Das Festhaus

[Griffon]

oh you mean the fireplace that won't be turning for cmt?

 

[BGW Family]

oh you mean the fireplace that won't be turning for cmt?

Nice.:irritated2: Can you elaborate?

 

[Jrbgwfan06]

It either got damaged, or Deck the Halls will be overhauled or changed this year, which I'm guessing includes the set. OR, Deck the Halls isn't coming back this Christmas Town.

 

[Jonquil]

Good Lord, that set looks TERRIBLE! Just amateurish, childish, low-brow, like some badly-executed kiddie restaurant. I haven't been in there since "Entwined", and though I knew it was a debacle, I had no idea what they did to the Festhaus. They ruined the interior!

 

[netdvn]

Honestly the set looks fine, its the show that accompanies the set that isn't really that great.

 

[Mushroom]

The set, on its own, is okay. Place it in the middle of a beer hall and we've got issues.

 

[Jonquil]

Well I guess it must look better in person then :-/

I just never thought of Festhaus as a theater. The set looks terrible in there, like it fell from the sky. If it was in a theater it would be different.

 

[Zimmy]

Must... not... must... bite... my... tongue...

 

[Jonquil]

Tongue is a dish best served cold.

But I don't think they serve tongue at Das Festhaus.

They do, it seems from the look of things, serve cheese there now.

 

[Jrbgwfan06]

With sequens and glitter on the side.

 

[UncleDuncan]

I really feel good about taking this year off of BGW.

 

[Zimmy]

Tongue is a dish best served cold.

Actually I prefer mine deli style and hot. If you do like tongue, you really need to go to 58 deli on VB Blvd in Virgina Beach. It is to die for!

 

[UncleDuncan]

Tongue is a dish best served cold.

Actually I prefer mine deli style and hot.  If you do like tongue, you really need to go to 58 deli on VB Blvd in Virgina Beach.  It is to die for!

Negative. It's best served in a taco (scratch that - tacos, since you should have more than one), preferably with a Pacifico.

 

[Zimmy]

negative, Jewish Rye with deli mustard and a couple slices of swiss

 

[Jonquil]

I have a great tongue sandwich recipe, but I suppose this isn't the place for it!

So anyway, DAS FESTHAUS!

(PM me for the recipe)

 

[wombat96]

From 1976.

I wonder when they made the switch for one of the lines to serve pizza and fries. I imagine sometime in the 90's but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Zimmy]

at one point they served ice creme. (do they still do that?)

 

[Jonquil]

^ Yes, but it's sauerkraut flavored.

 

[Applesauce]

Something hit me when I saw the stage this past weekend. With that huge stage, how many tables were eliminated to make space? That might not seem like a big deal on a moderate to slow day, but the days where they have to control capacity, it makes a big difference. For instance, how much money did culinary lose because the seating capacity shrunk? Over time that has to add up to something and with that big stage being there now for a few years I'm sure it's a decent size number.

(Pulled from the Roll Out the Barrel thread)

I've thought about this every time I go into the Festhaus. Honestly I think they may have lost like one or two tables. It's just instead of having them more spread out, where you could enjoy your meal without sitting on somebody else's lap. Now they're all squished together. Which is just massively uncomfortable.

 

[Nicole]

Das Festhaus has always been tight, crowded, difficult to navigate, and uncomfortable.