For the second year, Brickell is getting in on this Oktoberfest
business and celebrating arguably the largest beer festival in the
world. It all takes place this Friday, October 5. Part of this year's event is the Bier Garden Pop-Up Restaurant hosted by top Michelin-rated chef Wolfgang Ban.
Celebrated Austrian chef and owner of the Edi & the Wolf in Midtown, NY and Seasonal Restaurant & Weinbar in the East Village, NY, Ban created a three-course menu for the Bier Garden Pop Up Restaurant with pairings by Radeberger beer sometimes referred to as the keeper of the German beer culture.
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Ban's Seasonal Restaurant & Weinbar received a Michelin Star and was named "Best New Restaurant" by New York Magazine
in 2010. A Michelin rating is among the most prestigious culinary
rating systems in the world and yes it also happens to come from the
same company that makes tires.
The cost for the pop up is
$55 per person and includes the dinner, admission and a meet-and-greet
with Radeberger representatives and Ban himself. Ban worked with a
German butcher to come up with the pairings. The theme of the dinner, as
it always should be, is sausage: bratwurst, Nürnburger sausage,
kielbasa and currywurst. Vegetarian options will be available.
Prior
to opening his restaurants, Chef Ban spent eight years in New York City
as executive chef for the Austrian ambassador to the United Nations and
as executive chef for the restaurant located in the German Mission to
the United Nations.
For those who know nothing of beer, Oktoberfest is
Germany's 16-day fall harvest festival. It is as much
about the food as the suds, All of the
ingredients to make beer are harvested in Germany in fall. The evnt was first held in
early October, but it was moved back to coincide with German
reunification. If anything unifies people, it ought to be beer.
"Harvest festivals have a long history," Ban says. "It's kind of like
tradition and history, but the idea was to celebrate the harvest.
Usually Oktoberfest beer is strong beer."
The Brickell
Oktoberfest taks place from 6 p.m. to midnight on October 5, from 2 p.m. to
midnight on October 6 and from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on October 7.
General
admission tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Beers cost $6-8
and food costs $4-12. VIP tickets cost $100 per day or $200 for a
three-day pass and ticket holders will have access to a furnished
private tent, bite size dishes and unlimited Radeberger beer.
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