These beautifully decked out chains serve the office crowd for lunch and after-work drinks. The city locations have historic charm and the wooden furniture and cozy … booths are slick and oh so continental. Each venue hosts schnitzel eating competitions on Tuesdays and serves other classics like bratwurst sausages and flammenbrot, a type of thin pizza. An extensive schnapps menu allows for multiple shots, announced loudly with a cowbell, while the kooky "Ladies Bier" includes a spike of pineapple or raspberry cordial and comes in a cocktail saucer with a straw. For a more conventional fruit beer, try the mango or lemon Franziskaner Weissbier or one of the various others on tap.[link]

These beautifully decked out chains serve the office crowd for lunch and after-work drinks. The city locations have historic charm and the wooden furniture and cozy … booths are slick and oh so continental. Each venue hosts schnitzel eating competitions on Tuesdays and serves other classics like bratwurst sausages and flammenbrot, a type of thin pizza. An extensive schnapps menu allows for multiple shots, announced loudly with a cowbell, while the kooky "Ladies Bier" includes a spike of pineapple or raspberry cordial and comes in a cocktail saucer with a straw. For a more conventional fruit beer, try the mango or lemon Franziskaner Weissbier or one of the various others on tap.[link]

These beautifully decked out chains serve the office crowd for lunch and after-work drinks. The city locations have historic charm and the wooden furniture and cozy … booths are slick and oh so continental. Each venue hosts schnitzel eating competitions on Tuesdays and serves other classics like bratwurst sausages and flammenbrot, a type of thin pizza. An extensive schnapps menu allows for multiple shots, announced loudly with a cowbell, while the kooky "Ladies Bier" includes a spike of pineapple or raspberry cordial and comes in a cocktail saucer with a straw. For a more conventional fruit beer, try the mango or lemon Franziskaner Weissbier or one of the various others on tap.[link]

This was the first of the famous Malt Shovel Brewery's drinking venues and supplies the full range of boutique James Squire beers. The onsite microbrewery also serves up … some exclusive tipples like the Craic (an Irish stout), the Governor King (a pale ale), and the Highwayman (red ale). The waterside restaurant is housed in a new complex within an entertainment precinct, but it takes on a rustic, colonial feel in line with James Squire's pioneering legend. The menu includes the usual hearty fare as well as butterflied quail, kangaroo loin, chili squid, marinated spatchcock, and serious Black Angus steaks.[link]

With 12 Czech beers on tap, this is one of Sydney's original central European restaurants. An outdoor beer garden makes an excellent drinking location to taste malty … Velkopopovický Kozel, bitter Krušovice Lager, and the Czech Republic's most famous beer, Budějovický Budvar -- the original Budweiser. The Czech and Slovak food is ridiculously hearty and comes crumbed, fried, and smoked in a variety of platters, such as the Moravian with roasted pork belly and neck, or the Bohemian topped high with every farm animal. Huge schnitzels, roast duck, and beer based goulash all make the grade, and there's a separate absinthe menu for the daring. The diverse crowd includes casual locals, suburbanites in the know, and ravenous backpackers.[link]

Sibling owners Janet and David Hollyoak opened their café in 2004 and have continually won awards for their artisanal beers. Most are brewed using Belgian … traditions, such as their signature Framboise Froment, infused with raspberry. The Belgium Chocolate Stout was also a first for Australia, followed closely by a Choc-Cherry Stout. They also offer the Organic Pale Ale, brewed from organic malt and hops. Redoak has the usual hearty a la carte as well as degustation menus matched to beer, plus a monthly beer appreciation course. With over 20 premium beers available in the café at any one time, who would dare say no?[link]

In this Bavarian beerhall, you can watch German waitstaff flutter around in busty corsets and lederhosen while you wolf down huge helpings of pork knuckles, cheese … spätzle, and apple strudel. It borders on southern German cheesiness, but it's all good fun. In the beer department, Bavaria's Hofbräu München is pale and bitter, whereas the Stiegel Goldbräu is brewed strictly to Austria's 1516 purity laws. The crowd is rowdy, the décor is kitsch, and the food is gut-busting goodness.[link]

Mussels, mussels, mussels! And no I'm not talking about the men, although they can be pretty good here too. No, I'm referring to the house special: pots of luscious … mussels stewed in your choice of spinach and blue cheese, lemongrass and kaffir, Provencale herbs, or Thai red curry. If shellfish isn't your thing, opt for herbed sausages balanced on a tower of sauerkraut and mash, and finish it all off with a Belgian waffle smothered in melted chocolate. But what about the beer? Try fruity, bitter Hoegaarden or Tripel Karmeliet, made from wheat, oats, and barley, and fermented in the bottle. Timmermans Peche Lambic is sweetened with peach juice, while the Belle-Vue Framboise is tinged with tart raspberry. A 750ml corked bottle of trappiste Chimay Grande Reserve is very dark and almost caramel in flavor. These sophisticated venues get packed, so call ahead for dinner reservations.[link]

Mussels, mussels, mussels! And no I'm not talking about the men, although they can be pretty good here too. No, I'm referring to the house special: pots of luscious … mussels stewed in your choice of spinach and blue cheese, lemongrass and kaffir, Provencale herbs, or Thai red curry. If shellfish isn't your thing, opt for herbed sausages balanced on a tower of sauerkraut and mash, and finish it all off with a Belgian waffle smothered in melted chocolate. But what about the beer? Try fruity, bitter Hoegaarden or Tripel Karmeliet, made from wheat, oats, and barley, and fermented in the bottle. Timmermans Peche Lambic is sweetened with peach juice, while the Belle-Vue Framboise is tinged with tart raspberry. A 750ml corked bottle of trappiste Chimay Grande Reserve is very dark and almost caramel in flavor. These sophisticated venues get packed, so call ahead for dinner reservations.[link]

This Czech restaurant is located in a 19th century sandstone terrace house, complete with cozy fireplaces. There's outdoor seating in the front garden as well as a … courtyard in the back, complete with authentic wooden beerhall décor. Dinner specialties range from the Bohemian party plate with pork, duck, sausages, sauerkraut, and dumplings, to smažený sýr, a vegetarian delight of crumbed, fried cheese steak; and svíčková, marinated beef with a creamy sauce and cranberries. Bar snacks include utopenci (pickled sausages) and brawn with onion and douses of vinegar. Krušovice Lager, Bernard Lager, and the delightful Gambrinus are all on tap and you can buy bottles of Pilsner Urquell, Žatec, and Březňák, the latter being a golden pilsner sporting a Sigmund Freud look-alike on the label.[link]