Roosevelt is worth the trip if you have a gang of friends with you who can help liven the place up a bit. It's not much more than a bar, but its a very posh bar. I think these guys are trying to clone Schumanns, but they don't quite make it.
Waiters are dressed like at Schumi's, but what worked for the sheep Dolly does not necessarily work for a bar. It's a cold, impersonal attempt to make a stylish cocktail bar, but sometimes its too cold and has ridiculous rules. I was here once with a group of friends when the place was fairly empty and witnessed another small group being told they couldn't occupy a table if they didn't order cocktails rather than coffee.
The group, understandably, left. Roosevelt is the kind of place where they don't offer an atmosphere of any description, they just let you fill the space up and see what happens, which means that some nights it is buzzing and others it is flat dead and you can't predict which it will be in advance unless you bring about 30 of your own friends with you. Hope you are in a group!
Review © 2001 Christopher Larmour & Damien Fournier, Groovy Munich
Roosevelt
Thierschplatz 5 (Google Map)
80538 Munich
U4/5 Lehel
Tel. 089 21578300
Website: Roosevelt Bar München
Friendly service for a so-called "posh" bar, little bar snacks also provided for free. The cocktails were very good and there were lots of interesting ones, not just the average Mai Tai and Caipis.
Posted by: "Show'Em" at 1:38 pm on 12.Aug.2004Not much of a place for beer drinkers. They only serve pils. No helles. For a beer, one would be better off going to Gewürzmühle or Tattenbach. Both are within visual distance of Roosevelts.
Posted by: "Herman Melvin" at 2:31 pm on 17.Aug.2004A stylish and understated bar, serving perfectly engineered cocktails and they certainly know how to make a perfect mojito. A large selection of malts is also available and the bar apparently boasts one of the biggest selections of Rum in Germany.
Posted by: "Simon Bradbury" at 8:55 am on 19.Nov.2004
