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.

Depending upon when you go, Mutter varies a lot. On the weekend it'll be so rammed that you can…read morehardly get through the door and it'll be smokey as hell - the smoking ban does not apply here. However, when it's not so busy it's alright in here. It's never going to be my favourite bar, but I had a nice enough time here.

gemütliche Kneipe mit einem außerordentlichen Wirt. absolute Empfehlungread more

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?

Astra Stube is one cool little bar! It's basically a tiny little gig venue located under the S-Bahn…read moretracks in the north-west of the schanze. It's a bit out of the way, but if you're into your local independent rock and indie music, then you'll definitely want to put this on you list of must-visit places. The only real drawback is that the place is just too small, so it gets very sweaty very fast. Oh well, you can't have everything :) Since writing the above review two years ago a few things have happened. 1) The bar was going to be closed (along with many nearby businesses) due to work on the above railway bridge 2) There was a large outcry; notably the Jan Delay album "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Soul" features a photo of the bar as it's front cover; The work was put back a few years 3) The popular Hamburg-based film "Soul Kitchen" featured a scene in the bar, somehow managing to make the bar look something other than tiny.

Dank stinking grungy hole of a bar. Which I like. We saw a pretty intense gig on Saturday night…read more(experi-mental rock), hooked up with some randoms and crashed a house party afterwards. If you don't like overheated, overcrowed hellholes... stay away!

Klimperkiste is a cosy little bar in a part of town where such places are a rarity. That alone gets…read moreit 5 stars from me. The beer selection is mostly standard, but they do also have Duckstein which makes me favour the place even more. Credit for me finding the place must be given to my old German teacher, Schaida. Apparently it's been a favourite of hers since she was a student at Hamburg uni. I don't think it's changed much over the years.

A great, quirky, little pub hiding in the same street as Hofbrau and opposite the big casino…read more Unpretentious with some interesting beers and nice cocktails.

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