Vetter's Alt Heidelberger Brauhaus in Heidelberg

Because we only had a short time left before the 🚍 bus left, I went straight to a very friendly bartender at the bar to order the 🍺 drinks and then bring them to our table. He agreed to have them brought, which a charming waitress did no more than five minutes later. The beer drinkers described the naturally cloudy 🍺 pale ale on tap as extremely tasty and drinkable because of its low carbonation. The ambiance is old German, rustic, and casual. A glance at the surprisingly extensive menu reveals a rich selection of down-to-earth German cuisine. 👍 Very friendly, patient service staff. Although hundreds of day trippers 🍽 + 🍻 stop by here every day, everything seems absolutely reputable! 🚾 fine, therefore an absolute 🍀 recommendation!

We saw a table that the previous guests just left and because of the crowd we grabbed it and sat down. The waitress came to clean the table and said we got 1h until the reservation arrives. She left without taking our order and never came back. We were sitting and trying to call her while she was chatting with the other workers and ignored us. We stood up and left and she smiled. It seems they prefer to not have so much guests.

Totally nice people. The food is so delicious. Perfect

An absolute insider tip in the middle of the old town! The food was fantastic – fresh, lovingly prepared and tasted great. The service was attentive, friendly and very professional. The atmosphere was also cozy and stylish. We'll definitely be back!

Everything is complete. Just come

Great beer, food and atmosphere

Fast service, central location and good beers.

We were actually looking forward to good German cuisine, but unfortunately we got the opposite. Unfortunately it's a tourist trap, almost everything here is pre-packaged. The schnitzel burnt, the fried potatoes are not fried potatoes, they are drowned in oil and baked in the oven (very greasy). The sauce is a finished product that is quickly boiled, the bread dumplings are also finished products, even the Kaiserschmarrn is a finished product here. Unfortunately, it's miles away from normal, home-style food. Sauerkraut also comes out of the package, so everything here is actually frozen or ready-made. It's good for drinking beer, but people don't waste your money on this tourist trap.

A restaurant I visited three days in a row. It is located in an alley right in front of Heidelberg and the food is very delicious. There is a brewery so it is good to drink draft beer. In the evening, this restaurant is always crowded with locals and tourists. A restaurant I want to visit again🔥

Great beer, reasonable portions, hearty food, decent taste. Attention: reserve a table or just come by, be lucky or sit down.

Excellent atmosphere, reasonable prices, the only thing I was surprised about is that there is no music. It would have created an even better atmosphere for the restaurant. The beer I got, although small.... It was an excellent tasting delight!

The Vetters belongs to Heidelberg like the castle. Good, hearty cuisine with lots of meat and delicious beer. Some salads and fish can also be found on the menu. Simply good 😋

Rustic atmosphere with good home-style cuisine and ambitious waiters.

Very busy on Sundays, so we weren't all that happy with the service. Schnitzel and beer were good, but we had imagined the cheese plate to be different according to the menu. The onions and vinaigrette were missing

We had lunch there and it was great. The very typical atmosphere of the area. If you go, you have to make a reservation because it fills up and people line up outside to get in. Alyosha's attention is very good!

We tried the beer tasting at this place and really enjoyed it. We liked the beer with the highest alcohol percentage (33%) that is sold at this restaurant. We didn't really like the food (especially the cabbage with vinegar that came with the sausages) and we thought the food was nothing special and very processed.

Had an amazing time here, the beer tasting was a particular highlight!

The food was soooo delicious and the service was very attentive, would be happy to come again at any time

The most beautiful place to eat in Heidelberg. We have a table in the picturesque alley. The knuckle, meat platters and schnitzel were very tasty. For the children there are free dumplings with sauce, fries,...! The staff are very friendly and attentive. Price and performance top! P.s. Your own beer is also a must :-)

Excellent tastes! All the dishes that came to our table were very tasty. The same applies to the beer that is brewed in the brewery. We definitely recommend it.

