Bar Munich

Great spot to watch a championship match… $ 5 valet can’t beat that… arrive early for seating

The great thing about midtown is that there are lots of great places for nightlife within walking distance of each other. After paying a visit to Mongoose vs Cobra I wanted to go for some refreshingly clean German beer over at Bar Munich.
Now I had been here before and I had a great experience, so when I looked at their reviews I saw that they were not 4stars or above on Unilocal.Very odd considering how great a time I had the last visit. So it was time for an update! I walk up to the bar, I was promptly greeted by Jason who handed me a drink and food menu. Offered me a few suggestions and if I’d like to start a tab, but I settled for a single drink since I had just left the other bar and I was still kind of full.
I settled on their Hofbrau Original. I am a very big fan of traditional German beer simply because of the purity laws that they are brewed by and how clean of a finish they have. Or if you want something more heavy with complexity you can go with one of their Dunkel style brews. They have plenty of other German beer in bottles as well.
I have to give my thanks to both Kayla and Jason. Both were outstanding bartenders and were very kind. Their knowledge on what they serve is great and they have a great time with their customers.
Bar Munich is a cool little sports bar that serves some of the best beer in town. Don’t miss out if you want real deal German beer.
I can’t wait to come back and try their food again. It’s due for another spin!

I love Bar Munich for what it is. It’s not a spot where you’ll find loud music and a crazy party environment. What it is a cool spot if you’re looking for a chill night or somewhere you can start off your night before you move on to the more hectic bars and clubs in the center of midtown. They have several TV’s showing sporting events, foosball, and a friendly bar staff. There is also a nice patio with giant jenga.
But really, you go to a German bar for German beer and they have a great selection. If you’re looking to get wasted real quick. das boot is where it’s at. For those of you who haven’t seen Old School, a das boot is a huge boot-​shaped glass filled with beer. It’s so much beer that they require you to share it with another person and you have to sign a waiver in case you break the glass or steal it at the end of the night. After a couple das boot’s, you’ll notice that Bar Munich is right next door to Gloria’s, a Latin restaurant turned club once nightfall arrives. If you want to get your salsa on, you’re only a stone’s throw away!

Favorite sports bar to watch soccer with my friends. Beer and brats selection is unrivaled.

I love being a female being purposely overlooked by the female bartenders when I want to order a drink… not. I’ll take my money elsewhere.

Food was delicious — they had German style empanadas on special with red cabbage, potato, and beef. The flaky crust on those empanadas were perfect. We also got a pretzel, which came with Dijon mustard. It had a wonderful texture, light and pillowy with a firm outer crust.
They had a good variety of types of drinks, with a specialty of German beers. I tried a new cider (original sin) and we had some beers.
Atmosphere was ok. We were there on a Saturday afternoon for a English soccer match, so there was probably less people than usual though there weren’t any more seats (& there were enough obnoxious, bro-​type fans to make me feel like I was at the game.)

If you love German beer this is the place!!! The perfect pour of Hofbräu !!! Staff is very friendly and they have a great selection of snacks and appetizers.

Yeaaaaahhhh so they don’t have pommes frites… Or mayo… The brat tastes like Costco frozen brats. Sad. They bar people are very weak at their jobs. It’s kind of a cluster f¥€#. I really wanted German food and German bier. The bier was good.

I was pleasantly surprised at how nice this bar is for being in Midtown. I was expecting a dark, cramped, and dirty bar but found a well-​lit, clean and pleasant atmosphere. The place is fairly large –or maybe it’s because there weren’t many people in there for happy hour– but there was surprisingly limited seating. I’m assuming the large open space is used for dancing in the evening.
Not being a beer drinker, I was happy to find they had a full range of liquor from which to choose. The music wasn’t too loud, but made for good background noise.
The bathrooms were clean and well-​lit, which is a plus. I wouldn’t pick this place to come to again if I had to choose! but it also wouldn’t decline if someone else requests it. In Unilocal’s own words — this place was A-​OK.

The bartenders are RUDE!!! trust me when I say I have a high tolerance for rudeness but one of them had no sense of customer service. I am never going back even though it is right next to one of my favorite places. Get new bartenders asap and then we might try again.

