Le Faubourg

Owner Dominique has run Le Faubourg out of a Kirchenstrasse townhouse since 1997, and the wisteria climbing the front (one of Munich's oldest, by his account) tells you everything about the time signature inside. Twelve tables, candles, a chalkboard menu that leans southern French, scallops with truffle jus, lamb carré with olive crust, the kind of plat du jour that arrives without ceremony and is exactly right. Dominique works the room himself with a French accent he has not lost in twenty-eight years.