Café Luigi Tambosi

Luigi Tambosi opened the Caféhaus on Odeonsplatz in 1775, which makes this the oldest café in Munich by two clear decades. The building closed in late 2016 after two centuries, then reopened in 2018 under new management with the original room and the Hofgarten terrace intact. The kitchen now runs as Italian brasserie — vitello tonnato, fritto misto, a clean spaghetti pomodoro at lunch — and the ground-floor café still pulls espresso from morning to past midnight. The terrace under the Feldherrnhalle is the warm-month address: forty tables on flagstones with the Hofgarten in the eyeline, no reservation, first-come.