While most of you were enjoying a lazy Easter Sunday around a bountiful table of Spring delicacies I was drinking steins of beer and wolfing down pretzels, pickels, veal schnitzel, grilled brats, and apple strudel.

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Well who wants to cook on their one day off? Not me!!!!

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The Radegast Hall & Biergarten in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has how officially been included on my ‘Industry Picks’ list for it’s unpretentious tasty affordable Austro-Hungarian menu and its plethora of beers.

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12 on tap and 37 in the bottle. Lots. And lots. Of beer.

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But what really made the Sunday enjoyable and the heavy drinking and eating excusable was the long stroll over the Williamsburg bridge from Manhattan. bierbridgepla

What a beautiful view.

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The view coming home was a bit blury… The biergarten is a beer hall. A huge beer hall spanning two connected warehouses. One hall is a traditional darkly lit space with a semi-circle red oak bar where one can slurp in privacy, while the other is an open garden under a retractable skylight ceiling. bierdanandheidi

We preferred the garden with its long wooden tables that allow for communal carnage.

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Happily enough, we also happened to arrive during a mustache contest which was taken very, very seriously. Contestants were given one month to grow a mustache. I’m not quite sure how winners were chosen, but roundtrip tickets to Austria were the prize. I’ll drink to that…. Radegast Hall & Biergarten 113 N. 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11211 at Berry St. 718-963-3973 Nearby subway: L at Bedford Ave