Food
- CostCo has the occassional German cuisine
- Award-winning Dittmer’s gives you German sausages a-plenty
- Esther’s Bakery, also located in Mountain View, offers German bread
- There is the Crossworlds World Market
- Saag’s Bockwurst is (decent) Weisswurst; get it at Whole Food’s or Andronico’s
- And if everything fails, just mail-order from German Deli
Socializing
- Stanford German Student Association (SGSA) (start out with the weekly Stammtisch)
- German American Business Association (GABA) (their Bay Area Stammtisch is free to attend)
- German Scholars Organization (GSO)
Restaurants
- The Restaurant Elbe in Palo Alto is supposed to be tricky
- San Francisco offers East German kitchen at Walzwerk
- There is the Austrian Schnitzel Haus
- And there is also the Suppenkuche (never tried)
Shipping
- AccordX: Dirt-cheap, proficient, unfriendly (don’t be distracted by the run down website and office exterior; they are great)