Restaurant in Munich

Two stars at the Bayerischer Hof, Kevin Romes era, opened April 2026.

The honest Augustiner, brewery canteen, not the tourist Dom version

Jan Hartwig's three-Michelin-star laboratory in Maxvorstadt

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

One Michelin star in Untergiesing, Florian and Sabrina Berger's chef-led room

1898 game institution; Bavarian hunting fare under Hubert Buckl.

Munich's fine-dining legend, 2 Michelin stars under Benjamin Chmura

Same house, looser register, 1 Michelin à la carte

Three Michelin stars in Munich's oldest house, 1552 chancery walls.

Munich's oldest wine house, restored 15th-century vaulted rooms

50 Top Pizza's #1 in Germany, destination Neapolitan in the Hofstatt quarter.

Jugendstil mosaic floors, Modenese aceto, pecorino-marjoram ravioli that's been on the menu since 1999

Mario Gamba's 'cucina del sole', one Michelin star, holding it for 25 years

Two stars upstairs at Munich's 320-year-old delicatessen.

Two Michelin stars, 35 seats, modern French-Mediterranean on the Au-Isar edge

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

Munich's largest living room, Augustiner Wirtshaus in the heart of Westend

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

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

Munich's first proper tapas bar, on Amalienstraße since 1995.

Vietnamese street food on Tegernseer Landstraße, chef Hieu's southern-style Pho

The Englischer Garten postcard, earns the slot

Tim Raue's French brasserie in the heart of Glockenbach

Beechwood-grilled Nürnberger sausages on a tin plate, off the market

Open-fire grill and pasta counter under the Marstall's columned hall.

On the English Garden edge, looking onto the university riding school

The potato-only stall on Viktualienmarkt, twenty-five varieties, lunch counter cult.

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

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

The 'Bavarian deli', Jochen Kreppel's Obergiesing dining room

Lehel institution since the 1990s, French-Italian cooking and a delicatessen on St.-Anna-Platz.

Axel Vervoordt's winter-garden brasserie inside the Bayerischer Hof.

The original Hofbräu, 1,400-seat chestnut beer garden, locals' Hofbräu

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

Schwabing steakhouse on Leopoldstraße, top-50 in Germany.

Provence in Munich since 1997, wisteria-clad façade off Johannisplatz

Munich's serious Afghan kitchen since 2001; cardamom, lamb, and pumpkin borani.

Award-winning Afghan kitchen since 2001, Innenstadt branch on Brunnstraße

Nobu Matsuhisa's only German room; Japanese-Peruvian inside Mandarin Oriental.

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

Bavarian Wirtshaus on the palace canal, deeded by Elector Karl Albrecht in 1730

Korean omakase and KBBQ in a Haidhausen basement vault.

Israeli-German owners, Munich's best hummus on Metzstrasse

Ali Güngörmüş's Mediterranean-Levantine room inside the Fünf Höfe.

Holzplatz hideaway for fresh pasta and Roman pinsa

The Salvator origin, Bavarian Brauhaus on the brewery's home hill

Bavarian fine in a 1573 ducal mill, vaulted

The Westendstraße taverna, Greek-owned, Greek-run, no concession to anyone

Schwabing Lebanese with the proper meze register, near Münchner Freiheit.

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

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

Israeli kitchen inside the Münchner Volkstheater, relocated 2021, fully landed

The Schneider Weisse mothership, 1872, Weisswurst until noon, Aventinus all night

One Michelin star inside Maximilianstraße's grand hotel, three nights a week.

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See, the refined garden

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

One Michelin star, surprise menu changes fortnightly, urban-laid-back

The Bavarian classic across from the Opera, two floors of it.

Munich's largest schnitzel, the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995

Tatami sushi and seasonal kaiseki tucked inside the Amalienpassage.

Royal-court Indian fine dining in Schwabing-West.

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

1904 Trieste merchant-shop interior, Veneto-Friuli-Campania osteria

800-label cellar at Hotel Excelsior, head chef Benedikt Arps

Schelling's own room near the English Garden, one star, full conviction

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge