Am Knipp in Aachen

Always nice, wonderful atmosphere and very attentive service. A real piece of history from Aachen

A visit to you is always a great experience. The food, drink and staff are simply outstanding. See you again soon and thank you 👍

The visit was abruptly ended by billing because the planned visit time had almost expired. CLUM FAREWELL!!

As always: wonderful, authentic, familiar, with friendly, brisk service, delicious food. This time there were ten people, 3 generations who met on the occasion of a 25th birthday and spent a very nice evening. The corner table with the “all-round bench” was perfect. Many thanks to the Ramrath family and team for the great evening!

Stopped by Aachen for a conference and found “Am Knipp”. Quaint pub with a very good mix of locals and tourists. Excellent food and very friendly service, for whom service is still very important. A must for all visitors to Aachen!

As always, we were very satisfied with the food and service in this exceptional atmosphere.

Great restaurant with great food and super good innkeepers, great restaurant

We felt completely comfortable!

Very good staff and very good food.👍😉✅

Great local German restaurant in a great town.

For many years I have always experienced the highest quality in every respect here. The Bitburger beer is by far the best I know. The Ramrath family is characterized by exceptional hospitality and ensures that every guest immediately feels at home. The food is outstanding - especially the sauerbraten, which is unfortunately only occasionally on the menu, and is a real insider tip. We always enjoy visiting the Knipp and will continue to do so with pleasure in the future and always enjoy one or more “beers”.

Very long waiting times - both for drinks and food

The food was really great. The service was also attentive and friendly. I also had a wonderful time sitting in the beer garden. Atmosphere perfect. However, we waited almost 2 hours for food. Sorry, unfortunately that doesn't work at all. For this reason, unfortunately 2 stars deducted from the overall rating.

If you are looking for a place where you can breathe the Teutonic authenticity of the border, you have come to the right place. Family run since 1678 and the furnishings fully demonstrate it. Excellent food, authentic staff and exciting context. Unfortunately the prices are a little high, but they justify the quality of everything that revolves around the food.

Steak and fried potatoes were 10/10

A quaint restaurant/pub that you would find in the village, just in the middle of the city. Good German food, quick and friendly service. A special highlight is the carpaccio.

The restaurant is “cult”! You immediately feel like you're at home, the food tastes very good, just like your mother's. The staff is more than friendly and attentive. The best place to have a nice beer and a delicious meal.

Everything's fine, at any time again.

A great place to go. The food was really good (recommend the snails, the schnitzel and the yummy creamy herring (cold).) Staff attentive but not in your face. We are on the terrace which was really nice.Thoroughly recommend it here.

Great food...top service...a great family business that I can recommend to everyone...

Very nice beer garden, top service and delicious food. An absolutely beautiful pub with a lot of flair. Can only be recommended.

First time in Aachen and we decided to have German food for dinner. I chose this restaurant since I have read many good reviews. We had such an amazing experience not only with the food, but also with the hospitality of the staff. We were seated pretty soon. We had Schnitzel with onion and mushrooms and the other with the hot sauce and both were delicious. Food portion is big and honestly one dish is more than enough for two people! Price was reasonable. Highly recommend it!

Very good food and excellent service!!!

Sehr freundliches Personal und sehr gutes Essen. Sehr schöner Biergarten. Nicht zu vergessen: ein hervorragend gezapftes Bitburger Pils.

Classic German restaurant! Ever dish served here is a winner! We started with the Garilc Butter Snails and Schmalzbrot 😋 The schnitzel here is perfectly crunchy and the sauce on top is heavenly! The ribs were part of the specials menu for that day. The ribs were cooked to perfection and fell off the bone 😍 To finish we ordered 3 crème brûlée: STUNNING 🤩 The service staff were very friendly and made our visit very welcoming. I need to visit again 😋😋😋

Sehr freundliche Gastgeber und ein herzlicher Empfang bei einem hervorragenden Abendessen. Das Pfifferling Schnitzel mit Bratkartoffeln war sehr schmackhaft.

The entrance reflects the tradition that the place wants to communicate, but then there is the noisy and slightly chaotic outdoor area. Good but nothing unforgettable. Discordant note from a very rude, tall regular customer at the counter who doesn't do justice to the style of the place.

