This week marked the beginning of the World Cup, with the first matches being played on June 11. Two bars have committed to providing the best World Cup watching experience on Long Island.<\/p>\n
The Cabana in Long Beach\u2019s West End, and Das Biergarten, nine blocks down in East Atlantic Beach, each have large TVs as well as TVs throughout their establishments, all of which will play World Cup matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe plan on having all the games on, they\u2019re mostly afternoon games,\u201d Bob Johnson, owner of the Cabana, said. \u201cWe also had World Cup games on in 2022, but there\u2019s much more excitement this year because it\u2019s happening in the U.S., we wanted to use that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson also explained that there would be World Cup themed drink specials, bucket deals for beers and seltzers, and brunch deals for early games. He also teased a \u2018best dressed soccer fan\u2019 deal with a free drink reward. The Cabana has a stage in its outside seating area as well, so there will also be live music during some of the games.<\/p>\n
Although Cabana and Das Biergarten are rival businesses by proximity, their owners are friends. \u201cDrew [Andrew Hetzler] has always been a great friend, even though he\u2019d tell you we\u2019re the music spot and he\u2019s the real World Cup place,\u201d Johnson joked.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Andrew Hetlzer, owner of Das Biergarten, embraces his restaurant\u2019s title as the \u2018real\u2019 World Cup watching venue. \u201cWe\u2019ll be hosting every game,\u201d he said. \u201cEspecially big events for the U.S., Germany, and Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hetzler said he would be advertising for the World Cup games on all Das Biergarten\u2019s social media, including its Instagram and Facebook. \u201cI\u2019ll be running my ads in English, German, and Spanish, just for fun,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to target all of our friends in the Latin community in the Long Beach area as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Das Biergarten will have food and drink specials not dissimilar to Cabana, including a \u20182-liter boot of beer.\u2019<\/p>\n
Hetzler\u2019s restaurant has been hosting World Cup games as well as EuroCup games since 2018. \u201cWe opened in 2014, but it was right after the World Cup, and that was the one that Germany won too, so we just missed out on it,\u201d Hetzler said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten big crowds every year since then, though.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week marked the beginning of the World Cup, with the first matches being played on June 11.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[106978,131,133,132,5393],"class_list":["post-358915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-atlantic-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}