The Village Café
An Italian feeling and retro charm with wood-panelled walls and orange-red upholstery is what awaits you at The Village Café. For breakfast, scrambled eggs, fried eggs and omelettes are freshly prepared, with ham, mozzarella, pesto and potatoes.
There are also plenty of other hearty dishes in the Village Café. For example focaccias with pancetta and gorgonzola or filled croissants. If you don’t like Italian cuisine, try Bircher muesli. Sweet food fans can order filled croissants or cakes, there are also vegan versions, as well as pancakes with peanut butter and jam or an Italian version of French toast made from star-shaped Pandoro.
The Village CaféFraunhoferstraße 3, 80469, Munich
Man vs Machine
Admittedly, the Man vs. Machine roastery has no longer been an insider tip since it opened in 2014, which is evident from the queues on weekends. But those who wait will be rewarded – with excellent coffee. The principle here is: quality over quantity. The menu is clear, but the high-quality coffee beans are roasted in the in-house roastery. In addition to classics like cappuccino and flat white, there is also matcha latte and golden milk. With your meal you can order sweets such as Franzbrötchen, pistachio croissants, vegan banana bread or matcha marble cake.
There is space on two rows of seats by the window and at a few small tables with wooden stools, or outside if the weather is good. Plants, 90s hip-hop and numerous lamps create an urban atmosphere. In the small sales area you can buy coffee accessories, clothing with the Man vs. Machine logo and your own roasts.
Man vs MachineMüllerstraße 23, 80469 Munich
Botanista Café Club
Escape from stress and take a quick breather in everyday life? You can do that in the Botanista Café Club, where the wooden furnishings are reminiscent of your last surfing vacation. Guests can sit here on swings and unwind. Food is served in colorful ceramic bowls. Vegetarian and vegan bowls are the focus. Colorful vegetables and fruit, everything that is healthy and regional, is mixed together. If desired, you can order toppings such as fresh salmon or turkey breast.
But sweet bowls are also on the menu. The “Winter Power Porridge”, for example, is warm apple and cinnamon porridge with linseed, homemade vanilla protein cream, apple slices and cinnamon. The “Brazilian Açai Bowl” with açai and guarana, red berries, banana, homemade granola without sugar is also reminiscent of vacation.
Botanista Café ClubPestalozzistrasse 20, 80469 Munich
Café Lozzi
It would be wrong to describe Café Lozzi as just a place that serves good coffee. In a cozy living room atmosphere, book club meetings, exhibitions, readings, clothing swaps and concerts also take place in the cultural café between colorfully thrown together vintage furniture. If you want to listen, watch or just enjoy food and drink, sit on wooden chairs or a dark green couch. In summer temperatures, you can go out into the bar garden under the colorful umbrellas.
Thanks to our own bakery, there is plenty of sweets, from cakes and tarts to vegan cinnamon rolls. During the week you can get hearty little things like homemade chips, quiche or bread with spreads. On weekends you can also have a vegan-vegetarian breakfast from ten o’clock onwards. Then there is Bircher muesli, granola and pain au chocolat or vegan scrambled eggs. And if you chat after brunch, just stay seated – in the evening the café becomes a bar.
Café LozziPestalozzistrasse 8, 80469 Munich
Madam Anna Ekke
As the name suggests, Madam Anna Ekke is on the corner. Namely Jahnstrasse/Kolosseumstrasse, where the sun shines strongly on the cobblestones and the district meets behind sunglasses. If the weather is indoors, the guest has to hope for or reserve a place in the not particularly large room. Inside it’s bustling and really beautifully done, patterned tiles, large-format art and sayings on the wall, cheerful, colorful and vintage.
You can order from the extensive brunch menu until 2 p.m. and on Sundays until 3 p.m. Bircher muesli based on oat milk with fresh fruit, cinnamon and black sesame, or pancakes with fruit and maple syrup or Nutella and banana or with poached egg, ham, spinach and maple syrup. Also popular are the “Ekks”, all sorts of creative egg dishes from Eggs Benedict with avocado cream and miso hollandaise with extras such as bacon or caramelized tomatoes to vegan shakshuka with “tofu egg” to the “Royal Ekkdrop”. This is grilled butter toast with scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, avocado and wasabi crème fraîche, crispy seaweed and potato chips.
