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ABOVE: The Sonn
Alpin restaurant is open year-round for breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
Restaurants
The
Sonn Alpin (see photo) is the largest restaurant on the Zugspitze, with
350 seats at indoor tables and room for another 800 guests on the sun terrace.
Its self-service restaurant dishes up generous portions of tasty food at
reasonable prices. (I can recommend the Wienerschnitzel with pommes frites, and
the berry crumb cake is delightful.) The Sonn Alpin is located at the edge of a
glacier on the Zugspitzplatt or Zugspitze Plateau, where it adjoins the mountain station of the
Zahnradbahn or cogwheel railway.
Two cablecars lead to the summit ridge: The Seilbahn-Eibsee from
Eibsee, in the valley; and the Gletscherbahn from the Zugspitzplatt station of
the cogwheel railway. When you reach the top, you'll find the Gipfelstüberl
restaurant and--for light snacks--the Panorama-Bistro in the exhibition
gallery.
Finally, the German Alpine Club's Münchner
Haus serves drinks and meals in a cozy 19th Century mountain hut on the
summit ridge. In good
weather, you can eat outdoors. (See this article's Zugspitze
hotels page for a photo.)
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