Plekken in Munich

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

Ayinger brewery's first own Wirtshaus — Mariahilfplatz, wooden barrels, Mühlbach garden

The Englischer Garten postcard — earns the slot

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

Franz Marc and Thomas Mann's old table — 1887 literary café, restored

Sixth-floor café on Marienplatz — direct sightline to the carillon.

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

Dresden Stollen since 1825 — Munich's heritage cake counter, sixth generation.

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

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

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

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.

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

Former power station turned culture house — concerts, café, riverside biergarten.

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

King Max I's 1820 palm house, behind Nymphenburg Palace — fifth-generation innkeepers

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