J V.
Yelp
I may have once given this place 4 stars, but in the past year or so they've become tiresomely unreliable. We don't have that many bars in this part of Flatbush, so we have no choice but to try to be regular customers. But boy they don't make it easy. My husband loves their beers and often wants to eat a brat there--but many times (more than 4) he's been turned away because "the cook wasn't there yet" or they were "out of" X,Y, or Z. This would happen consistently, pretty late into service (after 5pm, easily) until we got fed up and figured we couldn't go there for food anymore.
Furthermore, getting anything there as a non beer drinker is a slog. Yeah, I know it's a German beer garden--but even beer gardens in Germany have a reliably good aperol spritz, right? Hasenstuble didn't for a very long time, until they recently announced it! But guess what? Every time we've been by, they've been out of that too.
What gives? This place used to be great. But now it just feels like whoever owns it wants to deal with it as little as possible. I'm not inclined to believe good things about the owner given how often they seem to go on Google reviews to rip into the negative reviews. Flatbush deserves better!