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Oktoberfest ist Wunderbar!

News Staff — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:44:29 +0000

The 29th Annual Oktoberfest brought to you by the Clarksville Edelweiss Club will be held on October 2nd (4:00pm – midnight) & 3rd (2:00pm – midnight) at 790 Economy Drive, off of Hwy 76, by I-24’s Exit 11. Load up the car, bring the whole family, and do the chicken dance with a 6′ tall chicken! Enjoy music by Pros’t and Die Mitternachters. The Woodchopper Dancers from Toledo, OH will be performing several times each night. There are carnival rides for Kids of All Ages. This is your chance to experience the wonders of Germany right here at home in Tennessee!

Come on out! We are waiting

Discover amazing German food including schnitzel, brats, chicken, German potato salad, kraut, made fresh each day, with Funnel cakes, German cakes and pastries and Bavarian nuts for dessert.See the complete menu below. Their are more than 100 Edelweiss Club members, plus other volunteers who help with the setup, cooking, serving, at this yearly event.

Admission is $6.00 for Adults, Children 10 & under Free, Ages 11-16 $4.00. Active duty, Reserve, and National Guard soldiers receive $1.00 Off Admission with ID. Be sure to bring additional cash to buy for tickets to purchase items including food, drinks, carnival rides, and souvenirs while at the fest.

For more information contact Dwayne Mann at 931-624-5475.

Tickets

Tickets are required top purchase food, drinks, carnival Rides, and Souvenirs

All purchasable items at the Oktoberfest require you to buy tickets.

Tickets for Food, Drink, Souvenir’s are purchased directly from the the Edelweiss club and cost 50¢ each. Dinners can run up to 16 tickets ($8) though there are cheaper meal options available.
Tickets for the Carnival Rides are purchased separately from the carnival, and are only usable for their rides.

Oktoberfest Staff

Chairman

Dwayne Mann and Glenn Martin

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Kitchen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erick Stefko
Pretzelhaus. . . . . . . . . . . . . Inge Perkins
Kaffeehaus. . . . . . . . . . . . . Elita Chism
Funnel Cake. . . . . . . . . . . . Rob Brown w/ Fox Football Team
Ticket Booths. . . . . . . . . . . . Karla Mazerik
Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gino Santiago & Sgt. Brian Prentice MCSO
Braut Wurst stand. . . . . . . . Dallas Meadows (aka Junior), Ben Gonzalez
Bier Garden. . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Nolan
Souvenir Shop. . . . . . . . . . . Kay Mann
Soft Drink Concessions. . . Mary Baines

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About the Clarksville Edelweiss Club

The Clarksville Edelweiss Club was formed on January 9, 1981 by the State of Tennessee as a not-for-profit organization, for the purpose of upholding and promoting German heritage and tradition. The Club presently has members of both German and American decent. But you don’t have to be of German decent to be a member. The Edelweiss Club is a social center for folks of a common heritage and their friends. It is a place where you can have fun, sing, dance, meet old friends, and make new ones.

Club meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday at 7:00pm of the month at the Edelweiss Club of Clarksville (2300 Coke Road). Guests are always welcome!

Since its founding the Edelweiss Club has supported many community projects such as: Veterans Transportation Service, American Cancer Society “Relay for Life” Clarksville/Montgomery Community Action Agency, Big Brothers and Sisters Bowl for Kids Sake, Customs House Museum and Culture Center, Christmas at Clarksville, German Easter and Christmas Service at the Beautiful Savior Luthern Church, Loaves and Fishes, Human Society, Salvation Army, Boy Scout Troop 525, The Shelter for abused women, A scholarship at Austin Peay State University

Step into The Looking Glass (4.5 stars)

Christine Anne Piesyk — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:37:56 +0000

Tumble into The Looking Glass and let your senses savor its unique decor and often exotic cuisine.

This Warfield Boulevard restaurant is housed in a small modern plaza that could be Anywhere, USA, but that’s this eatery’s only resemblance to the rest of the region. Step inside The Looking Glass and whirl into the whimsical, a colorful kaleidescope of mismatched chairs of all shapes and sizes, unique tables, sheer tablecloths and eccentric dolls garnished with tulle and feathers perched on mini-columns, set and ready to eavesdrop on your conversation over dinner. Frosted ornaments spill from the ceilings in random patterns. One wall of glass with a quiet table for two is highlighted by a pair of stained glass hangings of lush wisteria; another is tucked beneath a wedding-like garland of illusion veiling and white ornaments. Hand-painted chairs with gentle messages grace still another table. A deep leather couch invites one to linger over morning coffee and pastry. It’s craft and class pulled from a Lewis Carroll collection of magical stories.

