Στέκια in Munich

The honest Augustiner, brewery canteen, not the tourist Dom version

1897 Belle Époque café with daily live music, protected room in Hotel Mariandl

50 Top Pizza's #1 in Germany, destination Neapolitan in the Hofstatt quarter.

Munich's largest living room, Augustiner Wirtshaus in the heart of Westend

Munich's oldest beer garden, 1812, 5,000 seats under the chestnuts

The Englischer Garten postcard, earns the slot

Franz Marc and Thomas Mann's old table, 1887 literary café, restored

Sixth-floor café on Marienplatz, direct sightline to the carillon.

Au-Isar cornerstone since the eighties, riverside brunch and rotating art

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

An untouched 1955 café interior, Maxvorstadt time-capsule

Munich's oldest café since 1775, Italian roots, Hofgarten terrace.

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

Family-run café-Wirtshaus above Theresienwiese, best breakfast in the Westend

Bogenhausen's reliable Lebanese, full mezze table, halal grill, late hours.

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

Dresden Stollen since 1825, Munich's heritage cake counter, sixth generation.

The original Hofbräu, 1,400-seat chestnut beer garden, locals' Hofbräu

Munich's jazz reference since 1978, concerts every night in a Haidhausen cellar.

The largest beer garden in the world, 8,000 seats under chestnuts, since 1791

Bookstore-café-stage, the quieter heart of Schellingstraße

Scandinavian-inflected roastery on the Maxvorstadt-Neuhausen edge, one of two Loring roasters in Germany.

MVSM's flagship roastery café, light-roast specialty coffee since 2014.

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

Bavarian Wirtshaus on the palace canal, deeded by Elector Karl Albrecht in 1730

Former power station turned culture house, concerts, café, riverside biergarten.

Holzplatz hideaway for fresh pasta and Roman pinsa

The Salvator origin, Bavarian Brauhaus on the brewery's home hill

The Westendstraße taverna, Greek-owned, Greek-run, no concession to anyone

King Max I's 1820 palm house, behind Nymphenburg Palace, fifth-generation innkeepers

The Schneider Weisse mothership, 1872, Weisswurst until noon, Aventinus all night

Munich's largest schnitzel, the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

1950s Speisecafé in a former Tracht shop, the quarter's living room

Munich's third-wave coffee pioneer, roasting on Rumfordstraße since 2007.

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge