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Nicegeist: Brand-new Biergarten in Hayes Valley is kind of like Zeitgeist but a little more nice

Posted Oct 25, 2011 at 2:19 pm by
Categories: Food and Drink

They have authentic German-style picnic tables instead of big dumb American picnic tables, which is nice. The bathrooms are really nice, which is nice. Beer comes in big ol’ steins (or little steins if you’re a pussy), which is nice. The horseradish is some of the best we’ve ever had, which is nice.

It’s nice during the day, and it’s nice after dark:

Overall it’s pretty nice.

Just a couple of problems:

  1. Discrimination. On the way out, the gatekeeper offered to remove our wristbands. I was in a hurry so I said no thanks, and then he shouted after me, “Just don’t throw ‘em on the ground around here. You can throw ‘em on the ground when you get back to the Mission.” What! How’d he know?
  2. Pronunciation. Nobody seemed to know how to pronounce “Suppenküche” (the name of Biergarten’s parent company) right. Here’s how you don’t do it:

    3. How not to pronounce ‘Suppenküche’ by Allan Hough

  3. Violence. See for yourself:

But overall it’s pretty nice.

[All media in this post produced by Vic Wong.]

30 comments

30 Responses to “Nicegeist: Brand-new Biergarten in Hayes Valley is kind of like Zeitgeist but a little more nice”

  1. Chaunce C. Graves says:
    October 25, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    Wristbands? does that mean they let under 21 year olds in? Is that nice too? The chainlink fence adds to which part of the Germanic aesthetic?

  2. Crutcher says:
    October 25, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    Where is the Biergarten? Cross streets?

  3. The Tens says:
    October 25, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    I bet they even frown upon people smoking weed in there. Occupy Biergarten.

  4. NOT NICE says:
    October 25, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    Here’s hoping the ‘nicer’ half the zeitgeist crowd makes an exodus to ‘nicer’ environs, losing their forearm hair to those shite wristbands.

  5. tack says:
    October 25, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    I like the “nicegeist” moniker. I had been leaning towards “disneygeist” but this will do fine.

  6. scum says:
    October 25, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    Yuppiegeist?

  7. benson says:
    October 25, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    do they have das boot?

  8. Ken says:
    October 25, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    Litegeist?

  9. Ken says:
    October 25, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    or maybe Whitegeist? (not that ZG is particularly diverse)

  10. somelady says:
    October 25, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    For correct pronunciation of Suppenküche (so we don’t offend the delicate sensibilities of dude above whom I HIGHLY doubt speaks fluent German):
    http://www.forvo.com

    • Some Jerk says:
      October 25, 2011 at 5:27 pm

      *who* I highly doubt speaks fluent German.

      • Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable says:
        October 26, 2011 at 11:07 am

        Wait, really? The rules we were always taught were “WHO does WHAT to WHOM”. So if “Some lady” is the WHO doing the Doubting (the “What”) to the “dude above” would be the “whom”, no?

        • Yerf says:
          October 26, 2011 at 12:12 pm

          All you have to do is substitute “him” or “her” for “whom” and see if the sentence still makes sense.

          • Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable says:
            October 26, 2011 at 12:34 pm

            Ahh, so you’re saying that the “some dude” is the WHO doing WHAT (speaking fluent german) to WHOM (the rest of us) in this scenario?

        • Some Jerk says:
          October 26, 2011 at 6:16 pm

          You use “who” or “whom” for the subject or object, respectively. In this case, “who I highly doubt speaks fluent German” is a separate clause in which “who” (referring to “dude”) is the subject and “German” is the object.

  11. Olu says:
    October 25, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    Hayes Valley, what if I forgot where I left my bros? Two questions. Can you smoke there? Are flip flops mandatory?

  12. gerard says:
    October 25, 2011 at 7:28 pm

    and when do they do this!? i wanna be part of it.

  13. Laughing says:
    October 25, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    Yeah, Yeah, its not in the mission. White people, yuppies, and that other shit. Oh wait, all the people commenting here are whit and future yuppies. hipsters are the new yuppie.

  14. Spv says:
    October 26, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    Hipsters need an education before they become yuppies

  15. TC says:
    October 27, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Someday, white people will rule the world.