Issac K.
Yelp
This place can be summed up by saying it's kind of a "German" version of Yard House. The star of the show is having 5,000 or so beers on tap. The food is always kind of meh. I put German in quotes because it's not really the pinnacle of German food. German food seems pretty rare in the northeast, but there's better wurst around. Plus, they have lots of non-German dishes on the menu.
It's ummm...loud inside. Very loud. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I get annoyed when I have to shout to talk to the person sitting right next to me, and I have to either ask "Say again?" 50,000 times or just guess what they said half the times. I sort of find that atmosphere ridiculous. Like, why would you come to a restaurant not by yourself just to not be able to communicate with the people with whom you came?? What are we supposed to do? Drink and eat while getting hearing loss until we're done, and then we leave to compare notes afterwards??
Anyway, I got an order of fish and chips. The breading tastes nice. Tastes like a beer batter. It, however, does not stick to the fish worth a darn, and it also overpowers the taste of the fish by a fair amount. The fries were decently good. Thick cut (1/2 inch, I think?) and crispy, and while they can't quite stand up on their own, they're really good as long as you give it a dash of malt vinegar. The cole slaw that came with it was disappointing and nigh-flavorless. Oh, also, skip using the tartar sauce. I don't know what relish they're using, but it's extremely overpowering in flavor. You put that on your fish, and you will taste neither the batter nor the fish.
Service was friendly, but I had 2 beers I didn't order charged to my ticket that I didn't notice until I got back home, so I'm not exactly thrilled about that.