Hofbräu am Dom in Erfurt

The food came within 5 minutes of ordering and the goulash was dry, tough and only lukewarm. However, the service was nice.

We were here again today, we've actually always been happy, but not today. The dishes were served at the same time, some piping hot, others cold. The farmer's breakfast here is a small portion of fried potatoes with a fried egg. The prices for drinks are too high, we won't be coming back for a while.

We spent an absolutely great evening here today and the service deserves high praise! Doreen was courteous, quick and sweetened our evening with her open manner! The food was great and very tasty!

Bonus stars for Doreen and the two Arab chefs 👌🏻

Wonderful stay, great food, excellent service -> *****5 stars for Doreen! Always a pleasure, here at the Hofbräuhaus am Dom you always feel at home. A must for every Erfurt resident and every tourist 🫶

Got a table at the Hofbräuhaus Erfurt yesterday afternoon without a reservation. Nicely and stylishly furnished for a brewery. Nice and quick service. Menu typical of the location. We decided on roast pork and meatloaf. A good choice. Everything fresh, tasty and rich.

Employees mostly nice. Food came quickly. Ambiance is also okay (the music is not recommended for everyone) food was good.

No, the food took a long time and wasn't particularly special. Dumplings not cooked through, edge of meat very dry, schnitzel as thin as a dishcloth...

A visually very nice restaurant. Be sure to pre-order. Has several floors, no parking nearby. There should be no further difference between price and performance. Our waitress said to us: “... oh, I have to work, I would rather go party too” ... no further words are needed about the service.

This restaurant used to be our favorite place for every short vacation to Erfurt. Unfortunately, the food and service have continued to deteriorate. You no longer feel welcome; you just get processed – pay and say goodbye. Criticism of the food is accepted, but tacitly accepted. There is no apology or small gesture of reparation. Despite everything, we give it three stars because the ambience in this brewery is very nice. I hope that on our next visit our criticism will be accepted and perhaps implemented for the better.

Good food, great service, always happy.

Very tasty food and super fast, good service😊👍

Were in Erfurt between the holidays and visited the Hofbräu am Dom. It was a lovely evening, the food was delicious 😋 and the service was quick and had a nice saying despite the many guests. We would definitely stop by again when we visit Erfurt.

Never again! Food more than disappointed and has nothing to do with Bavaria. Cold, loveless.

I would like to give a general summary of the restaurant and its management by writing about what I experienced yesterday. As soon as I entered, I was greeted by the waitresses with rude looks like they were asking “why did you come? what do you want?” (especially an elderly lady’s look and attitude towards me was quite rude) and again they rudely showed me where I should sit. Then, within a few seconds and without saying anything, they took me from my table and showed me a corner. They tried to rush me and take my order without even letting me look at the menu. I just sat at my table and as a tourist I was trying to understand the menu. Frankly, I do not understand why there is so much opposition to English in a touristic place. I asked the waitress for Wildgulasch. It was served to me quickly and cold, as if a frozen food had been put in the microwave. I know that goulash is essentially a dish containing lots of meat. However, what they gave me was only 3 small pieces of meat and I had to struggle to find them on the plate. The entire plate was covered with cold and tasteless sauce and mushrooms. When I immediately finished my meal (the taste was so awful that I could only eat the potatoes and 3 small pieces of meat) and left, when I tried to show the waitress the situation and the way I was treated, the only response I got was “Sorry” with an insincere smile and she turned and left without saying anything. I have heard of people experiencing this kind of disgrace in different branches of this same restaurant. In summary, if you are a tourist who does not know German, I would say do not go.

Food good but service leaves room for improvement. Some food wasn't ordered, some orders arrived cold. Overall a medium experience.

After I reported very positively last year, today I experienced something completely different. Despite making a reservation, they didn't even check whether I had made a reservation and simply sent me to a corner. Service overloaded and not at all careful. After taking the order almost immediately and distributing drinks, there was hardly any service, food was brought, but then nothing else happened. Unusual on a Tuesday at 1 p.m. It felt like I walked past 50 times and didn't come despite shouting. When the lady finally stood frantically at the table, she told me that her boss wouldn't give her roller skates, otherwise she would be faster. Again she was gone for a long time and another waitress recognized that we wanted to pay. Then the original waitress appeared with the bill in her hand. When I asked if I could pay by card, she angrily tore up her piece of paper at the table in front of us and walked away without a word. No, this is not worthy of any Hofbräuhaus!

