Berlin Beer Hall Transforms Into Homeless Facility for the Holidays Complete With Special Christmas Meals Rachel Chang
When Germany shut down restaurants and bars to combat the spread of the coronavirus in early November, restaurants were again sidelined by the pandemic. After all, the festive holiday season is usually one of the most lively times of year for the European nation.
But one Berlin restaurant decided to channel the holiday spirit in a different way. The capital’s biggest restaurant, Hofbraeu Berlin, which is used to 3,000 guests crowding into its Bavarian-style beer halls on a good night, has pivoted into sheltering 150 homeless people, the Associated Press reported.
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People wearing protective face masks walk past a beer pub shuttered during a four-week semi-lockdown during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on November 20, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. | Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty
When Germany shut down restaurants and bars to combat the spread of the coronavirus in early November, restaurants were again sidelined by the pandemic. After all, the festive holiday season is usually one of the most lively times of year for the European nation.
But one Berlin restaurant decided to channel the holiday spirit in a different way. The capital’s biggest restaurant, Hofbraeu Berlin, which is used to 3,000 guests crowding into its Bavarian-style beer halls on a good night, has pivoted into sheltering 150 homeless people, the Associated Press reported.