Plekken in Munich

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

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

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

Reichenbachstrasse dive, red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

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

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue