Dear Lily933, I am sorry you did not appreciate the food and service at Weihenstephan Brewery, a basic, but well-liked local eatery. Your negative review, however, reflects in no small part your own cultural background. I am quite familiar with the place. The Weihenstephan Brewery restaurant is almost exclusively visited by locals; it is located off the beaten tourist path and you need to know about the place to find your way here. When you travel to a foreign country, you should be aware of your cultural bias and refrain from using your own cultural norms as a measuring stick for local customs. Certainly, Bavaria does not equal Alberta, and as a guest, a little humility and knowledge of local customs, would go a long way. So allow me to familiarize you with certain standards of behavior in a German 'Wirtshaus', i.e. a basic (as opposed to up-scale) restaurant: - Dinner rolls and pretzels are NEVER free, but the amount charged is minimal (typically 50 cent a piece) - You mentioned your waiter's English was poor, but at the same time you insist that he had offered you pretzels for free. A typical waiter would not be a liberty to do that - if anybody, the manager would. Did it ever occur to you that you may have misunderstood his intention, rather than making a big scene? - In the end, you got your free bread, probably because the manager wanted to avoid more scandalizing. Did you ever acknowledge the special, favorable treatment you received, due to your obstinance? I am pretty sure that everybody else in the restaurant paid for their selection of bread or pretzels. - Payment is cash by default. While credit cards are increasingly accepted in hotels, upscale restaurants and touristy places, in a regular "Wirtshaus" you should expect to be asked to pay for your food with cash. Someone should probably have told you that before you walked through that door. - The texting that you observed by the waitress was most likely entering your order into the electronic system they use for order tracking, with cell-phone sized tablet interfaces. These systems are very common in all but the smallest restaurants. - I am sorry that you did not like the food, which enjoys a quite good reputation among locals. However, it is typical, hearty, genuine Bavarian fare and certainly not to the taste of every foreign tourist. Your taste may have been better accommodated in eateries that offer international style food, as are found easily in city centers and in the surroundings of tourist attractions. - Since you mentioned you were a large party, I assume that most of you requested separate tabs. This is particularly cumbersome for the waitstaff when change must be given, to the 1/100 cent, to every person in the party. The electronic tracking system goes by table, but cannot split the tab up by guest; this must be done manually. Not unlike in the Americas, it is therefore customary to ask if the party would pay the tab as a whole and then split up the bill amongst themselves, while the waitress can attend to other clients. Tip is almost always added before the waiter returns your change, just to keep things simple. This is how the process works for a table of locals. I do not expect that you know all these details (although it would be good), but please please refrain from dissing hard-working people just because they do not follow the exact payment process you are familiar with from your own home county. So while I commend you for exploring Germany beyond the well-trodden path of the typical American-Canadian guided tour of Munich, I recommend that nest time you do your homework first, then show up with an open mind, leave your biases at the door and come with a willingness to comply with local ways and customs. Your trip will be more pleasant for it.

Are you open the month of november for dinner reservation, around 5pm. Most likely 17th nov.

Como faço para ir da cervejaria weihenstephan até a estação de trem de freising?

Is there an Inn or hotel nearby where we can take a taxi to Weihenstephan--and also get to Octoberfest?

Moro na Suiça e pretendo conhecer Freising e esta famosa cervejaria...por favor ..preciso do offnungseiten da Weihenstephan..bitte.

Nao consegui encontrar o horario de funcionamento..

FICA Alberta no sabado e Domingo? Qual o horario?

If we don't know any German, will we be able to communicate in this town and at this brewery? What time do they open on a Thursday? Thank you!

Good morning! So are brewery tours only available on Monday, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays? We will be in Freising on a Thursday in July and I thought we'd enjoy a tour. Thank you in advance for answering my question. :)

Qualcuno sa dirmi se la birreria è raggiungibile a piedi dalla fermata della metro