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
06/23/2008 Posted by K21212213
This place is EXPENSIVE and full of hipsters and wanna-be hipsters. The waitress tried to tack on $20 worth of drinks we didn't order. I won't be going back. IT'S NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE OF GETTING ALL THE WAY OUT TO BKLYN!
Pros: Good (but expensive) beer, the one dish I could afford was ok
Cons: Too crowded, hipsters everywhere, music too loud to talk, too costly, deceptive waitress
06/08/2008 Posted by mateoxcz
Hey guys... It's not German, but Czech... "Radegast" is an old czech pagan god and Pilsner Urquell is brewed in Pilsner (czech "Plzen"), in west of Czech Republic. :)
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