18 Top Restaurants & Bars in Alphabet City - Eater NY

"It’s usually a party at at this Bavarian-German biergarten and restaurant, where it always feels like Oktoberfest, especially when the scene’s lively in the sidewalk seating area. Opened in 2000, Zum Schneider helped usher in a new wave of German restaurants in NYC. It serves up almost cartoonishly large steins of beer and the hearty fare best suited for soaking up said booze, like generous platters of schnitzel, and multiple types of sausage. For relatively harder-to-find-in-NYC German fare, consider the schupfnudeln: pan-fried noodles with sauerkraut." - Alexandra Ilyashov