Delicious Delights
Bratwurst Heaven with W Wurstmeister Mike Sloan serves up award winning Germanic European style meats at two locations in Missouri in a can’tmiss experience for any meat lover. Those passing through on I-70 between Kansas City and St. Louis are in for a unique and flavorful experience: bratwurst, bacon, and other Germanic European style meats at Wurst Haus Market and Restaurant. When it comes to bratwurst, Sloan is an artist in the kitchen as well as a crusader for his beloved German sausage with its distinctive flavor profile, often featuring notes of nutmeg, coriander, ginger, caraway, and other spices.
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Sloan is not shy about his ambitions, good-naturedly proclaiming, “I want to be the Colonel Sanders of bratwurst.” He now serves his hearty meals and German-styled sausages in decidedly American-sized portions at the Wurst Haus Market and Restaurants in Hermann and Fulton, Mo. Both locations are a short 10 15 minute detour off the busy Interstate 70.
For those who haven’t brushed up on their German recently, ‘wurst’ means sausage, and ‘haus’ – well, that one is obvious. The two restaurants more than live up to their name, serving up a culinary bounty of Sloan’s 45 flavors of bratwurst and 12 flavors of bacon, among other mouth-watering offerings like beer marinated brisket, house smoked turkey, and even German bologna. Sloan and his wife Lynette have a combined 70 years’ experience creating specialty meats. All sausages and bratwurst are handcrafted inhouse. Like most traditional artisan