Staff was okay, unfortunately the food was not. The starter soup was cold and the main course was just something for everyone who was very hungry, a shame, a shame. All in all not recommended.

First the positive, you got a place. Drinks came quickly, food was ordered 5 minutes later. Soups served cold, somewhat edible after complaining about being microwaved. Waiter didn't know if food was available. Main courses came without appetizers and were lukewarm at best. Unfortunately, it was therefore disappointing to eat here.

Mid-range restaurant with little atmosphere. The dishes taste strongly of flavor enhancers and finished products. No repeat for us.

It's a shame that only one (very friendly and hard-working) employee was available for the entire area during Advent. She had to take orders for food and drinks and sometimes even pour the drinks herself. Therefore the waiting times were quite long overall. The burgers of the people sitting next to us weren't really warm. I had a lunch board. That was ok, but I found the price to be quite sporty.

Excellent in all respects as one would expect form any Hofbrau Haus. Classic German fare prepared to perfection.

Cozy economy as you would expect from the name. The staff is very friendly and service-oriented. The food was very good and so was the beer. Clear recommendation.

Nice atmosphere and very friendly staff. Food standard.

Dec.2024. Today we were on the 1st of Advent (Reservation) with 15 people 11 a.m. in the Restaurant, After several back and forths, we came up with one Table assigned in the cellar vault Right after the place, a lot of people take us in that it smells very strongly of the toilet. Unfortunately there was no waiter responsible for us and we sat until 11.25am without one to be able to place an order. After We left the restaurant with a beer left 12:00 p.m. This is for one State capital intolerable. I will never anything in the restaurant again take from me. Silvio M. Bj. 1966 ERFURT

The duck was neither crispy nor well done, poor price-performance ratio, the service was nice but couldn't save it

The lady with the red hair (she was probably called Claudi) has exactly the sense of humor that a customer likes. Polite, helpful, relaxed and customer focused. She treats guests the way you would want them to at home. We got what was missing everywhere in Erfurt here, which was fun for us.

Had a burger...and it was delicious. Oktoberfest beer was also tasty...what more could you want. The music was... well, not my taste or I didn't drink enough beer... you just have to like it. Overall I would recommend it!

We were invited there for a birthday. They serve good home-style food. Price/performance is OK. I had one there Salad that was very tasty and an apple strudel that was also good. About the ambience. The background noise was very extreme because there were several companies there. Chairs became uncomfortable over time, at least if you had to sit there for more than an hour.

Very good and fast service in a well-maintained historic house. I look forward to the next visit with my group.

Rustic and delicious, authentic is different but ok. You can be lucky when it comes to service. But most of the time the service seems stressed.

Viennese veal schnitzel for 29.90. For the price you can expect better quality. The schnitzel was very small. I think about 160 grams of pipe weight. But a lot of potato salad from the bucket. Industrial potato salad of very poor quality. Tastes disgusting. Meat quality was OK. Overall I would say. Never again. But the beer is great.

Brilliant food, nice service! Everyone very satisfied!

Delicious food, but unfortunately poor service. We had to wait a long time for the food and couldn't eat together.

Three of us were guests on a Sunday evening. Unfortunately a negative experience. A large part of the dishes that are among the restaurant's specialties were out, e.g. roulades, goulash and Bavarian duck. With great difficulty we managed to get two hot dishes and one cold one. The staff at least explained the situation to us in a very friendly manner, which simply shouldn't happen in such a renowned restaurant, part of a well-known chain.

A very good place for a delicious beer 🍻 the Hackepeter was good, I personally missed the capers. The Obatzda was good, but quite a small portion. Overall, the service was very good and we would be happy to come back.

