Restaurant Shakespeares
Contact & Visit
Windischenstraße 4–6
99423 Weimar
About Restaurant Shakespeares
Restaurant Shakespeares, the Restauration Shakespeares of its own sign, is a restaurant with a small stage in the middle of the old town, at Windischenstraße 4–6: the Galli Theater Weimar has played in the house since 2005, so an evening here can be dinner and a comedy under one roof.[1][2] The name is a small argument about Weimar — that Shakespeare, rediscovered here by Wieland and brought to the stage by Goethe, is the greatest import in German intellectual history.[1] Tables are reserved by telephone or in person, and there is a menu for children.[3][4]
The Galli Theater in the house, since 2005
Since 2005 the Galli Theater Weimar has played in this house: comedies by Johannes Galli, the company's founder and the author of every piece it stages, who called himself a philosophising clown. The theatre and the restaurant offer their evenings together, under the motto that art and cooking meet at their most delicious, and the pair take bookings for birthdays, company parties, anniversaries and Christmas parties; the theatre's programme runs from an evening piece to a children's play at the weekend.[2][5]
Why Shakespeare, in Weimar
The house makes its own case for the name. It was Wieland, in Weimar, who rediscovered the forgotten English dramatist for German readers; the translations of Schlegel and Tieck and Goethe's work on the stage founded Shakespeare's world fame; and since 1904 the oldest Shakespeare monument on the continent has stood in the Park an der Ilm. The house also likes to recall Kenneth Branagh on the stage of the Nationaltheater, striking the pose of Hamlet and saying that Shakespeare is a German writer.[1]
Booking a table
Reservations are taken by telephone or at the house, so that the right table can be found together; there is a children's menu.[3][4]
Questions visitors ask
Sources (5)
- Das sind wir — Restauration Shakespeares, Weimar, retrieved 13 September 2026
- Galli-Theater — Restauration Shakespeares, Weimar, retrieved 13 September 2026
- Reservierung — Restauration Shakespeares, Weimar, retrieved 13 September 2026
- Kinderkarte — Restauration Shakespeares, Weimar, retrieved 13 September 2026
- Galli Theater Weimar – Das Theater für Groß und Klein — Galli Theater Weimar, retrieved 13 September 2026
Stay and eat nearby
Historic sites
Park an der Ilm, 99423 Weimar
The house's own account of its name ends at the Shakespeare monument of 1904 in the Park an der Ilm.[^shakespeares-das-sind-wir]
Interesting reads
Historical figures
1749–1832 • writer • statesman • naturalist
1759–1805 • writer • poet • historian
1739–1807 • duchess • regent • patron • composer
1883–1969 • architect • founder and director of the Bauhaus • teacher
Historic sites
Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weimar
Platz der Demokratie 1, 99423 Weimar
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar
Buchenwald, 99427 Weimar