Munich beer halls compared: the Hofbräuhaus, Weisses Bräuhaus, the Augustiner halls and the Wirtshäuser, with hours, Maß prices and Sunday closures

💡 The Short Version: The beer halls named by the most of the 103 publishers counted are the Hofbräuhaus (47 sources), Weisses Bräuhaus (21) and the Augustiner Bräustuben and Gaststätte Großmarkthalle (14 each). The Augustiner Stammhaus beer hall, Zum Dürnbräu, Donisl and Bratwurstherzl are closed on Sundays, and the Giesinger Bräustüberl on Sundays and Mondays. A Maß, one litre, is €7.40 to €11.80 on the halls’ own price lists. Or book a tour: Munich’s Beer Halls and Breweriesad is from €49 for 3.5 hours, on Fridays and Saturdays until 31 December 2026.

📊 The evidence behind this guide. This pass counts the beer-hall, Wirtshaus and Weißwurst lists of the 80 English and 23 German publishers named in where to eat in Munich. Counts are publishers, not pages, and the two languages are shown apart. There is no verdict here: the counts show who names what, not which hall is best. How the guides are made

⚠️ Check the day. The Augustiner Stammhaus beer hall, Zum Dürnbräu, Donisl and Bratwurstherzl are closed on Sundays, the Großmarkthalle on Sundays and holidays, and the Giesinger Bräustüberl on Sundays and Mondays. On a Sunday go to the Hofbräuhaus, Weisses Bräuhaus, the Augustiner Bräustuben, the Löwenbräukeller or Spöckmeier.

The halls named by the most sources

The count is the number of publishers that name the hall on a beer-hall, Wirtshaus or Weißwurst list. A hall named by fewer than 8 is left out of this table.

The English lists lean towards the Hofbräuhaus (39 English publishers, 8 German) and the Augustiner Klosterwirt (8 and none). The German lists lean towards the Großmarkthalle (9 German publishers, 5 English), Xaver’s (6 and 2) and Beim Sedlmayr (4 and none).

The halls

A Schwemme is the big ground-floor tavern of a beer hall, where you sit at a free place. A Wirtshaus is an inn that serves Bavarian cooking, and a Keller a hall with a garden, tied to one brewery. Most halls print a kitchen closing time between 21:30 and 23:00.

Hofbräuhaus

Platzl 9 · daily 11:00 to 24:00, kitchen 12:00 to 22:00 on weekdays and 11:30 to 22:00 at weekends and holidays · Cited by 47 sources (39 English, 8 German) · hofbraeuhaus.de

The Schwemme fills the ground floor, with large tables and a band from 12:00 to 16:00 and 18:00 to 23:30, and the first-floor Bräustüberl has music from Tuesday to Saturday, 18:00 to 22:00. There are no bands on Good Friday and All Saints’ Day, 1 November. The Original is €5.80 for 0.5 l and €11.60 a Maß, the Weisse €6.10 for 0.5 l and a Radler €5.80. Weißwurst, Obatzda and Leberkäse are served from 11:00. The Schwemme and the garden take no reservations; the second floor does. Dogs are allowed, there are vegetarian and vegan dishes, and the hall takes all major credit cards. It stands about 500 m from the Marienplatz and Isartor stops. Commenters on r/Munich mostly say to go for the beer, a pretzel and the band, and to eat the meal elsewhere.

The ground-floor hall of the Hofbräuhaus, with its painted vaults and a brass band. Photo: Jorge Royan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Weisses Bräuhaus

Tal 7 · daily 09:00 to 23:30, kitchen to 22:30 · Cited by 21 sources (16 English, 5 German) · weisses-brauhaus-tal.de

The Munich house of the Schneider Weisse wheat-beer brewery, with its own butcher. The Weißwurst breakfast runs daily from 09:00 to 12:00, and it holds to the custom of eating them before the noon bells. A brass band plays on Sundays and holidays from 10:30 to 13:00. Order a Weißwurst with a Schneider Weisse.

Augustiner Bräustuben

Landsberger Straße 19 · daily 10:00 to 24:00, holidays too, kitchen 11:00 to 23:00 · Cited by 14 sources (11 English, 3 German) · braeustuben.de

Rooms include the Stüberl, the Bierhalle and the Alte Schmiede, with a roof terrace in summer, bookable online. It has the lowest prices of the halls here: a Hell is €3.70 for 0.5 l and €7.40 a Maß, an Edelstoff €3.85 and €7.70. A strip card gives ten beers for the price of nine. Weißwurst is €3.00 a sausage from 10:00 to 13:00, the Schweinsbraten €14.90 and a half Schweinshaxe €17.50. A lunch special runs from Monday to Friday, 11:00 to 16:00.

Augustiner Stammhaus

Neuhauser Straße 27 · beer hall Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 24:00, closed Sunday · Cited by 10 sources (8 English, 2 German) · augustiner-restaurant.com

The Augustiner beer hall in the pedestrian street between Karlsplatz and Marienplatz. From 10:00 it serves sausage, meat loaf and snacks, and the hot food runs from 11:00 to 22:30. A half-litre of Vollbier is €4.20, a Maß €8.40, a Weißbier Maß €9.20. On Sundays the beer hall is shut but the restaurant opens from 11:00 to 22:00, with food until 21:30.

The Augustiner Stammhaus on Neuhauser Straße. Photo: Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Löwenbräukeller

Nymphenburger Straße 2 · daily 11:00 to 24:00, kitchen daily 11:00 to 22:00 (to 22:30 on Friday and Saturday) · Cited by 10 sources (9 English, 1 German) · loewenbraeukeller.com

A hall with a self-service beer garden, open daily from 16:00 to 23:00 in good weather, where a Maß of Helles is €9.90 and a Weißbier or Russ’n €10.50. The Starkbierfest runs here from 12 February to 20 March 2027. The brewery tour with a three-course meal is for groups of 20 or more.

The Festsaal entrance of the Löwenbräukeller. Photo: GFreihalter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Paulaner am Nockherberg

Am Nockherberg, 81541 · restaurant daily 12:00 to 24:00 · Cited by 12 sources (7 English, 5 German) · paulaner-nockherberg.com

A brewery pub with its own copper kettles. The Nockherberger lager and the Paulaner Original are €6.20 for 0.5 l. The Starkbierfest runs from 26 February to 21 March 2027: see the best time to visit Munich. The garden is covered in Munich’s beer gardens.

Gaststätte Großmarkthalle

Kochelseestraße 13 · Monday to Friday 07:00 to 16:00, Saturday 07:00 to 13:00, closed Sunday and holidays · Cited by 14 sources (5 English, 9 German) · gaststätte-grossmarkthalle.de

The canteen of the wholesale market, with its own butcher in the cellar. Nine German publishers name it, mostly for the Weißwurst. It opens at 07:00 and closes early, so it is a breakfast or early-lunch stop, and it is open from 07:00 to 13:00 on 24 December, 31 December and Shrove Tuesday.

Giesinger Bräustüberl

Giesing · Tuesday to Thursday 16:00 to 23:00, Friday and Saturday 11:00 to 23:00, closed Sunday and Monday · Cited by 10 sources (7 English, 3 German) · giesinger-braeu.de

The Wirtshaus of the Giesinger brewery. A Halbe, half a litre, is €3.50 from 16:00 to 18:00 from Tuesday to Thursday and from 11:00 on Fridays. Tuesday is schnitzel day.

Wirtshaus in der Au

Lilienstraße 51, Au · Monday to Friday 17:00 to 23:00, Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:00 to 23:00, kitchen to 22:00 · Cited by 12 sources (9 English, 3 German) · wirtshausinderau.de

A Wirtshaus that the counted publishers pair with the Schweinsbraten, the Weißwurst and the Kaiserschmarrn. It opens at 17:00 on weekdays.

More halls

These halls are named by fewer publishers each. Hours are the operators’ own.

What a Maß costs

The operators’ own lists price a litre of beer like this. A half-litre costs about half.

At Oktoberfest 2026 a Maß cost €14.80 to €15.90, according to the city’s figures reported by the Abendzeitung. A Munich hall is the cheaper litre: see Oktoberfest 2027.

The Weißwurst breakfast

The custom is to eat Weißwurst before the noon bells, with sweet mustard, a pretzel and a wheat beer. It is a custom, not a rule, and most halls serve them later. TasteAtlas, an online food ranking reported by the tz on 20 May 2025, puts Weisses Bräuhaus first, the Hofbräuhaus second and the Gaststätte Großmarkthalle third.

Weißwurst with mustard, a pretzel and a wheat beer. Photo: Christof46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tours

Munich’s Beer Halls and Breweriesad, run by Munich Walk Tours, is a 3.5-hour walk from Marienplatz that goes round a brewery and ends with a litre at the Hofbräuhaus: from €49, 4.5 stars from 1,018 reviews. From 9 October to 31 December 2026 it runs on Fridays and Saturdays at 16:30, with no tour on 25 and 26 December. Munich Walk Tours prices the same tour at €49 on its own site. The other beer tours and the brewery tours are in Munich food tours.

Plan the rest

The market and the restaurants are in where to eat in Munich, and the gardens, where you can bring your own food, in Munich’s beer gardens. Munich food tours covers the tours that stop to eat and drink. The Hofbräuhaus is a short walk from Marienplatz and the Glockenspiel, and Munich walking tours says what the walks pass. For the festival, see Oktoberfest 2027. Where to stay in Munich compares the areas. For other cities, see Prague’s beer tours and where to eat in Berlin. The Hofbräuhaus and the Augustiner Stammhaus are on the Munich old town walk.