Vegan Oktoberfest 2026: All Vegan Dishes in the Beer Tents, With Prices

The cheapest vegan main course at Oktoberfest 2026 costs 14.80 euros, less than any half roast chicken on the festival grounds. We went through the official menus of the big beer tents, compared prices and wrote down where you will actually get a proper vegan meal, which side dishes are traps, and what the festival costs animals every year. Plus our PDF guide to take with you.

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Oktoberfest 2026: dates, prices, facts

The 191st Oktoberfest runs from 19 September to 4 October 2026 on the Theresienwiese in Munich. A Maß (one litre of beer) costs between 14.80 and 15.90 euros this year according to Wiesnkini, a few cents more than in 2025 depending on the tent. Food prices are climbing too: half a roast chicken ranges from 16.90 euros at the Ochsenbraterei to 23.50 euros at the Fischer-Vroni and Käfer Wiesn-Schänke, according to Watson, and cheese spaetzle cost between 17.90 euros (Augustiner) and 23.90 euros (Armbrustschützenzelt).

The number we care about more: the vegan selection has stayed stable since 2022, even though demand has dropped since Wiesnkini started tracking it. The festival management writes in its 2025 final report that demand for vegetarian and vegan dishes has “settled at a stable level”. Almost every big tent now lists at least two vegan main courses, some also vegan soups, spreads and desserts. The days when vegans lived on pretzels and radish are over. About one in five visitors comes from abroad, which is one reason most tents now print their menus in English as well.

Vegan dishes in the big beer tents 2026

We evaluated the 2026 menus the tent operators had published by 7 September: Augustiner, Bräurosl, Löwenbräu, Schottenhamel and the Festzelt Tradition on the Oide Wiesn (the “old Oktoberfest” area). For Hofbräu and the Weinzelt we rely on the prices already reported by Wiesnkini. All prices include service and can still change during the festival.

Augustiner-Festhalle: the cheapest vegan tent

Augustiner remains the best-value tent at Oktoberfest, for vegans too. Under “Vital, Vegetarian & Vegan” you will find a marinated mountain lentil salad with pumpkin falafel and fresh cress for 14.80 euros and durum wheat pasta with tomato and vegetable bolognese for 15.50 euros. Both are honest, filling dishes, nothing gimmicky. Add the second-cheapest beer of the festival. If you want to save money and still sit in a big tent, this is the place.

Bräurosl: vegetable schnitzel with potato-cucumber salad

The Bräurosl has two explicitly vegan-labelled main courses in 2026: two vegetable schnitzels made from kohlrabi and celeriac in Bavarian panko breadcrumbs, served with potato-cucumber salad and vegan herb mayonnaise, and a baked sweet potato on vegan herb cream with roasted vegetables and local herb oil. Both cost 19.90 euros. The Hokkaido pumpkin soup is on the menu as well, worth asking whether it is made without cream.

Hofbräu-Festzelt: vegan currywurst and vegetable patties

The Hofbräu tent, the one with the most international crowd, offers vegetable patties (Gemüsepflanzl) for 19.30 euros and a vegan currywurst for 19.80 euros, according to the 2026 prices reported by Wiesnkini. The currywurst is the classic for anyone who needs something hearty after the second Maß.

Löwenbräu-Festhalle: vegetable strudel and vegan pumpkin soup

Löwenbräu goes with a vegetable strudel on tomato-basil ragout with roasted chanterelles for 21.90 euros. As a starter there is a vegan-labelled pumpkin cream soup with roasted pumpkin seeds for 9.80 euros. Careful with the Kässpätzle: they are Swabian style with cream and Emmental, so vegetarian, not vegan.

Schottenhamel: organic chickpea curry and jackfruit goulash

The Schottenhamel, where the mayor traditionally taps the first keg, has the most ambitious vegan line-up in 2026: a vegan curry with organic chickpeas, baked organic cauliflower, organic rice and vegan crème fraîche for 23.50 euros and a vegan goulash made from organic jackfruit with potatoes, peppers and oat cream for 24.50 euros. There is also the “Veggi Brettl” board with beetroot hummus, marinated Bavarian organic tofu and vegan patties, but it comes mixed with cheese and egg, so only vegan on request. The menu lists ingredient origins and allergens in detail, which makes ordering easier.

Weinzelt: from pumpkin-parsnip ragout to vegan patties

The Weinzelt (wine tent) is the most expensive tent at Oktoberfest but has the widest vegan choice: pumpkin and parsnip ragout with Schupfnudeln, a kind of potato noodle (21.00 euros), vegan pasta (19.50 euros), vegan bratwurst (19.90 euros), grilled vegetables (23.00 euros) and vegan patties (28.00 euros). At 28 euros the patties are the priciest vegan main course we found in 2026.

Festzelt Tradition (Oide Wiesn): “Bavarian-vegan”

On the Oide Wiesn, the Festzelt Tradition runs its own “Bayrisch-Vegan” section: three vegan spreads (fine, coarse and truffled) with radish, radishes and baguette for 16.50 euros, and a potato goulash with mushrooms, celeriac and peppers for 17.80 euros. The old-Bavarian potato soup with diced vegetables and fried onions (7.80 euros) is labelled vegan too. The Oide Wiesn needs a separate ticket, but it is calmer and more family-friendly than the big tents.

