Tante Emma - German Restaurant, Biergarten & Shop

06/17/2026

Beating the heat floating on the Middlefork with juicy Landjäger and refreshing Paulaner Sunset 🥵☀️

06/15/2026

🎉 The votes are in! 🎉

All week long, you've been helping us choose the winner of our 'Design Your Own Coaster' contest, and the results are clear!

🥇 1st Place wins a $100 Tante Emma gift certificate
🥈 2nd Place wins a giant fresh-baked XL-pretzel served with all our delicious dips
🥉 3rd Place wins a slice of our customer-favorite Almond Glazed Butter Cake

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who submitted designs and everyone who took the time to vote. We were blown away by the creativity, talent, and support from our amazing community ❤

Congratulations to our winners! We’ll be reaching out to you directly about your prizes. And who knows? This might not be the last contest we host... 😉🍺

06/08/2026

WOW! You guys absolutely blew us away with your creativity! ✨

So many amazing entries came in for our 'Design Your Own Coaster' contest that we simply couldn't pick just one winner 😍

That's why we've selected our Top 5 Designs — and now it's YOUR turn to decide!
🏆 1st Place: $100 Tante Emma Gift Certificate
🥨 2nd Place: One of our fresh-baked XL Pretzels with all our homemade dips
🍰 3rd Place: A piece of our crowd favorite Almond Glazed Butter Cake

Check out the finalists and cast your vote below! 👇
All votes received by next Sunday, June 14th, will be counted, and the winners will be announced and contacted shortly after!
May the best coaster win ❤️☘️

06/05/2026

☀️ NEW IN THE HOUSE! ☀️

Germany’s cult favorite has arrived! 🇩🇪✨

We now proudly serve Paulaner Sunset (Spezi) – the legendary mix of cola and orange soda that has been winning hearts for generations.

☀️ Paulaner Sunset Original – refreshingly fizzy, perfectly balanced, and dangerously drinkable.

⚡ Paulaner Sunset Zero – all the iconic Spezi flavor, zero sugar, zero compromises.

If you know Spezi, you’re already excited. If you don’t know Spezi, it’s time to find out what all the fuss is about.

Available now – ice cold and ready to make your day a little brighter 🍊

06/03/2026

Who remembers this little bad boy?

Exactly three years ago today, we took a road trip to Wyoming to pick up our little shaved ice shack and begin our very first small business adventure in Garden Valley.

One year later, on Memorial Day weekend 2024, Tante Emma opened her doors. Since then, she has demanded just about all of our attention, focus, energy, and commitment—and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Today, our little shack is heading out on one final journey down the hills to Boise to find its next owner.

It’s a bittersweet moment. This was the beginning of our entrepreneurial US journey, full of dreams, and memories we’ll always cherish.

Thank you for being part of the shaved ice ride ❤️

05/29/2026

Our walls (and hearts) are filling up with sooo many little masterpieces - picking a winner for our “Design Your Own Coaster” contest will definitely be a challenge! 🤩

You still have until Monday to join in, so stop by this weekend, unleash your inner Picasso 👩🏼‍🎨 and you might just win a $100 Tante Emma gift certificate 🍀

05/26/2026

WOW WOW WOW!!!

We officially sold out of EVERY. LAST. MORSEL. of food this Memorial weekend!

Unfortunately, our food distributor is having delivery issues, which means we won’t get our ingredients until Wednesday — so we’ll have to stay closed tomorrow. That’s the price you pay when you live in a remote mountain town and cook with very specific ingredients that can’t exactly be replaced with “whatever’s in the back” ☺️

BUT… Wednesday will be a full-on cooking marathon around here, and we’ll be back Thursday with full fridges, happy grills, and enough food to feed an army again!

And can we just take a second to give the BIGGEST shoutout to our absolutely incredible team? You guys crushed it this weekend. Truly the best crew in town ❤️

Thank you all for keeping us this busy, this exhausted, and this grateful. See you Thursday! 🙏

05/24/2026

She is back! Tomorrow, on Memorial Sunday - our second anniversary! - our German baking queen Theresia Bohnert is returning to Tante Emma with her homemade Linzer Torte 😍

If you missed her on Mother's Day, this is your chance to indulge in one of the most iconic cakes in the German speaking world: a rich, buttery dough, layered with tangy raspberry jam, and finished with a beautiful lattice top. Stop by around noon before she's sold out ❤️

05/23/2026

What a fun interview it was! Thank you BoiseDev for featuring us and our little mountain home ♥️

Just about an hour drive from Boise, nestled in the Boise National Forest, sits a town packed with mountain adventure and small-town charm. The Garden Valley area, which includes both the towns of Crouch and Garden Valley, is only a short drive from Boise, but still feels like a true mountain escape...

05/09/2026

Don’t miss one of the most iconic cakes in the German speaking world: Linzertorte ♥️ Homemade with love by our favorite German bread, Boise based baking queen Theresia Bohnert