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Of course it's not literally the mother, for several obvious reasons—for one thing, there's the well-established predecessor Bohemian Hall, to the north in Astoria. But at least in terms of size, Studio Square in Long Island City is now king of New York, boasting a colossal 18,000 square feet beer garden that officially opens today at 4 p.m. The full beer and food menu is below.
Unlike Radegast Hall in Williamsburg, another relatively recent beer garden which affects an old world attitude with waitresses dressed in dirndls, the ambiance at Studio Square hews contemporary. (Leave your lederhosen home.) Live music is promised, and the site also boasts a massive event space for weddings. The cobblestone courtyard is made from Belgium Blocks and dotted with River Birch trees; around the perimeter, a covered patio accommodates rainy day imbibing, and the indoor bar features vibrant murals by graffiti artist Louie “KR One” Gasparro.
Studio Square's menu includes German Bratwurst, Certified Black Angus Hamburgers, Beef and Chicken Kababs, and Pulled Pork Sandwiches. There are over 15 imported, domestic, and craft beers on draft (see below), plus a range of wines and spirits and housemade Sangria. Coming as this does on the heels of Dutch Kills opening, it looks like all Long Island City needs now is a fancy absinthe bar!
Studio Square // 35-33 36th Street (between 35th & 36th Avenues), Long Island City, Queens // 718-383-1001 // Open Monday-Friday 4:00 p.m. - 4:00 a.m. and Saturday & Sunday 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 a.m.
BEER LIST
Spaten Oktoberfest
Sam Adams Lager
Sam Adams Seasonal: Cherry Wheat
Hoegaarden Original White Ale
Carlsberg
Franziskaner Hefe Weiss
Stella Artois
Pilsner Urquell
Blue Moon: Honeymoon Summer Ale
Captain Lawrence - Freshchester Pale Ale
Stone Levitation Ale
Stone Pale Ale
Abita Light
Hoffbrau Dunkel
Radeberger
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
Weihenstephan Hefe-Weiss bier
GRILL MENU
Hamburger (8oz cert Black Angus) - $8
Cheese Burger (8oz cert Black Angus) - $8
Barbecued chicken breast sandwich - $8
Pulled pork sandwich - $8
Portobello mushroom “burger” - $8
2 Schaller & Weber Hotdogs - $8
Bratwurst - $8
Weisswurst - $8
Greek sausage - $8
Kielbasa - $8
Chicken souvlaki (2) - $8
Pork souvlaki (2) - $8
Jumbo pretzel - $3
Side of fries - $3
Side of bacon - $3
Side of sauerkraut - $3
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Franziskaner on tap is nice. As long as they don't charge 8 bucks for it.
Looks really cool - they've obviously learned from Astoria and Wburg's mistakes. But I'm sure it'll be packed and unenjoyable once it's warm.
A few good beers there, but would have been great to see even more German beers... like a kolsch, rauchbier or alt. Still would love to check it out - I wonder if they will serve liters!
Is is inappropriate to ask older Germans where they were during the war? Some say so
I live and work in the neighborhood just went on my way home by but the doors were closed and there was a sign that said it was a private event. Kind of weird cause I thought it was opening to the public today...
I had no idea it was opening today. I live around the corner. Weird though, I thought I lived in Astoria.
Astoria doesn't technically start until Broadway, I don't think.
Even more technically, all of Astoria is part of Long Island City (going back to when it was an independent city).
This is in the Dutch Kills section of LIC.
Weihenstephaner is the true nectar of the gods.
Beer prices would be helpful, no one is going there to eat.
P.S.: If they try Dutch Kills-style $10 cocktail nonsense, they'll be out of business quickly (as will Dutch Kills, I suspect.) Queens folks will just go to Bohemian Beer Garden or regular bars and drink for far less, and Manhattan folk don't want to visit Queens to pay Manhattan prices.
