Livery Barn Restaurant

Steinbach, Canada

A cafeteria-style restaurant inside the Mennonite Heritage Village museum in Steinbach. The building is an actual converted livery barn with exposed beams and rough-hewn wood. The menu reads like a Mennonite grandmother's weekly rotation: vereniki with schmauntfatt, komst borscht, kielke, and thick coins of fried farmer's sausage. Open May through September, 11am to 2pm. You pay museum admission to get in, but the food alone justifies the ticket.

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Sausages served here

Farmer's Sausage

Southern Manitoba

A cold-smoked pork sausage born in the Mennonite farming communities of southern Manitoba. Ground pork, salt, pepper, and woodsmoke. Four ingredients. No herbs, no garlic, no filler. The sausage gets its character from the smoking process: hung in a smokehouse over smoldering wood (often oak or maple) at temperatures too low to cook the meat. The result is a firm, rosy link with a pronounced smoke flavor and a coarse, meaty texture. Mennonite families across the Canadian prairies have eaten it two or three times a week for over a century.

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