Bavarian Beerhouse

This place was a mixed bag. The food here was ok. I had the beef soup which was a bit rich for me and the spatzle was a bit bland too. I also tried the potato salad which was alright but for some reason only mine was fresh and everyone else at my table had very old potato salad which was difficult to eat. If you don’t eat pork, the options here are limited, so I’m not sure it’s worth trying again, although I will say the apple strudel was totally delicious and lovely to look at even.

For someone who doesn’t really like beer i quite enjoyed this place. I went with a group of 8 friends. We booked a table but didn’t really need to as it was unusually quiet for a sat night (on a bank holiday weekend) but you never know so I would prob book if I were to go again. Definitely try the sauerkraut i also had the currywurst which was called a snack but was large enough for a main meal very reasonable price at 7.00pounds.
On to the beer. There were lots and lots of types and sizes from half pints to 3 litre boots.
The staff were friendly and helpful and there was just a generally good atmosphere about the place. You could be as lively or as quiet as you wanted. Anything goes! Good music in the background so if you want to dance on your chair you dance! The shots are also fun we go the vodka and sherbet which is different but a must!
Great night!

Food tastes the way it looks. I had the wiener schnitzel at the waitress’ suggestion & it was good. I’m not much of a beer drinker so I had a small beer with it. The place was filling up with guys drinking & was starting to get noisy. The place did seem a little out-​of-​place as it is near the silicone roundabout — the high tech area in London.

Whilst food and drink were excellent, the atmosphere and experience was not what I was expecting. On a Wednesday night it was about half full, but rather than the hardy Bavarian experience, we got a bunch of people watching the football. Just having it on in the background made the experience less fun, and there were no waitresses really dressed as they are on the logo and website — which is part of the places image!

There are lots of times I find myself craving a good German schnitzel and a beer and luckily I can find all I want in the Bavarian beer house. All the food is delicious (the schnitzel is definitely my favourite but the sausages are also pretty great). I also really enjoy the Erdinger Weisbier (I think it’s much nicer than its black equivalent) so I’d recommend trying that one. They have lots of other delicious German beers for you to try too. The atmosphere in there is great especially when there’s a match on and it gets pretty packed in the weekend. If you go on a week night though it can be pretty dead so just take a big group of your friends with you and enjoy having the place almost entirely for yourselves. Finally, you can always count on this venue to be a great place during octoberfest, with girls dressed as Bavarian beer maids bringing a true German vibe to the heart of East London.

Beware: If you are looking for a great authentic night out in a Bavarian beerhouse — I actually suggest you skip this place and look up Bierschenke beer hall — just a couple of blocks away.
As they are both munich style beer houses, the comparison is just hard to escape. Compared to Bierschenke, the Bavarian Beerhouse just doesn’t cut it — the food is not as good, the variety is not as wide, the atmosphere is not as fun and authentic (here, the German theme seems like more of a novelty than genuine effort).
BUT all this being said, if all you are looking for is just a good pint (or hell, a stein!) of delicious lager/​wheat beer, this place definitely does deliver. As I said, I wouldn’t go for the food, and it’s also quite a loud spot for conversations — but I gotta give them the stars for the delicious beer, which on some days is all you really need.

Cramped with huge beers. They should call this place the Bavarian Sausage Bar. Food was pretty nasty but beers were big. Benches felt like they were going to break. I’m still purging my system from the heaving plate of nasty.

Review on Friday night at Old Street:
If you´re German and want to go because you expect good German food. Don´t go. It wasn´t a catastrophy but it was average at the very best. Better wait for your next trip home.
If you don´t care about the food and don´t have a problem with EXTREMELY loud music and just want to get drunk Octoberfest-​style in a basement somewhere in London. Go to this place.
My English mates did have fun but the general consensus was, never again. Sorry…:(
Service was good and German speaking. The place is professionally managed.

unglaublich ungemütliches, kitschiges Loka. Absoluter Nepp.

This place was extremely dirty when I came in. Also, sharing the beer hall style table with a belligerently drunk guy didn’t make the place very appealing to me. I’ve had better schnitzel, though the selection is good. I was also a little disappointed in the selection of beers, as I expected the list to be about twice as long. It’s definitely a themed restaurant to the extreme, with beer steins and waitresses in the classic Bavarian clothing. It could have been better, but it wasn’t when I was there and I wouldn’t recommend it to my friends.

I don’t go for the drinks but the food which I think for the portion size and the location is very good. The schnitzel is amazing as well as the pretzels and other German favourites. We always go when in London.

Left to my own devices I would probably give this place 2 stars, but my friend Sam was soooo enthusiastic about the giant beers and stodgy German comfort food that I have rounded it up to 3.
The food just isn’t that good. It was like the cheap, happy food you get in Germany, but double the price, and with less atmosphere. I took a photo of my schnitzel, but the sauce makes it look like someone threw up on a plate of chips… so I think posting it would be mean to the Bavarians. Sam’s goulash looked better… so maybe I just had food envy.
The size of beer was impressive, maybe that is why folks love this place??? I am incapable of drinking beer without pulling a ‘beer face of despair’ so I suppose I’m just the wrong gal for this review.

