Sachsenheim Hall

After my first visit to the Sachs three weeks ago, I’ve stopped in for every Taco Tuesday since. They definitely lived up to their hype for me, and you just can’t go wrong with $ 1.25 tacos and cheap beer.
They have a large variety of taco fillings, and they’re definitely a step above your average bar tacos. The atmosphere is that of a no-​frills dive bar, so I didn’t expect the food to be as good as it is, but it’s phenomenal. I’m looking forward to trying out their Wing Wednesdays, and they also have $ 1 cheeseburgers on Thursdays. You really can’t beat that.
To be fair, the reviews here are semi-​accurate about the service — IF you come when they’re slammed. I think a lot of reviewers here are expecting way too much from a busy neighborhood bar. Go in on an off night, or at least not at prime taco time and it’s a 180 difference. Moe is great! If you can be chill about an occasional wrong order and slower service, you won’t be disappointed. The worst that’s happened to me is I’ve been accidentally served extra tacos. That’s not a con in my book.

TWO WORDS: WING WEDNESDAY. Hands down the best wings I’ve ever had in Cleveland! The place is no frills, but if what you are looking for is incredible wings this is the place. I had the Garlic Parmesan wings (amazing sauce) and the Jamaican Jerk (dry rub) and they were both great!

What can I say about this place? It feels like home from the moment you walk in. Moe treats everyone like a regular and it seems like he remembers you even if you’ve only been in a couple of times. Mallory is a fantastic bartender too. She’s funny, keeps up a good conversation and makes a mean drink. Speaking of drinks, I’m not a big beer drinker but the dunkelweizen is on point and I’ll have it every time. And don’t forget the food. I’ve only seen a menu on Taco Tuesday but the kitchen also cooks up solid steaks, schnitzel, pork chops, and I’m pretty sure whatever else they feel like on any given night. Make sure you get some grumpy sauce for your fries if they have it.

This is a place that is hard to rate. A four star review seems high for what this place is, but a three star seems too low. But I am giving it 4 based on ridiculously cheap prices and tasty food quality and the rest is just ancillary.
Taco Tuesday and Wing Wednesday bring me back to this little dive over and over. This isn’t your typical Taco Tuesday in Cleveland, where you only can choose from a few tacos. There are probably 15 – 20 choices that sometimes rotate, sometimes repeat. Last night I had the Ancho Chicken, Chipotle Pulled Pork, and Chicken Paprikash tacos. I’m usually squeamish about ordering meats and such in divey places but the flavors and quality seem pretty high. Lettuce, tomato, and cheese top all tacos, you choose your meat fillings (a few veggie choices, too), hard or soft shell, and sour cream and/​or salsa. Beers are German and I usually split a giant stein with a friend, but last night I opted for a normal size beer. So, three tasty tacos and beer = $ 7. Seriously. $ 7. Wing Wednesday is a similiar set up with several wing choices, both dry and wet style. I love the wings but I haven’t been going as often since wings make my clothes shrink.
Ambiance and service? Well, remember you are eating good food on the cheap. Corners have to be cut somewhere. This is a super old historical bar that could be quaint, but sadly, is pretty rough around the edges. It did appear that they recently painted and repaired some ceiling damage. But the tables are old school cheap bar tables and it’s very, very dark inside. And service varies from average to slow. Best bets are to sit right at the bar for quicker attention. It gets packed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and I don’t think the kitchen can quite handle the volume efficiently during peak hours, but that’s ok. Remember… $ 7 for really flavorful tacos and a quality German beer. Just know going in that this isn’t fast food. And if you chose not to go? That’s ok. More room for me at the bar to enjoy my über cheap and suprisingly tasty tacos.

Tacos are great, and very cheap. The service however makes it impossible to enjoy the experience. If you go here, be prepared to wait a good while unless you intervene, and even then you’ll probably still be waiting. Every time I’ve gone there we have had a problem with the one waitress (older lady, always wears her hair in a braided ponytail). She’s very hard to track down, always irritated, and rude. The last time we were there, one of my tacos was wrong, my friend’s cheese didn’t taste right, and we were given no napkins (getting napkins at this place would have been another 20 minute wait). I brought all of these to her attention after she had to literally be sought after, and she flipped out and walked away. She told us «scratch the fucking ticket» so at least we got a free meal out of it, but we won’t be back.

