The Hard Rock is still there. Ayinger is next door. Hard Rock serves Ayinger beers and has really comfy looking couches. I know this because the Ayinger WC was out of order and they sent us over the Hard Rock.

Nice. The last time I was in Munich, that was a Planet Hollywood or Hard Rock Cafe — or some such place of marketing lunacy for being (what, 8 feet?) directly across from the HB. Really can’t wait to get back there now!

When i say directly across, its right out the front door. Whilst all the drunken asshats are getting kicked out of the HB and puking in the street, I was tucked into the front corner with the wife and kid drinking fist fulls of cask beer.

I still want to know more about the Munich Ayinger pub, Kristen? Kristen?

Mario — it’s not a generational thing, and it’s becoming….

Hmm? Did this replace the Hard Rock Cafe, or whatever monstrosity used to be there?

I need to get back to Munich soon.

Be sure to make it to the Ayinger pub (directly across from the Hofbrauhaus). After 5pm they put on a cask of beer and serve ‘vom Fa?’ by gravity. When I was there last fall Thursdays were the special nights. Things you couldn’t usually get. Their Jahrhundert by gravity is amazing.

Oh and go to Schneider and get a bottle of the Aventinus Edelbrand. Man that stuff is good.

“Fact is I’m pre-posting this because Friday we’ll be in Munich, and I’ll be focused on how to get from our hotel to Neuhauser Strasse 27.”