Hi everyone ! I'm Tommy..one of the owners of Studio Square. Just wanted to answer a few of the questions posted and welcome all of you to our beer garden. First, prices of beers and such....all beers are priced the same: $7 1/2 liter $13 for a liter and $18 for a pitcher. We also have Sangria on tap $6 for a 16 oz. cup $25 for a 60 oz. pitcher.... a full bar is also available..prices for cocktails vary, but very reasonable...I promise. all food listed above is $8 for item...$10 with a full serving of fries. So far...everyone has raved about the food..We're hoping people will come for the food as well. All of our beers and sangria are served through the new "CHILLRITE" system we flew to New Orleans to get and bring back to L.I.C. All are guaranteed to be served nice and cold. In response to member "Steriotypical"..you must have passed by on Tuesday...when we did a private friends and family opening .. a test run for the place...We are open now and hope to see you soon. We also look forward to everyone seeing our inside area...and our sharing/communal tables made from real trees with the bark. We are open Mon.- Fri. 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. and Sat., Sun., and holidays Noon to 4 a.m. Thanks, hope to see you guys soon. p.s. as well as the 17 beers listed above..we also have Warsteiner and Harpoon Summer Ale...so a total of 19 beers on tap to choose from. Thanks again.
$18 for a pitcher in Queens? I think they are $14 at Bohemian Hall (for good beers). Cheap pitchers at Rudy's in Manhattan are $7.
I will come check your place out nonetheless because I live in LIC, but if you had some more economical options I think you'd do killer business.
The beers at Beer Garden are $15 for a pitcher, and the bartender himself told me their pitcher = 3 pints. So you are actually getting more beer for your buck at Studio Square.
You also are not taking into account that this place is NOT Beer Garden. If you want a picnic table and pollen in your beer, and to save yourself 3 bucks just go there.
I'm really looking forward to going this weekend and am happy LIC is stepping it up with the bars and restaurants. A lovely addition to the neighborhood.
I think $18 for a pitcher of some of those beers is a good deal. Sixty ounces, that's almost four pints.
The real deal is on the other side of LIC. The place is called Wunderbar. The website is a little wonky and the decor a little cheesy but the authentic food is awesome and the beer selection is amazing...if you like German beer. And the prices are the best anywhere in the City. $5 for a half liter of most anything, $9 for a liter, and $13 for 1 1/2 liters. Weihenstaphaner is a buck more. All the wursts are from Schaller and Weber so its good stuff.
They have seating outside and are building a Biergarten in the back. They have live music every weekend.
It doesn't get much traffic so they're planning on closing off the street and having a straight up echt Oktoberfest.
The walk is a few minutes further from the train than Studio Square but well woth it.
http://wunderbarlic.com/Menu.html
WunderBar is a bit cheesy but totally good beer and food. I just wonder if they'll survive being so far from subways and in a lightly-populated area. Maybe the Roosevelt Island proximity helps.
Gotta get Murphy's Law to christen the place with a performance!
If you go there and see someone wearing an MTA shirt that has profanity....it's me. Feel free to come say hi.
DOGFISH. WOO!
The physical set up of this bar was very well designed. Really large windows in the entrance, large bars, lots of room inside and outside, a nice fireplace in the entry way to the beer garden, lots of bathrooms, and some nice landscaping and decoration on the interior and exterior.
But these are attributes don't make a beer garden! This place is more of a rooftop bar you would find in midtown.
I remember going to county fairs in upstate NY and the beer gardens were nothing more than a tent with lots of patio furniture, a huge bar with plenty of taps, a large setup of plants flowers and bushes in the center, and an Um-pah Bands belting out polka music. My grandma Wolly would talk to the band in German requesting her favorite songs from God's Country.
Like I stated earlier this place has lot's a kewl qualities with regard to the physical lay out. But I don't think it is worth the train ride and walk to pay those prices to sit in a nice backyard behind a movie theatre.
Remember why the Bohemian Beer garden became the spot. Inexpensive German Beer, served by eastern Europeans, the ability to sit outside and smoke, and see the train station from where you are sitting in the beer garden. Yes the prices there have climbed over the last summers, but they are still less expensive than S2.
