Max's Allegheny Tavern Menu

4.6
(2,150+ Reviews)
  • Customer Favorites

    Our most frequently ordered and highly rated selections.
    • Potato Pancakes

      Favorite. Always a favorite at Max’s. Three crisp pancakes served with your choice of one topping: chunky applesauce, sour cream, or sauerbraten gravy.
      $4.99
    • Potato Pockets

      Potato and cheese pierogies, deep-fried and topped with sautéed onions. Served with French onion sour cream.
      $8.99
    • Bavarian Jumbo Pretzel

      A jumbo Bavarian pretzel deep-fried golden and served homemade honey mustard and warm beer cheese
      $9.99
    • Fish Sandwich

      A generous fresh fillet-of-cod dipped in Max's seasoned breading and fried to a golden brown.
      $11.99
    • Wiener Schnitzel

      Tender veal lightly dusted in seasoned flour and fried to a golden brown. This is Vienna's gift to the culinary world. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $17.99
    • Jäger Schnitzel

      Vienna\-style veal covered with a delicious mushroom sauce. A specialty of the Brenner park hotel, Baden, Baden. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $17.99
    • Maxburger

      A generous portion of freshly ground beef served on a brioche bun. Max's invites you to top this selection with your choice of cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, bacon, mushrooms, onions, olives, or green peppers. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $12.99
    • Bavarian Stuffed Pretzels

      Two jumbo pretzels stuffed with creamy Cheddar cheese and deep-fried. Served with honey mustard sauce.
      $7.99
    • Max's Famous Reuben

      Often imitated, but never duplicated. Grilled pumpernickel with lean, aged corned beef, Swiss cheese, and homemade sauerkraut topped with our special dressing.
      $11.99
    • Max's Sausage Platter

      Wunderbar! A sampling of our finest wursts... Knackwurst, bratwurst and weisswurst.
      $15.99
  • Kids menu

    Served with fries and applesauce
    • Mini Cheeseburger

      $7.50
    • Grilled Cheese

      $7.50
    • Chicken Fingers

      $7.50
    • Mini Fish Sandwich

      $7.50
    • Hot Dog

      $7.50
  • Desserts

    • Apple Strudel

      $6.00
    • German Chocolate Cake

      $7.00
    • Black Forest Cake

      $7.00
    • Bread Pudding

      $6.00
  • Sandwiches

    Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
    • Knackwurst with Kraut

      One hundred percent pure beef is blended with a special mixture of spices to produce this popular sausage. Served on a hoagie bun and topped with our homemade sauerkraut.
      $11.99
    • Bratwurst

      A veal and pork sausage made from a century-old Usinger family recipe. Slowly pan-fried to a golden brown and served.
      $11.99
    • Weisswurst

      A mild veal sausage delicately flavored with egg, herbs and finely chopped parsley. Pan-fried to a golden brown and served on a hoagie bun.
      $11.99
    • Corned Beef and Cabbage Sandwich

      Leaned corned beef, sweet and sour cabbage and Swiss cheese on a brioche bun.
      $11.99
    • Max's Famous Reuben

      Often imitated, but never duplicated. Grilled pumpernickel with lean, aged corned beef, Swiss cheese, and homemade sauerkraut topped with our special dressing.
      $11.99
    • Hot Pastrami and Swiss

      Slices of lean, peppered pastrami stacked high on fresh rye bread and topped with melted Swiss cheese.
      $10.99
    • North Side Ham and Swiss

      Thinly sliced smoked ham and Swiss cheese stacked on fresh rye bread.
      $10.99
    • Dutchtown-Style Kielbasa

      Coarsely ground sausage made of beef and pork and seasoned with a touch of garlic and other natural spices. Topped with our homemade sauerkraut.
      $11.99
    • Potato Pancake Reuben

      Our famous reuben, grilled between two potato pancakes.
      $11.99
    • Milwaukee-Style Braunsweiger

      This fine sausage, made by the Usinger family of Milwaukee, is served on fresh rye bread with a generous slice of Bermuda onion.
      $10.99
    • Max's Bavarian Club

      Thin slices of Milwaukee braunsweiger served open-faced on fresh rye bread stacked high with strips of grilled bacon, slices of hard-cooked egg, sweet onion, tomato and spinach and topped with our own special dressing. This is a treat that delighted mad Ludwig himself.
      $10.99
    • Fish Sandwich

      A generous fresh fillet-of-cod dipped in Max's seasoned breading and fried to a golden brown.
      $11.99
    • Allegheny Club

      Thin slices of turkey breast, crisp bacon, Swiss cheese, lettuce and tomatoes, stacked on fresh rye toast.
      $11.99
    • Turkey Reuben

      Sliced turkey breast, grilled with coleslaw and Swiss cheese. Served between two potato pancakes.
      $11.99
    • Beef Steak Sandwich

      Thin-sliced, marinated beef served on a hoagie bun with sautéed onions, mushrooms and Swiss cheese.
      $12.99
    • Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato

      Served on toasted white bread.
      $10.99
    • Maxburger

      A generous portion of freshly ground beef served on a brioche bun. Max's invites you to top this selection with your choice of cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, bacon, mushrooms, onions, olives, or green peppers. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $12.99
    • Max's Veggie Delight

      Fresh spinach, tomato, cucumber slices, onion, mushrooms and Swiss cheese. Served on grilled wheat bread.
      $10.99
    • Chicken Breast Sandwich

      Broiled, marinated, boneless chicken breast. Served on a with lettuce and tomato.
      $11.99
    • Works Burger

      $13.99
  • Appetizers

    • Herring in Sour Cream

      A favorite of the German north coast.
      $10.99
    • Max's Wings

      10 jumbo split wings, deep-fried and tossed in either our special buffalo sauce, honey BBQ, , sweet chili or dry rub
      $15.99
    • Sausage and Cheese

      Grilled knackwurst, bratwurst, and kielbasa with wedges of Jarlsberg Swiss and smoked Gouda cheeses. Served with crackers & honey mustard sauce.
      $9.99
    • Bavarian Jumbo Pretzel

      A jumbo Bavarian pretzel deep-fried golden and served homemade honey mustard and warm beer cheese
      $9.99
    • Bavarian Stuffed Pretzels

      Two jumbo pretzels stuffed with creamy Cheddar cheese and deep-fried. Served with honey mustard sauce.
      $7.99
    • Potato Pockets

      Potato and cheese pierogies, deep-fried and topped with sautéed onions. Served with French onion sour cream.
      $8.99
    • Potato Skins

      $8.99
    • Fried Zucchini

      $8.99
    • Fried Provolone

      $7.99
  • Soups and Salads

    • Einlauf Soup

      A light, rich chicken broth, generously sprinkled with homemade Einlauf noodles and seasoned with a delicate blend of spices. Our Einlauf noodles are made by pouring a seasoned mixture of flour and eggs into briskly boiling chicken broth.
      $3.99
    • Max's Spinach and Bacon Salad

      Crisp leaves of spinach garnished with slices of mushrooms, onions and hard-cooked eggs. Topped with our own hot bacon dressing.
      $6.50
    • Chicken or Steak Salad

      A favorite at Max's. Marinated grilled chicken breast or tenderloin served on crisp greens with French fries, Gouda cheese, mushrooms, beets, hard-cooked egg, and tomatoes. Dressing.
      $13.99
    • Garden Salad

      $5.50
    • Country-Style Coleslaw

      Cabbage and carrots blended with a creamy mayonnaise dressing.
      $2.99
    • Large Spinach Salad

      $9.99
  • Max's Favorites

    • Broiled Breast of Chicken

      Broiled in our kitchen to seal in its natural juices. Served with a tossed salad and vegetable of the day.
      $13.99
    • Kase Spätzles

      Spätzle noodles tossed in a creamy blend of chicken broth and melted Gouda cheese. Topped with buttered breadcrumbs and parsley. Served with a tossed garden salad.
      $11.99
    • Potato Crusted Cod

      Mild cod filets coated with a potato breading and sautéed.
      $17.99
    • Marinated Calves Lover

      $15.99
  • Sausages

    Max's is proud to serve Usinger sausages that are fashioned precisely the same way they were 100 years ago when Fred Usinger, an apprentice to a Frankfort sausage maker emigrated from Germany to Wisconsin.
    • Knackwurst

      One hundred percent pure beef is blended with a special mixture of spices to produce this sausage.
      $12.99
    • Bratwurst

      A veal and pork sausage made from a century-old family recipe, slowly pan-fried to a golden brown.
      $12.99
    • Weisswurst

      A mild veal sausage, delicately flavored with eggs, herbs and finely chopped parsley. Pan-fried to a golden brown.
      $12.99
    • Max's Sausage Platter

      Wunderbar! A sampling of our finest wursts... Knackwurst, bratwurst and weisswurst.
      $15.99
  • The Great Schnitzels

    What choice beef is to America, fine milk-fed veal is to Europe. Max's proudly presents a selection of the great schnitzels of Europe. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
    • Wiener Schnitzel

      Tender veal lightly dusted in seasoned flour and fried to a golden brown. This is Vienna's gift to the culinary world. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $17.99
    • Schnitzel Ala Holstein

      Vienna-style veal topped with a fried egg, anchovy, and capers. Created by count Holstein, Bismark's famous foreign minister. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $18.99
    • Jäger Schnitzel

      Vienna\-style veal covered with a delicious mushroom sauce. A specialty of the Brenner park hotel, Baden, Baden. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $17.99
    • Schnitzel Liechtenstein

      Tender veal topped with westphalian ham, Emmenthaler cheese and green olives. Served at the hotel Sonnenhof in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $18.99
    • Schnitzel Royale

      Vienna-style veal topped with tomatoes and melted Gouda cheese and mushroom gravy. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $18.99
  • Old World Favorites

    The following selection of "old-world favorites" has been pleasing guests at Max's since the early 1890s. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
    • Sauerbraten

      Top-quality beef marinated in a century-old recipe from the Erhardt family of Enzweihingen in the south of Germany, then roasted to perfection and topped with a seasoned sauce. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $16.99
    • Baked Kassler Rippchen

      Smoked pork loin chops slowly simmered in our homemade sauerkraut and served with mustard sauce. This is a delicacy from Kassel in the province of Hesse. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $18.99
    • Bavarian Peasant Platter

      "Bauern Platte". A heaping mound of our famous sauerkraut, surrounded by a grilled bratwurst, knackwurst and a smoked loin pork chop. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $18.99
    • Leberkäse

      A finely textured sausage loaf made from a blend of pork and beef seasoned with spices imported from Bavaria. We grill each slice lightly and serve it smothered with sautéed onions. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $15.99
    • Dutchtown Kielbasa

      Still unmatched as an "old-world favorite," our Dutchtown kielbasa is a coarsely-ground sausage made of beef and pork and seasoned with a touch of garlic and other natural spices. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
      $15.99
  • That Extra Touch

    • Hot German Potato Salad

      Chunky pieces of potato, green pepper and bacon are mixed with a hearty sweet and sour sauce.
      $3.50
    • Homemade Sauerkraut

      Fresh sauerkraut is mixed with apples, caraway seeds and pork. It is then slowly simmered to perfection.
      $3.50
    • Sweet and Sour Cabbage

      A blend of coarsely-sliced red cabbage and fresh apples. Slowly cooked until tender.
      $3.50
    • Kase Spätzle

      Spätzle noodles in a creamy Gouda cheese sauce.
      $6.99
    • Potato Pancakes

      Favorite. Always a favorite at Max’s. Three crisp pancakes served with your choice of one topping: chunky applesauce, sour cream, or sauerbraten gravy.
      $4.99
    • Natural-Cut French Fries

      With cheese or gravy for an additional charge. Fried until tender and golden brown.
      $3.50
    • Onion Rings

      Fried to a golden brown.
      $3.50
    • Sweet Potato French Fries

      Seasonal.
      $3.50
    • Chunky Style Applesauce

      $3.50
    • Vegetable of the Day

      Max personally selects a vegetable to complement the menu selections.
      $3.50
    • Spatzle

      Made Plain, Sauerbraten gravy or sautéed onions
      $3.50

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