We didn’t even get the chance to try the food because we the guy waiter was sooooo rude and not welcoming at all ! I really wanted to have lunch in this restaurant but because of him we decided to leave ! The welcome and the service are very important things to consider when having a restaurant!

We didnt even get the chance to try the place because the guy waiter was super rude and he shouted at me because I moved the table for a few centimeters, even though I ve put it back once he told me that I can’t so immediately left and he didn’t even bother to apologize. Very bad service.

Excellent food. Atmosphere appropriate to the place. Great attention from Alyosha. A place to visit if you pass through Heidelberg

No. It's overcrowded. The staff are very friendly, but not enough for the number of guests. The food is poorly priced.

It's an authentic German brewing restaurant. I highly recommend it. I've been to more than a dozen restaurants while traveling around Germany, and this is one of the places where I'm satisfied with everything about the food, beer, friendliness, and location. In particular, the female server was very friendly! The sausage is salty, but it goes well with mustard, and the oven potatoes are not salty and light.

A visitor from far away... I came here for the first time in 2012, then in 2013. I think the third time deserves a review. Food and beer, still awesome. Devil's pan rocks. Thanks for the good memories, I hope we will meet again.

Nice restaurant where you can quickly get something tasty to eat. Unfortunately the dark beer sauce wasn't malty/dark enough for my taste but was still delicious.

Great food and nice atmosphere. We had to wait in line to get a seat as the place was full. Worth the wait though

The food is excellent and truly delicious. There's plenty of it, too. The price is perfectly reasonable for the quantity. We were there on a Sunday evening, and it was very busy. So much so that we were moved to the next room, which only had one table left! But the service was super nice and friendly. The drinks were also excellent. We'll be back when we're in Heidelberg again!

Nice place to drink the homemade beer, service could be a bit more attentive

Nice quaint beer pub. The schnitzel was ok, the beer was delicious 😋

Very friendly and attentive staff, delicious food & drinks. We even saw the dog and got some water. Thank you

Flooded with foreign tourists. That's why I was skeptical. But the food and service are really good and the ambience is great. I liked it a lot. The Doppelbock was super tasty!

Nice clocky brewery with good food and good beer. Friendly waitresses, who were unfortunately a bit overwhelmed by the crowds. But food came very quickly and Vetter 33 was a good experience!

The atmosphere in the place is lovely, the dishes weren’t bad, but nothing that we liked a lot. Can recommend if you are looking for a place to stop by.

After a morning hike up to the Schlossstraße and back we were peckish indeed and in need of nourishment and a cold glass of beer. Finding a good meal in Heidelberg isn't as easy as it used to be as we had found out , sadly. This was not the case here. We sat at a sidewalk table flush in the early March sun and I was soon enjoying a mug of their excellent beer while my wife was very happy with her riesling. Daniel our server was a bit of a wag but he forgave my rusty German and turned out to be quite amusing. My wife really loved her steak and I was pretty happy with my wild boar goulash which packs a more gamey punch than the venision version.. Not for everyone but worth a try as long as you know what you're getting into... But the side of cranberry jelly went a long way to taming it and the spaetzle were delicious in the sauce. We liked the food far more here than we did the evening before at the famous Schnitzlebank which was a bit of a disaster.. Come for the beer and stay for the food!

We came here first, and we were just 2 people. There was one empty table with "reserved" - sign and one a bit bigger one with people leaving. Right after us came an old man with 2 other persons, who had no reservation (same with us). Female waitress told us that the table which was getting free (because people were leaving) was too big for just 2 people and invited the people who came after us (and had no reservation, I repeat) to take that table instead of us. It's bad attitude, predatory practices to fit in more customers, because 3 people might pay more than 2 people. Advice to the management: hire people with hospitality education.

Perfect. Everything is delicious. The beer is incredibly good. The atmosphere is great. The employees are very attentive. Localization is very good

Very cozy, rustic restaurant. Friendly service. The menu offers a good selection. We had the meat pan and the roast pork with sauerkraut and 1 extra dumpling. Everything was perfectly prepared and tasted very good. The home-brewed light beer also tastes great.

