Champignon Toast
Mushroom toast; creamy sautéed mushrooms on toast, often with cheese.
Mushroom toast; creamy sautéed mushrooms on toast, often with cheese.
Cervelat sausage roll; smooth, smoked beef and pork sausage.
'Butter bread'; buttered slice of bread, the foundation of German snacking. Often topped with one item.
Buttered pretzel; fresh pretzel split and buttered, sometimes with ham or cheese.
German bread roll; small, crusty wheat roll, the basis for most German sandwiches. Regional names: Semmel (Bavaria), Schrippe (Berlin), W...
Pretzel with butter and chives; split pretzel with herbed butter.
Pretzel; twisted lye bread, traditional with Weißwurst and mustard, also used as sandwich base.
Bratwurst with mustard; medium-hot German Senf (mustard) is traditional—Düsseldorfer (sharp), Bavarian süßer Senf (sweet), or Dijon-style.
Bratwurst with German potato salad in roll.
Grilled sausage in roll; Bratwurst (pork, sometimes veal or beef) grilled and served in crusty Brötchen with mustard. Germany's most icon...
Fried herring sandwich; floured and pan-fried herring fillet, served cold with onion marinade, in roll.
Turkish/Balkan filled pastry; flaky dough with cheese, meat, or spinach. At Turkish bakeries.
Bockwurst; smooth, mild pork and veal sausage, traditionally boiled, served with mustard in roll. Named for Bock beer pairing.
Boiled Bockwurst in roll with mustard.
Blood sausage on roll; sliced Blutwurst (blood sausage with pork blood, fat, barley or bread). Regional variations.
Bacon, lettuce, tomato; American-style, found in cafes.
Bismarck herring sandwich; marinated herring fillets (vinegar, onions, mustard seeds, bay leaves) in roll with onion. Named after Chancel...
Organic currywurst; organic sausage and sauce, higher-end versions.
Beer ham roll; large bologna-style sausage with ham pieces and pistachios, sliced.
Plant-based meat substitute burger; increasingly available.
Jelly donut; filled doughnut. Not a sandwich but regional bakery icon (Berliner in north, Krapfen in south).
Berlin currywurst arrives fork-first: a skinless boiled sausage cut into coins, cooked-down curry sauce, a Schrippe on the side. The contested Herta Heuwer story dates to 1949.
'Topped roll'; catch-all term for any roll with toppings—cold cuts, cheese, vegetables. The German open or closed sandwich on a roll.
Topped baguette; long sandwich at bakeries with various fillings.