Thursday 15 August 2024

Heidi's Bier Bar


4–6 Mill Lane, Cardiff [map]

Whoever proposed the idea for this place must surely have been drunk at the time: a faux après-ski lodge serving four-litre beer towers, in which the poor bar staff are dressed in pigtails and Tyrolean dresses (and that's just the men), named after a 19th-century Swiss children's book.

 

Still, if you are going to come up with an insane theme for a bar while massively pissed, they've certainly seen the idea through to its illogical conclusion.

 

The seating is made up of lots of little booths, although it's not immediately clear where you're meant to leave your skis.

 

Ah, there's the answer to that then.

 

Handily, it's open till 3am, Monday to Sunday. So even if you've had a particularly long stint on the slopes – as this lot clearly have – there's still time to get in an enormous flagon of Löwenbräu before retiring to your Alpine chalet. Happy days.

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