Sommerfest

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The entrance to Sommerfest
Epcot
Land	World Showcase
Opening date	1989
Restaurant Type	Counter Service
Menu Type	German Snacks and Beer

Sommerfest is a counter service restaurant located in the Germany pavilion within Epcot.

History

During the Germany pavilion's initial development, the location that would eventually house Sommerfest was earmarked as the entrance for the pavilion's planned Rhine River Cruise attraction ^[1]. Originally foreseen as an opening day attraction, plans for the River Cruise were eventually pushed back to EPCOT Center's Phase II. Despite this, a large show building which would have housed the attraction's queue and load area was constructed ^[1]. The entrance to this building was to be through an archway next to the Biergarten entrance. When the first guests walked through the Germany pavilion on October 1, 1989, the archway simply housed a set of wooden </ref> ..→