We were here during the week with 2 children. It was very, very full and we still got a table because they made the staff table available to us. That was very nice! Children up to 9 years old get a dumpling with sauce for free, which of course the two of them were really happy about. The food came quickly and was well prepared, you shouldn't expect star quality but it was well done for a pub. The knuckle could be a little bigger and the salmon could use better quality and the salad was great. The best thing, however, was the warm apple strudel with ice cream! Since our train was canceled and we had to wait an hour, we were allowed to stay seated a little longer at the end; we weren't thrown out, as is usually the case when you have nothing left to eat or drink. The team was really very friendly.

I walked in yesterday and waited for someone to respond to me to ask for a table. Everyone was busy, one guy was behind the counter drying glasses. After 2 minutes he asks me, without once making eye contact with me: Well, have you forgotten how to speak? I was stunned. Normally you would only expect this level of insolence in Berlin, but apparently now also in Heidelberg. I can only wish the gentleman to move into an industry without customer contact, ideally a slaughterhouse. Our schnitzels were over-fried and the lemon was missing. Our waitress was very nice and friendly.

A cozy get-together after the football game. Service was great

We called to make a reservation and they told us without a problem and it turns out that going with children and everything they left us stranded because the cook caught us and didn't know about the reservations. Total that almost at 3 in the afternoon with children and without eating

For me one of the best breweries in the area. Good beer, good food and really great, nice service. Young, old and international audience in a great atmosphere. 5 stars

Typical German cuisine. Very nice and traditional place. Excellent service. Honest prices.

Contrary to all information, this restaurant is not barrier-free. The journey was free

Really very nice shop, with a fast and friendly service team. Food is good, but the brew is definitely better. Price-wise, there are a few fewer tourists in the evening during the week, but that's okay as long as there aren't large groups, especially those from overseas (you have to write it like that, otherwise the post won't be public, aha!). In this case, it's better to go around the corner on Untere Straße.

Food, service, and beer were spectacular!

Unfortunately we were implemented and the portions were also reduced, saving on potatoes.

Everything was as you would expect from a brewery. Good menu with good food and beer. Unfortunately it was cool outside that day and we wanted to warm up - it wasn't the right place for that, there was a draft through the door and it was quite cool. Service was attentive, but there is some room for improvement. I can still only recommend it.

Highly recommended, but very loud.

Degelijke Duitse keuken (grote porties) en lekkere bieren. Wat moet het nog meer zijn. En met het Vetters probierbrett kan je ineens alle vier hun biertjes uitproberen

Solid German cuisine and tasty beers. What else could it be?

Very nice old style pub. Like a student beer glut. Very good rustic food. Operation is absolutely quick and reliable. Home-brewed beer is highly recommended.

Very good beer and good food. Unfortunately the food wasn't quite warm anymore

Very nice service. The food was also very tasty.

TL;DR: Don't trust the good average rating! They have tried to take down my review on Gmaps multiple times via lawyer already. Very litigious.I have updated my original review. Original Review from August 2022: 3 Stars Update in December 2022: I have received a Message from a Lawyer ordering me to remove my 3 Star review from Google Maps since a bad review infringes on their clients rights. This kind of shady tactics to improve the average rating on Google Maps is honestly a little pathetic, so I'm updating my review. In my eyes a 3 star review is not even that bad. How ever here's a more detailed writeup - Hopefully the owner will be happy with it... The food: kind of average. Not great, not bad. The Rumpsteak I had was a little on the tough side, but not terrible. Potato sides were a bit uninspired but not bad either. The Service: definitely below average. We visited with 10 people and they messed up 2 of our orders. And that does not include them coming up to our table after ordering and telling us one of the salads that were ordered (because there are no good vegetarian options other than that) couldn't be done because they didn't have all ingredients. I was being generous to put the entire thing to 3 stars, but with them sending a Lawyer after me I've taken the liberty to include that in the "service" category and it drags the whole thing down to 2 Stars.

