Στέκια in Munich

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

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

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

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

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.

Mediterranean glamour on Wittelsbacher Platz, Riviera-meets-Italy in Maxvorstadt.

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

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

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book