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Loreley

A bar for German expats and LES germanophiles

7 Rivington St. · btwn Bowery and Christie St.
Lower East Side, Manhattan

In 2026

Still pouring

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

By Chris Lukic

Not an American adaptation of a beer garden, but a genuine biergarten - efficient service, humorless waiters, crisp beer, and lots and lots of Germans.

History

Twenty-three years on Rivington and counting

Loreley dates itself to 2003, and that September the State Liquor Authority granted Biergarten America Inc., doing business as Loreley, a full on-premises license at 7 Rivington Street^{1, 2}. In 2009 we called it a genuine biergarten rather than an American adaptation of one, and it's still at the same address^{1, 2, 3}.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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