Concordia Park

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Beer: Löwenbräu
Hours: 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Daily; Closed Mon. in winter.
Seating: 800

Landshuter Alee 165
80637 Munich
(089) 155241
; FAX (089) 15970804




Concordia Park is home to gardeners who love beer.

Below: A memorial to choir members who fell in World War I.

Concordia Park almost lost out to the 1972 Summer Olympics when plans were to level the place to make room for athletic facilities. Maybe it was luck or just popular support, but this musical association-supported establishment -- originally formed as a local men's choir -- is half clubhouse and half restaurant and beer garden today. The area is dotted with small private gartenplatz that are the haunts of weekend gardeners doing their best to escape the city for a few hours. Many of Concordia Park's customers in the beer garden are drawn from those who can't stand the thought of another Petunia when there's cold beer to be had. We can all raise a Prosit to the beer flowing outside, the melodies being sung inside, and the fact that while Concordia Park is several blocks away from the imposing Olympic Stadium, at least it is not buried by it. It gets 3 1/2 beers.