Amadeus Cafe

Behind the Princess Street storefront, out of sight from the sidewalk, Amadeus Cafe hides a Biergarten — a beer garden tucked at the back that most of downtown Kingston walks past without knowing it is there. It is a fitting secret for a German and Austrian kitchen that has quietly done one thing well: old-world comfort food, cooked the way it is meant to be eaten. The menu gives the centre of gravity away at a glance, its sections running Sausages, Schnitzels, Classic Schnitzels in a Sauce, European Classics.

The schnitzel is the through-line, and the kitchen runs it in more variations than most Kingston menus carry in total — pork loin pounded thin and fried golden, then served plain, finished under a sauce, or stuffed and baked. The broadest way in is the Amadeus Platter for Two, a shared order that gathers schnitzels, sausages, a smoked pork chop, herbal potatoes, and sauerkraut onto one plate — the house's own argument against choosing just one thing. For a single main, the Jäger Schnitzel keeps it classic: pork loin under fresh mushroom sauce with spätzle and vegetables. The Rouladen comes out of the European Classics section, beef rolled around onion, mustard, bacon, and dill pickle, then plated with spätzle and red cabbage, and the Pork Cordon Bleu folds Black Forest ham and Swiss into the cutlet. The regional schnitzels run further still — Tiroler, Holstein, the breaded Brauer — far enough that regulars rarely repeat an order.