My recollections of dinners at Munich hotels are
that they are all very much of a muchness, and that
not very good. Men who know the town better
than I do speak well of the Russischerhof, the Con-
tinental, the Esplanade restaurant in the new Regina
Palast Hotel, and the restaurant of the Vier Jahres-
zeiten. Of the wine restaurants the Luitpold, which
has a French restaurant and a cafe in its spacious
building, is the best known in the town. Luitpold,
A 2-mark dinner at this restaurant is a Briennerstrasse
wonderful meal at the price. The house is at the
end of the Maximilianplatz. Of Schleich’s in the
Briennerstrasse I hear varying opinions.
There used to be a pleasant little restaurant on the
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island of the Isar, but it has now become the museum
of the Alpine Club.
Munich is of course the headquarters of good
German beer, and at the Hofbrauhaus in the Platzl,
Hoflorauhaus, one of the sights of the town, as good a
The Platzl glass of beer can be obtained as any man
could wish for. Various kinds of beer are drunk in
Munich at various seasons of the year. The Zacherl
Keller has its own special brew for spring, and so has
the Hofbrauhaus. The Hofbrauhaus is a fine typical
specimen of a German bierhalle, very respectable and
much frequented. After having had your first Schop-
pen (for having once tasted you invariably want more)
you rinse out your glass at a handy fountain before
presenting it to be refilled. The person who takes
your Schoppen along with several others in each hand,
invariably, with unerring instinct, hands you back the
same glass. As an appetiser for the beer, to which it is
supposed to give an additional zest, the attendants place
a large radish about the size of an apple in a sort
of turnip-cutting machine, which ejects it in thin
rings ; it is then washed and put into a saucer with
a little salt and water, and eaten without any other
accompaniment than the beer. It may be an acquired
taste, but it appears to be very popular.
The large breweries outside the gates, each with its
restaurant, are worth a visit from any one whom beer
interests. At the Oktober Fest all the breweries have
great tents on the Fest ground.
AFTER DINNER
At the Prinz Regentert Theater performances of
Wagner’s operas are given in August and September,
after the manner of Bayreuth. At the Hof Theater
operas and serious plays are performed, and lighter fare
is to be found in the Gartnerplatz Theater. There
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is a summer theatre in the Park, and the gravity of
the Prinz Regenten is balanced by four variety theatres.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
My recollections of dinners at Munich hotels are that they are all very much of a muchness, and that not very good. Men who know the town better than I do speak well of the Russischerhof, the Continental, the Esplanade restaurant in the new Regina Palast Hotel, and the restaurant of the Vier Jahreszeiten. OOf the wine restaurants the Luitpold, which has a French restaurant and a cafe in its spacious building, is the best known in the town. A 2-mark dinner at this restaurant is a wonderful meal at the price. The house is at the end of the Maximilianplatz. Of Schleich's in the Briennerstrasse I hear varying opinions.
There used to be a pleasant little restaurant on the
1 86 The Gourmet's Guide to Europe
island of the Isar, but it has now become the museum of the Alpine Club.
Munich is of course the headquarters of good German beer, and at the Hofbrauhaus in the Platzl, one of the sights of the town, as good a glass of beer can be obtained as any man
could wish for. Various kinds of beer are drunk in Munich at various seasons of the year. The Zacherl Keller has its own special brew for spring, and so has the Hofbrauhaus. The Hofbrauhaus is a fine typical specimen of a German bierhalle, very respectable and much frequented. After having had your first Schoppen (for having once tasted you invariably want more) you rinse out your glass at a handy fountain before presenting it to be refilled. The person who takes your Schoppen along with several others in each hand, invariably, with unerring instinct, hands you back the same glass. As an appetiser for the beer, to which it is supposed to give an additional zest, the attendants place a large radish about the size of an apple in a sort of turnip-cutting machine, which ejects it in thin rings ; it is then washed and put into a saucer with a little salt and water, and eaten without any other accompaniment than the beer. It may be an acquired taste, but it appears to be very popular.
The large breweries outside the gates, each with its restaurant, are worth a visit from any one whom beer interests. At the Oktober Fest all the breweries have great tents on the Fest ground.
At the Prinz Regentert Theater performances of Wagner’s operas are given in August and September, after the manner of Bayreuth. At the Hof Theater operas and serious plays are performed, and lighter fare is to be found in the Gartnerplatz Theater. There
German Towns 187
is a summer theatre in the Park, and the gravity of the Prinz Regenten is balanced by four variety theatres.
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