July 12, 2009
Come early if you want a seat outside in the tightly packed, cafeteria style seating in their pack porch. At 4:30 PM on a Saturday, I had the last spot for two. Fun atmosphere and the service is very good. $14 liter steins of a choice of 10 import beers. A fun spot indeed.

August 8, 2008
Decent food, fair beer selection. Not a bad place for a few drinks on the Lower East Side. Cons: Price - $9 for a bottle is a little pricey.

April 14, 2008
Nice clean bar. 12 taps. Great German Selection(not a selection you see often). I didn’t see a bottle list but what I saw in the fridge looked impressive. Simple bar area with windows opened to the street. Beer garden in back. Food looked authenitc. Beers were awesome. Great proximity to New Beer and Whole Foods. Definitely worth the stop.

April 2, 2008
Nice looking bar, with some tables in the hallway leading to the back room, which connects to the outdoor garden. The garden is tented in, with a nice amount of seating. The inside is comfortable with nice blonde wooden tables. Beers were all german, with about 12 on tap. We had a nice lunch there, and the food was very good.

October 1, 2007
Long narrow room leading to a bright and fairly large back garden. A good selection of german styles. The kolsch is always in great shape. I’ve never eaten here, but I like the vibe adn it’s a solid place to kick back a few and shoot the shit. It’s located within five minutes of several other good beer bars, so it’s worth a stop on a lower east side/east village pub crawl.

January 15, 2007
Nice german place. Great selection of beers! I tried their draft beers when I went there, nice change for my usual Heineken :D. Bartender was very nice and knew quite a lot about beers.

January 31, 2006
Nice ambience but the service was slow, the food mediocre (and according to the German gf, unauthentic) and overpriced, and for boasting a large selection of German beers, I picked the only one I hadn’t had before and it sucked! If they claim quality why were they carrying that stuff on tap?

November 10, 2005
Lousy, lousy service but delicious brats, nice garden and a great German beer selection. Although I was disappointed with the Schwarzbier (most definitely infected), overall the beers were good.

October 29, 2005
this place is right in the bowery, which is a little out-of-the-way from my usual haunts. when you’re strolling through the bowery, you will notice that PUNK’S NOT DEAD! holy mowhawk, there are people who live the NY scum/UK punk scene like it never stopped. I wonder if they’ve been doing this since the 70s. aside from the time warp in the neigborhood, this is a nice unique Kraut joint. wish they would play some Prog Krautrock music - maybe that would get the punks to clean it up a little. but really now, the clientelle here are normal hipsters, even though the place was pretty dead on a late saturday afternoon. cute chickie with ink & hardware served me up a nice Schwarzbier at the front bar, nobody was at the restaurant part. a few were in the back garden. might be bad timing but the place could use a shot in the arm.

September 24, 2004
stoppd by here during lunch, was really dead, but they had about 12 beers an a bunch of bottles i could’nt prounce but the spaten October’fest was good, huge glass, and the brat was great. gotta go back and have more