Festzelt Tradition

Kids and Families

One family-friendly feature is the dedicated soda garden in front of the tent. Since 2015, there have been unique children's toilets throughout the Oktoberfest and - to make them really useful in the first place - a soda fountain. Children up to the age of 12 can tap their own soda there - without any quantity restrictions. All they have to do is borrow a special cup for one euro (plus a €1 deposit). The Limogarten will even be expanded in 2024.

Cuisine

Overall, there is not much left of the original gastronomy concept, which was intended to revive dishes and rituals that had been pushed into the background over the decades, such as grilling your own food, except for a traditional dish that changes every year and is otherwise rarely found on menus. Otherwise, the extensive menu contains everything you would expect from ambitious Oktoberfest cuisine. A specialty is the steckerlfisch (fish on a stick), which is otherwise only sold by stalls Fischer-Vroni, as well as the organic chicken. There are also special offers during the Mittagswiesn.

In keeping with the concept, Oktoberfest beer from Munich's oldest and most conservative brewery, Augustiner Bräu, is served exclusively from wooden barrels, just like at the real Wiesn. This is served at the Oidn Wiesn in stone mugs (keferloher). Franziskaner wheat beer is also served in the beer garden.

Reservations 2025

While there was no minimum consumption requirement for reservations until 2023, one was introduced in 2024 to prevent too many seats being reserved unnecessarily - but only for larger groups. Beer and chicken tokens are still not required to be purchased in advance for groups of up to 20 people. The times can be chosen flexibly, whereby it should only be noted that lunch reservations are granted until 4 pm at the latest and evening reservations cannot start before 5 pm. The reservation form was opened on April 1. All days and times were available at the start.