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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An untouched 1955 café interior, Maxvorstadt time-capsule

Munich's oldest café since 1775, Italian roots, Hofgarten terrace.

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

Bogenhausen's reliable Lebanese, full mezze table, halal grill, late hours.

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

Bog oak, Jura stone, and a wine bar in the Altstadt

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.

Old-Town wine bar with deep list and sensible pricing

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

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

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

73 rooms behind a neo-Renaissance facade in the Altstadt

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book