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

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

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

The Englischer Garten postcard — earns the slot

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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