Locali 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

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

One Michelin star in Untergiesing, Florian and Sabrina Berger's chef-led room

Munich's fine-dining legend, 2 Michelin stars under Benjamin Chmura

Same house, looser register, 1 Michelin à la carte

Jugendstil mosaic floors, Modenese aceto, pecorino-marjoram ravioli that's been on the menu since 1999

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

Stefan Gabányi's serious cocktail address, Munich's grown-up bar

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

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

The Englischer Garten postcard, earns the slot

Tim Raue's French brasserie in the heart of Glockenbach

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

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

On the English Garden edge, looking onto the university riding school

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

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

The 'Bavarian deli', Jochen Kreppel's Obergiesing dining room

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

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

Reichenbachstrasse dive, red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

Donnersberger old-school coffeehouse, Turkish mocha, Greek mocha, Viennese melange

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße, top-50 in Germany.

Provence in Munich since 1997, wisteria-clad façade off Johannisplatz

Munich's serious Afghan kitchen since 2001; cardamom, lamb, and pumpkin borani.

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

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

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

Korean omakase and KBBQ in a Haidhausen basement vault.

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

Corner-site cocktail room and small-plates kitchen, Gärtnerplatz

Holzplatz hideaway for fresh pasta and Roman pinsa

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

The Westendstraße taverna, Greek-owned, Greek-run, no concession to anyone

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

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

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See, the refined garden

One Michelin star, surprise menu changes fortnightly, urban-laid-back

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

World's Best Wine Bar 2025, 900 wines by the glass via Coravin

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

Royal-court Indian fine dining in Schwabing-West.

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

1904 Trieste merchant-shop interior, Veneto-Friuli-Campania osteria

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

Schelling's own room near the English Garden, one star, full conviction

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

Speakeasy-register cocktail room near Gärtnerplatz