Places in Munich

Two stars at the Bayerischer Hof — Kevin Romes era, opened April 2026.

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

The grand dame of Munich since 1841

King Maximilian's hotel on Maximilianstraße

Charles Schumann's cocktail address — the Munich bar reference, on Odeonsplatz.

Three Michelin stars in Munich's oldest house, 1552 chancery walls.

Munich's oldest wine house, restored 15th-century vaulted rooms

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

Nineteen suites on the top floors above Marienplatz

Open-fire grill and pasta counter under the Marstall's columned hall.

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

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

Bog oak, Jura stone, and a wine bar in the Altstadt

Lehel institution since the 1990s — French-Italian cooking and a delicatessen on St.-Anna-Platz.

Old-Town wine bar with deep list and sensible pricing

Reichenbachstrasse dive — red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

Nieto Sobejano's contemporary five-star on Stachus

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

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße — top-50 in Germany.

Bookstore-café-stage — the quieter heart of Schellingstraße

73 rooms behind a neo-Renaissance facade in the Altstadt

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

Mixology Best Hotel Bar DACH 2026 — second year running

Munich's first new luxury hotel in 16 years

The palace-restaurant inside Schloss Nymphenburg — the only address with this view

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See — the refined garden

The Bavarian classic across from the Opera, two floors of it.

Olga Polizzi's botanical garden five-star in Maxvorstadt

The last surviving original tiki bar in the world, basement of the Bayerischer Hof.

1825 protected villa, reopened 2023 as an Amalfi-coast Italian — handmade pasta, fresh seafood, walled courtyard

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

Speakeasy-register cocktail room near Gärtnerplatz