Good dinner, some special ingredients. Courteous staff

Once again we stayed in the great Hirschgarten and enjoyed the family service with the best food and drinks! A clear 5 stars for this! Always happy to go there!

Pleasant place and welcome but very long wait 1h30 to receive basic dishes without any particular flavor just enough to satisfy the hunger.

Superb place to discover. The outdoor terrace is sublime, both modern and cozy. The dishes are delicious and the staff very welcoming.

As always, it was very nice with you. Delicious food, friendly staff, familiar atmosphere, great Verzäll and läcker Pilsken ajjen Tiek... I'm looking forward to next time. How nice that there are still bars like this!

Unglaublich freundliches engagiertes Familienunternehmen mit sehr gemütlichem Garten mit den allerbesten Bratkartoffeln. Wir haben den Abend sehr genossen.

Excellent food, friendly welcome, family friendly. Nice interior and outdoor areas.

Great, go there and enjoy your time.

The in-restaurant in Aachen. Super friendly team and delicious food. Be sure to visit the beer garden in summer.

It was once again a successful evening. We'd love to come back.

We arrived at 7.40pm, kindly welcomed by the owner. We are immediately asked for drinks, we tell ourselves that it will be an excellent dinner... but instead! At 8.10pm the drinks and menus finally arrive. At 8.30pm we order. Carpaccio as a starter, arrives quickly but is nothing exceptional. The dishes (roast beef and a breaded pork steak) are served at 9.30pm!!! The wait is excruciating considering the half-empty place, the slow service and the old waiters who drink whitebait and beers behind the counter rather than bring you bread and apologize for the wait. Finally, the place smells like crazy cooking. We came out looking like McDonalds employees. Typical for sure but what shocking service. Better to look elsewhere!

Great food for a good price. Tourist friendly, great staff.

Wir hatten kurzfristig für 6 Personen reserviert, leider keinen Tisch mehr draußen bekommen. Der Service in diesem urgemütlichen Restaurant war super freundlich. Die Speisen waren sehr lecker. Wir waren alle sehr zufrieden.

Miserable communication opportunities! Reservations are possible like in the Stone Age. When the problem is pointed out, Mr. Ramrath becomes snarky: “Then just leave it alone.” Disgusting!!

Really nice garden, fantastic food. Best recommendations

A beautiful old pub with a lovely beer garden. Everything is right in this restaurant, food service is great

Really slow service, waited more than 40 minutes for the first drinks, and more than an hour for the food. The food was very basic, and too salty. No further.

The bar was very high. It was my first time at the Knipp and because of the nice weather we were able to go to the beer garden, which is very large and pretty. The restaurant is super quaint and beautifully furnished, good middle-class and cozy, the service is very good. Now about the food. I like a good home-style meal and that's what the menu offered. Still, it was manageable, despite the five starters. The menu is very meat-heavy and the only side dishes were fried potatoes and mixed salad (with a very tasty dressing). The “vegetarian dish on request” was the celery schnitzel (with fried potatoes and mixed salad). The sauces for the dishes were presented very discreetly, and the mushrooms were just as manageable. What irritated me the most was the size of the plates. A mixture of a dessert plate and a flat plate, somehow too small. The portions of the steaks with a little sauce and fried potatoes seemed almost like a child's portion and seemed almost bizarre in front of the adult men, as well as smaller forks than usual. Strange. The size of the portions suggests that an appetizer is necessary to fill you up. For dessert we had the small crème brulée with an espresso and here the small is to be taken very literally ;-). The Zwickelbier was very tasty, but in my opinion it could have been a bit colder. In my opinion, the price/performance ratio is not quite in balance for the food. I wouldn't necessarily go there to eat anymore, as I personally felt that there was a little more variety on offer. It's definitely ideal for drinking beer and chatting.

