If you're in Ottensen at 5am and want to go to a lively bar, well, you don't have many choices…read more Familien Eck would be one though. Maybe one of the reasons is that it's pretty tiny, so it doesn't need that many people to be lively :) It's basically a dive bar, and a fair percentage of the crowd will probably be quite alternative/punky looking. Everyone is nice though, and the drinks are a reasonable price. One noteworthy thing is that to save space they have the DJ working almost on the ceiling! It's hard to describe, so you'll just have to see for yourself.

This was one of the nicest, most relaxed, dark and dingy bars I found in Hamburg, I was in the city…read morefor a week on my own and was comfortable to read my book in here and have a couple of beers or white wines without feeling conspicious. The staff were friendly, the DJ was relaxed and varied, there's even thai snacks brought round to your table. One of the least pretentious bars in the area.

The Jolly Roger is a bit of a St. Pauli institution! As soon the the stadium across the road…read moreempties this place becomes St. Pauli fan central! The jolly roger seems to me like it was an old-fashioned St. Pauli pub which over the years has been transformed into a cool football dive bar. After a Friday evening game, this is the place to be!

This is the quintessential St. Pauli football pub, populated by 95% brown/black shirts and 5% green…read moreshirts from Glasgow. Go here if you like its crowd. *Don't go here if you don't like the smell of tobacco, need a clean bathroom, or are a fan of HSV or any major European football club.

Very nice bar in the heart of Altona/Ottensen district - don't even try an attempt to come by car -…read moreeither walk or if 5-10 minutes walk is too far, take a taxi/cab. They have 2 areas to sit outside - left and right of the entrance. No tables though, just some benches (beer garden style). Drinks are not better or worse than in other bars, but I like the atmosphere and you will directly spot why this place is called "Reh" ("Deere") when coming inside.

Stylish place just past the Mercado, about 3 mins walk from Altona station. It's fairly dark and…read moreswanky, but the prices aren't too inflated with an Augustina Brau at a fairly standard EUR3.50 a bottle. Good, and indeed, good looking, service, and cool beats. There's a smoking room out the back but down let your friends trick you into sitting in there as it's bloody freezing!

Why has nobody ever reviewed Rosi's Bar in English? Could it be because whenever the English end up…read morethis far into a St. Pauli weekender they can no longer differentiate between any of the bars on Hamburgerberg?! I suspect so. Anyway, Rosi's trivia: the girl with the dreads from Zoe 2 DJ's here at the weekends sometimes. It's always packed Thursday till Sunday morning. It doesn't look anything like the photo, cause you have to imagine the mass of people sprawled on the pavement. All good fun, and probably better than the Reeperbahn

Ah Rosi's Bar.. it's another of the almost identical bars on that side of Hamburger Berg. That…read moremean's it's actually a pretty good bar, but you could just as easily pick any of 5-10 bars within 50 yards and have the same evening. - popular music? check. - dance floor? check. - cheap(ish) drinks? check. - good crowd? check. - free entry? check. - table football? check. Did I just copy/paste that review? Did someone copy/paste this bar?

Markt Schänke looks like a pretty nondescript little pub. That's because it basically is, but the…read morepeople are friendly and the beer is good and cheap (for the area). It's also completely unpretentious and I've spent a few happy, late nights in here. Recommended for chatting and beer drinking.

I know Kick and Co for one reason: Pool tables. There aren't too many bars in Hamburg that have…read morepool tables, but this is one of them. I've only been once, on a Sunday evening, to play pool and the place was a bit quiet, but the service and beer were good and the music was decent.

Decent pub in central Altona with good service, meaning, your drinks cone to you while the match is…read moreon. Reasonable pizza at EUR5.50.

What a great little bar. Old clocks along with a really quirky great bartender. When you get…read morepassed the COVID vaccine check the atmosphere is great nice Cold Holstein beer and you just want to move to the neighborhood so you can drink here every Thursday night.

This place is right around the corner from me. I found it because I wanted a place to run to in…read moreorder to grab a beer when someone stopped by. It was initially an emergency back-up if there was no beer in the fridge. Well, now it's a favorite after having been in town for two months. It's pretty much what we call in the States a "dive-bar". This can have both a negative and a positive connotation. In regards to Dreyer, it's positive. I love this place because it's everything a bar should be where you want to hang out and grab a beer. I don't need all the designer crap most new bars add to their "Innenausstattung". I want some comfortable chairs, a long "Theke" and interesting people. The bartender here (and owner I presume) as well as his wife (I presume) look like they've worked here their whole lives (maybe after short stints working at the docks). BUT, they are the two nicest people you could meet (even though the bartendar is huge and looks like he'd kick your a$$ if you met him in a dark alley). Plus, the people sitting around the bar (who seem to be there every night) sure are characters. One cool feauture is that the owner seems to collect clocks and there's something like 110 of them spread throughout the bar. A nice litte touch which you don't figure out the first night you're there. Anyway, this place is great and definately not your run of the mill watering hole. Check it out if you're up for something different which doesn't remind you of every other bar you've sat in the last couple of beers.

This is a trad German pub just off the Reeperbahn. Well worth checking out to see the crowd of…read morelocals, the mass of wood panelling and the priceless tracks in the Jukebox. If you're English - you won't have heard of any of them! Cheap too. Very very cheap in fact - Astra is around 1.80 euro.

Not as cheap as it used to be - the beer is quite averagely priced now. Still, Zum Silbersack is…read morestill a pretty cool bar to visit if you're in the area. It's mostly always busy and has a very old-school atmosphere. Unfortunately this also includes being ultra-smokey