We ordered duck. The food came fairly quickly, unusual for freshly prepared duck. The red cabbage was completely overcooked with no taste, and the duck leg had not been completely removed from the quills before roasting. The meat was tough and, like the red cabbage, tasteless. The service staff passed the complaint on to the kitchen. The answer was that the chef didn't know what he could do better? We are very disappointed. HH

Our visit to the “Hofbräu am Dom” was a complete success. Shortly after we sat down, we were greeted by a very friendly waitress, which left a great first impression. The service was really excellent - not only were we noticed quickly, but the drinks also came to our table quickly, which we really appreciated. The food was also excellent. The portions were generous and we were completely impressed by the quality of the food. The burger in particular was very tasty, and the side dishes such as the crispy fries and the fresh salad were also absolutely harmonious. In addition to the great service and the good food, we were particularly impressed by the atmosphere. The interior of the Hofbräu am Dom is beautiful – traditional and inviting, with great attention to detail. You immediately feel at home and can enjoy your meal in a relaxed environment. All in all, our visit was a complete success. We will definitely come back and can highly recommend the Hofbräu am Dom to everyone!

If you like a Bavarian atmosphere with hearty food, HB is the right place for you. In addition, the best cellarer Maria works there.

Although there were only four guests in the outdoor dining area, we weren't even asked if we wanted to order anything. Now we are sitting opposite in the sun and were served courteously. Last year there was a local operation and everything went well. Too bad...

Good food - original Hofbräu beer. Just fits; But of course there is no original Thuringian cuisine here 😉

Great location, service a little slow when we were there but the salads are great. Relatively expensive, but still OK.

We reserved a long-term table for 7 people, and at the agreed time we were assigned a round table inside, where 6 people could eat in peace with some effort. When we asked the waitress that this table wasn't enough, she simply told us we could look for a table outside and disappeared, never to be seen again. I've never been treated so harshly in the restaurant industry. We then found another upscale restaurant where there was no problem finding a table for 7 people even without a reservation and we were welcomed with open arms. We will avoid this restaurant in the future and certainly cannot recommend it to friends and business partners. It certainly won't interest anyone in charge, since most of the customers are tourists anyway and won't be regular customers...

Not so great for larger groups. I was there for 2 hours. I have 1 fl. Get water and 1 food. Kl. Helles only in bottles. Then I still have a bottle. Want water, but no waiter in sight. I saved money that way, but I had to drink somewhere else.

I would give 0 stars everywhere if I could. The store isn't nearly full, but you still have to wait 30 minutes for someone to take your order. Disaster 🤦‍♂️

The outdoor area was well filled on Thursday, August 15th, 2024, the temperatures were over 30°. Thanks to your very committed and friendly service worker Doreen, I received my favorite dish (beef roulade with red cabbage and potato dumplings and of course lots of soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thanks. I was even able to pay in advance when ordering. I was a bit limited in time and Doreen's helpfulness was really helpful and brilliant. As always, it tasted excellent and the portion was plenty for a hungry adult with a good appetite. Beer was tasty. I am extremely satisfied with my visit 😉

The snack plate was plentiful, but not Bavarian, not even a radish, Grilled knuckle good, but with mustard from Bautzen, is certainly cheaper, but not Bavarian. That's not possible!

Service was a bit “reserved”. White sausages were good for that. Nice location, even in bad weather (see pictures)

The restaurant was very busy when we visited. The food and service were excellent, the prices were absolutely fair and reasonable. Great ambience, like in Bavaria, and a great view over the adjacent cathedral square towards the Petersberg Citadel. We will visit the restaurant again next time we are in town...

Good food, nice staff, good beer!!!

Kitchen has been greatly improved, rustic ambience and relaxed service, everything is now perfect.

Quaint restaurant, worth a visit

Nice atmosphere, delicious, rich food, present host and very friendly service

Wonderful restaurant steeped in history with Bavarian specialties and great advice directly with a view of the cathedral and church. Super nice staff, especially waitress Maria gives good tips on eating, drinking and sights, it's hard to find that much friendliness in the catering industry these days. Thank you:)

As Erfurt residents, we have eaten here several times and so far everything has been ok. Today we had a Braumeister goulash with a dumpling. Arranged on the plate like in a mass production. The taste, there was none. We didn't touch the salad that came with it because the salad was old. It's a shame to be so disappointed. Everything has been great so far.

