10 Best Restaurants in Munich

Formerly the Schneider Brauhaus and now trading as Weisses Brauhaus im Tal, this is the Schneider family's Weissbier house, run by the same family for seven generations. It is the traditional Bavarian restaurant to pick if you only have time for one, partly because of the cooking and partly because it opens daily 09:00 to 23:30 with no closing day, kitchen to 22:30, in a city where half the good places shut on Monday.

Mains run 14.90 to 29.90 euros. The Schweinsbraten at 16.90 is the house dish and comes from its own butchery, two pieces of meat with a dumpling. Schweinshaxe is 19.90, Kronfleisch 14.90 to 19.90, the veal Josefi-Schnitzel 29.90. A Munchner Weisswurst is 3.60 a piece and a half litre of Weissbier 5.50. Note the older name still appears on signage and in older guides, and the old website simply redirects.

The honest downsides are the location and the crowd. This sits on the main tourist corridor between Marienplatz and Isartor, it is loud, seating is at long communal tables, and it is a WirtshausWiesn venue, so from 19 September to 4 October 2026 it runs a reduced festival menu and fills completely. The offal end of the menu also is not for everyone. It does not publish what it accepts at the till, so carry cash.

Pro Tip: Come for a 10:00 Weisswurst breakfast rather than dinner. Bavarian tradition holds that Weisswurst should not hear the noon bells, the room is calm at that hour, no reservation is needed, and two sausages with a pretzel and a Weissbier costs under 15 euros.

Rosina Ostler holds two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide and is Munich's only female chef at that level, which is a fact rather than a marketing line. The room seats 28 above the Dallmayr food hall, a few minutes from Marienplatz. The house sells a Dallmayr Fine Dining Card at 500 euros per person covering a champagne aperitif, the menu, wine or non-alcoholic pairings, water and coffee, so there is little to argue about at the end.

Hours are Wednesday to Saturday from 19:00, with lunch from 12:30 on Friday and Saturday only, closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It also takes a long summer break, closed 2 August to 1 September 2026, with a handful of one-off openings scattered through the year. Reserve weeks ahead: 28 covers across four days a week is not much supply.

The all-inclusive format is the thing to weigh. It removes the anxiety of a wine list but it also removes the option of eating well for less, and at 500 euros it is the most expensive single meal in this guide by 140 euros. Being closed four days out of seven makes it hard to slot into a short trip, and the Friday and Saturday lunch is the only daytime service.

Pro Tip: Take the Friday or Saturday lunch rather than dinner. Daylight through the windows over Dienerstrasse suits the room, the pace is slower, and you still have the evening free. Walk through the Dallmayr hall downstairs on the way out, which is free and worth 20 minutes.

A Wirtshaus in the same building since 1901, and the one Munich restaurant that treats the Knodel as a subject rather than a side. It runs a dumpling school, and the Knodeltrio at 20.50 euros is the dish to order if you want to understand why Bavarians argue about them. Other mains run 17.50 to 35.50: Schweinsbraten with a potato dumpling at 18.50, Schnitzel at 21.80, duck at 24.90, a 280 g ox fillet at 35.50.

Hours are Monday to Friday 17:00 to 23:00, and Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10:00 to 23:00, with the kitchen closing at 22:00. Open seven days, but note there is no weekday lunch at all, which trips up anyone planning a midday stop after the Deutsches Museum next door. Booking is advisable at weekends and essential during Oktoberfest.

This is the most local-feeling entry on the list, which cuts both ways: it is loud, busy and unhurried, the beer garden is modest by Munich standards, and the dumpling focus makes the menu narrower than a general Wirtshaus. It sits outside the Altstadt in the 81669 postal district, so build it around a visit to the Deutsches Museum or the Isar path rather than treating it as a city-centre option.

Pro Tip: Go on a Saturday or Sunday at 10:00, when it opens for breakfast and the weekday 17:00 rule does not apply. Take tram 17 to Deutsches Museum rather than the U-Bahn, because it drops you 320 m away instead of 800.

Jurgen Wolfsgruber holds one Michelin star in the 2026 guide, and the reason this beats Munich's seven other one-star kitchens for a general readership is the lunch. The four-course Marktmenu on Friday and Saturday costs 85 euros, which is the least you can pay for a starred meal in this city. The five-course Gustostuckerl at dinner is 150.

Hours are Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00, plus lunch 12:00 to 15:00 on Friday and Saturday, closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. A reservation is required. Two weeks is usually enough, which makes this the starred restaurant you can actually add to a trip already booked, unlike Tohru.

Be aware of the limits. The dining room is small, it is closed three days a week, no pets are allowed, and it has not published its 2026 holiday closures, so confirm before you book flights around it. It also sits well north of the Altstadt, so this is a deliberate trip into Maxvorstadt rather than something you stumble into after sightseeing.

Pro Tip: Book the Friday lunch at 85 euros and treat it as your one splurge. Four courses at midday leaves the evening for a beer garden, and the same 85 euros buys roughly a quarter of the Tohru menu. Walk down through the Pinakothek museums afterwards, 10 minutes south.

Operating since 1812 under chestnut trees with up to 5,000 seats, and the beer garden Munich locals name when pressed. A Mass, one litre, costs 9.00 euros as of June 2026, which is mid-range for the city and worth holding against the 14.90 to 15.90 charged in the Oktoberfest tents. It is open daily 10:00 to midnight. The garden depends on weather and season; the vaulted cellars and the converted ice house run year round.

The thing that catches every first-timer is the two-tier system. Part of the garden is self-service, where you may bring your own Brotzeit and buy only drinks, and part has table service with a full menu of pork roast, Schnitzel and vegetarian dishes. Sit in the self-service section expecting a waiter and you will wait a very long time. Read the signs before you choose a bench.

