Ingrid's Kitchen - Oklahoma City, OK

Ingrid's calls themselves Euro-American cuisine.  I would probably consider them a German bakery/deli/cafeteria with a mix of  Other-European and American thrown in.  When you first come in the door, you have to grab a menu and wait in line to order.  When you pay they give you a number on a stand so that the food runners can find you.

The menu has a lot of German dishes.  It looks like they make their own sausages (wuerst) onsite.   I had the Weiner Schnitzel sandwich with a tabouli salad.  Wein is German for Vienna which is in Austria but, you find it everywhere in Germany.  Tabouli is a Mediterranean dish which has nothing to do with Western Europe.

While you are waiting in line, you have to stand in front of the glass bakery cases.  The cakes and pastries looked really good but, I was good and stayed away.  Not good for blog reporting but good for my personal health. 

After you pay there is another set of cases with freshly baked bread and an evil guillotine looking thing presumably to slice bread or punish patrons who get out of line.

We arrived at the lunch hour, so the food took a little bit of time to arrive.  There is not much in the way of service to talk about.  One of the waitress had a thick German accent.   I'm guessing that she might have been Ingrid herself.  She was in much too much of a hurry to strike a conversation up with. So, I may never know.

The tabouli salad was very good.  The tomato that they used was especially good for this time of year in February.  It comes on a plate with a leaf of lettuce.  The Weiner Schnitzel was pretty good but, the bread that they served it on was really good.  It must have come from their own ovens in the back.

My lunch partner just got a turkey and cheese sandwich.  He was really impressed with the gouda cheese.  The sliced bread looked really good and he said that it was.

The restaurant is in a mixed residential and commercial neighborhood a little off of the beaten track in Oklahoma City.  The building is painted with the German national colors along the roof line.  German signage is everywhere inside and the men's room was wallpapered with old editions of German newspapers and magazines.

This is probably a good place for drinks after work and on the weekends.  They served lots of different kinds of German beer.  There was a room in the back that looked made for drinking.

Overall, I would give Ingrid's a 8.5 on the triple-D scale.  The food was really good but, not necessarily unique like you would expect out of a triple-D joint.  The atmosphere was good but again, not blow your socks off.  It is worth checking out and I would definitely go here again. 

Ingrid's Kitchen
3701 North Youngs
Oklahoma, OK 73112
405 946-8444
http://www.ingridskitchen.com/