Very atmospheric place. Delicious cold beer. The courtyard is beyond praise. We only ordered appetizers, it was bread with lard, a portion of 5 large pieces, delicious. The menu has a large selection of main dishes! This place is in the category: we will come back again and again ! 🫶🏻

Dear Ramrath family, after more than 20 years, I felt the need to spend a great evening with friends in your beautiful restaurant with the famous Hirschgarten. As someone who was born in Aachen and now lives on the beautiful Rhine, my friends received a warm welcome and excellent food and service. It is a pleasure to see that after so many years, a family business was and still is a wonderfully well-coordinated team. Keep it up, we'll be back. A.K. From Bad Honnef

Delicious meal with extended family. We sat outside and it rained but it did ruin the experience at all!! Luckily we were under a large umbrella and only had to move a few tables and people to get covered. But also the manager I believe said we could move indoors if we wanted to. After dinner we continued having drinks and catching up and the staff were friendly and very helpful!!

Really nice, quaint restaurant with a nice outdoor area. Delicious, hearty food.

atmospheric interior but snail service. We managed to drink the beer before we even got the card, so having to choose between dying or changing the place, we chose the latter. If it took over half an hour to receive the menu, I dread to think how long it would take to wait for the meal... :-(

I waited an hour to get my menu card this is a joke i wont accept this kind of behavior.

Enjoyable evening with good German fare. Salad had all fresh ingredients and the presentation of all the mains were done.

Super nice service, very tasty food, great restaurant

Very nice atmosphere. The food came very quickly and it was very good.

Great restaurant with flair and super friendly people

One of the most unique and pleasant locations in Aachen. Even as a local a weekly to bi-weekly visit is a must. Thank you for the hospitality and probably best service in Aachen.

Quaint restaurant with a touch of a pub. Mixture of Aachen residents, local “nobility” and tourists. Food is rock solid and delicious. Best draft beer in Aachen!!! and certainly the best service you can get in Aachen.

There is nothing better in terms of ambience, friendliness and delicious food in this combination in the entire region. Went there with a dear friend from the Ruhr area who was just happy after that evening.

Reservation was quick and easy. On site we could choose whether sitting inside or outside was better. Class service; Fast, friendly, there when you need him, but not intrusive. The food was very good and large enough to fill you up.

Very nice restaurant, great food and very friendly service.

When you come in you are greeted nicely and immediately taken to a seat. You don't have to wait long for your food. The selection is small, but the food is sooooo good (especially the matjes) and the waiters are so nice. The decor reminds me of my great grandmother and I think that's so beautiful. The whole place stands out from the usual places with so many things. We'd love to come back!

What a wonderful experience! We received a very warm greeting, enjoyed a restorative cocktail, then had a delicious dinner of menu favorites. Can’t give the family enough praise!

Mit unserer Gruppe haben wir einen sehr schönen Abend hier verbracht. Gutes Essen, netter Service - was braucht man mehr! Am Nachbartisch eine Gruppe von der Führung bei der Printenbäckerei Klein wieder getroffen...lustig. Leider gibt es in den Sommermonaten keinen Öscher Sauerbraten, der soll hier am besten sein.

In the Knipp you can always feel how an experienced family knows how to entertain guests. Nice ambience, delicious food and the best beer in Aachen. What more do you want? Always happy to go to the Knipp! And keep it up, dear Knipp team

Great food. Here you can feel the long history of this restaurant. The service is first class, all the staff were very customer focused. Keep it up 👍👏

Our favourite place in town. The atmosphere is just fantastic, it feels like home) It is always full and hard to get a table but you can test your luck;) Must try: drafted Kölsch, Bratkartoffeln, some Schnapps at the end

Schönes, uriges, sehr altes Restaurant mit tollem Garten, freundliche und aufmerksame Bedienung, super leckeres Essen!

A very nice old restaurant. We had a great evening with good food and good service. We'd love to come back.

We were there with guests from outside the area who were enthusiastic about the ambience, food and service. The dog was also taken care of ;-)

Nice traditional German spot with lots of history and wicked schnitzel. My dad didn't think there was enough pepper sauce with his though. Otherwise really good. Service and people friendly and welcoming and good atmosphere.

Great restaurant, food very tasty, service very good. Highly recommended

We ate as a couple and were served very friendly. The food was very tasty, the menu could have had a few more items. The price-performance ratio is right.

Very nice service. Very tasty schnitzels.

