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

The grand dame of Munich since 1841

King Maximilian's hotel on Maximilianstraße

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

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

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

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

Nineteen suites on the top floors above Marienplatz

Tim Raue's French brasserie in the heart of Glockenbach

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.

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

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

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

Reichenbachstrasse dive — red walls, dim lights, hipster shrine

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

Nieto Sobejano's contemporary five-star on Stachus

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

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße — top-50 in Germany.

Munich's serious Afghan kitchen since 2001; cardamom, lamb, and pumpkin borani.

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.

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

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

Mixology Best Hotel Bar DACH 2026 — second year running

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

Munich's first new luxury hotel in 16 years

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

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

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See — the refined garden

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

Munich's largest schnitzel — the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

World's Best Wine Bar 2025 — 900 wines by the glass via Coravin

Olga Polizzi's botanical garden five-star in Maxvorstadt

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

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge

Speakeasy-register cocktail room near Gärtnerplatz