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| - Maybe during Oktoberfest you'd get the "Disney" like experience others talked about (which would also be lame), but, on the night we came it was just lame. Walked into some old guy playing keyboard version of Journey's "Don't stop believing" and a few young dudes standing on tables, swaying back and forth singing along. The whole of Pittsburgh doesn't have enough polka outfits to pay each to play one night of the week?
I had German friends complain at how ridiculous Hofbrauhaus in Munich was, but if they saw this, I think they'd want to shoot themselves. Also, I found the original in Munich not so bad- decent prices, decent food, and mostly full of older german couples or men! Maybe during Oktoberfest it's awful, but I liked it.
This was just pathetic- the "german dishes" were quite frankly terrible. I forget which sausage my husband ordered, but he said it tasted just like breakfast links. I ordered the kasespaetzle, a dish I ate a lot of and liked in Germany. The two versions can't even be compared. This one was full of nearly raw onions and tasted like it was covered in alfredo sauce, and was pretty much one big lump of doughy noodle. The only reason it's getting 2 stars is because the beer was good (though not being a beer connoisseur I can't really compare to the original). I was a little peeved when I wanted to order a radler (my other favorite in Munich, along with the mushroom and potato dumplings which were absent from the menu here) and my 20something should be at TGI Fridays waitress gave me a blank look.
I didn't go here for fun or spectacle, and that is where I went wrong. Maybe it'd be more up my alley if I ordered a "shot-ski" and burned off my tastebuds.
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