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

Cult Bavarian fried-dough since 1973, on the Viktualienmarkt corner

One Michelin star in Untergiesing — Florian and Sabrina Berger's chef-led room

Munich's fine-dining legend — 2 Michelin stars under Benjamin Chmura

Same house, looser register — 1 Michelin à la carte

Jugendstil mosaic floors, Modenese aceto, pecorino-marjoram ravioli that's been on the menu since 1999

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

Stefan Gabányi's serious cocktail address — Munich's grown-up bar

Munich's first proper tapas bar, on Amalienstraße since 1995.

Vietnamese street food on Tegernseer Landstraße — chef Hieu's southern-style Pho

The Englischer Garten postcard — earns the slot

Tim Raue's French brasserie in the heart of Glockenbach

Munich's oldest civic-house — beer garden, blues nights, poetry slams since 1979

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

On the English Garden edge, looking onto the university riding school

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

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

The 'Bavarian deli' — Jochen Kreppel's Obergiesing dining room

Munich's oldest ice cream parlour — Sarcletti family on Nymphenburger Straße since 1879

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

Reichenbachstrasse dive — red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

Donnersberger old-school coffeehouse — Turkish mocha, Greek mocha, Viennese melange

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße — top-50 in Germany.

Provence in Munich since 1997 — wisteria-clad façade off Johannisplatz

Munich's serious Afghan kitchen since 2001; cardamom, lamb, and pumpkin borani.

Award-winning Afghan kitchen since 2001 — Innenstadt branch on Brunnstraße

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

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

Korean omakase and KBBQ in a Haidhausen basement vault.

Israeli-German owners, Munich's best hummus on Metzstrasse

Corner-site cocktail room and small-plates kitchen, Gärtnerplatz

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

Schwabing Lebanese with the proper meze register, near Münchner Freiheit.

Israeli kitchen inside the Münchner Volkstheater — relocated 2021, fully landed

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See — the refined garden

One Michelin star, surprise menu changes fortnightly, urban-laid-back

Standing-only wine bar since the 1930s — Franconian whites, no chairs

World's Best Wine Bar 2025 — 900 wines by the glass via Coravin

The proper Turkish bakery on Goethestraße — pide, simit, baklava, no tourist tax

Royal-court Indian fine dining in Schwabing-West.

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

1904 Trieste merchant-shop interior, Veneto-Friuli-Campania osteria

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

Schelling's own room near the English Garden — one star, full conviction

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

Speakeasy-register cocktail room near Gärtnerplatz