Where to eat in Munich: the Viktualienmarkt, the beer halls and Wirtshäuser, the beer gardens and the restaurants that English and German lists name most

💡 The Short Version: The places named by the most of the 103 publishers counted are the Viktualienmarkt (64 sources), the Hofbräuhaus (47), Weisses Bräuhaus (21), the Augustiner-Keller (20) and the Chinesischer Turm and Tantris (15 each). The Viktualienmarkt stalls and the Augustiner Stammhaus beer hall are closed on Sundays, and the beer gardens open when the weather allows. A Maß of beer is €7.40 to €11.80 on the operators’ own price lists, against €14.80 to €15.90 at Oktoberfest 2026. The Michelin Guide Germany 2026 gives Munich 24 stars at 15 restaurants. Or book a tour: the Munich: Viktualienmarkt Food Tourad is from €43 for 2.5 hours.

📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. This pass read 536 list pages, and counts the 230 from 80 English-language and 23 German-language publishers: newspapers, magazines, guidebooks and travel writers, among them Time Out, Eater, The Telegraph, Lonely Planet, Afar and Tasting Table in English, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Abendzeitung, tz, IN München, Mit Vergnügen München, Falstaff, Der Feinschmecker and Condé Nast Traveller Germany in German. Munich-only sites without a named newsroom (50 sites, 192 pages), the tourist board, tour operators and listing sites such as Tripadvisor are not counted. Counts are publishers, not pages, and the English and German counts are shown apart. How the guides are made

⚠️ Check the day. The Viktualienmarkt stalls, the Augustiner Stammhaus beer hall and the Gaststätte Großmarkthalle are closed on Sundays. Beer gardens open only when the weather allows; the halls are open every day.

The places named by the most sources

The count is the number of publishers that name the place on a restaurant, beer-hall, beer-garden, market or bakery list, with the split between the 80 English and 23 German publishers. A place named by fewer than 10 is left out of this table. The Dallmayr row counts the delicatessen, Alois and the Bar & Grill together, and the Rischart row counts every branch.

The English lists lean towards the Hofbräuhaus, the Augustiner-Keller and the Chinesischer Turm. The German lists lean towards the Gaststätte Großmarkthalle (9 German publishers, 5 English), Alois (7 and 3) and Tohru (7 and 5). Outside the halls, the gardens, the markets and the starred restaurants, no restaurant is named by more than eight of the 103 publishers: Bodhi and Bergwolf have eight each. The beer halls have their own page, Munich’s beer halls, and the gardens Munich’s beer gardens.

The Viktualienmarkt

Old Town, a few minutes from Marienplatz · stalls Monday to Saturday, from about 08:00 to 20:00 at the latest · closed Sunday, except bakers, florists and caterers · Cited by 64 sources (52 English, 12 German) · viktualienmarkt-muenchen.de

The square is open round the clock and free to enter. Its butchers’ row, the Metzgerzeile, stands beside Café Rischart: eight butchers, who sell the Leberkassemmel (baked meatloaf sliced hot into a roll), the Weißwurst and the Fleischpflanzerlsemmel (a meat patty in a roll). Some stalls close on carnival days, 24 December and 31 December. Eataly occupies the Schrannenhalle beside the market, open Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 20:00. From the market it is a short walk to Marienplatz and the Glockenspiel.

The butchers’ row on the Viktualienmarkt, with Café Rischart’s umbrellas above. Photo: Dietmar Rabich, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The market has its own beer garden, with 1,100 self-service benches under chestnut trees. Bring your own food and buy the drinks at the bar: six breweries (Augustiner, Hacker-Pschorr, Löwenbräu, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Spaten) take turns, one every five to six weeks. It is open Monday to Saturday all year, weather permitting, normally from 09:00 to 22:00.

Café Frischhut, at Prälat-Zistl-Straße 8 on the edge of the market, has sold Schmalznudel, also called Auszogne, since 1973: yeast dough fried in lard and stretched thin in the middle. They are often sold out by the afternoon, so go in the morning.

Beer halls and Wirtshäuser

A Wirtshaus is a traditional inn serving Bavarian cooking, and a beer hall is the same food in a larger room, usually tied to one brewery. The full table, with hours, prices and Sunday closures, is in Munich’s beer halls.

