Grill- & Steakhaus Rutenberg in Essen

A single annoyance We visited the Rutenberg Grill and Schnitzel House on Huestraße in Essen and were absolutely disappointed. After a 45-minute wait, the schnitzels finally arrived – unfortunately, they were completely inedible. Far too thick, tough, partially burnt, and the sauce was rancid. A complete disappointment in terms of taste. Neither the quality nor the service was up to scratch. Definitely the first and last time for us!

Great schnitzels. Really delicious. The weekly menu isn't bad either.

Very tasty food and very lovely staff ☺️

The absolute best snack restaurant ever! Quality is first class and fresh, price/performance ratio unbeatable! Particularly recommended!

Definitely recommended! Again and again with these portions, especially all types of schnitzel, fries, salads, everything tastes above average. When I'm in Essen, I'm there and enjoy the food, which is plentiful and tastes wonderful. Highly recommended. I'm looking forward to being back in Essen at the weekend and going there as a matter of course and enjoying my next schnitzel there.

Very friendly staff and my gypsy schnitzel was very tasty.

The food there is always so delicious. The schnitzels are nowhere as good as there!

Very tasty food and the staff is really nice and friendly.

Very tasty 😋 here ..the girls are also friendly and quick ..with the selection of dishes.... We'll definitely be back...you're great ❤️

Fantastic food and first class service! I had the pleasure of visiting this restaurant and absolutely loved it! As soon as you enter you can feel the warm and inviting atmosphere. The staff is extremely friendly, attentive and ensures that you immediately feel at home. The food was simply excellent – ​​fresh, tasteful and prepared with great attention to detail. I was particularly excited about the schnitzel day, which was really a highlight! The schnitzels were perfectly breaded, fried golden brown and incredibly juicy. The side dishes rounded the whole thing off wonderfully. The quality of the ingredients, the stylish presentation and the harmonious ambience make this restaurant a real insider tip. I highly recommend it and will definitely come back!

I ordered a shashlick there. When I asked what the difference between the shish kebab and the gypsy shish kebab was, I was told that one was with shish kebab sauce and the other was with gypsy sauce. And here comes the crux of the matter. The shish kebab sauce is a traditional curry sauce used for currywurst that isn't even good. But the meat itself was good and tender. Reminds me more of a cafeteria meal.

I've been a customer at Schitzelhaus Rutenberg for a long time, basically since it opened in 1974. The quality of the food is above average compared to other fast food joints. What bothers me a little is the large variance in the size of the schnitzel, which used to be more stable compared to today. However, the portion sizes are quite good, it just depends on the person and their hunger. The new delivery service via Wolt probably overloaded the capacity of the kitchen at times, so deliveries were sometimes stopped. It's annoying when you've decided that you want to order something from the Schnitzelhaus, but then you can't. But I think they'll get it under control. The most important thing is the quality of the food and it is very good. I've eaten almost all of the dishes before and I enjoyed them all.

I can only recommend this place. Best snack in town. 🤗

It used to be very well known and rightly had a good reputation. Wanted to test it again after 20 years. The result was “well”. It was very full around 5 p.m., all tables except one were occupied, lucky me. Outside tables are available but rather suboptimal at 8 degrees. Then it took “only” 12 minutes for my order to be taken. Payment is made immediately and you receive a waiting number on the printout. Another 40!!! Minutes later the first meal, the gypsy schnitzel (it's actually still called that) with fries, was ready. The other schnitzel Bolognese with fries again 5 minutes later. Well, if you wait that long, at least you're hungry. And hunger drives it in. The fries on both plates came cold and at 43 degrees, well below what you would expect. Salted sparingly or not at all, but salt, pepper and Maggi are at the table. The Bolognese sauce is much hotter, well over 60 degrees. With melted cheese on top, which isn't visible on the menu. The schnitzel was well fried, unfortunately the edges were slightly dark and crispy due to the over-baking. The fries are ok but as my companion put it, they taste like deep fryer fries where the fat hasn't been changed for two weeks. The “gypsy” sauce (sorry that’s what it’s called, I expressly distance myself from the term) was acceptable but a little too sweet. The base appears to be apricot jelly… Ambiance, unchanged for 20 years. Unfortunately, especially right next to the window, the floor and the cracks look like they haven't been cleaned in 20 years. Counter areas looked clean. Overall, however, the two waitresses seemed to be significantly overwhelmed with the orders on site and the pre-orders for pickup. In addition to the loud, constant ringing of the telephone, there is also the blaring music, the conversations of the guests and the calling of numbers. All in all - loud and uncomfortable. Conclusion: edible, satisfies hunger but nothing special. It's not worth going there anymore.

