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Where to eat in Munich: my 34 favourite restaurants

Nobody eats well following the tour buses. These are the 34 restaurants in Munich I'd send a friend to: the cheap neighbourhood place, the one locals keep to themselves, the splurge that's genuinely worth it. No photo menus.

Alexa von Harder€5–12 · Patisserie · CafeAn elegant French-style patisserie in Munich's Bogenhausen, where Alexa von Harder turns out delicate tartes, eclairs and seasonal cakes that look almost too pretty to eat. Directions
Augustiner BräustubenEUR 20-35 · Beer hall · BavarianThe Augustiner brewery's own tavern, inside the working brewery itself, with the dray horses stabled behind a glass wall at the back. Directions
Augustiner-KellerEUR 15-45 · Beer garden · Bavarian★ Tip: Same beer, same chestnuts, very different bill: the self-service side runs about EUR 15-20 a head once you bring your own bread and cheese, while the waited tables land closer to EUR 40. Follow the Selbstbedienung sign, that is… Directions
Bahnwärter ThielEUR 10-20 entry · Bar · club · cultureA cultural site built out of shipping containers and a decommissioned S-Bahn carriage on a former freight yard, with a club, a theatre, a beer garden and a lot of graffiti. Directions
Blitz ClubEUR 15-25 entry · Nightclub · technoInside the old aquarium on the museum island, with a Funktion-One system, a no-phones policy and a booking policy that treats techno as a craft. Directions
Brenner OperngrillEUR 45-90 · Grill · ItalianIn the old royal stables on Maximilianstrasse, vaulted ceilings and a wood grill in the middle of the room. Directions
BroedingEUR 75-110 · Wine · AustrianA tiny room in Neuhausen with no menu to choose from: one set dinner a night, built around Austrian wines the owner imports himself. Directions
Chinesischer TurmEUR 25-40 · Beer garden · BavarianThe wooden pagoda in the middle of the English Garden with 7,000 seats around it and a brass band playing from the balcony. Directions
DallmayrEUR 25-60 · Delicatessen · caféA grocery since 1700 and royal supplier to the Bavarian court, with a fountain of live crayfish and a coffee roaster that perfumes the whole street. Directions
Falk's BarEUR 18-35 · Bar · champagneThe bar in the Bayerischer Hof, under a genuine 19th century glass dome moved here from a Munich palace. Directions
Goldene BarEUR 12-25 · Bar · terraceInside the Haus der Kunst, under 1930s murals of the world's drinking regions, with a terrace facing the English Garden. Directions
Harry KleinEUR 12-20 entry · Nightclub · visualsA club built around live visual art projected across every wall in time with the music, which sounds like a gimmick until you are inside it. Directions
Käfer-SchänkeEUR 70-120 · Bavarian · fine diningThe Käfer family runs the most famous delicatessen in Munich and this is its restaurant, upstairs in a warren of small rooms decorated like a wealthy aunt's house. Directions
Kennedy's Bar and Restaurant★ 4.4 · €20-30 · Irish pub / International★ Tip: The room does not really fill until after 22:00 and the karaoke runs late, so treat it as the end of an evening, not the start of one. The kitchen serves until 1am, which in Munich is rarer than it sounds, and on Friday and… Directions
KongEUR 45-85 · Asian · cocktailsPan-Asian sharing plates under a giant illuminated gorilla, loud, dark and busy, in the club district on Sonnenstrasse. Directions
Königlicher HirschgartenEUR 25-45 · Beer garden · BavarianThe largest beer garden in the world, 8,000 seats in a former royal hunting park, with a fenced deer enclosure at one end that the name comes from. Directions
LöwenbräukellerEUR 25-45 · Beer hall · BavarianA grand 1883 beer palace with a garden attached and a ballroom upstairs that hosts the Starkbierfest, the strong beer festival in March that Munich considers the real one. Directions
Matsuhisa MunichEUR 90-160 · Japanese · PeruvianNobu Matsuhisa's Munich room, in the Mandarin Oriental, doing the black cod and the tiradito that made the name. Directions
MuralEUR 90-150 · Modern · seasonalA small starred kitchen near Viktualienmarkt working almost entirely with what grows in Bavaria, changing constantly, with art on the walls that also changes. Directions
Notting Hill Cafe€8–16 · Cafe · Brunch · CoffeeA cosy, London-inspired cafe near Theresienhoehe, Notting Hill leans into a relaxed brunch-and-coffee vibe with big windows and a real neighbourhood feel. Directions
Ory BarEUR 18-32 · Cocktail barThe bar in the Mandarin Oriental, dark green and lit low, with a menu that leans on Bavarian ingredients in ways that sound like a gimmick and are not. Directions
P1 ClubEUR 20-40 entry · NightclubThe club Munich money has gone to since 1949, attached to the Haus der Kunst, with a door policy that is the whole legend. Directions
Paulaner am NockherbergEUR 25-45 · Beer hall · BavarianPaulaner's hall on the hill in Au, home of Salvator, the double bock the monks brewed to get through Lent. Directions
Rote SonneEUR 12-20 entry · Nightclub · technoNamed after a 1970 film, run since 2003 with a booking policy that has broken more DJs in Germany than most. Directions
Schneider BräuhausEUR 25-40 · Beer hall · BavarianThe wheat beer specialist, in a narrow vaulted room on Tal, five minutes from Hofbräuhaus and a world calmer. Directions
Schumann's BarEUR 15-30 · Cocktail barCharles Schumann's bar on Odeonsplatz, one of the most influential cocktail rooms in the world, run by a man who published the book half the industry learned from. Directions
SchwarzreiterEUR 60-110 · Modern BavarianThe younger, lighter restaurant inside the Vier Jahreszeiten, doing what it calls young Bavarian cuisine: local ingredients, much less butter, plated for a starred kitchen. Directions
Seehaus im Englischen GartenEUR 30-55 · Beer garden · BavarianOn the Kleinhesselohe lake at the north end of the English Garden, with a terrace over the water and rowing boats going past. Directions
TantrisEUR 190-260 · Fine dining · modernThe 1971 dining room that made Munich a serious food city, all orange and brown and unapologetically of its decade, holding stars almost without interruption since. Directions
Tegernseer Tal - Bräuhaus★ 4.4 · EUR 15-30 · Bavarian · beer hall★ Tip: It is the closest thing to Hofbrauhaus in distance and the opposite of it in feel: no brass band, no tour groups, and a Helles that people here will argue is the best in the city. Go for the meal Hofbrauhaus is too loud for, five… Directions
Trader Vic'sEUR 15-30 · Tiki barIn the basement of the Bayerischer Hof since 1971, bamboo and carved masks and Mai Tais served in ceramic skulls. Directions
Weisses BräuhausEUR 25-40 · Beer hall · BavarianThe Schneider brewery tap on Tal, dark wood and shared tables, serving the Aventinus that beer people come to Munich specifically to drink at source. Directions
Zephyr BarEUR 14-26 · Cocktail barA small bar in the Glockenbach quarter making its own syrups and infusions, consistently named among the best in Germany. Directions
Zum FranziskanerEUR 30-50 · Beer hall · BavarianA 650 year old inn behind the Residenz, painted vaults and a Weisswurst counter, more polished than the beer halls and quieter than all of them. Directions