Madam Anna EkkeKolosseumstraße 6, 80469 Munich
Café Tabula Rasa
Constant self-optimization is a thing of the past. Because things with rough edges are much more exciting, people are happy to pay a visit to Café Tabula Rasa. Things are pleasantly informal here, nothing is completely styled. You feel more like you’re sitting in the living room of good friends.
In the self-proclaimed “home for those with a sweet tooth” there is exactly what is promised – freshly baked cakes such as plum crumble, apple-poppy-seed-cheese, chocolate, vegan carrot cake or mango-lemon cake. The all-day breakfast selection is small but tasty. Including a “mixed plate” with croissant or boiled egg, cheese, Serrano ham, salami, butter and jam. Alternatively, you can also get a cheese plate that also includes muesli, or a portion of cheese or sausage with a bread basket.
Café Tabula RasaHolzstraße 18, 80469 Munich
Munich 72
Don’t worry, the name is misleading. Of course, everyone who hasn’t run a half marathon before brunch is also welcome at Sportcafé München 72. There is a much more sporting flair here because of the memories of the 1972 Olympic Games. Everywhere in the store you can find souvenirs decorated with the Olympic rings: carrier bags, beer mugs, alarm clocks. Gymnastics trestles provide seating and a sports canoe hangs from the ceiling.
The theme also extends to the culinary side. If you’re looking for a hearty brunch, you’ll find the “weightlifter’s breakfast” here with cold cuts, jam, butter, honey, a soft-boiled egg, bread and rolls. Or the “Olympic Eggs” with scrambled eggs, rocket, feta, roasted cherry tomatoes and basil. Or the “Boxer breakfast” with thyme potatoes, scrambled eggs and ham. If you prefer something lighter, choose Bircher muesli or freshly squeezed juices, for example. The café is a restaurant and bar during the week. If you are looking for breakfast, you will only find it on the weekend.
Munich 72Holzstraße 16, 80469 Munich
Café Vollaths
Watch the hustle and bustle at the intersection of Müllerstrasse and Thalkirchnerstrasse with a coffee in your hand – that’s possible in Café Vollaths. As a guest, you quickly feel at home here. The furnishings are kept in warm colors, and the rustic interior is decorated with wooden paneling on the wall.
Breakfast is offered all day long, making Vollaths a perfect stop for night owls and early risers alike. The offerings include the “little Franzos” with butter croissant, homemade jam and a small fruit salad, the “Isarjogger”, with yoghurt with muesli, fruit salad and two organic scrambled eggs or “Aloisius”, a bread basket with a boiled egg and three different spreads of your choice. Various egg dishes are also a must, including the “protein bomb”, a scrambled egg made from four organic proteins with chili and avocado.
VollathsThalkirchner Straße 1, 80337 Munich
traditional bird
Anyone who knows the Trachtenvogl knows that its once wild days are long gone. The former bar has become a comfortable place for breakfast. But not everything has changed. The comfortable sofas remain, the antlers and Alpine paintings, the cuckoo clock, the tables from Grandma’s kitchen, and there is even a corner bench.
In addition to the traditional white sausage breakfast with pretzels and sweet mustard, the menu also includes the “mountain breakfast” with South Tyrolean smoked bacon, salami, cheese, butter and horseradish cream. A vegan breakfast can also be ordered, consisting of a raspberry-banana bowl with muesli, fresh fruit, wholemeal bread with pea-mint cream, hummus, jam and vegan butter. Grilled sandwiches are available all day, and the strawberry-lime milkshake is also popular. A highlight of the menu, however, is certainly the hot chocolate in a total of 17 variations. Just to name a few: pistachio, salted caramel, almond amaretto, orange cinnamon.
traditional birdReichenbachstraße 47, 80469 Munich
Café Bellevue di Monaco
The Bellevue di Monaco café is intended to be a meeting place – for Munich residents, refugees, neighbors and residents. People from all over the world cook their own typical dishes, and the vegan-vegetarian menu is correspondingly colorful. You can find: A lentil salad with apple, orange, feta and parsley or a sandwich with halloumi, grilled peppers, muhamarra and walnuts. If you’re slightly hungry, there are starters such as Fattoush, a Lebanese bread salad, or Sigara Börek, fried cheese rolls from Turkish cuisine, as well as various mezzes and cakes.
Undecided guests will be happy on Saturdays when they can choose five favorite dishes from the menu at the Bellevue Brunch from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can’t just sit comfortably in the light-flooded Bellevue Café. There is also an advisory service for refugees and events such as readings or concerts.
Bellevue of MonacoMüllerstraße 6, 80469 Munich