Plekken in Munich

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

The Englischer Garten postcard, earns the slot

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

Leopoldstraße's 46-year-old patisserie

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

Authentic Mexican tacos and quesadillas at Münchner Freiheit.

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

Donnersberger old-school coffeehouse, Turkish mocha, Greek mocha, Viennese melange

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.

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

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

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

Lakeside Bavarian on the Kleinhesseloher See, the refined garden

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

Olga Polizzi's botanical garden five-star in Maxvorstadt

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