Hofbräuhaus
Platzl 9, +49 (0)89 290136-10. Daily 9am-11:30pm; $.
Constructed in 1897, this massive building holding Hofbräuhaus is Munich's major tourist attraction and the world's most famous beer hall. It seats 4,000 people. Now owned by the city of Munich, it is operated by Wolfgang and Michael Sperger, who follow in their parents’ footsteps.
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| interior of Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Germany |
Constructed in 1897, this massive building holding Hofbräuhaus is Munich's major tourist attraction and the world's most famous beer hall. It seats 4,000 people. Now owned by the city of Munich, it is operated by Wolfgang and Michael Sperger, who follow in their parents’ footsteps.
If you miss Oktoberfest, you can get a taste of the tent experience here. The heart of the place—the ground-floor historic beer hall/Schwemme--seats 1,000-plus at shared long wood tables and features an oompah band. More rooms upstairs include a gigantic banquet room/Festival Hall on the top floor with a spectacularly ornate ceiling and a nightly Bavarian Evening buffet and folklore show (reservations are essential), and the Trinkstube/Bräustube restaurant holding 350 more. In summer, a beer garden situated in a colonnaded courtyard patio with a Bavarian-lion fountain and shaded by ancient chestnut trees is also an option.
Servers wear Bavarian clothing, and specialties include huge pretzels, crisp-skinned roast pork, house-made weisswurst sausage, grilled chicken, and apple strudel. The weisswurst/white veal sausages served in a tureen along and a large pretzel with some sweet mustard that we ordered went perfectly with our huge mass/liter mug (this is the minimum serving here) of Helles/lager.
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image c2013 Carole Terwilliger Meyers
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