Our server Tiffyalena arrives with tall cool peach iced teas

My companion and I decided to sample a variety of foods. Our sweet and unsweet peach teas (mine with a slice of lemon) were rich and refreshing, the ultimate sip-able on a hot afternoon as we browsed the menu. Choices. Choices. We sampled “leftover” breakfast pizza squares that could easily have become dinner. We were both tempted by the asparagus soup, a creamy concoction served in a bowl on a plate surrounded by a dozen slices of the bread of our choice: sourdough slices for me, French bread for my companion. The soup was thick, hearty and delicious, but could have benefited from the inclusion of chucks of asparagus (so speaks the asparagus fiend). I can never get enough asparagus.

Our gracious server, Tiffyalena, brought out salads with a fresh mix of greens with sliced tomato and slivered carrots, and a rich, seeded raspberry vinagrette dressing, almost liquified raspberry preserves that danced across the tongue with a a savory sweetness.

We both chose entrees made with a touch of coconut. My companion selected a melt-in-your-mouth coconut shrimp, butterflied shrimp dipped in a coconut batter and lightly deep fried to golden crispness — with not a touch of oil (left above). I chose a coconut-pecan chicken, which was in fact two boneless, skinless chicken breasts dipped in a batter with coconut and chopped pecans, again deep fried to a golden crispness (right above). The uneven slicing of the chicken left the very edges a bit too well done, but the flavor and moistness of the majority of the chicken was quite good. The sweet and savoury dipping sauce was a plus, though both chicken and shrimp could be enjoyed with or without it. My companion added a dash of salt and pepper to his entree, but I skipped those extras and found the taste perfectly suited to my palate.

Our side dishes were slightly varied: a creamy fresh potato-egg salad for me, marinated sliced tomatoes for my companion. Neither of us could resist the temptation of asparagus spears as our second ’side dish’ option. Coming from Hadley MA (the asparagus capitol of the world) , I grew up on asparagus and could eat it by the pound (dripping in butter, no salt) to the exclusion of everything else in the kitchen. I savored the opportunity to add these succulent stalks to my evening meal. The temptation to raid the kitchen for more was great.

Friends who have dined there also recommend the Hawaiian Rib-Eye Steak made with pineapple and served with garlic mashed potatoes, and the Salmon Wellington, a baked salmon in pastry puff served with the house sauce. Other house offerings are a 5-Pepper Chicken, Portabello Garden, and a Seafood Diable (mix of mussels, shrimp and scallops).

We reserved the dessert option for another day, though the display of Tiramisu, Rum Cake, Turtle Cheesecake, and delectable truffles were akin to the devil tempting Eve. Again, friends who dine there highly recommend the carrot cake.

The restaurant also serves a wide variety of deli sandwiches and wraps, a selection of salads, and offers soup in a bread bowl as well as the traditional serving. Appetizers include a spinach/artichoke dip, grilled chicken quesidillas, guacamole and mussels provencal (mussels ina butter wine sauce). My last experience of the Provencal dish involved my harvesting the mussels at the seashore, scrubbing off the beards, and cooking them in an herbed white wine and cream sauce into which I diped french bread chunks. with butter. It was a delight to see that delicious item on the menu and not have been the one spending an hour or two preparing it.

In addition to the imaginative indoor dining room, The Looking Glass has an outdoor patio surrounded by tall bamboo fencing. A water garden is overflowing with lotus and pond plants, driftwood and stone, sculpture of herons in flight and poised at water’s edge. Tall tables (one set under a rusty arbor with a kerosene chandelier) rim the garden, which can also be accessed through an ornate gate from the plaza. Music (first middle eastern, then a bit of Pachelbel) created a soothing background of soft sound that made conversation easy.

One of the finest restaurants I’ve dined in, Simon Pierce at Quechee in Vermont, reviewed in magazines worldwide, has a similar menu and quality of cooking, though in a distinctly different country setting. The Looking Glass easily matches that culinary icon in quality, unique ambiance, and unobtrusive service; the taste and presentation of the food we ordered excelled.

Prices range from $7-$9 for sandwiches, $7-$10 for salads, and $10-$18 for entrees.

The Looking Glass Restaurant is located at Warfield Tower on Warfield Boulevard (next to Edington’s Furniture Store) in Clarksville, TN. They are open Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.. take home dinners and House specialties are available daily. For more information, call 931-552-6344 or go to http://www.lookingglassrestaurant.com.

Editor’s Note: Christine Anne Piesyk has written about travel, food and entertainment for radio and print media for over 30 years.