Breakfast around Munich: The Café Eberlhof in Emmering – Munich

When the café employees know their guests by name and chat with them about family members or past vacations, while a tractor drives by from time to time with the driver waving politely out of the window, then you know: Munich is a few kilometers away. To be more precise, it takes 40 minutes to get from the main train station by S-Bahn and bus to the Eberlhof in Emmering, a small community in the Fürstenfeldbruck district, and 30 minutes by car. There is no question that there are hundreds of quicker and less complicated ways for Munich residents to get to their long-awaited weekend brunch. However, it is still worth making the journey to the Eberlhof – not only because of its homemade, organic breakfast.

The farm shop has been around for more than 20 years.

(Photo: Catherine Hess)

The Eberlhof in Emmering has been a farm shop for more than 20 years, which is run according to the Bioland guidelines. There you can buy fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs from the region, but also jams, dairy products, spreads, pasta and wine. In June of last year, the café was added, which offers breakfast and homemade cakes from Wednesday to Saturday.

A place where young and old can meet and feel good, for operator Sabine Eberl it was a “long-cherished dream”. Before she opened the farm shop in 2001, the Eberlhof building served as a stable for the family’s animals. When her children were small, she didn’t have the time to run her own café. Her three sons are now grown and Sabine Eberl is at an age when she thinks: “If I don’t do it now, I’ll never do it.”

Café Eberlhof: It's not just the cakes that are homemade at the Eberlhof.

It’s not just the cakes that are homemade at the Eberlhof.

(Photo: Catherine Hess)

Without the help of her family, who still runs a farm in Emmering today, she would not have managed to convert it into a café, she says. One of her sons is a carpenter, her other hobby electrician and the third helped her with the setup. The interior of the café is dominated by rustic wooden furniture, the tables are decorated with freshly picked wildflowers and the benches have cushions with words like “couch potty” and “favourite place” written on them. Sabine Eberl has also created places to linger in the outdoor area. When the sun is shining, you can relax here under large, apple-green umbrellas and maple trees.

What is there and how much does it cost?

Sabine Eberl not only gets support from her three sons, but also from her husband, who bakes bread in the wood-fired oven every Friday. The family grows the rye that he uses for it. You can buy it either as a whole loaf in the farm shop or combined with Italian salami, homemade cream cheese and jam as part of the breakfast variations that have names like “Italy-Gfui”, “Veggie-Love” and “Eberl’s Schmankerl” and between 12 .90 euros and 14.20 cost.

Café Eberlhof: Homemade bread, organic coffee, eggs and fruit from the region: Sabine Eberl pays attention to sustainability in her food and drinks.  And when setting it up, make sure that your guests feel comfortable.

Homemade bread, organic coffee, eggs and fruit from the region: Sabine Eberl pays attention to sustainability in her food and drinks. And when setting it up, make sure that your guests feel comfortable.

(Photo: Catherine Hess)

A “mini breakfast” including a croissant and two spreads is available for 5.60 euros. The fruit salad, which, paired with Greek yoghurt, results in the “vitamin bomb” for 7.50 euros, consists of fruit that Eberl purchases from local farmers in the summer. She only serves organic food, whenever possible from regional cultivation.

Sabine Eberl also pays attention to biological sustainability when it comes to her drinks. She makes the syrup for her elderflower spritzer herself, which is available for 2.90 or 4.20 euros depending on the size, the lemon balm and mint tea for 3.80 euros and apple juice for 3.20 euros. There are also homemade lemonades and organic coffee in the form of espresso (2.50 euros), cappuccino and milk coffee (3.60 euros or 4.40 euros). The coffee alternative “Eberlino” for 2.40 euros, which is no more than a cup of milk dusted with cocoa, is particularly popular with younger guests.

Who do you meet there?

“We have everything up to 90 years old,” is how Sabine Eberl describes the target group of her café. Mums with prams often stop by here, or mums who want to take a little break from their offspring with their friends. But men’s regulars’ tables also find their place here. That is what Eberl imagined when she referred to her café: a place where everyone feels comfortable.

Eberlhof – farm shop and caféEstinger Straße 9, 82275 Emmering, telephone: 08141/8895222, opening hours: Wednesday to Friday 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m

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