Places 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

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

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

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

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

An untouched 1955 café interior, Maxvorstadt time-capsule

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

Reichenbachstrasse dive, red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

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

Bookstore-café-stage, the quieter heart of Schellingstraße

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

Munich's largest schnitzel, the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue