Radegast Hall & Biergarten
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Phone: (718) 963-3973
- Cross Street:
- Between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street
- Directions:
- L at Bedford Ave
- Hours:
- Mon-Fri 5pm-4am, Sat-Sun 1pm-4am
Editorial Review for Radegast Hall & Biergarten – by Joshua M. Bernstein
In Short
Time-travel to 19th-century Europe at this sprawling Austro-Hungarian beer hall, outfitted with soaring ceilings, iron chandeliers, beer-barrel trash cans and a massive heated beer garden. Conforming to the Alpine peasant cliche, barmaids clad in dirndl dresses serve up 12 European drafts, while blouse-wearing waitresses flit across the concrete floor to massive communal tables fashioned from 150-year-old barn wood. Artists and trendy Billyburgers order sobriety-quashing mugs of dark Weihenstephaner Dunkel Weisse and sparkling Pilsner Urquel, which are clinked loudly and lustily long into the night.
Hits: Need a space for 25 of your closet comrades? Arrive early, and you can hijack a candle-topped wooden table nearly as long as most railroad apartments.
Misses: If you like lots of beer, then you better like opening your wallet wide--a liter of draft brew runs an eye-popping $13, while bottles average $7 or $8.
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Insider Tips
Food ServedBanish the munchies with a hearty array of meat-centric, old-European fare such as veal schnitzel, braised rabbit and roasted quail; bratwursts and burgers are flame-cooked on the beer garden's grill.
The ExtrasWeather permitting, the beer garden's canopy retracts, welcoming in sunlight and fresh air.
Fun FactThough Radegast may look like it's been serving frothy pints for centuries, the previous tenants catered to addictions of a different kind: The building served as the headquarters for Empire Candy & Tobacco.
User Reviews for Radegast Hall & Biergarten
02/13/2008 Posted by aannnnaa
A great place to go at night in Brooklyn. Everything was excelent. Delicious food (I had some pork loin with plum and beer sauce and the best stake tartar I've ever had). They have a great selection of beers (mostly German and Belgian, but what else do you want), I had a great Tripel Karmeliet. The place is beautiful, decorated as a real German hall with big tables.The music was mainly Kusturika's and some other balkan and german folk brass bands and the waitress was dressed in one of those traditional German dresses (A very nice detail), she was very very nice and beatiful. Perfect place. Perfect food. Perfect beer. Perfect staff. Perfect service. Perfect music. Perfect decoration. Just amazing. I love this place.
Pros: everything
02/13/2008 Posted by ngret
I went here this past weekend and was so happ that I did. The scene was crazy! Giant beers glanging off one another. It was just so much fun. The place was packed and everyonr was friendly. Great wheat beer and great crowd. It was like a huge party and it almost felt like we were outside. I guess we will have to wait til the summer to actually drink outside. I heard the roof retracts! Anyway, the picture does no justice thois place needs to be seen!!!!
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