Good home-style cooking, dishes ready quickly and extremely tasty

I'm pissed!! I'm coming home from a long drive.. I'm hungry and I quickly grab something from Rutenberg.. I ask specifically if the fries are warm.. They weren't cooked.. they were in the bowl the whole time. I worked in a chip shop for years and it's getting worse and worse. Hello.. I'm paying for my food!!!! That was the last time

Absolutely recommended: The Rutenberg grill and schnitzel house in the north of Essen is a real insider tip for lovers of hearty cuisine. Huge portions await you here at unbeatable prices. The changing daily specials, which mostly include hearty German home cooking, are particularly enjoyable. The pleasant, family atmosphere and the friendly guests complete the positive overall picture. A visit is definitely worth it!

Unique German french fries stalls far and wide. It tastes very good, if you like German food you can go here.

Sehr leckeres Essen. Es gibt auch ein täglich wechselndes Mittagsgericht. Die Auswahl an Speisen ist toll. Das Personal ist sehr freundlich und schnell.

It doesn't work at all. Schnitzel dried out, totally hard. With the Holsteiner Schnitzel, the fried eggs and egg whites were still liquid. You should report this to the public order office. They've probably never heard of salmonella. Never again !!!!

We were there with 4 people, 3 out of 4 tasted the schnitzel very well, one of them was a bit too thick, otherwise everything was great

We order from work once a week. Delicious food and a nice team, you want more, thank you very much 👍🏼

Delicious food with top quality and good prices! Always happy to go too 😘

Eat cheaply like with nuts. Schnitzels come out of the pan and not out of the deep fryer. Stews very tasty.

Gute Küche, für jeden Geschmack etwas dabei.....

It's just like a chip shop, but the schnitzels are great. And the daily specials too.

It's a chip shop with good food and changing lunch menus and dishes, good portions for the money and really tasty 🥰 nice staff

Once again we got some delicious shish kebab. But everything else we have ordered there over the years has also been delicious. The staff is friendly, sometimes direct, with Ruhrpott charm - apparently not everyone can handle that. I find that pleasant, as well as the fact that you don't bend. Here the gypsy schnitzel is still called what it should be called.👍 The schnitzels are freshly cut and fried. Changing daily specials, good menu, something for everyone. Ambience- it's a snack bar. But pleasant.

Delicious food, very nice service, I recommend it

Good old snack bar like before. Highly recommended for Schnitzel Tuesday

..a classic chip shop...great!!

Very tasty and great value for money Always my pleasure

Tasty as always. It was packed and once again had a Ruhrpott feeling. Who is the fries? Nice. I love it.

Lots of daily and weekly specials, all super delicious, especially the kale!

Very good home-style cooking. Schnitzel day in particular is very special. recommended. The ambience is kept simple and simple.

Delicious food, good portions, nice staff.

Very friendly service and a great price-performance ratio, what more could you want.

Reasonable prices and artisan portions. To eat there are classic currywurst fries, but also good home cooking and delicious stews that change every day.

Bought food there many times and years and was rudely and cheekily rejected by the new owner at the first very justified complaint about the quality. I didn't get a replacement or money back. I never ate there because my clothes and hair smell extremely like grease when I was waiting in the restaurant. It's a shame, it was once a good snack bar.

Had been to the chip shop earlier. The quality was great. The fried potatoes weren't really hot, the zwielschnitzel was inedible, it was so spicy that it was almost a physical injury, we can tell someone like that without asking. Spice the food so hot. That it gives you stomach problems. If you are allergic to spicy foods. Wasn't it tingling. That was my last visit to the place. The service lousy. So to speak, when you come in, what's best, with a generated sound.

Food top, service top, selection top. Would love to come back

it is very expensive and the food is not good

I can really recommend it. Solid home cooking at really good prices.

Changing lunch dishes. Portions are quite large for the prices.

Super delicious food. Great schnitzel. Unfortunately, such places are now too rare.

Had to delete the old review... Update.....got the worst Holstein schnitzel ever today.... Now really disappointing for the second time... (last time it was the gypsy schnitzel) Unfortunately, there is no longer an option for me to go there. The fries and salad were also bland, soggy and tasteless... Sorry, but the euro is too bad for me...

Super delicious and the whole thing rounds off every Tuesday for “Schnitzel Day”. Good portions and always friendly, unless some customers don't understand that quality takes time and you have to wait a bit and if it takes an hour, the food makes up for it all. 👋🏻👍🏻😜

Well-run snack bar. Friendly service. The schnitzel was large and tender but completely unseasoned. The hunter's sauce looked great but didn't taste like anything either. The hunter's sauce can still be improved. The fries were good.

Stopped there spontaneously today and had a delicious schnitzel. And drove home full.

Very good and cheap lunch table. Rich selection, very nice staff. Enough parking spaces

1A home cooking, large portions very reasonably priced for the quality.

Very nice staff and the food is really great. Even the price-performance ratio is great. Any time

Great food and great staff. Always well attended. The prices are also normal and not overly expensive like some other stores. It tastes very good and the menu also offers a lot at good prices. Always recommended.