All vegan main courses 2026 at a glance

Tents that have not published their 2026 menu yet

Armbrustschützenzelt, Fischer-Vroni, Hacker, Käfer, Marstall, Ochsenbraterei, Paulaner and Schützenfestzelt usually put their menus online only in the week before the tapping. For orientation, this is what they had on the vegan side in 2025 (2025 prices, according to Wiesnkini):

• Armbrustschützenzelt: baked potato with herb dip and grilled vegetables (18.90 euros), seitan goulash with potato dumpling (27.50 euros)
• Fischer-Vroni: “Pflasagne” with vegetables, soy mince and oat béchamel (20.90 euros), cabbage pasta with vegan bacon (19.50 euros)
• Hacker-Festzelt: braised aubergine (17.80 euros), baked potato (17.50 euros)
• Käfer Wiesn-Schänke: vegan cevapcici (28.50 euros). The baked cauliflower contains butter and egg, so not vegan
• Marstall: vegan burger (28.50 euros), vegan Leberkäs hash (21.50 euros)
• Ochsenbraterei: vegan bratwurst (17.80 euros), mushroom goulash (21.30 euros), plant-based onion roast (29.30 euros)
• Paulaner-Festzelt: vegan currywurst (19.90 euros)
• Schützenfestzelt: potato goulash (20.50 euros), pan-fried vegetables (24.20 euros)
• Boandlkramerei (Oide Wiesn): pumpkin dish (18.90 euros), lentil curry (20.90 euros)

We will update this section as soon as the 2026 menus go online. The Ochsenbraterei of all places, the ox-roasting tent that hired a vegan chef in 2022 as the first big tent, has since become one of the most reliable addresses for plant-based Oktoberfest food.

Vegan at the stalls: pretzels, almonds, gingerbread hearts

If you have no seat in a tent or just want to eat between the rides, the stalls offer more than they used to. On oktoberfest.de the festival management explicitly lists burgers with vegan Leberkäse, pea schnitzel and vegan chimney cake (Baumstriezel), plus the “Paradeiser-Brot” (organic pan-fried tomato bread) and a vegan organic pumpkin spread with wood-oven bread as vegan snacks.

The classics at a glance:

• Wiesn pretzel: lye bread made from flour, water, yeast, salt and lye is vegan. Some bakers brush with butter or egg for shine, but at Oktoberfest that is the exception. In the tents a small organic pretzel at the Schottenhamel costs 2.50 euros, the giant Wiesn pretzel between 6 and 8 euros depending on the tent.
• Candied almonds (gebrannte Mandeln): classically just almonds, sugar, water, cinnamon and vanilla. A few stalls add butter or honey to the glaze, a quick question clears that up.
• Gingerbread hearts (Lebkuchenherzen): the dough is usually egg- and milk-free, the icing can contain egg white. They are souvenirs more than snacks anyway.
• Radish (Radi) and radishes: always vegan, usually served with a pretzel, 8 to 13 euros in many tents.
• Fries, spiral potatoes, sweet potato fries: vegan as long as they are fried in vegetable oil, which is standard at Oktoberfest.
• Candy floss, candied fruit, dark chocolate fruit: usually vegan.

Is Oktoberfest beer vegan?

Yes. Only beer from Munich's six breweries may be served at Oktoberfest (Augustiner, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu, Paulaner, Spaten), and they brew under the Bavarian purity law. The German Brewers' Association states that animal fining agents such as gelatine or isinglass (dried fish bladder) are therefore not permitted. Bavarian beer is clarified with diatomaceous earth or membrane filters instead, or simply lagered longer. This also applies to the alcohol-free versions, which saw six to ten percent higher demand in the tents in 2025 according to the final report.

Wine at the Weinzelt is more complicated, because wine is often fined with gelatine, egg white or isinglass. We explain why and how to spot vegan wine in our article Why not every wine is vegan.

The vegan Oktoberfest guide 2026 as a PDF

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What to watch out for when ordering

Most mistakes happen with the side dishes, the main course is rarely the problem. Our experience from the menus and quite a few Oktoberfest visits by the team:

• Sauerkraut and red cabbage: often prepared with bacon, lard or meat stock in Bavarian kitchens. The Bräurosl itself does not list its cheese dumplings as vegetarian because of the bacon in the sauerkraut.
• Bavarian potato salad: classically dressed with meat stock. The potato-cucumber salad with the vegetable schnitzel at the Bräurosl is labelled vegan, other tents not necessarily. Ask.
• Bread dumplings (Semmelknödel) and Schupfnudeln: usually contain egg and milk. Only order them when the dish is explicitly marked vegan.
• Rahmschwammerl and Kässpatzn: the most popular vegetarian dishes at Oktoberfest, but made with cream and cheese. Not vegan, even if the waiter occasionally sees it differently.
• Obazda: camembert plus butter. If you miss the taste, our recipe for vegan Obazda (in German) gets you there at home.
• Read the allergen codes: on most menus C stands for egg and G for milk. If both letters are missing, the dish is usually vegan. A good quick check when the waiter is under pressure.
• Say “vegan”, not “vegetarian”: sounds trivial but saves discussions. In packed tents “no meat” is easily understood as “with cheese”. A simple German phrase that works: “Ist das vegan, ohne Milch und Ei?”

