Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth

We’ve been there when our son was little many years ago. Revisiting was a new experience with echos from the past. The decor appears to be a lot more elaborate, the crowds grew much larger (wish we could be contacted by text when a table becomes available) but the menu remains pretty much the same. It’s an all you can eat chicken dinner served family style. Loved the appetizers, particularly the liver pâté. The highlight of the dinner, however, was the cranberry sauce with apples and orange juice. It’s delicious. The fried chicken was tasty but salty. The rotisserie chicken was fine. Sarah was efficient and attentive enough in tending to our needs on an extremely busy day.

A legendary meal. The chicken was incredible and I have to give a shout out to the coleslaw as well. The service was wonderful and we got SO MUCH FOOD for the price. Everyone needs to check out Zehnder’s.

Had Christmas dinner here with some friends, and it was absolutely wonderful! The fried chicken was cooked perfectly…among the best I’ve had anywhere in the United States, the building is historic, and beautifully decorated. The sides were delicious, and the price was unbelievably low for what we got. I will be back again…try it out!

Everything in the meal was incredible and service was great! All you can eat and anything left over can be taken home. We left with 3 large take out boxes – essentially a second meal for each. The chicken is the best part. Will definitely be coming back soon.

The chicken, buttered egg noodles, and cabbage salad were all so good! I’d go back just for the noodles. Our waitress was wonderful and so attentive. Such a neat building and environment, but I would have liked to sit in one of the upstairs dining rooms with more natural light/windows. We were seated in an overflow basement dining room, which was still a pleasant space and decorated beautifully. Just a heads up, you have to ask for a LUNCH MENU if you want lunch prices and portions. We only knew there was a lunch menu because we had viewed the website prior. We then overheard a waiter tell the table behind us, when they asked about a lunch menu, that they only bring them out if requested, which I guess is their way of getting their customers to pay more (and tip more) for dinner portions (not the best business practice, in my opinion). Lunch portions are plenty for the average person, so ask for the lunch menu if you’re visiting during lunch.

I’m only giving 4 stars because we had made reservations in advance for an early lunch time, got there right before our reservation time, and we ended up waiting 45 minutes after our reservation time before we were even seated. We were only 2 people and there were other parties with more people who were walk-ins without reservations being seated before us. We checked on the status of our table/reservation with the hostess 4 times before they sent us to another area downstairs to wait in a long line of people to be seated in that dining room. It was frustrating and not the most efficient process. When we got there and checked in there were probably 8 people, including us, in the lobby area waiting for tables, then it quickly turned into over 100 people. It was loud, crowded, and not pleasant. Once we finally got to a table, everything with the food and waitress was perfect.