Downsides scale with the place. Five thousand seats means noise, and finding your party after a trip to the counter is a genuine problem. It is 12 minutes on foot from the station and not walkable from Marienplatz. It is also a WirtshausWiesn partner venue, so expect a crush from 19 September to 4 October 2026. The self-service counters may want cash even where the restaurant side does not, so carry notes.

Pro Tip: Arrive around 16:00 on a weekday, before the after-work wave, and take a table-service table if you want to eat properly. If you only want a beer and a pretzel, use the self-service side and bring your own cheese and radishes from the Viktualienmarkt, which is entirely permitted and halves the bill.

Bastian Falkenroth cooks a produce-led menu inside Munich's street art museum, in a converted transformer station a few minutes from Marienplatz. The dinner tasting menu is 119 euros, pairings 70 to 175, lunch dishes 5 to 65, and there is a compulsory water charge of 10 euros a head. The natural wine list runs to roughly 1,200 bins and is the most opinionated in the city.

One correction, because the restaurant's own website has not caught up. Mural holds no Michelin star in the 2025 or 2026 guide. It held one from 2020 to 2024 along with a green star, both lapsed, and the site still advertises them. It is on this list for the cooking and the room, not the accolade. Hours are lunch Wednesday to Saturday 12:00 to 14:00, dinner Wednesday to Saturday 18:45 to 23:00, closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

Two practical warnings. Last dinner orders are at 20:45, which is unusually early and ruins a late booking. And the museum setting means an industrial room with hard surfaces, so it is loud when full. The attached Vinothek, open Thursday to Saturday 14:00 to 16:00, takes no reservations at all and is the best walk-in fallback in the Altstadt.

Pro Tip: If dinner is booked out, walk into the Vinothek between 14:00 and 16:00 on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday. You get the same wine thinking and a few dishes for a fraction of 119 euros, with no reservation and no 20:45 deadline.

The polished end of Bavarian cooking, directly opposite the Bavarian State Opera, and the place to eat before a performance. Mains run roughly 23 to 30 euros, with a small Wiener Schnitzel at 23.50 and Niederbayerischer Spanferkelbraten at 28.90, plus a river and lake fish section that most Wirtshauser do not bother with. It is open seven days a week, which in this part of town is unusual.

Understand that this is two restaurants in one building and guests routinely book the wrong one. The rustic ground floor runs daily 11:30 to 00:30 with the kitchen to 23:00. The refined upper floor runs daily 11:30 to midnight, but until 30 August 2026 it opened only from 17:00. Sunday brunch resumes on 11 October 2026. Reserve well ahead on performance nights, and specify which floor.

The trade-offs are opera-district pricing and a certain corporate smoothness: this is a Kuffler group house, well run rather than characterful, and you pay a premium for the address and the view of the Nationaltheater portico. It is also a WirtshausWiesn venue, so the Oktoberfest window brings a reduced festival menu and a very different room. Smart-casual dress is advisable upstairs.

Pro Tip: Book the upper floor at a window on an opera night and eat at 18:00, which gets you the Nationaltheater lit up and out in time for the curtain. If you are not going to the opera, take the ground floor instead: the same kitchen, less money and more atmosphere.

The international entry, and the one Munich restaurant that draws people who could eat anywhere. KOI works robata grill and sushi across a long sharing menu: small plates 9.50 to 36 euros, robata mains 25 to 99, sushi and rolls 14 to 39, and an Omakase selection at 54 euros for the small or 99 for the large, which is the most controlled way to order here.

Reported hours are Monday from 18:00, Tuesday to Friday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to midnight, Saturday from 18:00, closed Sunday. The restaurant blocks automated checking of its own site, so ring to confirm before you travel rather than trusting any listing, including this one. Reservations by phone or email, and essential at weekends.

Two warnings. Dishes arrive as soon as they are ready and are set in the middle to share, which works for a group of four and frustrates anyone who wanted their own main course. And meat priced per 100 g hides the real bill: beef fillet teriyaki at 25 euros per 100 g is not a 25 euro dish. The room is dim, candlelit and firmly see-and-be-seen, so smart dress is expected even without a stated code.

Pro Tip: Order the 54 euro Omakase and one vegetable side and stop there. It caps the bill, it is the kitchen's own edit, and it sidesteps the per-100-g meat pricing that turns a casual dinner into a three-figure one. Take the Tuesday to Friday lunch if you want the food without the scene.

Every city list needs one place where lunch costs less than a beer at Oktoberfest, and in Munich it is this soup stall in the Viktualienmarkt. Soups, stews and curries rotate daily across Bavarian and international recipes, in single figures to the low teens in euros. Hours are Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 18:00, closed Sunday. No reservation, and the stall says so on its own site: you walk in and sit down.

It is also unusually easy to pay at, which matters in a market where individual traders are frequently cash-only. Use it as the anchor for a wider graze: the Viktualienmarkt itself opens Monday to Friday 08:00 to 20:00 and Saturday 08:00 to 15:00, closed Sunday, and its beer garden rotates through Munich's six big breweries every five or six weeks. Bringing your own Brotzeit to that beer garden is permitted as long as you buy the drinks there.

Set expectations properly. This is a market stall, not a destination meal: seating is cramped, partly open to the weather, and there is no dinner and no Sunday service. If you arrive at 18:30 hoping for supper you will find it shut. What it does is feed you well for under 15 euros three minutes from Marienplatz, which nothing else on this list attempts.

Pro Tip: Eat here at 11:30 before the office lunch rush, then buy cheese, radishes and a pretzel from the surrounding stalls and carry them to the Augustiner-Keller self-service benches later. Two courses, two locations, and change from 25 euros for the day.