Hofbräuhaus in Las Vegas

Megan Edwards: Starbucks did it faster, and Disneyland did it bigger, but both followed the hallowed capitalist tradition of spawning all over the place. And now, like one of those rare desert plants that reproduces only once a millennium, Munich's revered Hofbräuhaus has dropped a pup in Las Vegas. Read more: Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas

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They've got one in Miami too.



Hofbräu Miami
943 Lincoln Rd
Miami Beach
FL 33139

I received an email from a friend stateside. She just returned from Las Vegas and ran into Hobrauhaus Las Vegas!

http://www.hofbrauhauslasvegas.com/

I was horrified and did not know there was such a thing! It seems there is now a Vegas version of the famous beer hall!

Did anyone else know about this? Or are we the only clueless ones?

I feel it will take away from the city tours when some America tourist goes “Oh, well, we have this too, I’ve already been there done that. What’s the big deal?�

I am sorry, I realize that the HB is bit commercialized and maybe, considered by some, a tourist trap but isn’t this is taking things a bit far…

Thoughts, comments…

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i actually know the owner of this place. A true blau/weiss bavarian. Best mate of a work colleague of mine. He pays attention that things are as authentic as they can be.

Do they have the swastika shadows on the ceilings?

That's not the only one... there are several others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofbr%C3%A4uhaus

Anyways, i have the menu here from the Vegas one too...the food doesn't even resemble what you get here...and neither does the building in Vegas. It really is a completely different experience.

The plastic version? Hofbräuhaus Lite?

To answer your questions, yes and yes.

Woo-Hoo! I see a Hofbräuhaus London. Yuppies in pink shirts deprived of their gelt for watered-down Stella in big jugs served by cheeky Cockney wenches with big jugs and some pretzel crisps. Franchise? Investment? Who'll say "Aye"?

Well, it is never the same as the original but really how authentic can be when the building is probably only 2-years old! And no history value at all!

As for the food, I am not the American palette is for a 101 ways to cook the “other white meat-pork! “

There's been one in Cincy for like ten years. It's under license from Hofbräuhaus München who supervises the making of the beer etc. So if they want to expand overseas...what's the problem?

Absolutely shocking. Before you know it, Vegas will be building its own version of the Pyramids or the Eiffel Tower...

HBH is just about the first thing you see leaving McCarran airport, so yes you probably are on the tail end of the awareness curve here.

C'mon guys, the Hofbräuhaus isn't exactly like most other beerhalls in Munich. The fact that it is directly across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe should should tell you all you need to know. Does anyone have photos of the insides of the ones "out foreign".

I really don't know why people have a problem with this.

Er jamie, think the Hofbräuhaus was there just a tad before the Hard Rock Café, eh?

Oh please Jebus...the beer here SUCKS!!!

heathen. you obviously couldn't tell a good ale from a Babycham.

The first link had something very interesting in it: "Nobody knew the words to the drinking songs, and if you ordered a "mass" of beer—one of those liter-sized glass mugs—you had to pay for the glass and then try to get your money back when you left if you didn't want to keep it."

Outdoor festivals in every pissant dump in Germany charge pfand for glasses (beer, gluehwein, etc.), but I just remembered that there's no Pfand at the Munich Oktoberfest ... maybe it's the sharp-eyed security people who keep people from horcking Masses out of the tents or something, but it is a nice change nonethless.

P.S. I always wanted one of those things as a pencil holder but was too chicken to swipe one and too cheap to buy one. Then I once had a business meeting in Munich during Oktoberfest and stumbled over and swiped a discarded one out of a a planter box outside my hotel whilst waiting for a taxi!

I must admit the ales have not done it for me so far. They taste watered down and flat, while the room temp doesn't do anything to make it more palatable to me.

I am more than willing to go and try any recommendation for an ale that can impress.

A babycham is ???

You're a douche bag and you don't deserve decent beer. And for the love of Saint Arnold, it's cellar temperature, not room temperature. Go drink a Carling.

I have been to the one in Vegas... The Sausages were horrible. The beer was good though. They had some mexican guys in Liederhosen playing in a band though...

I've got a better way to describe them. They are like what is left in the tray under the beer tap at the end of the night, once all the patrons have gone home. Truly awful.

I have a cracked Spaten Maß standing around and will sell it to you for €50. It was stolen by a Ghanaen friend of ours last year.

The Las Vegas HBH cooperates with a Bavarian bakery regarding fresh Brezn (not pretzels!) according to a guy I spoke to who was there before Christmas. My problem with any exported original German beer is how the local climate/humidity/lack of same/salt air/desert air/shape or temperature of the glass etc. influences the taste of the beer. I mean, Hofbräu is the type of beer I drink once a year with my TT friends but avoid like grim death the rest of the year, but even in the desert climate of Las Vegas it's gotta be better than the local produce.

I recall drinking Franziskaner Weißbier both on Gran Canaria and on Crete and both times the heat and salt air rendered it flat and tasteless within five minutes.

Absolutely, but these days the Hof caters less for the royals and more for the tourists. To me visiting the Hofbräuhaus in Munich would be like going to an "Irish Bar" while visiting Dublin. I've got no problem with it but I'd rather go to the Augustiner Bräustuben, unfortunately for the tourists they rarely have heard of Augustiner.

Liederhose ...

When my gf was at the HBhaus in Vegas last year, the band was Austrian. Her cousin was trying to get a job, I think he chose the Mariott in NYC instead,

Considering the quality of the beer in Hamburg, this might be worth a visit while in HH

http://www.hamburg-hofbraeuhaus.de/galerie.php

The Hofbräuhaus in Munich was completely devoid of music last Christmas Eve (yes, Scogs and I dragged our sorry asses there just for the hell of it and sat at the table with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg lookalikes) because the musicians would have charged an exhorbitant fee to perform. Drag the Mexicans over here, I say.

That link needed a "not safe for work" tag or something.

I'm going to send you a bill of a yet-to-be-determined size for waking up the baby at 7:30 on a Sunday morning :-(

i've been to the one in cincinnati (actually in kentucky) a few times, but hate it always. friends continuously seem to want to celebrate birthdays there and it's absolutely annoying. everyone stands on the tables and benches and dances along to weird bavarian-sounding versions of songs like louie, louie and hang on sloopy. the strangest kentucky-germany mesh that i've ever seen... oh wait, i forgot about geotta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetta <----that stuff is a serious crime. there are actually two "geotta fests" held in northern kentucky, i think, annually. be sure to read about popular condiments served with geotta. i can't believe grape jelly is listed.

At the 1982 World's Fair, I worked at the Strohhaus. It was a blatant attempt to inject Hofbräu- or Ofest-ness into the affair. They even had an oompah band and overcrowded seating and everything. If the USofA can export Micky D's and the like, we can most certainly import the similar vein of other cultures. Why not, its fun! You don't see people complaining about the Chinese, Indian or Italian restaurants on every corner of the world do you?

To be honest, it tickles me pink that there are more German (and French) themed restaurants in the States than oh say British ones.

@hilaryf, during the UT-Bama game weekend (in '82) the oompah band played Rocky Top and the crowd went wild! The Bama section and the UT section were singing back and forth at one another and it was, as I have found out since, very much like what happens at the Ofest between Italians and Germs or anything to do with soccer. It is stupid fun, but beer fueled fun none the less and everybody knew it and no one took it seriously enough to start fighting.

I am trying to rally my friends to go to the one in Melbourne, so if I get the chance to head out there I'll post up some pics of the Aussie version