I'll put it this way, it depends on who is serving, the blonde ladies, especially the older ones, are often cheeky and unfriendly! If people have complained that a meal doesn't come through properly, they say there's nothing they can do. Of course you pay for raw meat 👍the majo only for five fries.

Good home cooking at good prices!

Tasty friendly enough on the plate everything ok

Had dinner there again with my partner. Unfortunately the quality is deteriorating and for the second time we had hair in the food, which is why we have now decided not to eat there anymore. Fries shop or not or too picky. A hairnet would perhaps help. Unfortunately, I have to say that the tables are cleaned irregularly, which is why we decided to clean our table again ourselves

Enjoy your meal. Friendly service.

Company holidays and still open at Info???

Been a regular customer for years. Food top and with the price-performance ratio

It seems to be a local restaurant. Many locals visit in the evening and have a quick dinner. There are a variety of foods such as schnitzel and goulash, and the taste is quite good. I feel very satisfied for the price. You place your order directly at the counter, then receive your food and eat it.

We have been coming there for at least 20 years and are thrilled every time we visit. We have tried all kinds of schnitzel variations so far. We can only recommend it. The team is very nice and even at peak times you are warmly welcomed and served as quickly as possible. There are many other dishes on the menu such as cabbage rollade, goulash and much more. During the long holiday periods they also have company holidays. It's best to call ahead to see if it's open. We had overlooked the announcement and had been faced with it several times in the years before and then had to quickly find an alternative.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Grillhaus in Essen is an absolute gem! This quaint, iconic chip shop has been around since 1973 and has lost none of its charm. The portions are huge, super tasty and incredibly cheap. Quality is very important here, and you can taste it in every chip and every grilled dish. It's definitely worth a visit - if you've been here once, you'll definitely come back! Highly Recommended!

Bratwurst and currywurst unbeatably delicious!!! Always my pleasure

Great schnitzels in general, a grill that you should try out

Delicious food, fast service, friendly service and a normal price. Wheelchair ♿️ fair entrance

Schnitzel dinner on Tuesday was a disaster. My schnitzel with hollandaise sauce didn't taste good from the start because the schnitzel was completely covered with an excessive amount of hollandaise sauce! The quality of the sauce left something to be desired and so did that of the schnitzel. I will never enter this house again.

Very good portions and very 😋 tasty.

Familiar chip shop in a friendly atmosphere with juicy, tender, real schnitzels. The portions are plentiful. Customers should be patient during busy times. The girls on site are still super cheerful and in a good mood. Respect and big praise

Difficult to digest food of unspeakably poor quality! After a long tour, we passed the Rutenberg Grill & Steakhouse because we simply didn't have enough time to cook for ourselves and we remembered the snack bar as being very popular. In my opinion, if you go to a snack bar, you are already making certain compromises in terms of quality, but you accept that. What immediately catches the visitor's eye is the oversized schnitzel, which, at a good 30 cm long, tends to protrude beyond the edge of the plate. I didn't order a schnitzel and therefore wasn't able to try it, but it initially looked very good and is freshly prepared and fried in the old fashioned way. The choice fell on the traditional currywurst, with French fries and mayo, as well as a double fries with mayo and a small side salad. The whole thing for €13.50. The price is okay compared to other snack bars and in view of the current, catastrophic price development. When we got home, however, the disappointment didn't take long to arrive, which meant that the price seemed a bit overpriced. The sausage didn't taste like sausage, but rather like a rather cheap mixture of cured leftovers and contained numerous cartilage and ground bone remnants that have no place in a good bratwurst. Anyone who knows the real Dönninghaus or the sausage from Krümel knows how to recognize a good sausage. In addition, there were soggy, under-fried fries with an extremely high starch content, which caused a huge stomach ache the first time I tried them. This is certainly not a problem for Imbiss Hai, whose cuisine consists only of simple, quickly prepared dishes, but for someone who is looking for good sausage and properly prepared fries (crispy on the outside, soft on the inside and easy to digest). not a recommended address. If the schnitzel meat has the same quality, I don't even want to try it... The service was friendly (a well-deserved star), even if the ladies were very busy with themselves instead of keeping an eye on the frying time. Conclusion: If you have a stable digestive tract and don't place too much importance on quality, you'll definitely get by here. Anyone who still knows the legendary Janssen snack bar or the old "scharfe Ecke" in Gelsenkirchen and knows how a combination of currywurst and fries should taste and is prepared will definitely pass by here quickly. No offense - but there's certainly a better way!

The service today was very unfriendly! The onion sausage was more than done and I was overcharged, so be careful what you have to pay! That was the 4th time now

Schnitzels are freshly fried, perfect. Portions are absolutely sufficient. Toilet is clean and OK. Only the outside area is not that nice. Otherwise a good snack.

Was there again after a long time and took schnitzel with me on schnitzel day. As always, they were very, very good (they are freshly fried and not fried) and thanks to the very good packaging, I was able to enjoy the schnitzels really well at home 😋 So I can only recommend the Steakhouse Rutenberg and the girls do a great job 👍

Cozy atmosphere in the style of a Ruhrpott Frittenbude. Good value for money. Recommended.

Takeaway food generates endless packaging waste. Food is okay, but most of it seems to have been pre-produced and only made warm. The meatloaf sold is good and cheap.

Tuesday is schnitzel day! Absolutely recommended. The schnitzels are freshly made in the pan and all the side dishes are very tasty. Friendly service, delicious food, good prices and plenty of seating. Tried the goulash on Tuesday. It was great.

Went there today with the voucher book on Schnitzel Day. Very nice and courteous staff, super delicious food at a TOP price. We will be back.

That didn't work at all today. 1.) The lady at the grill blows her nose in the direction of open food, something goes wrong, wipes her hand on her coat and continues working. Wash your hands? Disinfect? Foreign words. 2. Grill fails. The lady mentioned under one crawls under the grill table to fix the problem. When you stand up, you support yourself on the floor with your hands. Immediately added meat. Of course without complying with HACCP regulations. 3.) The customer in front of us had ordered currywurst fries four times. The first sausage was on a cold grill, which was still full of old fat. 2 sausages ended up in the deep fryer (160 degrees), the 3 were briefly allowed to share the dirty grill plate with the schnitzels, which had beautiful black specks. 4.) Fresh fried mushrooms on hollandaise. Simply pour canned mushrooms into the Tetrapack hollandaise and warm them in the microwave (!) 5.) The guests had to somehow place used dishes and empty bottles at the collection point using the Tetris method. 6.) Moth worker helps herself to the fries with her bare hand. 7.) HACCP is not adhered to. Conclusion: Better eat somewhere else. The store saw me for the last time.

Schnitzel and shish kebab are good, the salads are not that tasty. The prices are reasonable and the service is friendly.

So few points because my schnitzel was burnt, fries were still raw...two weeks ago the schnitzels were cold...unfortunately the ladies are overwhelmed when there's more going on...it's a shame they always enjoyed eating there

Tried the menu up and down. Most of it is just floating in frying fat. Meat is okay, sauces are inedible.

You had to get the food yourself, the schnitzels were quite large and tasty, but the sauce was only warmed up from a tetra pack and wasn't even really hot

A really good chip shop that you can hardly find anymore, with a changing lunch menu. We really enjoy eating here.

For me it's really one of the best grill restaurants we still have here in Essen...Everything is very familiar and friendly. Very tasty home dishes and many classics....

Hello people out there! There is rarely anything like what you experience here! ☝️Home cooking, friendly staff, cleanliness. Price-performance ratio is right, you can eat your fill for your money. Away from pizza, kebabs and the like! I'm not only full, but happy when I left the store yesterday. Unfortunately, there are few such shops. Don't wait long, go there!!👍🫶🙏

I would love to work there and eat my favorite dish every day

We had lunch twice, once the roulade and once the pollock. The advertising promises fresh food which is unfortunately warmed up in the microwave, with the fish there was so much water on the plate that it could still swim away. The roulade was the only bright spot apart from the sauce, which was pure paste and completely gooey. Once and never again, not recommended!!!!

Good home cooking, also available to take away!

Nice staff, everything is prepared immediately, food was delicious, casual atmosphere

Very tasty food, service everyone was very friendly and very good.

Food is delicious and the price is ok. Unfortunately there are still “Gypsy” schnitzels there. The name should urgently be changed here...

Always happy for short visits back home. Tasty, fast, indoor and outdoor seating. Changing weekly menu with additional dishes including home cooking at reasonable prices.

Top price-performance with very good home cooking.

Super tasty shish kebab. You'll be full.

Essen ist sehr lecker 😋 😋 😋 😋 😋

Wir haben zum wiederholten Male das Gulasch mit Nudeln dort geschmaust👌🏻😊 sehr köstlich zu einem guten Preis

Super lecker Sauerbraten war toll große Portion könnte ich kaum schaffen.

Super leckere schnitzel. Klasse.bin auch satt geworden.

Die Portionen sind gross, alles wird frisch zubereitet und sind mittlerweile auch besser gewürzt, so dass ich meine ursprüngliche Bewertung korrigiere. Die Schnitzel sind fast schon legendär, riesig, lecker und gebraten, nicht frittiert! Auch die Bratkartoffeln und die diversen Salate sind super. Die Bedienung ist immer freundlich, auch wenn der Ansturm groß ist. Fazit: Richtig gute Hausmannskost zu fairen Preisen

Freundliches , Aufmerksames Personal. Essen war super lecker.