I would recommend to the manages of having some type of mechanism to identify when a bathroom is occupied. I had to knock of five doors before finding an empty bathroom. Also, the bartenders seemed very inexperienced. My bartender put my change for my order in her tip jar before returning it to me. Not Kewl.
Just to recap: Great ambiance, high prices, clean bathrooms, too sterile!
Hopefully it works, Good Luck and Prost!
some of you people are out of your minds. This is one of the most amazing places i ever been to in ny. The staff and the owners are amazing, the convience alone of getting a beer here i would pay $10 more for a pitcher than go to bohemian hall and wait 3 hours. The beer was nice and cold unlike bohemian hall which uses a room full of air conditioners to chill there beers. The food here was fantastic, a great crowd as well. AS far as wunderbar goes which is a dump in the middle of queensbridge projects,is just that a dump. and the person who wrote the blog also had a link to the page which i find a little suspiscious. ONCE AGAIN FOR A RECAP bohemian hall couldnt hold a candle to this place, and wunderbar please a complete joke. I will be living in studio square all summer long(oh and winter)
Yeah, I left the URL for Wunderbar so people could look at a menu and see where the place is. There doesn't appear to be an official site for Studio Square and a minimum of information was included about prices. And if by dump you mean Wunderbar is clean, prepares tasty food, serves better beer, all at lower prices then you hit the nail on the head my friend.
Here's the URL again: http://wunderbarlic.com/
Wunderbar has better beer on tap and its so much cheaper. They obviously don't have the money to hire PR people like Studio Square and get a write up like this on Gothamist so I figured I'd mention them here since we're talking about good beer and Biergartens. By the way, $18 for a pitcher of Sam Adams. No thanks. That is a complete joke. I don't care if a pitcher is 4 pints of beer. I can get 1 1/2 liters (read: 6+ pints) of Hofbrau, or Radeberger, or Weihenstephaner for $13 or $15. I choose to go to Wunderbar and drink superior beer at a lower price.
Bohemian Hall will shed some of its douchiness but Studio Square will welcome this with open arms.
And as far as the projects go, I've been going here for a few months now with larger groups and sometimes just with my girlfriend and never saw any projects.
Stereotyp, Here's a clue: 1-1/2 liters is THREE PINTS, not "6+ pints"). Your math (and imagined 'bargain' atWunderbar) are way off.
dkny12, your math is also off. $15 for a 3-pint "pitcher" at Beer Garden is $5/pint. Studio Square has a liter (2 pints) for $13, or $6.50/pint. I'm sure their pitchers are not full 60- or 72-oz pitchers for $18, and are probably the same 3-pint (48-oz) pitchers for $18. So no, you DON'T get "more beer for your buck at Studio Square."
Just trying to correct a few of the false statements being made here by strangely biased parties.
Anyhow, liters of beer are $9 at Wunderbar so that's the bargain, unimagined.
Now that the article is 5 days old we can put it to bed. Nobody is really reading these replies anyway.
its All Wunderbar! the bier is great & so is the food! - its funny I'm the only real German Restaurant here in LIC.. and I love it.! imported German bier & home made German food passed down from my grandfather's german restaurants here in Glendale Queens! if you want the real deal I am here! or pay manhattan prices at the other places! thank you to all my regulars! that come to the wunderbar! it is cheesy! and fun place to relax.. I put my place up against any place out here the so called I sell german bier and wurst! please! do any of them speak german also! I"m going no where but up! eat my bratwurst..
love wunderbar! the cheesy dump!
prost!
New website! www.wunderbarlic.com -
its amazing how you people take advantage of another place opening and promote yours. If you were doing somethng rite, you would make money and be able to promote, and get a good rep. If you make a dump people will come once and thats it. So dont knock someone else bc they created something great and worked hard for it. Work hard and smart and THEN people might come to your place. Remember you pay for what you get!!!!