Venues similar to Café am Beethovenplatz

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

Au-Isar cornerstone since the eighties, riverside brunch and rotating art

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

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

An untouched 1955 café interior, Maxvorstadt time-capsule

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

Bookstore-café-stage, the quieter heart of Schellingstraße

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

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

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

King Max I's 1820 palm house, behind Nymphenburg Palace, fifth-generation innkeepers

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

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

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

Reichenbachstrasse dive, red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

Munich's largest schnitzel, the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

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