Three Michelin stars in Munich's oldest house, 1552 chancery walls.
Munich's central core, Marienplatz, Maximilianstraße, the museum-edge
Munich's old town and Lehel together cover the central core inside the medieval ring road, Marienplatz with the Neue Rathaus glockenspiel, the Frauenkirche twin towers, the Viktualienmarkt food hall, the Residenz, Maximilianstraße's couture mile, and the museum-edge calm of Lehel. The chapter accepts the rooms that earn their central postcode: Tantris City, Pageou, Schreiberei, the Bayerischer Hof and Vier Jahreszeiten dining axis, plus Dallmayr's mother-room. The traveller uses the hood for the formal lunch and the after-Pinakothek dinner.
18 places
Three Michelin stars in Munich's oldest house, 1552 chancery walls.
Two stars upstairs at Munich's 320-year-old delicatessen.
One Michelin star inside Maximilianstraße's grand hotel, three nights a week.
Axel Vervoordt's winter-garden brasserie inside the Bayerischer Hof.
Open-fire grill and pasta counter under the Marstall's columned hall.
The Bavarian classic across from the Opera, two floors of it.
The Schneider Weisse mothership, 1872, Weisswurst until noon, Aventinus all night
Beechwood-grilled Nürnberger sausages on a tin plate, off the market
The potato-only stall on Viktualienmarkt, twenty-five varieties, lunch counter cult.
Nobu Matsuhisa's only German room; Japanese-Peruvian inside Mandarin Oriental.
Lehel institution since the 1990s, French-Italian cooking and a delicatessen on St.-Anna-Platz.
50 Top Pizza's #1 in Germany, destination Neapolitan in the Hofstatt quarter.
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The last surviving original tiki bar in the world, basement of the Bayerischer Hof.
Charles Schumann's cocktail address, the Munich bar reference, on Odeonsplatz.
Daytime Schumann's, espresso, salade niçoise and a midday vermouth in Fünf Höfe.
7 places
King Maximilian's hotel on Maximilianstraße
73 rooms behind a neo-Renaissance facade in the Altstadt
Nieto Sobejano's contemporary five-star on Stachus
3 places
Dresden Stollen since 1825, Munich's heritage cake counter, sixth generation.
Munich's oldest café since 1775, Italian roots, Hofgarten terrace.
Sixth-floor café on Marienplatz, direct sightline to the carillon.
3 places
The full Eataly market hall inside Munich's restored Schrannenhalle, on Viktualienmarkt.
Bavaria's bread house since 1331, flagship counter across from the Schrannenhalle.
Champagne-truffle institution since 1932, counter inside Ludwig Beck on Marienplatz.