Restaurant Design - Radegast Beer Hall

Project Description

Now that Americans have rediscovered what beer is supposed to taste like, is it any wonder that the traditional setting is coming back, too? Beer gardens are popping up across the land, but owners know there's something they have to avoid when they open a new facility: the feeling of newness itself. The more your beer garden feels like it's a place where people have been hoisting giant mugs of ale for centuries on end, the better. And that's why we adore Brooklyn's Radegast Hall and Biergarten. Sure, the great list of German, Belgian, and Czech brews is on the money, but we especially love how the place was carved out of an old factory, creating a space that's half patio, half assembly line. You can't shake the feeling that pints have been drained here since the Great Depression. If, after polishing off the weisswurst and sauerkraut smothered with horseradish and mustard, you still aren't convinced that this place is authentic, keep your eyes peeled for the occasional mustache-growing or glass-carrying competition, which can win you round-trip tickets to the Eden of beer: Saxon lands. Village Voice Best Of

Scope of work:Exterior and Interior concept creation, Design of costume tables and furniture, bars, lighting, grill stations, artworks and painted murals. Management of construction and installations.

The world has seen no stranger political entity than the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which united at least ten different nationalities who cordially hated one another and agreed on one thing and one thing only: their love for beer and sausages. While this might not be enough to run an empire on (the realm of the Double Eagle collapsed in 1918), it works for a beer hall, particularly one as gorgeous as this one, where all who drink at the bar do so under a large portrait of Emperor Franz Josef and his ally Kaiser Wilhelm. Viribus unitis!
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