Schweinshaxe is a signature dish of Germany; we have verified places to eat it in Munich. Roast pork knuckle with crackling skin and tender meat, served with potato dumplings, red cabbage and dark gravy. Start with where to eat Schweinshaxe in Munich.
Schweinshaxe · Munich
Roast pork knuckle with crackling skin and tender meat, served with potato dumplings, red cabbage and dark gravy. The defining Bavarian beer-hall plate.
Schweinshaxe descends from southern German rural pork-butchery traditions; the knuckle, the working part of the leg, is cured then slow-roasted to render fat and crisp the skin. The Munich beer-hall version, plated with semolina or bread Knödel and braised red cabbage, was codified by the Wirtshaus tradition in the late 19th century and became the canonical Hofbräuhaus order.
Where to eat in Munich:
- Hofbräuhaus am Platzl
- Augustiner Klosterwirt
- Andechser am Dom
- Paulaner am Nockherberg
- Hofbräukeller
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