Wirtshaus German Beer Garden

Great people and vibes during Oktoberfest. Food was good and beer was great! When the live music is playing during Oktoberfest festivities, you have to order a minimum of 1 liter for any of the draft beers. We even participated in a stein holding contest. We had lots of fun and would come again.

Cozy, friendly spot for some spot-on German sausages both traditional and non-traditional. Kind of easy to miss the storefront as you look for street parking. Small indoor bar dining area and a cute outdoor patio area with more room. Décor reminiscent of a Bavarian soccer fan pub-jersey’s, scarves, logo steins, Bundesliga on tv, etc. Lots of beer choices, almost all of which I was totally unfamiliar with both by bottle and on draft. If you like a hard cider, the Polish Perry Milosawski Pear Cider was delicious. The menu includes a couple of sandwiches, goulash, schnitzels, and of course sausage links. About 7 or 8 varieties including a couple of vegan options. Also a link of the day. Link plate with 2 sides will run you about $17 plus/minus. You can add a link to a plate for an extra $3. Sides run towards traditional Bavarian fare such as spaetzle, sauerkraut, German potato salad among others. We chose to start with a Bavarian Pretzel from the appetizer menu. This arrived warm with sweet mustard and another dipping sauce called obatzda. This is a traditional biergarten item to serve with pretzels made with cheese and butter. Not sure of the ingredients here but it was delicious with the very good pretzel. My DW loves to see any entrée made with Wild Boar on a menu so she jumped on the boar sausage (Wildschwein Wurst) with roasted garlic and wine, adding German potato salad and kraut for her sides. The Kasekrainer sounded great to me. This link was made with pork and Emmentaler cheese. The special sausage of the day was duck bacon. Really should have asked if it was duck and bacon or bacon made from duck. Didn’t come to mind until too late. Either way it was the star of the night IMO. Outstanding flavor. If you like duck at all and it’s on the menu try it. My sides choices were spaetzle and garlic green beans. Of the four sides, the beans and the kraut were very good and quite flavorful but the potato salad and the spaetzle we considered quite bland. The boar link and the pork with Emmentaler were totally delicious. It appears, from our meal and others in phots I’ve seen, that the links are cooked over some type of coals/open flame grill that really ads to the flavor profile if they had been cooked using a different method. Kudos for that. Wish I had chosen to ask but our server was quite new and knowing that I skipped the questions. No time this visit to try desserts such as apple strudel ala mode but hope to next time. If Bavarian food and drink are your desire, absolutely give Wirsthaus a visit.

I'll start with the good or in this case, great): the beer menu and serving size options. Serving beer from the oldest brewery in the world. That's pretty cool. We each got two steins. Now, onto the bad: the food isn't great. We started with the Weisswurst, a boiled bavarian white sausage and pretzel. The pretzel was a bit overcooked on the outside and not overly chewy on the inside. The boiled sausage was a bit mushy with an awkward skin on the outside, but that's to be expected. I also ordered the Rinder Gulasch and my partner ordered the Kasepatzle. We weren't a fan of either. We also got a Chicken Schnitzel to go to have as leftovers for the next day. It's overpriced for a ridiculously thin single piece of fried chicken $18.50) I can make a better version at home. All to say, if it wasn't for the beer menu, I don't think I'd need to come back here.

If you’ve been to Germany, you know this is an imitation of true German food vs a literal “real German experience.” But if you only come to drink for a sports event or on a weekend, it won’t really matter. The German beer they have on tap is satisfactory for a good time and the food will go down well when you’re a little buzzed. But it’s not the kind of place you can enjoy sober at the same level as you would a true beer garden in Germany. It’s fine! For sure. It’s just not GREAT. It’s not five stars. It’s not real German food in Los Angeles. Is there a better place? Not that we have found, yet. But I also know this isn’t it if you’re looking for full authenticity. Also it’s expensive for what it is. For two of us it was $80 before a tip.

Cozy, friendly spot for some spot-on German sausages both traditional and non-traditional. Kind of easy to miss the storefront as you look for street parking. Small indoor bar dining area and a cute outdoor patio area with more room. Décor reminiscent of a Bavarian soccer fan pub-jersey?s, scarves, logo steins, Bundesliga on tv, etc. Lots of beer choices, almost all of which I was totally unfamiliar with both by bottle and on draft. If you like a hard cider, the Polish Perry Milosawski Pear Cider was delicious. The menu includes a couple of sandwiches, goulash, schnitzels, and of course sausage links. About 7 or 8 varieties including a couple of vegan options. Also a link of the day. Link plate with 2 sides will run you about $17 plus/minus. You can add a link to a plate for an extra $3. Sides run towards traditional Bavarian fare such as spaetzle, sauerkraut, German potato salad among others. We chose to start with a Bavarian Pretzel from the appetizer menu. This arrived warm with sweet mustard and another dipping sauce called obatzda. This is a traditional biergarten item to serve with pretzels made with cheese and butter. Not sure of the ingredients here but it was delicious with the very good pretzel. My DW loves to see any entrée made with Wild Boar on a menu so she jumped on the boar sausage (Wildschwein Wurst) with roasted garlic and wine, adding German potato salad and kraut for her sides. The Kasekrainer sounded great to me. This link was made with pork and Emmentaler cheese. The special sausage of the day was duck bacon. Really should have asked if it was duck and bacon or bacon made from duck. Didn?t come to mind until too late. Either way it was the star of the night IMO. Outstanding flavor. If you like duck at all and it?s on the menu try it. My sides choices were spaetzle and garlic green beans. Of the four sides, the beans and the kraut were very good and quite flavorful but the potato salad and the spaetzle we considered quite bland. The boar link and the pork with Emmentaler were totally delicious. It appears, from our meal and others in phots I?ve seen, that the links are cooked over some type of coals/open flame grill that really ads to the flavor profile if they had been cooked using a different method. Kudos for that. Wish I had chosen to ask but our server was quite new and knowing that I skipped the questions. No time this visit to try desserts such as apple strudel ala mode but hope to next time. If Bavarian food and drink are your desire, absolutely give Wirsthaus a visit.