• Lisle is a home to some German restaurants in.Traditional breakfast for two served in a basket in Germany image by Rony Zmiri from Fotolia.com
  
  Local residents and tourists in Lisle enjoy hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, boating, ice skating, swimming and fishing in the area. Guests can enjoy a meal at any of the nearby restaurants influenced by the many residents of German ancestry in nearby Schaumburg, Palatine and Glendale Heights, although there are no German restaurants in Chicago suburb of Lisle itself.
  
  

Bavaria Hof ‎

• Bavaria Hof in Schaumburg presents an eat-all-you-can buffet of roast pork on weekends. The German restaurant also provides some of the harder-to-find German specialties like Holstein schnitzel and Kassler Rippchen. The establishment features a cellar and a romantic wine garden that couples and sweethearts adore. Bavaria Hof has renovated the building in which it sits with a unique German flair that fits in with the city's rich tradition. Along with regular German dishes, Bavaria Hof also offers special German delicacies like hasenpfeffer, a rabbit dish braised in a hot and spicy red wine sauce. The restaurant is adorned with wooden benches, bar chairs and booths that came from old-line restaurant pieces.
  
  Bavaria Hof
  933 South Roselle Road
  Schaumburg, IL 60193
  847-891-7997
  bavaria-hof.com
  
  

Christl's German Inn

• Christl's German Inn, a family-owned restaurant, sits in a small store in Palatine less than 15 miles from Lisle where the wait staff speaks both German and English. The restaurant is open seven days a week and offers real German cuisine with authentic favorites like sauerbraten, bratwurst and wiener schnitzel. The restaurant menu includes traditional German specialties like knoedel, rouladen, spaetzle, sauerkraut, potato pancakes and many others. Besides the usual wiener schnitzel, Christl's German Inn also offers jaegerschnitzel, which is a breaded pork cutlet in a thick mushroom cream sauce along with creamed spinach and spaetzle sides. Locals as well as tourists love the delicious potato knoedel and cabbage rolls for which the establishment is well known.
  
  Christl's German Inn
  45 W Slade Street
  Palatine, IL 60067
  847-991-1040
  christlsusa.com
  
  

Schnitzel Platz

• Schnitzel Platz, sits in Glendale Heights about seven miles from Lisle. This German restaurant features live entertainment on weekends and provides a full assortment of German draft and bottled beers. The restaurant serves authentic German fare and offers house specialties like glacierte schweine haxe mit sauerkraut, deutsche haus platte, sauerbraten and schweine braten. Scchnitzel Platz serves wiener schnitzelz, potato pancakes and sauerbraten during lunch and dinner, along with other German special dishes and a variety of beer. German favorites served daily at the establishment include Hungarian goulash, German potato salad, spaetzle as well as Jaeger Schnitzel.
  
  Schnitzel Platz
  729 North Avenue
  Glendale Heights, IL 60139
  630-942-9900
  schnitzelplatz.com