My girlfriend and I used to frequent here for Taco Tuesday… the food quality was usually decent. I’d give it a ⁷⁄₁₀. However the service leaves much to be desired. On average it usually takes 15 – 20 minutes just to get your server to bring you a menu. Once you get your menu be prepared to wait and wait and wait before placing an order. This theme repeats itself throughout meal. Waiting for your food and further waiting to get your check. There have been many times were we had to approach or server (usually this older lady) to bring our check over. Due to the slow and inattentive service will unfortunately not be going back. Plenty of other places in this town to enjoy a taco Tuesday.

What a cool place especially for the location ! I always enjoy good German style places, because I grew up in southern Germany. The beers selection is great, and people can drink out of the legendary 1L beers.
Food is pretty decent, especially for the price. Wednesdays are wing specials, where you get a pound of wings for 5 $! The sauces and dry rub selection is vast and good.
For the service… Nothing personal against the bartender/​server/​foodrunner/​busser/​everything, but this is the slowest service I have ever experienced! 1 hour and 50 minutes to get wings and fries. Worst part about it each individual order was 15 minutes apart. So, my friend received his food, 15 minutes later I did, then 15 minutes later the other friend.
The drink order took about 20 minutes. I am not blaming this on the staff, but management. Also the cook did not seem to know to handle tickets and or how to line them up on the board, hence 30+ minute ticket times. The wings were horribly over cooked, but still tasted good.
I hope their service picks up because I enjoy the place. But no one should wait 2 hours for wings.

Great homemade brat burgers and fabulous beer. Plus great prices. We’ll be back for sure.

What a neat place!
The Open Mic has been switched to Improv on Thursdays.

It may not be perfect, but it’s perfect to me. The food is always good and ridiculously cheap, and their many taps of fast-​drinking German beers are always alluring. It does seem chronically understaffed, but they do their best and patience is rewarded with big portions of hearty central European and American bar food to go along with full liters of that outstanding brew. It’s also a fantastic and fantastically inexpensive party and meeting space. Finally, they have awesome special events like Schnitzel-​fest and Sausage-​fest, so you’d be wise to check out their Facebook page.

Finally made it out here after many years of thinking about giving it a try. I am going to do a simple rundown of things I like and things I don’t.
Like:
— the crowd. I get tired of yuppies, hipsters and the general asshatery that goes with them. Mostly blue collar working folk while I was here, but surely that gets more mixed at times.
— good prices every day of the week
— good beer and full liter mugs… awesome
Don’t like:
— service was bad, with one of the staff being the exception. I don’t need someone hovering over me but it is nice if they don’t disappear either.
— food was only ok
— location blows. i am not one to shy away from run down areas, but a friend lived right down the street from this place many years ago and I had a few situations arise while visiting.
All in all I like the place and will most likely try again.

My boyfriend and I drove from the East side for the legendary Taco Tuesday. We must’ve forgotten we left the house wearing our cloaks of invisibility, because we sat at a table for 35 minutes waiting to be served. Not only did we not get menus, we didn’t even get a glance.
Thankfully there are other Taco Tuesday Nights in Cleveland so we took our hunger elsewhere.

Put the Grumpy Sauce on anything you can. Heck just eat it out of the portion cup. You will thank me later.

That was an odd, but interesting… at times frustrating, experience.
Hearing about the legendary $ 1 taco Tuesday, my friends and I decided to give Sachsenheim Hall a shot.
When I first walked in, I scoped out the scene for a table for 4, which doesn’t exist. Sachsenheim offers bar seating and communal tables. Time to make new friends…
When we asked our waitress about happy hour specials, she said that there was no happy hour since their prices are already so low, despite the big sign at the bar advertising happy hour until 7. For whatever reason, there is no written beer list, and our server seemed on edge and annoyed when we asked her to run through the beer options.
Fast forward 45 minutes and empty beer steins and we couldn’t track down our waitress. We waved down another server who wished us luck finding ours when we offered up a physical description. About 10 minutes later, we spotted her, waved, and were told that she would be back. It took at least an hour to place an order for our second round of drinks and food. So frustrating!
When the food finally did arrive it was equally cheap as it was tasty, which made the wait feel somewhat worthwhile. The Korean Beef tacos were the hands-​down favorite. I asked for non-​dairy and my empanada was super cheesy. It was only a $ 1.50 loss though (we didn’t see our waitress for another 20 minutes once we were served, at which point it didn’t feel worth it to ask for a cheese-​less empanada). One of my friends never received her empanada, but was charged for it, and again chocked it up to a $ 1.50 loss. It just didn’t seem worth going through the hassle of finding our server and waiting for the issues to be resolved.