Can’t complain about the beer. Hofbrau and Carlsberg were delicious. Relatively rare in the U.S. so thanks for being in Midtown.
The food though, not good. My and a friend got a brat sampler and nachos. Our expectations were low to start, but we were honestly expecting some good meat. Of the 4 different varieties of brat we had only one was good, one more was okay. The other two we didn’t eat after the first bite.
Service was hurried and not overly friendly.
Watched a USWNT game. I’ll go elsewhere to watch in the future.

I’ve heard this was a cool bar that serves Das Boots so my friends and I walked in to try it out! And but of course, the first thing I ask to order is just that, A Das Boot!
The bartender said I can’t have one because of the World Cup! I tried explain that we aren’t fans of soccer (which we aren’t) and that we aren’t going to throw the glasses like she accused soccer fans of doing! She still said no, and even though I was disappointed I understood!
But this is the kicker!!! This is where my friends and I became soooo Pissed! Right after they pour our beer Five extremely drunk guys each ordered Das Boots right in front of us! We weren’t soccer fans, drunk, or let alone buzzed but however this was allowed!
Are you kidding Me!
I mentioned that this isn’t adding up, and she said don’t take it personally! Next she took another order of Das boots from another person !
And to put the cherry on top with their service… they added other beers on our checks and tried to over charge us!
You couldn’t pay me to go back!

This is where I go if I feel like playing Battleship or some other board game while drinking German beer. I’m not sure it’s got much more to offer than that, though. The interior is flat-​out ugly. Standard concrete floor, plain tables, a few pennants strung up — but nothing that screams «German bar».
While the list of German beers is decent and you can recreate part of the Brauhaus experience with .5L and 1L beers, there’s not much special about the beer list save for its roots. The pricing is roughly $ 6 per half liter (which is a little more than a pint). However, most of these beers are available at larger liquor stores, so you can do much better for your pricing elsewhere.
The pizza bites are terrible. They resemble bagel bites, except with the topping stuffed inside a bland pasty shell. They have a Monday night $ 10 beer and brat special that I don’t think I’m too inclined to try unless desperate.
It’s alright. This is definitely not my top pick for a Midtown bar.

I have stopped by here two times on weekday nights. The atmosphere was chill, the drinks are good and the bartendresses are very friendly. If you are looking for a relaxed, not crowded atmosphere where you can have a conversation and watch a game I would definately recommend Bar Munich.

NOV 2013 — Der Name verspricht mehr. Neben vielen deutschen Bieren, einer dt. Fahne und Werbung für HB ist hier nichts mehr deutsch. Also, nicht Heimat erwarten. Ami Pub mit deutschem Namen und Bier.

The two things everyone knows Bar Munich is good for, 1. a great list of German beers on draft, and 2. Das Boot. Yes, the actual translation for das boot means ‘the boat’, but it’s a word play for Americans because boot means boot and it’s filled with whatever beer you wish to be drinking and passed around (due to legal reason) and shared with others.
First of all, when we visit this establishment, the kitchen was already closed but I was hungry. The best thing the waitress did was give me a bag of chips to go with my Das Boot. Oh, when you order the Das Boot, you will have to fill out a waiver that’s mainly about if you break the boot and no one person can drink the whole thing. But it was my birthday night and my friends made sure that I drank until the last drop, and that I did. Of course, the rest of the night was a blur but I do remember this place had alot of TVs showing different sports channel.
I really had a good time getting drunk on my birthday just by finishing the boot itself but man, I don’t think I can ever do that again!

We were craving German sausage after an Astros game. .. a quick Unilocal! revealed that we were not too far from German fare! You would miss this place if you weren’t looking for it. The signage is small and pretty nondescript.
Inside, it looks like any other fly by night bar, nothing fancy, nothing «German» themed. But the row of gigantic glass boots behind the bar perked our curiosity!
We ordered the bratwurst sampler so we could try a few of their sausages: The spicy kielbasa, the bratwurst, and the beer brat. All of these were pretty good, my favorite was the original bratwurst. The sampler came with a little bit of saurkraut (would’ve loved MORE!) and a couple of mustards and a curry bbq sauce. The sauces were great and we really enjoyed the giant pretzel we got FREE for checking in on Unilocal!
Getting on to Das Boot! Oh yeah! It was huge! The bartender told us it held 2 liters of beer. We opted for the Spaten Oktoberfest! Yowzers, it was yummy! We ended up sharing with our friends, so between the four of us, Das Boot was no more! :P I know, 4 of us.. . how pitiful! But we weren’t there to get hammered!
We also enjoyed a game of jenga while we waited for the food. We would definitely come back for the beer and the brats!

Beer a tad on the pricey side here, but it is definitely good, especially if you’re into the German-​style stuff. Incidentally, my friends are gaga about Germany, so they love this place. I guess I can kinda see why.
Outside tables have giant JENGA! This was the main selling point used to lure out here, though we later discovered that giant jenga is in fact a growing trend among certain kinds of sports bars. Either way, it’s super fun, and acts as a fantastic ice-​breaker if you’re in a group that is not well acquainted.
Music is groovy enough even for college radio station managers. So, don’t fear the playlist. It’s also not so loud that it gets in the way, which is a nice change of pace from the usual bar scene.
Location right next to Gloria’s, so they don’t really have the most accessible parking lot.
Street parking is pretty easy to find nearby though, so not too big a deal. This actually turned out to be a fantastic turn of fortune, because the night my friends and I hit up Bar Munich, Muiishi Makirritos was parked down the street. They were the perfect compliment to one another.
Bartenders are friendly and knowledgeable. They are know for «Das Boot» or a gigantic glass boot filled with beer. Rumor has it that if you drink the whole thing, the hangover is worse than if you consumed an equal amount in Germany.

Have german beers… yeah! Had the Wurste Sampler with cheddar wurst, kielbasa, and the frankfurter. My fav was the cheddar wurst, then kielbasa, then frankfurter. Theis sampler comes with a great mustard, sauerkraut. Delicious.

For a good while, I kept ending up here, kind of against my will. I believe everyone else’s rationale was that «this place is awesome because it has Das Boot! And no one really comes here so we can take over! Yeah buddy!» Oh boys, being boys.
I usually opt for the house wines (Barefoot, I believe? I’m classy) and mixed drinks. But if you enjoy German beer, go forth and intoxicate. I did order the Radler beer stridctly for nostalgia purposes. Ah, it was like being back in Austria for «study abroad.» Man were the days, it was more like «drinking abroad» because I’m not sure I could recall a single thing I learned. Anyway, enough about you.
Bar Munich does seem to have daily drink specials, Jolly Rancher infused vodka, and some German food choices. The $ 6−7(?) sausages with chips aren’t very substantial-​looking but then you can also chow down on fresh baked pretzels. Unsurprisingly, no real food options for poor lil vegans.
So in closing — definitely not my first choice for anything really.

This is one of my friends’ and my favorite places to go, whether it’s for afternoon drinking, having fun on a Saturday night, or simply meeting up for a beer after work.
It’s the only place in town that offers Hofbrau on tap, and they actually ship it in direct from Munich via cargo ship! They also have a great selection of domestic and German bottle beers and liquor, so there’s a little something for everyone. Be sure to bring some friends to play «Das Boot» (yes, just like in Beerfest). They also sell beer by the liter, which during happy hour is only 9 bucks — my usual glass of choice. The bartenders are knowledgeable and are happy to help you pick a beer or other drink to pair with your (locally made) bratwurst, kielbasa, or pretzels. Unlike most bars I’ve visited, the food here is actually good, probably because it doesn’t come off the back of a Ben E Keith or Sysco foodservice truck.
The atmosphere is always really chill, and I never have to worry about fighting for a space at the bar just to order. There are a TON of super nice TVs to accommodate the scores of sports fans who come on game days, but this place is far from a grungy sports bar. It’s for these reasons and many others (daily specials, management that cares about its customers, a Kinect system that anyone can play) that this will continue to be my regular hangout in Midtown.
Prost!