Gourmet Haus Staudt

GHS is on Broadway in Redwood City, a nice downtown strip. The front is a store with an international market and beer/wine store with a great selection. The back is a restaurant with 25 taps - half American craft, half traditional German. The restaurant space has low ceilings and long tables and a super friendly vibe, plus a patio. The food is very good. The bartender was the best I've had in some time. It's not cheap, but you get what you pay for. Too bad I was flying out that evening or I'd have done some damage in the bottle shop. This place rules. I'd be here weekly if I lived nearby.

Wow. Very impressive. I think the best non-brewery place to visit in the South Bay. 30 beers on tap: 15 German easy drinking across a range of styles. The other 15 are an awesome selection of local BA beers, sours, hazies, ipa, Pils, etc. I just love the 80’s packed music selection blaring. The bottle shop is top 5 in the South Bay. Today I saw 5 German spurs, 3F framboos, lots of Local IPA, German beers galore. Fantastic. Beautiful staff. Great decor. Great location.

Came here on 12.8.2019. A German beer restaurant behind a beer shop. You have to enter through the parking area (at least when the shop has been closed). Nice beer garden outside with many German and Austrian brewery signs (Stiegl!!), wooden tables and benches (great warning sign that you should not sit on the end of the benches otherwise you fall). Inside a small bar a few antlers on the wall and dried hops on the ceiling. Really good beer selection. Two tapping areas, one for US beers: Modern Times, Russian River (Concegration) and one for German beers: Schlenkerla Helles, Koestritzer, Andechser. They serve beers in 1 liter Mass tankards. Of course they have Stiegl Radler in cans. Great food menu, a bit reduced on Monday (no Leberkäse) though. I had very good Bratwürste with Sauerkraut. Polish Ben would love the food and ambiance here !! Awesome place !!!

So I went on a Wednesday evening and the place was crowded with lots of people who didn't seem to realize how great the beer here is. Just a ton of local stuff and the bottle shop is also hyper local with some international beer in the bottle shop that you don't see anywhere that's not a top flight beer bar (e.g., Pohjala, Baladin's Xyauyu, etc.) I'd likely rate them more highly on service and ambiance if this place weren't so great and, therefore, crowded. It's really a world class place. Worth the trip.

It should be clarified that this is a beer bar and eatery first and a bottle shop second. As a bar/eatery it excels and is very authentically German but with the very welcome and uncharacteristic half dozen odd American taps. No slouches either. As a bottle shop it never carries more than 30 varieties of beer, often less, all German, maybe some Austrian and sometimes bottles you can’t get anywhere else in the Bay Area. It’s one of the best beer bars on the Peninsula but it’s not a must-visit as a bottle shop.

This place is small but very quaint with a lot of personality. Great german beer selection and the pretzels w/ salami are incredible. It does get crowded but it’s always worth the visit. Very overlooked bottle selection (mostly german and saison/sours) in the front of the store.

What a cool place. Half German beer garden, half German retail shop. Big list of German draft beers, somewhat rare to find that. Also have a host of great US/west coast brews. Outdoor beer garden, and the food looked great. Plenty of German fare...

Another place I’ve been to a few times and never reviewed. This place is awesome. It’s located in downtown Redwood City which probably doesn’t mean too much to most people, but there is a CalTrain station nearby, so there’s public transit available from SF. It looks like a German themed trinket gift shop from the outside, which I guess it is for most of the front of the store, but there are some bottles on the shelves in the back. The bar area is in the rear of the place with really nice ambiance and friendly bartenders. The selection has a mix of German beers and locals. They have a separate list for each, so depending on where you sit, you’ll have to get up to view the other part of the draft list since the bar is L shaped. The food is pretty good here, obviously mostly German stuff, but they frequently put their own twist on things. There are a few tables inside and more open seating outside on the back patio, but I’ve never gone out there. Overall, this is the place I come to when I have a serious hankering for some fresh, draft German lagers.

Pretty cool spot. Neat German store plus the beer bar in the back with full decor and beer garden. Mix of US and German taps. Nice bottle selection in the bar.