Sachsenheim Hall is glorious. Tankards of quality beer are available just above (and occasionally below!) retail. Enormous quantities of pretty good and very cheap house made food flow like wine. You never know what sort of crowd might be in the bar, but there’s a good chance you’ll hear some German «um-​paw-​paw» music from upstairs, run into a singer-songwriter’s club, or a bunch of loud beer SNOBS.
You don’t even have to use your imagination to see someone wearing lederhosen if you go at the right times! Their outside area is swell in warm weather, with some seriously nice old trees.

Great beer, cheap food, good times :) Kind of in a bad area of town though… so just a watch out. The menu is usually only a single type of item for the night (tacos, wings, etc.) so don’t expect many options. I usually go for Tacos which are amazing… lots of interesting tacos above and beyond basic beef and chicken.
The place seems to be hit or miss in terms of the crowd. I’ve seen it packed to the brim. but then i’v also seen it virtually empty. When it gets busy the service REALLY slows down (even for basic things like Taco’s or wings) but normally pretty quick/​normal service.

The Sachsenheim is a dump. I like it though. It is so sad that there aren’t enough Sachsen’s to keep this place up & running the way it should be. This place has 3, count them 3 ballrooms!!! I mean, think of the fabulous concerts or weddings this place could have. I bet it was a site to behold in it’s heyday.
For now though, you should go & support a place of local history. WARNING: this is shady-​town so be careful and go with a friend to your car.
They have GREAT German beers on tap & for a deal too! The food isn’t half bad Grumpy will take care of you! Seriously, next time you’re in the mood for a great brew, check out the Sachsenheim!

OK. First thing you need to know is that this place is in a fairly shady area of Cleveland — the first time I went there I was pretty sure my GPS had gotten me lost. But the place itself is nice, homey and pretty darned awesome!
Basically this place is a German Bar with cheap food! A Litre of beer costs you $ 6. Yes. A litre of Heffeweisen. Or Dunkel. Or an IPA. $ 6. Insane.
And then there’s the food. Taco Tuesdays where you have about 16 different types of tacos for a dollar each. Wing Wednesdays where you get tasty wings with a seemingly endless combination of dry rubs or sauces for about $ 2.50 (or is it $ 3?) a lb. And 75 cent Burger Thursdays.
And to top it off, they have a old school jukebox, a pool table, a Table Tennis table and a coin operated mini bowling lane (which is frigging awesome)
No matter which day of the week you go to this place, you cannot go wrong.

Pretty cool place in a old school working class neighborhood. They have a kick ass (mostly German) beer list. The litre mugs always run out. guess they dont just wana BUY MORE? Daily specials are good too. It IS priced well and very affordable as the other reviews say… but if ya look at the cars parked in the lot these people arent hurting for money… Welcome to hipsterdom…

Absoute Favorite Taco Tuesday Hangout Spot!
thanks for the suggestion from fellow Unilocaler Cami T, This place can become one my favorite Taco Tuesday Hangout Locations for the past 8 months!
There are very few places where I feel like a «welcomed regular», this is, however, the one place that I can ALWAYS rely on for a really good time…
Now, I admit I have only been there for Taco Night, but I hear they have a plethora of themed food events throughout the week…
back to Taco Tuesday… Go!
About a dozen tacos for a 1.00 each (originally they were .75 but, meh, still well worth it!)
the flavors vary each each but some standouts have been:
Ratatouille
Black bean and Corn
Ancho Chicken Sausage
each one comes with the choice of soft or hard shell, with cheese sour cream and lettuce (Loaded)!
You can also make any of the tacos in to an empanada for 1.50! which I would encourage EVERYONE to to!
beers are real cheap too and the draft selection is really stellar, my favorite so far has been some Russian White ALe on draft (5.50 for a LIter, a LITER!). most domestics bottles are 1.50 too!
The atmosphere is awesome and it really has that ‘neighborhood bar” feel, which is awesome since thats not really a neighborhood I would normally hangout in (However I did grow up there), the crowd is as diverse as they come, lots of cops and hipsters, and construction workers alike.
The service is awesome, slow at times but awesome, MO and Jessica are fan favorites and most night there is a girl in side serving up giant hot-​homemade cookies for a dollar!
Tips:
It gets busy in the summer, they have an nice ‘beer garden’ which fills up, don’t lose your patience its well worth it!
Great for groups!