Der Wolf — Restaurant in Pasadena

Wish I would have read more recent reviews.

I was looking forward to this place for a while but never went until last week. First off, the out door set up didn’t look that bad and actually resembled a few pubs I went to in Germany, other than that NOTHING about this place reminded me of a German pub. It was only 4pm and they had top 40/rap music blasting, then repeatedly asked us if we had reservations, because there was a fight on tv in 3 hours, for some reason they couldn’t hear us even though we were standing right next to the server (I wonder why…). I was told this place had a great beer selection, but when I looked at the menu I only saw around 7 beers, 4 domestic, 2 seltzer, 1 house draft. I decided to go with the Der Wolf blonde in a Stein, I also ordered an entire, but was disappointed to see that there were no German related food options so I went with the roasted chicken. After nearly 40 mins, my meal came out to me before my beer did, I got a very unsatisfying meal that resembled airplane food, small potion, barely any sides, not worth $20. I then decided to remind the waiter of my beer, which he then brought me a pint, not a Stein then ran off before I could say anything, which was fine because I was ready to leave. Our check was ridiculously overpriced, 2 beers, 2 terrible entries and 1 ice water, around $80.

Like I said from the beginning, I wish I would have read the more recent reviews, then I would have known that they got a new owner, who seemed to have thrown out every German aspect of the pub and just turned it into another generic, copy and pasted bar just like every other one in that area. I hope it gets better but something tells me that Der...

Let me start by saying I love German restaurants. I consider myself a connoseur, even though that's French. We came here all the way from West LA to try something other than Wirtshaus, Rasselbock, and Silverlake's Red Lion Tavern. After a $30 Lyft, we arrived and found out it was Friends trivia day. Normally I love trivia, but this was just weird. Very quiet and like... professional? I want a casual experience when I go to a German place. Anyway, we sat at the bar, which is the only place you can order here. The service was extremely friendly and helpful, but bless their heart if they knew how to provide prompt service. We waited about 15m for a pretzel. Then we ordered a sausage plate appetizer. That took about 30m, and was fairly cold when we got it. We were two of about 20 people in the restaurant at this time. Not great. We gave them one last chance to redeem themselves with a beer battered brat, and I must say, it came out a lot quicker than the other food , but it tasted like pan-fried kielbasa. The tots were great, but honestly it was not worth the trek from West LA. Sort of a blessing in disguise because we checked this off of our German list without any desire to come back. TL;DR if you're looking for a legit German spot, come to West...

Made the mistake of coming here New Year’s Day for brunch before the Rose Bowl. Made reservations for our party a week in advance, waited about 30min before we were given menus, waited about 1.5 hrs for our food and out of 15 orders only two showed up, one of which was a burned waffle that couldn’t even be cut by the plastic utensils. We had to leave for the game still hungry (and now late) and then spent a ridiculous amount of money getting food at the stadium. If they were this unprepared for a full house on game day they shouldn’t have been allowing reservations in the first place (they actually advertised New Year’s Day brunch in their website!) They also could have even informed us when they realized they couldn’t complete the our order so we could have at least had time to grab some food somewhere else but they just ignored us. They only told us the food was still “going to be while” when I asked if we should just leave. On top of all that they informed Open Table (where I made the reservation) that we didn’t show up to our...