Vetter Brauhaus verschieden Biersorten aus eigener Produktion Leckeres Essen mit urigen Flair und freundliche Personal

Very good brewery bar in Heidelberg old town. Good selection of beers on tap and in bottles. Lively atmosphere when we visited late in the evening. Very friendly and helpful staff.

Hallelujah, that was awesome for you! Daniel and I poured a measure of your finest dark beer into our gear. The schnitzel was one of the best I've ever eaten. The beer sauce was a festival for the taste buds. The ambience was only surpassed by the smiles of the great employees. We thank you.

Das Essen hat sehr gut geschmeckt. Die Bedienung war sehr freundlich. Punktabzug gibt es, weil die Toilette sehr schmutzig war.

Food was quite good depending on what you ordered. 2 of us had salad with goat cheese and fig mustard, which was delicious. 2 of us had Lyoner pan, which wasn't quite as good. Portions were big enough to fill you up. We didn't find the atmosphere very comfortable, we sat right next to the entrance, it was cold, we were constantly bumped into by people who walked past us or were waiting for a table to become available. The staff was friendly and we were always served quickly.

Overpriced, Food was cold and took forever, and only one guy that was rude to a handicapped customer for being handicapped was working. Not again

Loved their tap beer and pork knuckle. Also don’t forget potato fries.

Great brewery. You should make a reservation.

You don't need to make a reservation....it always has tables.as soon as we entered the shop had an awful smell.the food was not tasty....they present it in the top restaurants.but it's not worth it.

So my wife and I had dinner here on our annual day and I have to say everything went well during the evening. Super friendly staff, a nice rustic atmosphere, great prices and the food is incredible. We didn't have a reservation but got a spot straight away. The food came super quickly and the service was very competent. The idea with the small tasting beer sets is great! We'll be back and then with more people!

We just had dinner at Vetters and are really impressed. The service staff is very competent and helpful. The ambience is in the classic brewery style and you immediately feel at home. And the food was amazing! Really worth a visit

Great brewery in the middle of Heidelberg, a nice selection of dishes, and even in the most stressful times, short waiting times. The highlight is the dark beer sauce! Definitely try it! And the service was excellent too! Thank you Jana for the hospitality! Gladly again! Oh yes, before it goes down, great beer too 🍻

Service and ambience were good, but I ordered the steak RARE, and I got what you can see in the pictures: absolutely not rare, but medium-done and some parts were even well done (not even a slight pink), when I was expecting red… maybe other dishes are good, but not the beef steak.

Booked a table but got allocated a table in the annex next door which had no atmosphere at all compared to the main beer hall. No indication of this when booking. Shame as the food and beer was very good.

If you would like to eat vegetarian food with a “rustic” taste, I highly recommend the 153! Goat cheese with salad. Easily enough for a tall man. The meatloaf with fried potatoes (102) was also extremely well received.

Nice, rustic brewery in the heart of Heidelberg with good food and delicious home-brewed beer. Nice staff just round it off

The soup is very salty, the roast chicken and vanilla ice cream are pretty good

The food was great and the atmosphere was really interesting. WORD OF ADVICE: reserve before on the pick time cause the restaurant was really full. The waiter was super friendly and cooperative. Everything was great just we ordered „Hefeweizen“ and we got „Dunkel“. Other than than I definitely recommend it.

The option to taste many different beers is amazing. Great idea

Delicious sausage salad and meatloaf and beer and wine and everything!!

Réservation obligatoire le soir. Adresse correcte pour manger un plat copieux après une journée de visite mais les plats manquent quand même de finesse !

