Plekken in Munich

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

The Käfer family's 1930 Bogenhausen institution — gourmet rooms above the delicatessen

1898 game institution; Bavarian hunting fare under Hubert Buckl.

The university's Wirtshaus since the 1920s — Schwabing-Maxvorstadt seam

Munich's oldest beer garden, 1812 — 5,000 seats under the chestnuts

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

The Englischer Garten postcard — earns the slot

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

Au-Isar cornerstone since the eighties — riverside brunch and rotating art

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

An untouched 1955 café interior — Maxvorstadt time-capsule

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

Munich's oldest ice cream parlour — Sarcletti family on Nymphenburger Straße since 1879

Donnersberger old-school coffeehouse — Turkish mocha, Greek mocha, Viennese melange

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

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße — top-50 in Germany.

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

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

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

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See — the refined garden

Chef Jianguo Zhang's Sichuan fine dining; Munich's first serious Chinese room.

Munich's largest schnitzel — the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

Olga Polizzi's botanical garden five-star in Maxvorstadt

1825 protected villa, reopened 2023 as an Amalfi-coast Italian — handmade pasta, fresh seafood, walled courtyard