"Here's Al's sampler plate, going clockwise from 9 o'clock: stuffed cabbage roll, dumplings and cabbage(barely visible), sausage and sauerkraut, pierogie sauteed in butter and onions. In the center is chicken paprikash."
Michael Stern
"Paprikash is a brilliant balancing act of spice and cream cosseting painfully tender hunks of chicken."
Michael Stern
"Dumplings are a side dish that automatically come with chicken paprikash, but if you order anything else, do yourself a favor and accompany it with these buttery beauties, here mixed with bits of cabbage."
Michael Stern
"We were first in line when Al's doors opened at 11am, walking in to see this clean and well-ordered dining room. While not neat-freaks, we swooned at just how tidy everything was. "
Michael Stern
"For a first time visitor to Al's, the sampler plate is the way to go. But with food this good, it is impossible to make a bad choice. (Click on the photo to read the menu.)"
Cliff Strutz
"At the corner of Fourth and Tuscarawas in downtown Barberton, Ohio: a beacon of fine Hungarian plate lunch."
Michael Stern
"A half block away from the lunch room is Al's butcher shop, where the restaurant's sausages are made, and where the shelves hold a full repertoire of smoky links, netted cottage hams, stingers (extremely spicy snack sticks), twice-smoked bacon frosted with garlic and paprika, and head cheese."
Michael Stern
"On the left, mashed potatoes; on the right, halushka: carboheaven."
Michael Stern
"Here are some of the different spice mixes that butcher Denny Gray uses to make sausages at Al's butcher shop."
Michael Stern
