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

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

The grand dame of Munich since 1841

King Maximilian's hotel on Maximilianstraße

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

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

Two stars upstairs at Munich's 320-year-old delicatessen.

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

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

Ayinger brewery's first own Wirtshaus, Mariahilfplatz, wooden barrels, Mühlbach garden

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.

An untouched 1955 café interior, Maxvorstadt time-capsule

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

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

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

Cocktails in the 1839 hall of mirrors that survived the war intact.

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.

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

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

Bookstore-café-stage, the quieter heart of Schellingstraße

73 rooms behind a neo-Renaissance facade in the Altstadt

Nobu Matsuhisa's only German room; Japanese-Peruvian inside Mandarin Oriental.

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

Mixology Best Hotel Bar DACH 2026, second year running

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

Ali Güngörmüş's Mediterranean-Levantine room inside the Fünf Höfe.

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

Mediterranean glamour on Wittelsbacher Platz, Riviera-meets-Italy in Maxvorstadt.

Munich's first new luxury hotel in 16 years

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

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

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

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See, the refined garden

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

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

Munich's largest schnitzel, the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

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

800-label cellar at Hotel Excelsior, head chef Benedikt Arps

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

Speakeasy-register cocktail room near Gärtnerplatz