This page explains how articles on bavarianbistro.com are researched, written, checked and corrected.
Sources
Every factual claim on the site is traceable to a source listed at the end of the article that makes it. Sources are ranked in this order of preference:
- The official bodies: the City of Munich (muenchen.de and oktoberfest.de), the Bavarian state and its agencies, including the state’s register of traditional specialties, the Bavarian palace administration, the German weather service, and the transit operators (MVV, MVG, Deutsche Bahn).
- The people who make or run the thing: breweries, Oktoberfest tents, museums, castles, Trachten makers and food producers, for their own prices, hours, recipes and history.
- The EU register of protected names, for what may legally be called a Bavarian pretzel, Obazda or a Nürnberger Rostbratwurst.
- Tour marketplaces and retailers, for their own prices and terms, checked on the date given.
- Established publishers, for their own reporting on events.
Wikipedia, forums and other travel blogs are used to find leads, never as the cited source for a fact.
When sources disagree, the article says so and gives both versions. The Weißwurst, for example, has an official birthday and an older engraving that contradicts it; the site tells you both.
Prices, dates and hours that change
Beer prices, festival dates, ticket prices, opening hours, train fares and exchange rates change every year, and Oktoberfest prices change every September. Articles state the date such facts were checked and phrase them so a reader knows to confirm before booking. The site re-checks these details before each Oktoberfest and each Christmas-market season. Treat the tent’s, the castle’s or the operator’s own page as the final word on the day you go.
Recipes
Where an article gives a recipe, the ingredients and method come from a cited source: the state’s official description of the dish, a producer’s own recipe, or a recipe from the Bavarian Bistro’s chef. The site does not invent quantities, and it says plainly when a dish is described rather than given as a recipe.
What the site does not do
- It does not publish restaurant reviews or first-person trip reports, and it does not claim experiences the writer has not had.
- It does not invent statistics, prices, seat counts, train times or quotations.
- It does not accept payment for coverage. Affiliate relationships are disclosed on the affiliate disclosure page and in the articles where links appear.
Use of software and AI tools
Articles carry the byline Resi Zauber, the pen name of the site’s editor, who lived in Munich for many years; it is disclosed as a pen name on the About page. Research, drafting and fact-checking are done with the help of AI writing and research tools under the editor’s direction. Every article is built from the cited sources, reviewed for accuracy against them before publication, and edited by a person. Recipes and food-fact pages that began as posts by the Bavarian Bistro’s chef, Achim Thiemermann, are credited to him. Webhaus LLC, the publisher, is responsible for everything published.
Corrections
Errors are corrected as soon as they are confirmed, and the article’s “updated” date changes. To report one, use the contact page and include the article title and the source that contradicts it.