I don't understand why this place gets such a high rating. The schnitzel was plain, comparable to a supermarket schnitzel, but it was fried in a pan. Bratkartoffelen were ok, adding a little onion or bacon would make it tastier. Service was rushed but ok. Very average and certainly not the quality the review would lead you to believe

Excellent food but the staff was a little on edge. I recommend when it's quieter

A local brewery in Heidelberg, insider tip! Good light, good, tasty dark wheat, delicious vegetarian dishes, otherwise everything that makes a brewery! Recommend delicious local food

I ordered a Strammen Max and a Pils outside. The dish was OK, but nothing more. Thick ham on it with a fat edge and a bit carelessly crafted. I love going there, but it wasn't great last time...sorry!

Very friendly service, tasty food.

The food is not cheap, but good. Unfortunately, my cheese spaetzle was a little overcooked. But tasty in taste. The service people are all incredibly nice and the atmosphere is very nice. The beer is running… 😋

Stopped in for a few beers and pretzels. Service was awesome, beers were delicious. Definitely recommend

For those who do not eat pork, meat or chicken schnitzel should be added to the menu.

Small brewery with German cuisine. There are also some vegetarian dishes on the menu. The cabbage wraps were great.

The first choice was actually the sow stomach. I then got advice from a very nice employee. By the way: All of them are extremely nice and friendly! I chose the Mälzer Platte. Pork stomach, salami with a subtle taste, mountain cheese, Camembert, Edam and Obatzder with cucumbers. Served with bread and butter. I managed it with a bang! Plus a home-brewed Christmas beer And it was cheap too ☝️

We visited Heidelberg and discovered this quaint restaurant. The food was very tasty, the ambience and the service were good. We would come back!

Fantastic food in a lovely venue with friendly staff

Terrific beer and good food We had a delicious lunch at this traditional brauerei. The beer was excellent and the food was tasty. They have an English menu, and most of the staff also speak English. The service was very good and the prices very reasonable!

Vetter’s Brauhaus is one of the most authentic spots in Heidelberg, and we absolutely love it—so much so that we make it a point to return every year when visiting the city. Just two minor details to note: The Käse Spätzle comes with sprinkled fried onions, which aren’t mentioned on the menu and might not suit everyone’s taste or dietary preferences. Also, we ordered the Schnitzel on two separate visits—once it was smaller, and another time it was so generously portioned that it arrived cut in half! Despite these tiny inconsistencies, we’ll definitely be coming back. The rest of the dishes are absolutely outstanding and deserve immense credit. Thank you for the great food!

Beer is fine But not the food I had a pork knuckle It wasn't crispy and totally dry. My colleagues weren't happy with their food either.

Essen war enttäuschend Hatte eine Schweinshaxe gegessen hatte keine Kruste und war innen total trocken Das Bier ist okay

There are two stars for the delicious beer and the friendly service. The food gets minus 3 for this. The schnitzel was dry and partly black, but the fried potatoes that were buried under the schnitzel were mushy and also partly black. The side salad was quite simple, but okay. The Gröstelpan also consisted of mushy fried potatoes, which were swimming in the fat together with the liver sausage (thank God I couldn't make out the blood sausage). Drink yes...eat no!

We had a delicious lunch at this traditional brauerei. The beer was excellent and the food was tasty. They have an English menu, and most of the staff also speak English. The service was very good and the prices very reasonable!

We had dinner here, known for its traditional dishes and famous beer. We tried various foods: the goulash soup was quite good, but the liver soup was not to our taste. The schnitzel and ham with potatoes were excellent. The staff were polite, and overall, it’s a recommended spot.

Wow, the food was so good! (We've had better Maultaschen, so they were a bit disappointing, but the rest was pretty great!) Saumagen and lard bread = 🤌

Cozy brewery with limited seating in winter The staff was friendly Ambiance is old heidelberg barrel kind of The vetter’s beer is not that great compared to others but has its own guiness world record!!! We had the beer taster and the strawberry champagne beer Beer sampler was very nicely explained by our waitress , but being a beer lover it was somewhere not in the top , but not too bad as well Always a good thing to try !

Very cozy atmosphere with simple but tasty food to go with the beer.