Lugares in Munich

The honest Augustiner, brewery canteen, not the tourist Dom version

The Englischer Garten postcard, earns the slot

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

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

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book