Lugares 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

The university's Wirtshaus since the 1920s — Schwabing-Maxvorstadt seam

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

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

Munich's first proper tapas bar, on Amalienstraße since 1995.

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

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.

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

Bookstore-café-stage — the quieter heart of Schellingstraße

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

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

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

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

Munich's largest schnitzel — the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge