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Restaurant · Munich, Germany
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Munich's state-owned beer hall on the Platzl, founded as the ducal brewery in 1589, with a thousand-seat ground floor hall, a brass band and Bavarian food.
To stand inside the building every other beer hall in the world is imitating, and to drink a Mass while a band plays. It is a spectacle, and it is honest about being one.
Daily opening until midnight, litre steins, the band, the sheer scale of the room, and the regulars' stein lockers on the wall.
Mediocre, overpriced food. Overwhelmingly tourist trade. Extremely loud. Long waits for a table in summer.
First-time visitors to Munich, and groups, who suit the long shared tables far better than couples do.
You want a good Bavarian meal. Augustiner-Keller and the Viktualienmarkt beer garden both do the food better with a fraction of the crowd.
Go for a late morning or mid-afternoon beer when the hall is calm enough to look at. Eat elsewhere. Shared tables are the norm, so ask before sitting down at one.
No reservation for the main hall; walk in and find a table. Upper floors take group bookings. Beer is sold by the Mass, a full litre.
S-Bahn or U-Bahn to Marienplatz, then a three-minute walk east to the Platzl.
The Platzl, a small square in the old town two minutes from Marienplatz, surrounded by souvenir shops and the Hotel Platzl.
An hour for a beer, two if you eat.
Worth one beer for the room and the band. Eat somewhere else, and go in the afternoon when you can actually see the place.
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The Hofbrauhaus opens every day from 11.00 to 0.00, with the kitchen closing at 22.00 and last serving at 23.30. There is no reservation for the main hall and no closed day in the year. It is the most famous beer hall in the world, founded as the ducal brewery in 1589, and on any given evening the ground floor holds around a thousand people, a brass band, and a queue at the door. Regulars have lockers for their…
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