I wish, I wish, I wish we had one of these in St. Louis.\n\nFirst, apparently this is actually a replica version of the actually Hofbrauhaus that they have in Germany (so my friend who actually went said). So. Pretty cool on that front. Thankfully, there aren't drains in the floor of this one like there are for the one in Germany...\n\nThey're a German beer hall so so course you have to get the beer steins. They're pretty big. Each stein is probably about 2.5 cans of beer. \n\nThe food is decent. The pretzels with cheese are actually really good. Get them. I also got a plate of spatzle with chicken breast, and like everything else here, the plate was huge. I finished it all but I don't know how I did it and I kind of wished I hadn't. Later, we got the ski shots, which are basically just 4 shots on a ski and you have to drink it all at the same time.\n\nThe atmosphere in the beer hall: you either love it or hate it. It's rowdy. It's loud. There's people standing on benches. (Surprise revelation of the night: Sweet Home Alabama is apparently a popular song in Pittsburgh.) They do have a great beer garden outside for when the weather is nice and you just want to get it away from all the ruckus inside.\n\nFor dessert, we had the apfel strudel and the chocolate layer cake. I really liked the chocolate layer cake though it was at the point in the night when I probably could have cared less what was for dessert.
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