I’ve ever had in NYC. It even rivals some of the tastiest goddamn fried chicken I have had in the American South and Midwest.
I feel bad about this. Not for using entirely appropriate vulgarity, but realizing that getting this word out now will imperil my efforts to get more.
But I’m doing what I must for the common good.

Uhhhh. Somebody had me come here to get black jellybeans. Yuck. But I grabbed a bag of Johannis-​beeren and they were one of the greatest non-​chocolate candies I’ve ever consumed.
Ever.
They may take credit cards, too.

Wem es mal wieder nach guten Rotkohl, hausgemachten Kartoffelsalat, Wurstsalat, Spätzle und leckere deutsche Würstchen auch in New York gelüstet, der ist hier richtig: Ein sehr nettes Geschäft mit hauptsächlich deutschen Lebensmitteln: Vom Haribo Gummibärchen bis zum Harzer Käse, Löwensenf, Bahlsen Kekse, Hengstenberg Sauerkraut, Kühne Rotkohl usw usw. Hier gibt es fast alles was das (deutsche kulinarische) Herz begehrt.
Klasse!