Food & Drinks

The Famous Kirchenfest Chicken Dinner

Sunday | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Get ready for a hometown favorite you won’t want to miss! The Famous Kirchenfest Chicken Dinner is back and better than ever—available for carryout or drive-thru on the Sunday of the event.

Each hearty dinner includes:

• Crispy fried chicken (leg, wing, thigh, and breast)
• Creamy mashed potatoes with gravy
• Tender green beans
• Classic dressing
• Fresh coleslaw
• Sweet applesauce
• A dinner roll
• And a slice of homemade pie!

Carryout? Pick up your meal in our air-conditioned cafeteria—just enter from Trinity Hall or the Lemon Street side entrance and follow the signs to your delicious, home-cooked meal.

Prefer drive-thru? Simply enter the line at 9th & Lemon Streets and we’ll bring the feast to your car!

 New this year! Try our “Side of Sides” option—everything you love from the dinner except the chicken. Perfect for those who want a little extra of the fixings! (Available in the carryout line only.)

Come hungry and leave happy—this is comfort food at its finest!

THE BAVARIAN SKILLET

Make sure you don’t forget to grab a meal at the Bavarian Skillet Stand! The Kirchenfest is famous for featuring this unique cooking tradition.

Your meal will be prepared on two four-foot diameter skillets that were made exclusively for the Kirchenfest. The skillets are one-inch thick and weigh 528 pounds each! Don’t leave our festival without seeing these skillets for yourself.

Enjoy a traditional German dish consisting of pork sausage, fried red skin potato, green pepper, onion and sweet Bavarian kraut.

German music will be playing and cowbells will ring when the skillets start sizzling!

1) 1st skillet was built in 2000. The 2nd in 2005.

2) Each skillet weighs 528 lbs and is 50 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep.

3) Built by Excelsior Foundry (no longer in business).

4) Mold was made out of balsa wood and is the property of St Paul Kirchenfest.

5) Designed to cook a unique meal fast and relieve the congestion in the Food Court.

6) The skillets combined cook 800 lbs of sausage, 1000 lbs of potatoes and 150 lbs of scrambled eggs every Kirchenfest

7) Each skillet can cook about 40 servings at a time – serving over 2500 happy participants!

8) Original burners on each skillet had 5 water heater burners under them. After a few years we hired an engineer to create a new burner with right combination of air and gas for perfect flame! Creates enough BTU (250,000) to heat 4 – 2,000 square feet homes.

9) It took 6 months to experiment with the skillets to create the perfect Bavarian dish: sausage, peppers, onions and sweet Bavarian kraut.

10) It is the only one of it’s kind

Kirchenspuds

Potatos are excellent but when they are spiral cut they combine both flavor and taste.

Piled high and seasoned this new Kirchenfest favorite makes taste buds dance.

A Variety of Food & Beverage Stands!

At the Kirchenfest, you’ll find different Food Stands located all over the grounds, which are available all weekend.

Choices are hard… start with a bratwurst or a steakburger and top it off with a little ice cream!

Bring your appetite! You’ll have the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of foods such as:

BEVERAGE STANDS
At the Kirchenfest, you’ll find plenty of cool drinks to quench your thirst including a variety of sodas and beer – and what’s a German Festival without some beer, right?
Looking for something more sophisticated? Join a friend and step into our Wine Garden to ‘celebrate the grape!’