New York · Oktoberfest 2026
Oktoberfest in New York
Beer halls from Midtown to Staten Island, a Bavarian park on Long Island, and a Yorkville survivor.
New York's Germantown moved from the Lower East Side to Yorkville and then mostly out to Queens and the Island, but the festival still fills every hall the city has left. Liters in Midtown after work, a Bay Ridge dining room that hammers schnitzel to order, a beer garden in Franklin Square that has been throwing Oktoberfest since before your grandparents.
Coming up · Oktoberfest · coming up Sep 19
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German · New York · ★ 4.6 (7,722)
The Midtown beer hall with the long tables, the band and the Hofbräu on tap — the city's biggest Oktoberfest room.
Order: A liter of Hofbräu and the pretzel with Bavarian cheese
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German · New York · ★ 4.3 (3,545)
Third Avenue's Bavarian hall, with the dirndls, the band and the after-work crowd that never left.
Order: A stein of Paulaner Oktoberfest and the wurst board
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German · New York · ★ 4.5 (1,950)
Yorkville's last German restaurant, open since 1936. The boot of beer is real.
Order: Sauerbraten with potato dumplings
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German · New York · ★ 4.7 (2,572)
Glendale's German restaurant since 1972, with a pork store next door and the best schnitzel in Queens.
Order: The Stammtisch platter and a Spaten
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German · Brooklyn · ★ 4.3 (723)
Bay Ridge's Bavarian house, live music on the weekends and schnitzel that hangs off the plate.
Order: Jägerschnitzel and the potato pancakes
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German · Brooklyn · ★ 4.2 (1,301)
A Crown Heights German kitchen and beer bar that does the season the neighbourhood way.
Order: The bratwurst plate with a Kölsch
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German · Franklin Square · ★ 4.5 (3,089)
A German beer garden on Long Island since 1936 — the region's oldest Oktoberfest, under the trees.
Order: A liter in the biergarten and the wurst platter
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German · New York · ★ 4.4 (995)
Killmeyer's Old Bavaria Inn on Arthur Kill Road, a 19th-century tavern with the best beer garden on the Island.
Order: A liter in the beer garden and the schnitzel
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German · Astoria · ★ 4.7 (1,134)
Astoria's German sausage and beer bar, three blocks from the Bohemian Hall crowd.
Order: The bratwurst sampler with a Weihenstephan
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German · Brooklyn · ★ 4.2 (1,301)
Fort Greene's Black Forest beer hall, with the Berlin street food and the Bavarian pretzels.
Order: Currywurst and a Köstritzer
