Duckstein Brewery — Restaurant in Henley Brook

40° day is not the right day to go. Yes, they have fans with misters outside and fans inside with a weak a/c inside but ya melt. We just had the beer flight, chips (French fries), and hot pretzels. The beer flight was good. Loved the hefe. The chips were cooked to perfection but the pretzels were horrible. They are probably just microwaved. They are skinny and quite small. I guess that’s why there’s two in a serving? They serve them with butter. A packet of right out of the fridge. How are you to eat that? Luckily, it was such a hot day, the butter softened quickly, but it’d be much better if baked in the oven, served pre-basted with a side of grain mustard and/or beer cheese.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Germany. I speak from experience.

The other knock is that there were about 5 employees milling about talking to each other or on their phones, the indoor area was empty. There was a table with leftover food and drink. We asked to sit in the coolest area and were told to sit anywhere. Our table had not been wiped down.

There is an indoor bathroom but they closed it as soon as tour came through. The outdoor bathrooms are giant portable toilets that you have to a very big step to get into. NOT accessible for elderly, disabled, or had too many drinks. There’s also no ventilation and hot as.

I’d come around for Oktoberfest as the Biergarten has a good set up and I really liked the Hefe. Add in a live German band and a good time...

Sadly I wouldn't come here again. Mainly disappointed in the price and quality. I work in hospitality myself, I know I am the type of difficult customer with this review but as a German and a foodie I would not want other people to think that this is how German food it. Had the brewery pan, husband had the schnitzel with fries which was good, the brewery pan was quite blunt. The sausage was sadly not my thing and I don't know what sausage it was supposed to b, I couldn't tell. The kassler had a super unusual & hard texture, not what you'd expect for a traditional kassler. considering how much we paid, very disappointing. Staff was friendly, quite young and casual and seemed kinda a little unprofessional, again considering the price. We asked for frozen Brezel as starter, but came with the two main meals and one of the main meals was handwarm. Dessert took 30 min to come out and was almost cold too. Paid over 120$ for a experience that was quite underwhelming. The restaurant itself was nice and warm, definitely a good location. I personally would recommend it more to go for drinks and the "non German " food like burgers maybe and steaks. By the way you should check out Hela Butcher to supply you with meat with sausages. They are...

Nice food, poor service. I believe the place is nice, but not prepared for busy days. Would never book a commemorative occasion over there again. We went for Father’s Day today, despite my booking been confirmed since 05 June, we were given the worst table ever. I was thought that If you make an early booking you would receive at least one of the best tables available, as any business would leave the less favourable tables for those late arrangements… anyway, It started raining, the drizzle coming into our direction and the staff refused to shut the wind blinds and simply told us we were welcome to shift the table without offering any help. At the end, we were keen to order desert, the waiting time was 40 min. We also ordered kids meal, one of the kids meal was forgotten (properly refunded). As part of the kids meal, all children could have an ice cream, I asked for these at the end at we wait over 20 min them, since too much drizzle was bothering us, all kids left without their ice cream. Clearly the place is not prepared for big crowds. Would have been an amazing experience if they had looked us as...