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MUNICH
(MÜNCHEN) - EATING AND
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Munich is awash with places to
eat and drink, and you can
find somewhere open at any
time of the day or night.
Though best known for its
cavernous beer halls and leafy
beer gardens, it also has a
host of ethnic eateries as
well as a lively café-bar
culture which carries on well
into the early hours. It's not
difficult to eat well for
relatively little money, with
generous portions of heavy
food being the norm in
establishments which
specialize in Bavarian
cuisine.
Menses are the
cheapest places to get a good
basic meal: you're supposed to
have a valid student card to
eat in them, but no one seems
to check. The most central is
at Leopoldstr. 13a; another is
at the technical university,
Arcisstr. 17 (both 11am-2pm).
Most butchers' shops
sell bread rolls with various
hot and cold fillings from as
little as DM3/?1.50. Good
places for this type of snack
are the shops of the Vinzenz
Murr chain, which can be found
all over the city; they
usually also serve hot daily
specials which can be eaten
within the shop.
Beer halls and beer gardens
The beer cellar (Bierkeller)
and beer garden (Biergarten)
are Munich's most
characteristic institutions.
Generally speaking the
former are roomy halls
(rather than cellars); often
standing in leafy gardens,
they serve strong, heady
beer produced in a local
brewery, plus hearty
traditional Bavarian food.
Although a few have become
tainted by excessive
tourism, they remain an
essential and unmissable
feature of the city.
Munich's beer culture
Munich's beer halls have their
origins in the Middle Ages,
when brewers stored barrels
indoors, planting chestnut
trees around their premises to
shade them from the heat of
the sun. These days beer
gardens remain popular with
natives and...
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Hausbrauereien
Predictably, Munich has played
a pioneering role in the
current craze for new
Hausbrauereien, which
represent a return to
traditional methods by having
a boutique brewery in or
alongside the bar-restaurant
where it is served, thereby
ensuring the utmost...
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Restaurants
Munich has a wide selection of
restaurants , and plenty of
places offer good food at
reasonable prices. As well as
a good choice of ethnic
eateries and several
vegetarian specialists, there
are many traditional Gaststätten
which serve...
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Bars and
cafe-bars
Much of the city's social life
revolves around its bars and
café-bars. Beer , coffee and
snacks are served in most
places, and while the
roll-call of "in"
and "out" bars is
ever-changing, the ones we've
listed are of proven...
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Traditional
cafes
Munich is no longer so well
served by traditional Kaffee
und Küchen establishments as
most other large German
cities, but some recommendable
places do survive. Café
Frischhut , Prälat-Zeistl-Str.
8. A true original, popular...
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Wine bars
There's a limited choice of
wine bars in this beer haven,
though a wide geographical
choice of vintages is on
offer, particularly when the
Ratskeller is added to those
listed below. Café
Nymphenburg Sekt , Am
Viktualienmarkt. Located...
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