When I think “beer garden” I think of busty blond wenches in lederhosen serving up sausages and steins of frothy beer (and maybe yodeling while they do so). I don’t have any frame of reference for this association, having never been to a beer garden, but when Jeff & Eva invited me to join them at Loreley Biergarten I had that image swimming around in my head. Loreley defied my expectations — it’s essentially a dive bar that happens to stock tons of specialty German beers and has a restaurant in the back that serves German food. Thank goodness for that.

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