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, the tavern that fills the ground floor, has long tables and live music from 12:00 to 16:00 and 18:00 to 23:30, and the hall stands about 500 m from the Marienplatz and Isartor stops. A Maß is €11.60, a pretzel €2.10, the whole Schweinshaxe €22.00 and the Obatzda €12.50. The ground-floor hall and the garden take no reservations; only the second-floor Bräustüberl does. Commenters on r/Munich mostly say to go for the beer, a pretzel and the band, and to eat the meal elsewhere.

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 cooking nose to tail, including Kronfleisch (beef skirt). The Weißwurst breakfast runs daily from 09:00 to 12:00, with a brass band on Sundays and holidays from 10:30 to 13:00. Order the Weißwurst with a Schneider Weisse.

Augustiner Bräustuben

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

The Augustiner house on Landsberger Straße. A Maß is €7.40 for the Hell and €7.70 for the Edelstoff. Weißwurst is €3.00 a sausage from 10:00 to 13:00, the Schweinsbraten €14.90 and the half Schweinshaxe €17.50. There is a roof terrace in summer, bookable online.

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, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Weißwurst breakfast tips include it. It closes at 16:00 on weekdays and 13:00 on Saturdays, so this is a breakfast or early-lunch stop.

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

The counted publishers pair it with the Schweinsbraten, the Weißwurst and the Kaiserschmarrn. On weekdays it opens at 17:00, so it is a dinner place from Monday to Friday.

Haxnbauer

Tal 38 · Sunday to Thursday 11:30 to 23:00, Friday 11:00 to 24:00, Saturday 10:00 to 24:00 · Cited by 7 sources (6 English, 1 German) · kuffler.de

Pork and veal knuckles marinated for 24 hours, then grilled, in a listed corner house with 250 seats and a terrace on the street. It reopened here in 2025; lists that give an address on Sparkassenstraße are out of date. The kitchen closes at 22:00 from Sunday to Wednesday and 22:30 from Thursday to Saturday.

Beer gardens

Bring your own food and buy the drinks at the bar: that is München Tourismus’s description of a Munich beer garden. The exceptions are the ones visitors reach first. The Hofbräuhaus garden does not allow your own food, the Augustiner-Keller allows it only in its self-service area, and the Taxisgarten does not allow it with a reservation. The Chinesischer Turm, the Hirschgarten and the Viktualienmarkt garden allow it. Gardens open when the weather allows, so in the cold months the halls are the plan. Munich’s beer gardens gives each garden’s season, rule and price, and the English Garden covers the Chinesischer Turm and the Seehaus.

Michelin and the other awards

Michelin’s Munich list for 2026 carries 15 starred restaurants in the city and at the airport, with 24 stars between them, and two more starred restaurants outside the city. The Michelin Guide Germany 2026 article is dated 23 June 2026, and THE CLOUD by Käfer, in BMW Welt, is new at two stars (Michelin Guide). Michelin’s page prints no closed days, so check each restaurant’s own site.

Michelin’s Bib Gourmand list for the Munich area also names Zum Vaas in Forstinning, Gasthaus Weißenbeck in Bergkirchen and Fürstenfelder in Fürstenfeldbruck. For Bavarian cooking, its Selected list includes Blauer Bock, Asam Schlössl, Freisinger Hof, Weinhaus Neuner, Käfer-Schänke and Der Dantler. Gasthaus Waltz is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Der Feinschmecker prints menu prices of €225 to €345 at Tantris, from €290 at THE CLOUD by Käfer and €160 to €185 at Mountain Hub Gourmet. Gault&Millau Germany’s last guide, for 2025, gave JAN five red toques; there is no 2026 edition.

Cafés, bakeries and ice cream

Dallmayr Delikatessenhaus

Dienerstraße 14-15 · Monday to Thursday and Saturday 09:30 to 19:00, Friday 09:30 to 19:30 · Cited by 11 sources (5 English, 6 German) · dallmayr.com

The delicatessen. The two-star restaurant Alois – Dallmayr Fine Dining is at Dienerstraße 14.

