Grumpy Schnitzel — food truck, 152 Princess Street, Dawson
Grumpy Schnitzel — who we are
The name is a joke. The food isn't.
I trained the old way. Apprenticeship finished at Schwarzwaldhotel Rothaus in 2004, then kitchens in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Spain. In 2014 I sat the Küchenmeister exam in Munich — master chef, the long way round.
Dawson happened because of a cook I worked with in Switzerland in 2010. He went traveling, landed in Canada, and took a job running the Aurora Inn up here. He told me to come. I came for the summer season in 2012.
I went home. It didn't take. I came back in 2014 and started the paperwork to stay. It came through in 2017.
That same year Grumpy Schnitzel opened in the concession. Two winter seasons, schnitzel at forty below. Catering through the summers.
Now it's a P30 step-van at 152 Princess Street, beside The Bunkhouse. Gutted and rebuilt from the walls in — flat top under a commercial hood, a fryer that cooks nothing but fries, stainless everywhere. A real kitchen that happens to have wheels.
Black Forest Schnitzel plate: two pieces of pork schnitzel, mushroom gravy, house-made spätzle. The Schnitzel Burger. The Big Grumpy. Beef from here in Dawson. Aioli, caramelized onions and Grumpy Mac sauce made in-house, not opened from a jar.
Open through the end of September, then gone until the snow clears.
No vegan options. No apologies. Schnitzel done properly, at 64° North.