Nettes Ambiente und zum Fusball gucken top! Nur die Preise sind etwas gesalzen, mit umgerechnet 5EUR für ein Weizen.

We went to this place for a stag do and I have to say, it’s one of the best places in London I’ve ever been to. The staff were amazing, the beer flowed all night along with several rounds of shots. The food was good and not too pricey, in all it was an amazing night! I think for 10 or so of us it worked out at about £300 altogether for food and a lot of drink!
Definitely one to visit if you’re looking for a loud night out!

If German beers are your thing, you’re sure to enjoy a visit to this vast underground bar, where lagers are sold by the stein. As more of a wine-​lover, I was impressed by the Riesling also on offer, and was also pleasantly surprised by the food, which is hearty, filling and with good, well-​chosen options for vegetarians. Staff are very friendly and wear traditional Bavarian garb.
My main criticism of this bar would be the fact that it’s housed in a basement, completely light-​free room that is mostly featureless, which doesn’t make it feel especially cosy (a saving grace of many underground pubs). However the staff ensure a warm welcome for all, and it’s a brilliant lively venue, especially for large groups or on special occasions — we went along for Eurovision, which suited the BB perfectly.
Finally though, a bar of this size really, really needs more than one ladies’ toilet, and I’m afraid I’m deducting a star on that point alone!

eins der wenigen deutschen «restaurants» in london… einrichtung finde ich zu gewollt-​bierbänke, bayrische wandbemalung, personal in dirndl & lederhosen… dafür ist das essen aber auch lecker. vor allem zu wm– bzw eurovision song contest-​zeiten überfüllt aber tolle stimmung! immer «zünftige» musik und tolle stimmung

Auf Wunsch eines in London lebenden, deutschlandbegeisterten Maltesers besuchte ich dieses Lokal, welches vor allem bei asiatischen Touristen überaus beliebt zu sein scheint. Von der Atmosphäre her eine etwas eigenwillige Mischung aus aufgesetzter Gemütlichkeit und Lounge — wenig überzeugend! Die Speisekarte hält das gesamte Repertoire deftiger deutscher Küche bereit, angefangen von Bratkartoffeln über Käsespätzle bis hin zur unvermeidbaren Schweinshaxe. Nicht gerade das Gesündeste, was man verzehren kann, und für Vegetarier und besonders Veganer ohnehin keine Option. Die Getränlepreise sind ziemlich gesalzen (gut EUR 5,00 für einen halben Liter Bier), aber immerhin ist die Bedienung nett, die uns sogar von den qualitativ eher minderwertigen Brezeln abgeraten hat. Immerhin kann man hier Bundesliga-​Spiele sehen, aber ansonsten ist diese Lokalität in Zukunft für mich No-​Go-​Area!

After passing through the large doorway and descending the stairs, which includes a picture of Terry Venables with a clutch of blond leiderhosen-​clad waitresses, and then entering the boisterous, busy basement bar and being seated — by our own blond, leiderhosen-​clad waitress — we perused the menu. Initially thinking the the prices were a bit steep I gathered that the £8.10p was for a two pint (1.13 litres) stein. So, just over four pounds for a pint for some good German beer, cheaper than many pubs that serve the same or similar beers. Fair enough, I’ll have a Erdinger weisbier — a BIG one!
Upon inspection of the decoration, I wasn’t too impressed. It’s just cobbled together with some Erdinger lamps hanging from the walls and an Elk head in between some of them. It’s quite basic, mostly just benches and tables filling this unglamourous function room with a bar taking up one side of the room. There is no service to be had at the bar however as all service is conducted via the numerous blond leiderhosen-​clad waitresses.
They offer food in very large portions indeed. The quality of which isn’t great but if you have the beer munchies then you may not be that fussed. Not the best sausages (three varieties) and mash by a long way but the hole was successfully filled. The Schnitzels were also OK.
All in all, I did enjoy my Bavarian Beerhouse experience but that enjoyment was through a beery haze and a raucous stag party (but not as raucous as the tables around us, not sure what they were celebrating).
Ta ta for now, Ian

Eh oui, une taverne Bavaroise en plein coeur de Londres ! Et les serveuses en tenue s’il vous plait. L’ambiance est bien présente, la bière de Munich également ! De vraies saucisses, de vrais Bretzel… tout est ici à la réplique d’une vraie taverne, la musique avec ! C’est en plus très bon, copieux, et pas spécialement excessif en prix.

Steins, sausages and shnitzel, oh my!
I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I arrvied here. I was just told that we’d have sausage and beer. It wasn’t until I wandered down the stairs into the tacky Bavarian (?) décor that I immediately thought, «This is not my scene.» If you’re into beer (I’m not), beer maids with ample cleavage (I’m not fully opposed), rowdy groups of guys (not many cute ones) and sitting at benches (boo!), then this place is for you! Otherwise, run far, far away.