You absolutely can't go wrong. Super nice employees, very friendly and excellent service. Clear recommendation and thumbs up.

Good Bavarian cuisine. Price-performance top.

We were guests yesterday and were served very, very, very rudely because we thought the restaurant was making some progress and expected a card behind the QR code at the table! Never been bumped like this trying to scan a QR code! In the end there wasn't even a bye. 👍

The four of us wanted to eat something on Friday and sat outside. After placing our order relatively quickly and getting our drinks after ¼ hour, we waited a whopping 2 hours for our food (3 dishes). When we asked if we had been forgotten, we were told that there were still many ahead of us on the waiting list and that the meal would take more time, whereupon we canceled the meal and paid. Of course you can see that there is a major event at the cathedral and it takes longer and the catering industry doesn't have it easy. However, you know for months in advance when events of this magnitude take place and you could try to plan better and a good waiter (we still tipped for the drinks) should say when ordering that the food could take longer.

Great food and great service, gladly again

The roulade with dumpling was a poem and a culinary delight 👍

Waited an hour for food. Obatzer was warm. Sausage salad too. Beer was good, but better go somewhere else. Or if you want Bavarian food, drive a few kilometers further to Bavaria.

The meal was very comfortable and tasted very tasty, the portion was absolutely sufficient for me and the staff was very friendly and attentive... again and again

Nobody has ever experienced anything like that. We are trained chefs and we were served a knuckle and a duck. Both could only be cut from the bone. You could actually pull on the bone and the meat falls off tenderly. The waitress dismissed a complaint. Your comment = everyone eats it like that. The dirty leather pants also say a lot about the place

We had dinner here with a larger group of around 25 people. The reservation was easy, even at short notice the day before. Very nice atmosphere. We had a room in the basement just for ourselves. Delicious meals. The service staff was very friendly - but they were so busy that they were rarely able to visit us. We would certainly have ordered one or two more drinks ;-) Otherwise everything was good. We'd love to come back!

We only had something to drink, so I can't comment on the food. Drinks are good.

Doreen is the angel you need for every good evening, she serves with heart and especially with humor, she is the coolest waitress I have ever experienced. Best shop in Erfurt to spend a relaxed evening. Kind regards to Doreen <3

The store leaves nothing to be desired! Personally, the service was the best I've had in a long time. Food also top class. Doreen serves with head, heart and, above all, humor.

Doreen is simply a treasure on earth (tip well!!), I haven't been pampered like this in a long time and have found a place that I will tell my grandchildren about.

Unfortunately very disappointed - 1. Waited 40 minutes for the food even though there wasn't much going on and 2. the food didn't work at all. The liver dumpling soup was cold and in terms of taste, well, and the Swiss sausage salad, I really like it and it's really not difficult to prepare... whole thin slices of sausage put on the plate, a little cheese grated over it, vinegar and oil poured over it, onion rings on top of that and for almost €12….outrageous. Nobody sees me here anymore and no further recommendation from me....

Schnitzel 5 by 5 centimeters in size and it wasn't cooked through! €11.50 for that. Cheeky

Spaetzle as a side dish was not good. The rest was delicious and well done. The tartare was well prepared and tasted great.

We wanted to have a drink with 10 people. But it was too much effort for the waitress to wipe off the wet seating. It would rain again soon anyway. I have rarely been treated so unkindly. Service 6-

Ambience typical as expected. Service friendly. The food was mixed: Burger was very good, Spundekäs was more like obsdzda, schnitzel was dry, duck was at maximum canteen level. Pity about the duckling.

One star is still too many. The worst sausage salad I've ever had.

Almost like the original 😉, food is delicious. Price performance fits. The service is on point.

The food deserves more than 3 stars. The deduction is for a really tasty dish that arrives lukewarm. A pity.

Solid restaurant, friendly service

Delicious food, very friendly service.

Good food, nice service, the high noise level is annoying.

A nice restaurant in itself, but the allergens are not fully listed. Falafel rolled in wheat does not say that it contains gluten/wheat. This only came out by chance when I specifically asked.