Animal ethics: what Oktoberfest costs the animals

Oktoberfest is the largest folk festival in the world, and it is one of the biggest meat feasts of the year. The Munich animal welfare society (Tierschutzverein München) compiled the city's figures for 2025: 130 oxen, 44 calves, around 350,000 roast chickens and almost 22,000 kilograms of fish, plus “countless pigs” that ended up as sausages and pork knuckles. Spread over 16 festival days, that is roughly 22,000 chickens a day. Most of these animals come from conventional farming: a broiler chicken in Germany is slaughtered at around five to six weeks, a calf at a few months.

At the Ochsenbraterei every ox is announced by name on a board before it goes on the spit. For many visitors that is folklore. For us it is the rare moment when an Oktoberfest dish is an animal with a name again. If you want to see how cattle live when they do not end up as a roast, our sanctuary atlas (in German) lists farm animal sanctuaries across Germany.

The live animals on the festival grounds are an issue too. Pets are banned under the Oktoberfest regulations, and pony carousels have been banned on city-owned land in Munich since 2024. An exception still applies to the brewery horses, which pull the beer wagons through the crowds during the opening parade and daily deliveries. Horses are flight animals, and the Munich animal welfare society calls their time at the festival “no pleasure” for them.

The good news sits in the same statistics: more than 51,000 vegan and almost 123,000 vegetarian dishes were sold in 2025. Every one of those orders shifts demand a little, and the tent operators respond. The fact that Augustiner now serves pumpkin falafel and the Schottenhamel jackfruit goulash has less to do with idealism than with order numbers.

Vegan Tracht: dirndl and lederhosen without leather

The dirndl is easy: cotton, linen or viscose, with an apron that is not silk. Avoid horn, mother-of-pearl and leather for buttons and trims. Classic lederhosen are made from deer, goat or cowhide, but there are now traditional-style trousers in woven cotton and corduroy that come close to the original in cut and embroidery and cost a fraction. Haferl shoes are available in microfibre or canvas as well. If you are only in Munich for a few days, the Tracht shops around the main station and Marienplatz stock the cotton versions too.

Oktoberfest at home: vegan recipes

If you are not coming to Munich or want to skip the tent prices, bring Oktoberfest home. These recipes from our kitchen (in German, but easy to follow with a translator) also work for friends who would otherwise order chicken:

• Vegan Weißwurst with Obazda, the complete brunch package, fully plant-based
• Vegan Leberkäse with potato salad, without meat stock in the salad of course
• Vegan currywurst with homemade curry sauce
• Vegan gingerbread hearts with egg-free icing
• Homemade seitan, the base for goulash and onion roast like at the Ochsenbraterei

Vegan in Munich around Oktoberfest

Away from the Theresienwiese, Munich has one of the strongest vegan food scenes in Germany, from the Bodhi tavern with its Bavarian menu to the organic bakeries in Schwabing. If you want to combine the trip with a festival, the SFT Festival 2026 in Munich and VeggieWorld Munich are in our event calendar.

Frequently asked questions about vegan Oktoberfest

Does every beer tent have vegan dishes?

All the big tents whose 2026 menus are available, yes. Usually two to five vegan main courses plus soups or spreads. The small tents and stalls vary more, so check the posted menu there.

What is the cheapest vegan dish at Oktoberfest 2026?

The marinated mountain lentil salad with pumpkin falafel at the Augustiner-Festhalle for 14.80 euros. Only pretzels and radish are cheaper.

Is the Wiesn pretzel vegan?

Yes, as a rule. Lye bread consists of flour, water, yeast, salt and lye. Individual bakers brush with butter or egg, but at Oktoberfest that is the exception.

Is Oktoberfest beer vegan?

Yes. All six Oktoberfest breweries brew under the purity law, which does not permit animal fining agents such as gelatine or isinglass. That includes alcohol-free beer.

How many animals are eaten at Oktoberfest?

According to the Munich animal welfare society, based on the city's statistics, 2025 saw around 350,000 chickens, 130 oxen, 44 calves, almost 22,000 kilos of fish and an unrecorded number of pigs.

Can I reserve a table for vegan food?

Reservations go through the tents and are usually tied to a minimum spend in the form of vouchers. The vouchers are valid for all dishes, including the vegan ones. For large groups it helps to tell the tent in advance how many people eat vegan.

How do I order vegan in German?

“Ich hätte gern das vegane Gericht, bitte” (I would like the vegan dish, please) and “Ist das vegan, ohne Milch und Ei?” (Is this vegan, without milk and egg?) cover almost every situation. Most waiters in the big tents speak English anyway.