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

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

Munich's grand café since 1888 — Vienna's register, Bavarian discipline

Bavaria's bread house since 1331 — flagship counter across from the Schrannenhalle.

The grand dame of Munich since 1841

King Maximilian's hotel on Maximilianstraße

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

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

Nineteen suites on the top floors above Marienplatz

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

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

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

Dresden Stollen since 1825 — Munich's heritage cake counter, sixth generation.

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

The full Eataly market hall inside Munich's restored Schrannenhalle, on Viktualienmarkt.

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

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

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

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

Scandinavian-inflected roastery on the Maxvorstadt-Neuhausen edge — one of two Loring roasters in Germany.

MVSM's flagship roastery café — light-roast specialty coffee since 2014.

73 rooms behind a neo-Renaissance facade in the Altstadt

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

Munich's first new luxury hotel in 16 years

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

Daytime Schumann's — espresso, salade niçoise and a midday vermouth in Fünf Höfe.

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See — the refined garden

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

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

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