Maybe it’s my childhood nightmares of the Abominable snowman on the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland that have blanketed all things Bavarian-​eque with pure, unadulterated terror.
… Nah, I loved that ride. Both left and right sides.
Ok, so maybe I just don’t like feeling like I’m on a Disneyland ride when I’m actually sitting in a painfully detailed themed bar. (Which is easily disproved by my deep love for all things Tiki…)
Hmm, think Laura, think…
Weeellll, maybe it’s because I don’t actually like pretzels, potatoes, or sausage. And I most certainly don’t like sauerkraut. Oh, or cramped, humid, damp, chemical-​y-​smelling underground spaces. Or beer.
You know what? I don’t hate this place… it actually hates me! It would definitely give me 2 stars for lameness. So no worries BB, it’s not you, it’s me.
I do however like spicy mustard.
And lederhosen.

It’s not wise to drink your body weight in wine and vomit at your own reflection the night before you walk into a Bavarian Beerhouse. On that note, a hungover state of mind is not advisable for this venue either.
I was the first to arrive out of my group and headed down from what looked like a back door, into the basement and was greeted by the smell of damn cellar and a woman called Larissa (not D) dressed in lederhosen. I sat, she offered me a menu which I took, and later regretted, as I waited for the crew. The stickiness and smell of beer coming off the menu made me rush back up the stairs for some fresh air.
This place is a den, a drinking den. Designed for rowdy groups of drunken men and women, coming here to sing inappropriate songs and drink a stupid amount of beer. Did I mention I don’t like beer?
Okay so for what it is this place is fine and yes I would go again but I’m just not sure how soon, and definitely not with a hangover!

Ich heisse super-​fantastic, das Bavarian Beerhaús gefällt mirsehrgut und mein hund hast meine hausaufgaben gegessen !
This is not a place for the faint-​hearted, beer intolerant nor claustrophobic. This night will get rowdy and right up there in your face. If you’re a bit of a gobby loud tit like me you’re at the right place!
Down the stairs you descend into the poorly decorated general function room that is das bierhaus. This place ain’t no looker but just accept that and move on, after all you’re here to DRINK. You are led to and placed at your long communal pasting table by your very own authentic Germanic «Stein Frau» or Beer Lassie, who dressed in traditional Bavarian dress, takes your orders (and terrible GCSE German lines (which you think are hilarious but she has heard 3 times that evening already))
For the full experience order the Steins (or «two-​pint-​pints») of some seriously strong frothy German lagers and prepare yourself for some seriously raucous fun. Any newbies to drinking you have probably taken a wrong turn somewhere but can still order a normal pint and ger’ involved.
This has to be the only place in London which actively promotes extreme drunkardness and daft rowdiness from all attendees. One stein down each and our table is well on their way and needs little encouragement to smash our next full beers together in a group «Prost!», chug as much Weiss beer down as possible and let out a tremendous collective roar to neighbouring tables; continuing on to create a kind of Mexican wave from table to table; standing, shouting and raising steins.
Proper hit the jackpot the first time here. Lucky enough to have the Bavarian Band, consisting of a fat guy in lederhosen on a big brass horn thang, and the other fatty German leprechaun crunching away at his accordion. This pair o’ champs were churning out a rhythmic beat to which everyone in the place was swinging, hollering and smashing steins together. Every table in the place was swaying and losing beer to the floor like some kind of doomed u-​boat from Das Boot. The atmosphere in there was úber-​fantastic, I lost the plot at one point with some serious giggly beer froth choking as the band got everyone going mental with the next drink beat mash up.
I wouldn’t advise going on a first date here! The food is a bit shoddy and rate expensive, see pic of my £12 frankfurter delight! Mmmmm, I would advise to avoid. Apart from that and the Stein Frau’s not looking like the ones on the website it’s a real good place to hit with a crowd. Ring up and book (for free) at weekends as it’s popular.
Let it all go peeps, order another stein and maintain eye-​contact during «Prost!» and you’re on for ein guten nacht.

Ten white dudes walk into a German bar, order ten two-​pint steins of beer and proceed to sing (in 2009, I’ll have you) Coolio’s Gangster’s Paradise in unison. Very loudly.
Just another night at the Bavarian Beerhouse?
This place is known for its cartoonishly large steins of beer, and the Oktoberfest-​dressed server didn’t quite understand my half-​pint order amidst the ruckus, as I received a full pint. I suppose a ‘half’ of the normal two-​pint glass is, indeed, a pint. Rookie mistake on my part.
The pretzels and mustard were delicious. The beer was tasty, too. I could have gone without the all-​male serenade of Cheap Trick’s ‘I want you to want me’, but when in Deutschland…

The food is great and so is the beer and at times this place has an amazing atmosphere. However it can depend on the night because at times the service is slow and the music and other customers are so loud you can’t talk.
I do love the costumes of the serving staff though!
At times I’ve had a ball here and at those times I would give this place 5 stars, other times I couldn’t wait to get out, so its gets an average of 3.
You could have a great night here if you come on the right night