Cortiina Hotel

Munich's quietest design hotel — 73 rooms on Ledererstraße in materials chosen for restraint rather than statement: bog-oak floors, Jura natural-stone bathrooms, burnished brass, kilim carpets. Owner Rudi Kull built much of the furniture in-house. Grapes, the ground-floor wine bar, has won an international wine-bar prize and is a destination in its own right. Five minutes from Marienplatz, six from the Viktualienmarkt — the location is exactly the same as the more flashy Beyond by Geisel, but the experience is the opposite of theatre.