Plekken in Munich

Munich's grand café since 1888 — Vienna's register, Bavarian discipline

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

Munich's oldest wine house, restored 15th-century vaulted rooms

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

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

Tim Raue's French brasserie in the heart of Glockenbach

Open-fire grill and pasta counter under the Marstall's columned hall.

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

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

The full Eataly market hall inside Munich's restored Schrannenhalle, on Viktualienmarkt.

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

Champagne-truffle institution since 1932 — counter inside Ludwig Beck on Marienplatz.

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße — top-50 in Germany.

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

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

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

Bavarian fine in a 1573 ducal mill, vaulted

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

The palace-restaurant inside Schloss Nymphenburg — the only address with this view

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

Daytime Schumann's — espresso, salade niçoise and a midday vermouth in Fünf Höfe.

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See — the refined garden

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

The Bavarian classic across from the Opera, two floors of it.

Tatami sushi and seasonal kaiseki tucked inside the Amalienpassage.

Royal-court Indian fine dining in Schwabing-West.

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

Speakeasy-register cocktail room near Gärtnerplatz