Radegast Hall and Biergarten

On our list of the best live music venues in New York.

Three connected spaces make up this Williamsburg beer hall: a main hall, an open-air biergarten with a retractable roof, and a smaller Bier Haus in back used for specialty beer tastings on Tuesdays. Big communal picnic tables hold large groups drinking from a list of German and other European beers, paired with sausages, burgers, and pretzels off the kitchen menu. Live music runs five nights a week with no cover charge, drawing everyone from regulars to tourists and students on a weekend afternoon. It gets loud and crowded fast when a show or a game is on.