Beer Hall Near Me on the Upper East Side: Treadwell Park's Oktoberfest Steins

Treadwell Park pours a 16oz stein of Hofbräu Original for $14 and a 32oz mega stein for $26 this fall, at 1125 1st Avenue between East 61st and 62nd Streets on the Upper East Side. The hall opens at 4pm Monday through Friday and at noon on weekends, stays open until 2am on Friday and Saturday, and runs happy hour from 4 to 7pm on weekdays. If you typed beer hall near me anywhere between Sutton Place and Lenox Hill, this is the closest room built around long tables, German lager and a wall of screens.

Treadwell Park opened in 2015, the project of restaurateur and developer Abraham Merchant of Merchants Hospitality, who launched it with beverage curator Anne Becerra and chef Stephen Lyle. The pitch was a craft beer hall rather than a sports bar, with around 20 rotating drafts and ciders, ping pong, pinball and big screens. A downtown sibling followed, but that space is being turned into Casa Oaxaca, a Mexican restaurant from the same group slated for fall 2026, so the First Avenue room is now the only Treadwell.

The layout is what earns the beer hall label. Long communal tables run back from the windows, so a party of two will often end up sharing a bench with a birthday group. The bar sits along one side with the taps, and the screens are angled so most seats can follow a game without anyone standing. It is loud by 7pm on a Thursday, and that is the point.

Through the fall the hall runs a dedicated Oktoberfest list priced by vessel rather than by beer: $10 for a 12oz glass, $14 for the 16oz stein, $26 for the 32oz mega stein and $50 for a 64oz jumbo pitcher. The lineup includes Sam Adams Oktoberfest, Hofbräu Original, Von Trapp Dunkel, Weihenstephaner Vitus, Paulaner Märzen, Erdinger Weissbier and Sixpoint Oktoberfest. Vitus is the strong one at 7.7 percent, a weizenbock with banana and clove, so order it as a single glass rather than a mega stein.

For a table of six or more, the famous mini kegs are the better deal. A 160oz keg of Bitburger Pilsner or Reissdorf Kölsch costs $85 and works out to about ten pints that you tap yourself at the table. If the group wants to sample first, the $15 Oktoberfest flight brings four 4oz pours of Hofbräu, Von Trapp Dunkel, Erdinger and Sixpoint. Non-drinkers are covered with Athletic Brewing's NA Oktoberfest at $10 a can.

The seasonal food leans Bavarian and Austrian. German brats come two for $16 with grain mustard sauce, and the Wurst Sampler Platter at $26 lines up a Schaller & Weber bratwurst, a knackwurst and a smoked sausage with sauerkraut, potato-bacon salad and mustard. Schaller & Weber is the old Yorkville sausage maker a few blocks north on Second Avenue, which gives the platter a neighborhood pedigree that most beer hall menus cannot claim.

Schnitzels are the main event: Schwein Schnitzel with pork at $22, Jäger Schnitzel with chicken and mushroom gravy at $24, Wiener Schnitzel with thin veal at $24, and Rahm Schnitzel in a citrus cream mushroom sauce at $26. Add sauerkraut and German potato salad for $6 to make it a full plate. The giant soft pretzel with Liptauer cheese is $24 and big enough for four; for two people it is too much bread, so split the brats instead.

Weekday happy hour runs from 4 to 7pm, with select 8oz beers at $4, beer flights at $12, wine and mixed cocktails at $9, and chips with guacamole or two beef sliders for $10. Each weekday has a bonus deal served until 8pm: free dessert with a craft burger on Mondays, a free 8oz beer with chicken or birria tacos on Taco Tuesday, wings plus an 8oz draft or cocktail for $20 on Wednesdays, $30 beer pitchers on Thursdays and $8 canned cocktails on Fridays.

Timing matters more than it seems. Between 4 and 6pm on a weekday you can walk in and pick a table near the windows. After 7pm on Thursday and Friday, and anytime a Jets, Giants or Rangers game is on, the long tables fill with groups who booked ahead. Saturday and Sunday open at noon, which makes a weekend lunch of schnitzel and a stein the calmest way to see the room before the evening crowd arrives.

Treadwell Park takes reservations through its website, and for game days or Oktoberfest weekends booking is the only reliable way to get a full table. If you do walk in without one, ask at the host stand whether a section near the bar is opening up; the staff usually knows which birthday group is about to settle its tab. If the wait passes 30 minutes on a Saturday night, give it up and try another bar on First Avenue rather than standing by the door.

The crowd skews toward groups in their twenties and thirties who live in the walk-up buildings around Second Avenue, plus office teams from the Midtown East towers a few blocks south. On weeknights the mini kegs tend to land on after-work tables first. Hours are Monday to Wednesday 4 to 11pm, Thursday 4pm to midnight, Friday 4pm to 2am, Saturday noon to 2am and Sunday noon to 11pm.

The hall sits between 61st and 62nd Streets on the east side of First Avenue. The closest subway stops are Lexington Avenue/59th Street for the N, R, W, 4, 5 and 6 trains, and Lexington Avenue/63rd Street for the F and Q. From either station it is about a ten-minute walk east. M15 buses also run up First Avenue past the door, which helps on a cold night.

For a walk before or after, the Roosevelt Island Tramway station is at Second Avenue and 60th Street, two blocks away, and a ride across the East River at dusk with a stein still on your mind is one of the better cheap views in Manhattan. Schaller & Weber's shop sits on Second Avenue at 86th Street if you want to see where the platter's wurst comes from, and the walk up through old Yorkville takes about 25 minutes.

Address: 1125 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10065, between East 61st and 62nd Streets. Happy hour is Monday to Friday from 4 to 7pm. Oktoberfest steins are $14, mega steins are $26, mini kegs are $85, and the four-pour flight is $15. Come before 6pm on weekdays to choose a table, reserve for any game night or group of eight or more, and plan on sharing a bench with strangers, because that is how the room is meant to work.