Hofbrahaus is not the only German restaurant in town as of May 15th. An 88 seat Biergarten will open up on the roof of the Hotel Monaco Downtown. This new restaurant will have a german street food and a great international beer collection. You can learn more in this blog and at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
An 88-seat restaurant, Biergarten will open May 15 on the 9th floor rooftop of the Kimpton's Hotel Monaco Downtown, with a menu of German street food, and international beer selection and a view.
"It's a beer geek's destination," said executive chef of The Commoner, Dennis Marron. At Biergarten, there will be no Sierra Nevada or Iron City Light. Instead, it will offer 16 draughts and 50 to 60 types of bottles or cans. German brews such as Spaten Optimator and Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier will be on the menu, along with Belgian ales, sours and lambics and French ciders. Biergarten will also sell beer by the growler.
There's no kitchen, but like a biergarten in Germany's capital city of Berlin, there will be carts serving homemade pretzels with mustard, bratwurst and currywurst. Visitors can grab seats at communal tables or high-top tables, as well as gather for a game of corn hole, garden chess and a super-sized Jenga or Connect Four.
The 248-room Hotel Monaco in the former Reed Smith building, between Sixth Avenue and Strawberry Way, opened in late January to much fanfare, since the property from the San Francisco-based Kimpton is among the first of a handful of boutique hotels opening in Pittsburgh. In East Liberty, the Hotel Indigo is set to open this summer, while the Ace Hotel is scheduled to open in late 2015; Distrikt Hotel and Forbes Hotel, both Downtown, are in the works for 2016.
Hotel Monaco hosted its official opening gala on April 9, with decor and attire inspired by the styles of 1903, the year the James Reed building was completed.
The marquee restaurant helmed by Mr. Marron, the Commoner features tavern fare such as scotch deviled eggs, a cheddar board or a hearty green salad among first courses and a steak and ale pie, lamb shank or brick chicken roasted in the wood-fired oven among main dishes.
Biergarten will open, weather permitting, at 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and at noon on Saturday and Sunday. For next year, the hotel is looking into an awning or another means that would allow it to remain open during inclement weather.
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