Some people don't understand standard German

It was very tasty and the service was nice, I can only recommend it

Hey, that was really tasty here. It's a classic beer house and the food is good. A bit loud, but that's just how it is in a beer house. Good 4****

Normal average food, nothing special. Wouldn't go there again.

Haxe was good, service disappeared and I couldn't pay and almost missed my train.

We liked it very much. In the city center of Erfurt. Opposite St. Mary's Cathedral. Food delicious. Prices reasonable

Ten of us were here for our silver wedding anniversary. Everything was prepared as discussed. The snack board was impressive. The service worked well, everything tasted good and was plentiful. We were able to enjoy some good beers and cocktails as we were taken home by taxi. Many thanks to the team who looked after our table, it was great.

An inn more for tourists than for locals (they prefer to go to the old town pub Noah). Service was typically Thuringian “rustic”. The schnitzel is sold "Viennese style", but is small, thick and not minced BUT well seasoned. The burger was OK. However, with a price tag of almost €18, I actually expected a little more. Overall, not a recommendation for me.

Delicious food, service super friendly. Ambience very cozy and rustic.

A restaurant with Bavarian flair.

On Saturday I had dinner here with friends (4 people). The waitress responsible for our table was super friendly, fulfilled our every wish, made recommendations, so we treated ourselves to dessert - everything was delicious. We liked it so much that we came back on Sunday. The lady who served us on Sunday was the complete opposite of the friendly and cheerful female waiter the day before. She was listless, annoyed, nervous and argued: we're not allowed to do that, that's not possible... and accused her colleague of having done everything wrong and of being unprofessional and new. The icing on the cake was this: like the day before, I ordered a small roast pork. It was the same thing on the plate as the day before, but without sauerkraut and without crust. She charged me for a large roast pork and said that I had to pay for the large one because I had now also eaten the two slices of meat (very small ones) and it was my own fault. But how am I supposed to know that the small portion from the day before is suddenly a large portion? Ultimately she told me that she now had to pay the difference out of her own pocket. She couldn't do math either. She wrote me on a piece of paper that I should pay 17 euros, then suddenly insisted on 17.50 euros. I gave her 20 euros and 60 cents and got 2.50 euros back. She didn't deserve a tip with her behavior. Note: We sat in the back between the kitchen and toilets. Despite everything, I would like to use my review to give a positive rating to the great service from my first colleague and the good food.

The food and service was top. The ambience is just as you would imagine it to be in a Hofbräu. I'm originally from Bavaria and for a short time I thought I was back home😉 Of course not everything is 100%, but you also have to cover the broad masses in terms of taste etc. and not just Bavaria😅 We were there with our 1 year old daughter and everyone was child friendly and really nice. We'd love to come back😊

Bavarian specialties under the cathedral

The guest as a burden Of course, as a waiter you can act as a buddy and casual person, but then you should be able to do your job and be able to rely on your background. None of that is the case here. One of us got his first drink about an hour after he showed up when he was almost finished eating. But he was one of the lucky ones among us who could eat at all. The order went terribly wrong despite repeating the details three times. The two missing ducks arrived about half an hour after the first of us finished. It was a similar story with the following drink orders. And if the waiter stands at the table discussing things but doesn't even notice that other glasses are empty, that's a disgrace and not great for your own business. The overall impression was rounded off by smelly ashtrays that were standing on the windowsill next to our table (probably brought in from the beer garden and forgotten) and by the toilet. What was still a few drops in front of the urinals in the early evening grew into standing water - but unfortunately not made of water. The tip was rounded off - coupled with the realization that after two previous disasters it was our last attempt in this house.

Wonderfully beautiful and very friendly

Delicious food, reasonable prices, friendly and quick service. The ambience is right. Gladly again.

Waited forever for food and payment 😭😭. After 2 hours we were still sitting at the table.

So based on the good mentions on a number of websites, I definitely expected more. I didn't like the food at all because the meat was completely dry and no longer juicy at all. The fries were frozen. When I tried my friend's food, I wasn't that impressed either. My message about food intolerances was also forgotten. Everything else was good.

We liked it, nice service, good food, nice atmosphere 😋