Thank you for the lovely evening! G. Jacquemain

Wie immer sehr schön. Leckeres Essen, sehr freundliche und aufmerksame Bedienung. Wir kommen gerne. Nette Gäste, guter Service, gutes Essen. Wir hatten Steak, Schnitzel und Fisch und waren sehr zufrieden.

Wer in Aachen noch nicht "im Knipp" war, war nicht wirklich in Aachen! Eine wahre Institution und ein Familienbetrieb par excellence! Die Ramraths verstehen es, Ihren gepflegten Laden so zu führen, dass er der Tradion verpflichtet bleibt und gleichzeitg alles andere als altbacken daher kommt. Tolles gut bürgerliches Essen, das wahrscheinlich am besten gezapfte Bier der Stadt und eine typische Öcher Atmosphäre. So etwas findet man nur noch selten. Wer also gerne zu zweit zu einem romantischen Dinner in einem gediegenen Ambiente speisen möchte, für den gibt es in Aachen andere Läden. Wer aber ein richtig gutes Schnitzel oder Steak haben möchte, einem Gespräch mit mitbisher fremden Tischnachbarn nicht abgeneigt ist und auch ein bisschen Lautstärke vertragen kann, der wird sich hier pudelwohl fühlen. Und im Sommer lädt der Garten im Innenhof auch die ein, die es gerne etwas ruhiger und beschaulicher mögen.

Lovely local restaurant: pub . Mostly visited by local crowd . Very original German food

Really good food. Staff very friendly and helpful. Not the cheapest, but top.

Very traditional, rustic, family restaurant. Delicious, fresh food, great salad dressing, everything excellent. Top friendly, attentive service, even when the restaurant is full. It was a very nice visit. Kind regards to the team.

Lovely restaurant, delicious food and great service. Lovely beer garden on a warm evening. The interior is great as well - so much character.

Everything perfect. Rich in tradition...

The best beer in Aachen!!! Best schnitzel ever The Knipp is always an experience thanks to the great family that runs it. Gerd

Very tasty food, great ambience... a little journey back in time 👍

You should go there if you want to eat.

Very cozy backyard and fast and professional service. The food was well prepared and tasted good.

Once again a wonderful evening in a great atmosphere. Together with two friends we were able to enjoy the spring evening in the deer garden. Attentive service, very tasty food and excellent draft beer. We'd love to come back!

Great thing. Beautiful garden to stay in. Tasty food and large portions. Value for your money. Highly recommended

Little old gem in Aachen! The food is amazing and the atmosphere smells like a traditional old beerhall. The food is delicious and portions are good enough. You can’t go wrong with this place. The owners are so friendly even more like a family. Definitely recommend place 👌🏻

Although we arrived at 5 o'clock, almost everything was reserved on Thursday. Yet they still managed to find us a place somewhere. We had a delicious meal here and the staff was friendly and the atmosphere was great and a beautiful place. If we are in Aachen again we will definitely come back

It feels like a tourist restaurant. The food is unexpectedly delicious. It is recommended to order rare for the steak. You will get it just right medium rare. The decoration is beautiful and the desserts are delicious. The only small drawback is that we were arranged with strangers. Tables (we have reserved seats in advance), this is the first time we have been forced to share tables while traveling in Europe. The restaurant business is very good, so be sure to book a table in advance.

Delicious food and really friendly staff!! Would definitely recommend the schnitzel with mushroom sauce! The beer was also great although I think I accidentally got the alcohol free one 😅 a bit expensive but worth it!!!

Delicious food! The service is great!

Great place to enjoy with German cuisine !

Great family run traditional restaurant.

The food was great, the service was great, the atmosphere!! We really enjoyed our dinner and would definitely visit again!!

You should definitely visit when you are in Aachen.

As has often been rumored: Great and cozy atmosphere with which the quality and, above all, the prices of the food cannot keep up! If things were different, you probably wouldn't get any seats in the restaurant at all! Still, it's a shame that no one is trying to change that!

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Great service, delicious food, cool location. The store is packed, but everything still goes quickly.

When we arrived the place was absolutely packed, but space for 4 was found for us and we all enjoyed a fabulous meal washed down by excellent beer... fully recommend.