Muffatwerk — Café & Ampere

The Muffatwerk started life in 1837 as a pumping station and later as a municipal electricity plant; it was converted to a culture house in the 1990s and now holds the Muffathalle (the larger 1,400-capacity hall), the Ampere (the 400-capacity smaller club for indie concerts and DJ nights), the Muffatcafé (an all-day kitchen with a menu of bowls, brunch and seasonal mains), and one of central Munich's better biergartens — under chestnuts on the Isar bank, fifty metres from the Maximilianeum. The programming runs from international touring acts to electronic club nights to spoken-word readings. The café and biergarten are walk-in; the concerts are tickets-online.