If you can’t enjoy yourself amongst lederhosen-clad waitresses, oversized beers, kitschy live keyboard music, an outdoor beer garden, and sausages and sauerkraut aplenty, you should probably seek therapy. For everyone else, put on your drinking caps (preferably your green Bavarian Alpine one), and head to Silver Lake and the Red Lion Tavern. German ex-pats, beer enthusiasts, and the young ironic-T-shirt-clad crowd pack this loud and lively, three-tiered tribute to all things Deutschland. Downstairs, you can enjoy a more pub-like environment with a one-man band who fulfills requests on his keyboard, while a smaller dining room occupies the second floor. The outdoor beer garden is the perfect spot for a chilled, tall glass of one of the many German beers (Bitburger, Beck’s, Spaten Optimator). Share a sausage platter — an impressive assortment of bratwurst, knackwurst, bockwurst, pickles and peppers — with your dining companions, or indulge in the Schnitzel à la Holstein — think a German version of chicken-fried steak, topped with a fried egg and anchovies. Wash down your hearty meal with a 1.5-liter glass boot filled with beer, and achieve legendary status among your peers.
Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner until 2 am daily. Sat–Sun Champagne brunch 11 am–3 pm.
Zagat 2011: 17 food rating (good to very good)
“With a biergarten like this in the neighborhood, why bother with Oktoberfest in Munich?”
— Los Angeles Times
If you can’t enjoy yourself amongst lederhosen-clad waitresses, oversized beers, kitschy live keyboard music, an outdoor beer garden, and sausages and sauerkraut aplenty, you should probably seek therapy. For everyone else, put on your drinking caps (preferably your green Bavarian Alpine one), and head to Silver Lake and the Red Lion Tavern. German ex-pats, beer enthusiasts, and the young ironic-T-shirt-clad crowd pack this loud and lively, three-tiered tribute to all things Deutschland. Downstairs, you can enjoy a more pub-like environment with a one-man band who fulfills requests on his keyboard, while a smaller dining room occupies the second floor. The outdoor beer garden is the perfect spot for a chilled, tall glass of one of the many German beers (Bitburger, Beck’s, Spaten Optimator). Share a sausage platter — an impressive assortment of bratwurst, knackwurst, bockwurst, pickles and peppers — with your dining companions, or indulge in the Schnitzel à la Holstein — think a German version of chicken-fried steak, topped with a fried egg and anchovies. Wash down your hearty meal with a 1.5-liter glass boot filled with beer, and achieve legendary status among your peers.
Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner until 2 am daily. Sat–Sun Champagne brunch 11 am–3 pm.
Zagat 2011: 17 food rating (good to very good)
“With a biergarten like this in the neighborhood, why bother with Oktoberfest in Munich?”
— Los Angeles Times