Adresses in Munich

Two stars at the Bayerischer Hof — Kevin Romes era, opened April 2026.

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

1897 Belle Époque café with daily live music — protected room in Hotel Mariandl

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

The Käfer family's 1930 Bogenhausen institution — gourmet rooms above the delicatessen

Charles Schumann's cocktail address — the Munich bar reference, on Odeonsplatz.

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

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

50 Top Pizza's #1 in Germany — destination Neapolitan in the Hofstatt quarter.

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

Ayinger brewery's first own Wirtshaus — Mariahilfplatz, wooden barrels, Mühlbach garden

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

Vietnamese street food on Tegernseer Landstraße — chef Hieu's southern-style Pho

Nineteen suites on the top floors above Marienplatz

The Englischer Garten postcard — earns the slot

Beechwood-grilled Nürnberger sausages on a tin plate, off the market

Open-fire grill and pasta counter under the Marstall's columned hall.

Munich's oldest civic-house — beer garden, blues nights, poetry slams since 1979

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

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

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

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

An untouched 1955 café interior — Maxvorstadt time-capsule

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

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

The potato-only stall on Viktualienmarkt — twenty-five varieties, lunch counter cult.

Bogenhausen's reliable Lebanese — full mezze table, halal grill, late hours.

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

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.

Munich's oldest ice cream parlour — Sarcletti family on Nymphenburger Straße since 1879

Cocktails in the 1839 hall of mirrors that survived the war intact.

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

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

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

Champagne-truffle institution since 1932 — counter inside Ludwig Beck on Marienplatz.

The largest beer garden in the world — 8,000 seats under chestnuts, since 1791

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße — top-50 in Germany.

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

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

Bavarian Wirtshaus on the palace canal — deeded by Elector Karl Albrecht in 1730

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

Bavarian fine in a 1573 ducal mill, vaulted

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

Munich's first new luxury hotel in 16 years

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

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

Israeli kitchen inside the Münchner Volkstheater — relocated 2021, fully landed

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

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.

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

Munich's largest schnitzel — the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

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

Olga Polizzi's botanical garden five-star in Maxvorstadt

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

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

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

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge