One long table, two countries.

The first Oktoberfest in 1810 was a wedding the whole city got invited to and now - two centuries later - we want to bring this love story to Nayarit.

We invite you to a marriage of flavours. Two kitchens meet over one fire: German-Mexican fusion, made with love and cooked by the old rules with a lot of good beer.

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One long table, two countries.

The first Oktoberfest in 1810 was a wedding the whole city got invited to and now - two centuries later - we want to bring this love story to Nayarit.

We invite you to a marriage of flavours. Two kitchens meet over one fire: German-Mexican fusion, made with love and cooked by the old rules with a lot of good beer.

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1810

The first Oktoberfest had no beer tents. It had a guest list: everyone.

In October 1810, a Bavarian crown prince got married - and instead of locking the palace doors, the royal family threw the party open to the whole city of Munich. Nobles and farmers, side by side in a meadow outside the gates, five days of feasting, music, and one very famous horse race. People had such a good time they simply refused to let it be a one-time thing.

Within a year the farmers had taken it over, turning it into a harvest fair - a stage for what Bavarian hands could grow, raise, and make. Games for children came next. Carousels. Swings. The beer halls? They didn't show up until 1895, almost a century in. For its first 85 years, Oktoberfest was a family fest about food, land, and sitting down together.

That's the fest we're bringing to Nayarit. Not the one on the postcards - the one underneath it. A wedding feast for everyone.

In October 1810, a Bavarian crown prince got married - and instead of locking the palace doors, the royal family threw the party open to the whole city of Munich. Nobles and farmers, side by side in a meadow outside the gates, five days of feasting, music, and one very famous horse race. People had such a good time they simply refused to let it be a one-time thing.

Within a year the farmers had taken it over, turning it into a harvest fair - a stage for what Bavarian hands could grow, raise, and make. Games for children came next. Carousels. Swings. The beer halls? They didn't show up until 1895, almost a century in. For its first 85 years, Oktoberfest was a family fest about food, land, and sitting down together.

That's the fest we're bringing to Nayarit. Not the one on the postcards - the one underneath it. A wedding feast for everyone.

Die Feste

Das all-you-can-eat Fest

The loud one. Doors open, the benches fill, the fire gets going and the food keeps landing until the kitchen gives up. Brass and banda trade songs across the room all night.

Der Wirtshausabend

The smaller night. Fewer benches, same fire, music close enough to talk over. You order what you feel like and the plates keep their own pace.

Kerzenlicht

The quiet one. Candles down a single long table, courses arriving slowly, the whole room dropping to a murmur by the third plate.

Die Musik

The myth says Bavarians invented banda. They did not.

What the records show is a port, a trading house and a payment plan. German merchants in Mazatlan imported the tubas and clarinets and sold them on installments, which is how brass ended up in farm towns instead of only army bands. Polka, waltz and chotis came through the same door.

You can hear the inheritance. The tuba walking the bass, the oom-pah landing on the offbeat, the 2/4 that polka runs on. The tambora is a bass drum with a cymbal bolted to it, straight out of a European band kit, and the whole genre took its name from it.

What no record shows is a German founding a single Sinaloan band. Germans supplied the hardware. Sinaloans decided what to play on it, and made something louder than anything Bavaria had in mind.

So when the banda sets up next to the brass at our fest, nothing is being staged. Same instruments, same beat, same idea: outdoors, loud, everybody at the table.

Das Bier

We pour local craft from around here, plus a few small German brewers who set up in Jalisco and never went home. Good beer, made close by, poured cold.

But the most German beer at the table is the one already in every fridge in Mexico.

Pacifico was founded in Mazatlan on 14 March 1900 by three German merchants. One of them, Johan Georg Claussen, was the German consul. They brought pilsner brewing, bought American machinery, shipped in malt and hops, and delivered the first crates by mule cart to a port that had never had a brewery.

The same trading house that sold Sinaloa its tubas on installment, Casa Melchers, ended up running that brewery. One German network, one dock, two things coming off the same ships.

So the polka and the pilsner landed in the same harbour. We are putting them back on the same table.