REVIEW: Toasted Pretzel Bread and Other Germany Booth Staples Return to Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market for the 2023 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival

Venture to Germany for Bavarian bites sure to sate foodies of all ages. Every dish is köstlich!” is how Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market is described for the 2023 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival. While the menu hasn’t changed much since last year, there is a new beer available along with the classic favorite dishes.

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Menu for Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market at the 2023 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival

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Food:

  • Potato Pancakes with House-Made Apple Sauce (Plant-Based) (Gluten/Wheat Friendly) – $5.00
  • Potato Pancake with Caramelized Ham, Onions, and Herb Sour Cream (Gluten/Wheat Friendly) – $5.25
  • Toasted Pretzel Bread topped with Black Forest Ham and Melted Gruyère Cheese – $5.75
  • Warm Cheese Strudel with Mixed Berries – $4.75

Beverages:

  • Bitburger Premium Pils, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (4.8% ABV) – $5.50 for 6 oz., $9.50 for 12 oz.
  • Stiegl Brewery Radler Raspberry, Salzburg, Austria (2.0% ABV) – $5.50 for 6 oz., $9.50 for 12 oz.
  • 🆕 Flensburger Dunkel, Flensburg, Germany (4.8% ABV) – $5.50 for 6 oz., $9.50 for 12 oz.
  • Apfelschaumwein: Sparkling Wine and Apple Liqueur – $10.00
  • Beer Flight – $10.00

Photos of Menu Items from Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market at the 2023 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival

Potato Pancakes with House-Made Apple Sauce – $5.00

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You can taste the onions, the hash brown flavor of the potato, and the applesauce. It’s a very simple dish, but delivers what it promises. With so many options, we’d recommend other dishes, like at the Mexico Pavilion. This one’s nothing terribly special.

Potato Pancake with Caramelized Ham, Onions, and Herb Sour Cream – $5.25

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The toppings here do little to elevate the dish. Pass.

Toasted Pretzel Bread topped with Black Forest Ham and Melted Gruyère Cheese – $5.75

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We don’t even know the proper words to describe how unexpectedly amazing this dish was. The pretzel bread was filled with a gooey cheese and black forest ham that oozed out when we cut into it. All of the flavors mix wonderfully together making one of the best items we’ve ever had at Flower & Garden since they started Outdoor Kitchens.

Warm Cheese Strudel with Mixed Berries – $4.75

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The strudel was a perfect combination of fruit, cheese, and flaky crust. Everything came out warm, making for a very good dessert. Not as good as the buckle from The Berry Basket in years past, but still worth your time.

Bitburger Premium Pils, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (4.8% ABV) – $5.50 for 6 oz., $9.50 for 12 oz.

Bitburger describes their Premium Pils as “bright golden yellow in color, with a lasting white foam head with extra-fine bubbles,” with an aroma of “pure, delicate notes of honey, ripe cereal grains, white bread and aromatic mountain herbs,” and having a “delicate effervescence mixed with a crisp and fruity taste, a touch of malty sweetness, rounded off with a distinctive hoppiness that lingers harmoniously on the palate.”

Stiegl Brewery Radler Raspberry, Salzburg, Austria (2.0% ABV) – $5.50 for 6 oz., $9.50 for 12 oz.

From Stiegl Brewery: “Stiegl-Goldbräu and sweet fruity raspberry soda join together to refresh with an enchantingly red, soft berrylike treat. The raspberry flavor gives the retro-Radler a rich scented bouquet of fully ripe berries. The fruity and juicy overall impression provides thirst-quenching refreshment.”

*NEW* Flensburger Dunkel, Flensburg, Germany (4.8% ABV) – $5.50 for 6 oz., $9.50 for 12 oz.

From Flensburger Brauerei: “Our amber-colored, bottom-fermented dark beer with a natural malty flavor. Only carefully selected dark-caramelized malts are used in the brewing process. Well-balanced notes of caramel, toffee and mildly roasted coffee round up its taste. Its malty taste is underlined by a fine bitterness typical for our Northern German heritage.”

Apfelschaumwein: Sparkling Wine and Apple Liqueur – $10.00

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This was similar to ice wine, but it would have been a bit better if it were colder. The fresh rosemary sprig gave it a nice flavor. It was very sweet. There was a bit of a spiced apple taste, but not cinnamon-y.

Location of Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market at the 2023 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival

Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market is located adjacent to the Germany Pavilion on World Showcase Promenade. You can find it at number 12  on the map below.

2023 FG Booth Map

The EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival will be running from March 1 to July 5, 2023.

Even though the menu for Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market hasn’t changed much, we’re always excited to see the Toasted Pretzel Bread return, as it’s one of our absolute festival favorite dishes, and we highly recommend it!

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