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Megan Edwards: Starbucks did it faster, and Disneyland did it bigger, but both followed the hallowed capitalist tradition of spawning all over the place. And now, like one of those rare desert plants that reproduces only once a millennium, Munich's revered Hofbräuhaus has dropped a pup in Las Vegas. Read more: Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas

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They've got one in Miami too.



Hofbräu Miami
943 Lincoln Rd
Miami Beach
FL 33139

I received an email from a friend stateside. She just returned from Las Vegas and ran into Hobrauhaus Las Vegas!

http://www.hofbrauhauslasvegas.com/

I was horrified and did not know there was such a thing! It seems there is now a Vegas version of the famous beer hall!

Did anyone else know about this? Or are we the only clueless ones?

I feel it will take away from the city tours when some America tourist goes “Oh, well, we have this too, I’ve already been there done that. What’s the big deal?�

I am sorry, I realize that the HB is bit commercialized and maybe, considered by some, a tourist trap but isn’t this is taking things a bit far…

Thoughts, comments…

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i actually know the owner of this place. A true blau/weiss bavarian. Best mate of a work colleague of mine. He pays attention that things are as authentic as they can be.

Do they have the swastika shadows on the ceilings?

That's not the only one... there are several others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofbr%C3%A4uhaus

Anyways, i have the menu here from the Vegas one too...the food doesn't even resemble what you get here...and neither does the building in Vegas. It really is a completely different experience.

The plastic version? Hofbräuhaus Lite?

To answer your questions, yes and yes.

Woo-Hoo! I see a Hofbräuhaus London. Yuppies in pink shirts deprived of their gelt for watered-down Stella in big jugs served by cheeky Cockney wenches with big jugs and some pretzel crisps. Franchise? Investment? Who'll say "Aye"?

Well, it is never the same as the original but really how authentic can be when the building is probably only 2-years old! And no history value at all!

As for the food, I am not the American palette is for a 101 ways to cook the “other white meat-pork! “

There's been one in Cincy for like ten years. It's under license from Hofbräuhaus München who supervises the making of the beer etc. So if they want to expand overseas...what's the problem?

Absolutely shocking. Before you know it, Vegas will be building its own version of the Pyramids or the Eiffel Tower...

HBH is just about the first thing you see leaving McCarran airport, so yes you probably are on the tail end of the awareness curve here.

C'mon guys, the Hofbräuhaus isn't exactly like most other beerhalls in Munich. The fact that it is directly across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe should should tell you all you need to know. Does anyone have photos of the insides of the ones "out foreign".

I really don't know why people have a problem with this.

Er jamie, think the Hofbräuhaus was there just a tad before the Hard Rock Café, eh?

Oh please Jebus...the beer here SUCKS!!!

heathen. you obviously couldn't tell a good ale from a Babycham.

The first link had something very interesting in it: "Nobody knew the words to the drinking songs, and if you ordered a "mass" of beer—one of those liter-sized glass mugs—you had to pay for the glass and then try to get your money back when you left if you didn't want to keep it."

Outdoor festivals in every pissant dump in Germany charge pfand for glasses (beer, gluehwein, etc.), but I just remembered that there's no Pfand at the Munich Oktoberfest ... maybe it's the sharp-eyed security people who keep people from horcking Masses out of the tents or something, but it is a nice change nonethless.

P.S. I always wanted one of those things as a pencil holder but was too chicken to swipe one and too cheap to buy one. Then I once had a business meeting in Munich during Oktoberfest and stumbled over and swiped a discarded one out of a a planter box outside my hotel whilst waiting for a taxi!

I must admit the ales have not done it for me so far. They taste watered down and flat, while the room temp doesn't do anything to make it more palatable to me.

I am more than willing to go and try any recommendation for an ale that can impress.

A babycham is ???

You're a douche bag and you don't deserve decent beer. And for the love of Saint Arnold, it's cellar temperature, not room temperature. Go drink a Carling.