The Augustiner was my favorite place yet, as far as atmosphere. It's a huge beer garden under huge chestnut trees full of locals - friends meeting for a drink, dates, businessmen after work, etc. The food wasn't anything special - I had brats and pommes frites (fries) with a weiss (wheat) beer and Chris made a bad decision of ordering "ham" which proved to be meat loaf, only their "meat loaf" is truly a loaf of meat, with the taste of sausage but texture of green stuff/seafoam salad. Not high on his list. But the best part was watching him ask for water - he still wasn't up to drinking beer. Everyone looked at him like they'd never heard the question before and directed him to someone else. He finally found a mug and place to fill it with water. When busboys came by to clear empty glasses, they tried to pick his up thinking it was empty then looked confused realizing it was full of water - pretty sure they hadn't seen that before. Haha.. Sorry to laugh at your discomfort chris but it was pretty amusing.
But seriously the atmosphere of this place is awesome - laid back with more tables than I could possibly count and a playscape for kids. We always talk about starting a restaurant/pizzeria/microbrewery/winery with Scout and Ben. Ben has come up with all the details, deciding to call it The Angry Baer (Sterns & Baers). I've decided the venue needs to have a beer garden feel under big pecan trees, although we have to figure out how to handle the Texas heat. (That's up to my engineering counterparts.)
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