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 first proper tapas bar, on Amalienstraße since 1995.

The Englischer Garten postcard, earns the slot

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

The original Hofbräu, 1,400-seat chestnut beer garden, locals' Hofbräu

Reichenbachstrasse dive, red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

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

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

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

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

Israeli-German owners, Munich's best hummus on Metzstrasse

Holzplatz hideaway for fresh pasta and Roman pinsa

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

The Westendstraße taverna, Greek-owned, Greek-run, no concession to anyone

Schwabing Lebanese with the proper meze register, near Münchner Freiheit.

Standing-only wine bar since the 1930s, Franconian whites, no chairs

1950s Speisecafé in a former Tracht shop, the quarter's living room

Munich's third-wave coffee pioneer, roasting on Rumfordstraße since 2007.

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue