dorothee had noticed in the local paper that a new irish pub had opened in “downtown” erlangen, wheelers pub. from the description it sounded rather better than the other irish pubs we had sampled (murphy’s and the fat lady sings), less like a student operated in-door-beer-garden and more like a good pub. so, you guessed it, we decided to give it a try today and went on a late afternoon walk into “downtown” erlangen. wheelers at around 17:00 on a sunny sunday afternoon was not as full as we had feared (rumors have it that on the weekends it was chock full in the evenings).

you enter the pub through an elongated ground floor covered courtyard kind of hallway with a door on the right leading into the bar area (the toilets being on the left side of the courtyard area) and another door leading to the lounge area further down the courtyard. we pick the bar area which takes up pretty much all of the front part of the house. it’s quite nicely decorated, no fake darkened beams (not the sort that is supposed to look like the wooden beams date back to at least the dark ages but in fact and reality look like the landlord had a couple of gallons of car underseal left from that last job as a car mechanic) but a kind of understated art deco design. tables are no-nonsense-but-nice wooden ones; in the corner of the bar area, closest to the windows, is a small raised platform with wooden railings and rather comfortable leather couch and armchairs — which we immediately take possession of

the menu is quite extensive and features “typical” irish & english pub food as well as having a “german” section…beers are both on tap and bottled and they have a rather extensive list of drinks — stuff i didn’t know existed (a velvet pussy turns out to be a guinness & a port), summarized by my lovely wife as “all the stuff that gives you a good headache”…we decide to go for my favourite beer (yep, a pint of guinness and to have a ploughman’s lunch…the guinness is well kept (not stale as we had it in the fat lady sings) and the ploughman’s is one of the best we’ve ever had: very good salad served with it, excellent (and plenty of) cheese, the honey roasted ham (optional extra) turns out to be really good — in short, very recommendable!

how to get there:

Halbmondstrasse 4
91054 Erlangen
Germany

(see also their location page)