Kroll’s Diner North

Wonderful German food. Truly enjoyed the knapel soup, German pigs in blanket and the dessert.

Excellent food. Quick and friendly service. What more can you ask for in a restaurant? I had the fleischkuechle and knoephla soup. Highly recommended.

I am a disabled veteran and eat at Kroll’s all of the time, until today. Its Veterans Day and they don’t even give you a free cup of coffee, the cheapskates.
I went to Denny’s, they gave me free breakfast. Dennys is my new breakfast place from now on.

Not really impressed at all. Went for breakfast on Thursday morning and walked into the restaurant and they have a please wait to be seated sign at the front, it should read prepare to stand and wait for someone to come out of the back and do their job. I bet we stood there for a good 15 minutes before someone finally seated us, I came pretty close to walking out as that’s a good indication of how the service will be.
Looking at the menu it’s pretty sad and overpriced. When I think of breakfast I usually want something on the lighter side, the menu was just omelets and omelets who really needs a 6 egg omelette? So you can feel like you are in food coma for the rest of the day. I ordered the Clara’s plate, toast, 4 strips of over cooked bacon, under seasoned scrambled eggs and some greasy hash browns for $ 10.00 are you serious?
After we placed our order I noticed a little special sign that had some items listed on it and for $ 5.59 give or take I could have ordered the same thing but smaller portions. I guess they only want you to see the more expensive stuff.
The place is dated and the staff is not very friendly, we had to sit and listen to our waitress in the back complain about why she can’t wear jeans to work and the side conversation with the cooks.
If you are going to charge premium prices for the food you serve it better be a outstanding meal. What I got was overpriced greasy garbage. Definitely will not return or recommend this place to anyone. Not impressed.

The first night we were in Bismark we ended up here and had a very nice surprise. They have a lot of German items on the menu, including their Fleischuechle. I wasn’t really in the mood for German food that night, but my husband enjoyed the Fleischuechle and the Knoephia soup. He seemed to really enjoy both. I was feeling breakfast and had the bacon and eggs which were extremely good. Sadly we didn’t make it back there before we left, but I have to say we enjoyed or meal and our server was very nice and answered a few questions about the local area, including how to get to the Bismark State Capitol which was on the agenda for the next day. We would love to go back the next time we are in the area. Check our my post about this restaurant and other ND attractions at
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Typical diner food is nothin to shout about but they are fast and reasonably priced. The coffee could be better but other than that I’ve always been pleased with my meal.

Service was alright, though our waitress wasn’t particularly friendly, I’ll refrain from being too critical as it was busy. Food was just poor. I ordered a raspberry iced tea, nothing too exotic, and received a glass of strawberry syrup that I couldn’t even stand more than 2 sips of. I’ve tasted home-​ec student-​made omelets with better flavor and more appeal than the one I received here. It amounted to a slice of Kraft American cheese, some egg, and fake bacon bits. My dad’s order of a hamburger steak and eggs was completely underdone as well. After hardly being able to stomach my meal, from the drink to the actual food, I left unsatisfied with a horrible taste in my mouth. My family and I do not plan on stopping here when in town again.

We really enjoyed this old time diner. Service was friendly and fast and answered all of our questions thoroughly. I had the beef Fleischkuechle and Knoephla soup. They have other German items on their menu as well. Very tasty. The soup is a dumpling soup and the Fleischkuechle is a meat pastry pie. I would definitely go back for some yummy comfort food.

The breakfast I had was very good. Country omelette with a said of hashbrowns and biscuits with gravy. Very tasty. Sadly enough, the service was very poor. I did not get checked on by Mary to see if I needed anything else, just dropped the check off after my food and she was gone. recommend overall ok to eat at but service-​wise, very poor.

This diner has a very retro «Mom and Pop» feel and the staff is super friendly.
Diners seem to be the trend here in North Dakota, and this one doesn’t dissapoint.
I love it when you can sit down for a meal and have some great conversation and not be badgered by the wait staff every few minutes.
The food was great and the service was awesome!
I will definitely be back here to try the breakfast!

Ummm. Wow. This place is terrible. The service was great but their food was over priced. Its like eating at the poor version of Dennys, and I thought Dennys was the poor version of Dennys. I think I’m going to throw up. This place is a no go.

I have been there three times for breakfast and had the German omelette every time and it was great. Service was outstanding all three times. Will definitely return there for breakfast the next time I am in Bismarck (which is frequently these days).

Sit down und eat, indeed. We’ve stopped at this Kroll’s Diner twice now and each time I had a good meal. It’s got your typical diner food, but also a few German specialties. They also have some specials like two for one shakes on Monday. It’s always busy when we go which was during odd times of the day, so you know it’s fairly popular.

Stopped in while serving there during the 2011 Minot flooding. Nice «divey» environment. Good food and fast service.

Went here for pancakes one night and they were really good. Love the diner feel of the place and the waitress was pretty friendly.

The food is greasy, and it makes you feel disgusting for eating there, but the overall cleanliness of the restaurant is pretty good. You can’t go wrong with buy one, get one free milkshakes on Shaky Mondays. They have a decent variety, and even allow you to mix your two favorite flavors. However, be careful if you’re a night owl. The staff is pretty uptight about their hours, so if you order past 9:30, they FORCE you to take your milkshakes to go. I would also recommend the Mandan location over this one for its more classic diner feel.

Driving thru ND to go to TR NP, we stop in Bismarck to check out Capitol and try out a local diner for lunch. We see the menu and decide to try something other than the usual burgers, so we get the various German specialties.
Let’s just say there’s a reason you don’t see a lot of German restaurants around. Their special soup — knoephla soup — is like chicken noodle soup without the chicken, flavor, or the noodles. But you do get instead huge chunks of flavorless flour dough!!!
The other German dishes are completely unpronounceable because they are 30 character amalgamations of 4 – 5 words that taste as bland as the aforementioned soup. One was a thin slice of meat heavily battered and then deep-​fried. Yes, even state fair grease proprietors would say, «That’s too much, dude.»
Maybe this is as good as it gets in ND. If so, they need to attract some Vietnamese who will open up $ 6 phở shops.

Great place, good food. good price.

How the mighty have fallen. Kroll’s food has really gone downhill.
I regularly had breakfast there (on Main) with family in the 80’s, and it rivaled the Little Cottage at that time. In my recent two visits to Bismarck, I found that it’s really suffered.
I met family for breakfast at this location last Sunday morning. The menu was repetitive (omlette, omlette, omlette) and not particularly interesting. I had a pair of poached eggs that were well cooked but swimming in water. The toast was fine, but the hashbrowns were undercooked and lacked flavor. Overall, a big disappointment.
I won’t go into detail, but a visit to the location on the strip last August was equally disappointing. The knoepla was clearly frozen and the soup canned. That soup is a source of pride in North Dakota, and I’m embarrassed that a mainstay such as Kroll’s would do such a poor job of it.

And while I have found the gross concensus on the Internet to not favour Kroll’s Diner, I must retort that for someone who had never had knoephla before, and every since, having stopped here on numerous jaunts from coast to coast and reacquainting myself with the dish… the knoephla was quite enjoyable.
Yes, I must add that I have indeed had better elsewhere (even including my own kitchen), however… for a greasy spoon joint version, it ain’t bad… after all you wouldn’t expect 5 star Michelin rating food to come from McDonalds… so why expect it here?
So, yeah, as a good jumping off point for someone who’s never had knoephla… give Kroll’s the benefit of the doubt. You otherwise might miss out on what could soon be your next favorite dish.