Plekken in Munich

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

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

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

The grand dame of Munich since 1841

King Maximilian's hotel on Maximilianstraße

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

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

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

Nineteen suites on the top floors above Marienplatz

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

Sixth-floor café on Marienplatz, direct sightline to the carillon.

The Pinakothek-quarter museum café

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

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

Dresden Stollen since 1825, Munich's heritage cake counter, sixth generation.

Bog oak, Jura stone, and a wine bar in the Altstadt

The full Eataly market hall inside Munich's restored Schrannenhalle, on Viktualienmarkt.

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

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

Old-Town wine bar with deep list and sensible pricing

Munich's jazz reference since 1978, concerts every night in a Haidhausen cellar.

Nieto Sobejano's contemporary five-star on Stachus

Champagne-truffle institution since 1932, counter inside Ludwig Beck on Marienplatz.

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.

73 rooms behind a neo-Renaissance facade in the Altstadt

Former power station turned culture house, concerts, café, riverside biergarten.

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

Munich's first new luxury hotel in 16 years

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

Daytime Schumann's, espresso, salade niçoise and a midday vermouth in Fünf Höfe.

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See, the refined garden

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

Olga Polizzi's botanical garden five-star in Maxvorstadt

1950s Speisecafé in a former Tracht shop, the quarter's living room

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

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

Munich's third-wave coffee pioneer, roasting on Rumfordstraße since 2007.

Bavarian Wirtshaus + Augustiner Biergarten beside the Bavaria statue

The Knödel institution Munich locals actually book