The Dallmayr building on Dienerstraße. Photo: Thomas Wolf (Der Wolf im Wald), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Café Luitpold

Brienner Straße 11 · Monday 08:00 to 20:00, Tuesday to Saturday 08:00 to 22:00, Sunday 09:00 to 20:00 · Cited by 4 sources (2 English, 2 German) · cafe-luitpold.de

A coffee house and confectioner since 1888, with breakfast daily until 15:00.

Rischart

Several branches, among them the Café am Markt on the Viktualienmarkt · Cited by 11 sources (9 English, 2 German) · rischart.de

A bakery chain for pretzels, cakes and the Krapfen, the filled doughnut. Nine English publishers name it, more than any other bakery.

Julius Brantner Brothandwerk

Nordendstraße 23, Schwabing; Kreuzstraße 1, Old Town; Pariser Straße 38, Haidhausen · Cited by 10 sources (5 English, 5 German) · julius-brantner.de

An organic bakery with three branches. Eater, Der Feinschmecker, Falstaff and Mit Vergnügen München name it.

Ballabeni

Theresienstraße 46, Maxvorstadt · Monday to Thursday 11:30 to 21:30, Friday to Sunday 11:30 to 22:30 · Cited by 5 sources (0 English, 5 German) · ballabeni.de

The ice-cream shop that five German publishers name and no English one does. The Stammhaus is on Theresienstraße; the Lehel shop on Triftstraße 4 is open daily to 19:00 and the Werkstatt on Seidlstraße 28 daily to 21:00.

Vegetarian and vegan

Most Bavarian restaurants list Käsespätzle, the egg noodles with melted cheese and fried onions: the Hofbräuhaus charges €15.90 and the Augustiner Bräustuben €14.40, and the Hofbräuhaus says it serves vegetarian and vegan dishes. For a meal that is vegetarian throughout:

What to eat

A Helles is the pale lager, a Maß the one-litre mug, a Radler beer with lemonade, a Russ’n wheat beer with lemonade, and a Weißbier wheat beer.

Obatzda, the Camembert spread, with onion rings and chives. Photo: Rainer Z …, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places that have changed

• The Ratskeller under the Neues Rathaus has closed. Lists that send readers there for Bavarian food on the Marienplatz are out of date.
• The Preysinggarten in Haidhausen reopened in March 2026 as a Spanish-Mediterranean restaurant, and is no longer a Bavarian Wirtshaus.
• The Paulaner im Tal reopened under the name Herr’schafts’zeiten, at Tal 12.
• The Fasanerie in Moosach has been closed since August 2024.
• EssZimmer in BMW Welt is now THE CLOUD by Käfer.

Food tours

A food tour is a guided walk that stops to eat. GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person:

Munich food tours compares them with the beer tours.

At the table

• Weißwurst before noon. The custom is to eat them before the noon bells. Halls serve them at the hours above, and some past noon.
• Pretzels and bread. A pretzel on the table is charged: the Hofbräuhaus prices a pretzel at €2.10 and a bread basket at €4.50.
• Water. The Hofbräuhaus charges €3.10 for 0.4 l of mineral water and has no free tap water.
• Kitchens. The halls’ hot kitchens close between 22:00 and 23:00: 22:00 at the Hofbräuhaus, 22:30 at Weisses Bräuhaus and 23:00 at the Augustiner Bräustuben.
• Cash. Carry some for the market stalls. The Hirschgarten’s self-service takes cash or a debit card and has a cash machine at its main entrance.

Plan the rest

The halls are compared in Munich’s beer halls and the gardens in Munich’s beer gardens. Munich food tours covers the tours that stop to eat and drink. A Maß at Oktoberfest prices is in Oktoberfest 2027, and the Starkbierfest at the Nockherberg and the Löwenbräukeller is in the best time to visit Munich. To fit meals to the sights, see 3 days in Munich and Munich walking tours. Where to stay in Munich compares the areas, and what to book in Munich lists the closed days. For other cities, see where to eat in Berlin and Prague’s beer tours, and for wine taverns instead of beer gardens, Vienna’s Heurigen. The Viktualienmarkt, the Augustiner Stammhaus and Café Luitpold are stops or meals on the Munich old town walk.