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.

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?

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.

Now I am drunk and smell like shit because it's allowed to smoke inside this extremely tiny bar,…read morebut I love the place. It has its own character, accepting every living soul and sharing whatever you want to share. Nothing to eat, full bar or at least most demanded drinks are served there. Bad for kids. I saw some dogs inside, but it's up to you, dear dog owner. Lots of friendly and talkative people. Bring your dear friends here, but if you're lonely, you will find your company inside.

Coziest public living room in town. Friendly staff, friendly patrons, lots of beers to choose from…read more Snacks available too. Bring your friends or go by yourself and leave with some new ones.

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