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

Family-run café-Wirtshaus above Theresienwiese, best breakfast in the Westend

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

Modern Vietnamese with Asian-fusion flourishes in Glockenbach.

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

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

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

The proper Turkish bakery on Goethestraße, pide, simit, baklava, no tourist tax

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

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book

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

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

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

The Englischer Garten postcard, earns the slot

Old-Munich Wirtshaus on the Viktualienmarkt edge

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

Holzplatz hideaway for fresh pasta and Roman pinsa

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

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

Munich's largest schnitzel, the Maxvorstadt classic since 1995