Best Oktoberfest in town

Last saturday was Oktoberfest. In Nashville. No, not in Germantown, I had that pleasure once and found it, speaking from a culturally insulted point-of-view, rather dreadful.. well, maybe not that bad, but I was far from impressed and far from entertained, let's leave it at that.
But this one!!
That was real.

Oktoberfest as it is known in the USA, is not celebrated all over Germany, but is very specifically a bavarian festival, based on bavarian beer, food, culture and traditions. So, to have the real deal, it helps a whole lot to have real Bavarians there to bring in all these elements.

This Oktoberfest's hosts are a wonderful couple, she originally from Leipzig, he from Munich - she wearing a real Dirndl and looking pretty like the Okotober-Queen in it, and him in real Lederhosen, with a traditional Bierseidel (a ceramic beer mug with a tin lid), with visiting family, parents and kids and cousin, from Germany, all wearing traditional bavarian clothing.

Everything was right (albeit in a funny-silly party setting): the people, the looks, the tradition, the music (until someone started the Bluegrass), the atmosphere of the woody, tin mug decorated, house (if you ignore persian rugs and other art pieces from all over the world), a woodcarved Til Eulenspiegel overlooking the dining room and holding his mirror up to everyone at the table, with a porch overlooking a hill and foresty valley, in the most serene, almost alpine setting you can possibly find in Nashville.

And, importantly, the food, home made by people who grew up with that sort of thing, know how it is supposed to taste, and have cooked these dishes themselves since decades.

So much for the prelude praise - the menu is coming up in separate posts .. :)