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

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

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

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

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

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

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

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

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

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book

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

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

Munich's oldest beer garden, 1812 — 5,000 seats under the chestnuts

The Englischer Garten postcard — earns the slot

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge

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

Holzplatz hideaway for fresh pasta and Roman pinsa

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

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

Munich's largest schnitzel — the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995