Plekken 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

Jan Hartwig's three-Michelin-star laboratory in Maxvorstadt

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

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

1898 game institution; Bavarian hunting fare under Hubert Buckl.

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

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

Same house, looser register — 1 Michelin à la carte

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.

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

Mario Gamba's 'cucina del sole' — one Michelin star, holding it for 25 years

Two stars upstairs at Munich's 320-year-old delicatessen.

Two Michelin stars, 35 seats, modern French-Mediterranean on the Au-Isar edge

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

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

Nineteen suites on the top floors above Marienplatz

The Englischer Garten postcard — earns the slot

Tim Raue's French brasserie in the heart of Glockenbach

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

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

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 'Bavarian deli' — Jochen Kreppel's Obergiesing dining room

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.

Axel Vervoordt's winter-garden brasserie inside the Bayerischer Hof.

Old-Town wine bar with deep list and sensible pricing

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

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.

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

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

Nobu Matsuhisa's only German room; Japanese-Peruvian inside Mandarin Oriental.

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

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

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

Mixology Best Hotel Bar DACH 2026 — second year running

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

Ali Güngörmüş's Mediterranean-Levantine room inside the Fünf Höfe.

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

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

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

Mediterranean glamour on Wittelsbacher Platz — Riviera-meets-Italy in Maxvorstadt.

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.

One Michelin star inside Maximilianstraße's grand hotel, three nights a week.

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See — the refined garden

Chef Jianguo Zhang's Sichuan fine dining; Munich's first serious Chinese room.

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

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

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

Tatami sushi and seasonal kaiseki tucked inside the Amalienpassage.

Olga Polizzi's botanical garden five-star in Maxvorstadt

Royal-court Indian fine dining in Schwabing-West.

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

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

800-label cellar at Hotel Excelsior, head chef Benedikt Arps

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

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge

Speakeasy-register cocktail room near Gärtnerplatz