Plekken in Munich

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

1897 Belle Époque café with daily live music, protected room in Hotel Mariandl

50 Top Pizza's #1 in Germany, destination Neapolitan in the Hofstatt quarter.

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

Munich's first proper tapas bar, on Amalienstraße since 1995.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Israeli-German owners, Munich's best hummus on Metzstrasse

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

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

The Schneider Weisse mothership, 1872, Weisswurst until noon, Aventinus all night

Munich's largest schnitzel, the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

1950s Speisecafé in a former Tracht shop, the quarter's living room

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge