Café Rosi
Café Rosi on Rosenheimer Straße is the right place to go – whether in summer or on a cold winter day. There’s something definitely motivating about the prospect of going out for a good breakfast. Afterwards you can start strengthened with afternoon activities. After all, the Isar is nearby – but also the German Museum, the Müllersche Volksbad and the Museum-Lichtspiele. The café is part of the trend towards industrial charm: bare light bulbs, wooden chairs, chrome, steel, everything thrown together very deliberately. But the room itself is impressive with the high ceilings of the old building and the curved window front.
Breakfast is served daily at Rosi until 3 p.m. If you’re slightly hungry, there’s Bircher muesli or a pair of white sausages with pretzels and sweet mustard. It gets more opulent with the combinations such as the “power breakfast”, consisting of homemade granola with nuts, fresh fruits and yoghurt, chia bread, fried eggs and a green smoothie. Café Rosi is not just a coffee house, it also offers lunch, an evening menu and cocktails. During the day the atmosphere is relaxed and a mixed crowd feels comfortable under the warm industrial lights. Theresa Parstorfer
Café RosiRosenheimer Straße 2, 81669 Munich, 089/44999739
Mr Pancake
Breakfast is, as the saying goes, the most important meal of the day. And sometimes the day just begs to be started with comfort food. Comfort food, a feel-good food, usually high in calories and often associated with a nostalgic value. Pancakes, for example, are a breakfast comfort food. Especially for Americans who prefer to sweeten the pancake-like flatbread with liters of maple syrup. Quite a few cafés have pancakes on their menu, sometimes they taste like this, sometimes like that. And then there’s Mr. Pancake.
The pancake variations there have names like Mr. Blueberry, Mr. Cherry, Mr. Apple, Mr. Vegetarian or Mr. Sausage. The plates are huge and contain three thick, fluffy pancakes per dish that taste just like in an American diner. Plus the trimmings that the respective name suggests. The atmosphere is very international. Every guest is greeted warmly, sometimes in English. Laura Kaufman
Mr PancakeGabelsbergerstraße 34, 80333 Munich, 089/89059057
Café Westend
You can have breakfast in a rustic tavern atmosphere at Café Westend. The restaurant, where you can eat and drink from morning to evening, has been around for more than 25 years. You can also go bowling in Café Westend. A little exercise after breakfast probably wouldn’t hurt, because the portions are generous.
The breakfast combinations in Café Westend have city names and are served until 3 p.m. The Munich breakfast is classic, it consists of two white sausages, mustard and pretzel. But you can also travel tastefully to New York, Turin or Oslo while having breakfast. “Verona” is suitable for two and includes, among other things, scrambled eggs, salmon, croissants, avocado-tomato bread and two glasses of Prosecco. If you can’t decide on a combination, you can also put together your own breakfast. Ana Maria March
Café WestendGanghoferstraße 50, 80339 Munich, 089/508341
Baader Café
The Baader has been around since the 1980s, when the Glockenbachviertel was still a sleepy little town; it was one of the few alternative trendy bars in Munich. While the walk-in customers stream to Gärtnerplatz, you can still start the evening in peace in front of the large shop windows and listen to the staff’s good taste in music. You could just as easily waste a whole day here. The Baader Café is named after the street on which it is located. It owes its name to the mystic Franz Xaver von Baader, who tried to prove that all our thinking is a single reflection.
The extensive breakfast menu, from French toast with maple syrup to the breakfast burrito, which is served until 3 p.m., still provides some inspiration. Incidentally, in the spirit of Baader, who once said: “All life is subject to the paradox that if it is to remain the same, it must not remain the same.” Anna Fischhaber
Baader CaféBaaderstraße 47, 80469 Munich, 089/2010638
Garden salon
The furnishings in the garden salon are a colorful mix of cozy chairs and small tables, with pictures on the wall and bulbous glasses full of fizzy candies and gummy bear snakes. All of this is reminiscent of a cozy living room from an Astrid Lindgren novel. You can have breakfast here until the afternoon. The offer varies slightly from time to time. For example, in the garden salon you can get a snack with homemade spreads, a cheese board or a vegan Bircher muesli. Cakes, French rolls or croissants are also available.
The rear entrance to the LMU main building is just a few steps away. The garden salon has long been discovered by students as a place for short breaks, but it is now only open on weekends. But even if grandma or parents come to visit, you won’t be out of place here. Ana Maria März and Theresa Parstorfer
Garden salonTürkenstraße 90, 80799 Munich, 089/28778604
Café Glockenspiel
People rush back and forth with bags on Marienplatz, and five floors above there is a view for breakfast in Café Glockenspiel. You look at the facade of Munich’s town hall and the bells of Old Peter ring from next door. Whether morning, lunch or evening – the offering at Café Glockenspiel is extensive. The kitchen prepares breakfast until 3:30 p.m. Of course, you also pay for the view – the cheapest standard breakfast costs 13.80 euros (without tea or coffee). There are artfully arranged sausage slices, perfect just-runny breakfast eggs, butter, jam and bread. The same thing in cheese costs one euro more. Things get really opulent with the “love affair for two” including hot drinks and champagne. The kitchen can easily accommodate special requests. At the same time, the service is fast and efficient.
Among the tourists, chic Munich women meet here for a coffee chat, work colleagues for lunch and amorous couples for weekend brunch. Hardly anyone comes to Café Glockenspiel alone. Reading or working – the atmosphere is not necessarily too hectic for that, but it is still too focused on eating and socializing. Theresa Parstorfer
Café GlockenspielMarienplatz 28, 80331 Munich, 089/264256
Café Wiener Platz
The refreshing thing about Café Wiener Platz is that it’s so normal. If the metropolitan demand for coolness becomes too omnipresent, the right place is the spacious café with the small black tables and the large bar in the middle. At Wiener Platz, belonging to this or that style is unimportant. So unimportant that the indefinability could easily be declared a defining characteristic. The menu is similarly broad. In addition to the extensive lunch and evening menu (there is actually everything from cheese spaetzle and meat patties to ravioli and Kaiserschmarrn), the breakfast menu reads like a long list. The breakfast combinations are Express, American, Toscana, Fitness or Gourmet. There are also different varieties of muesli, pancakes and bagels.
Between the Maximilianeum and Friedensengel it can happen that you eat breakfast next to one or another politician. It is just as likely to share the cozy bench on the mirrored walls of the restaurant with long-established Munich residents. How international things can become becomes clear when the conversations at the next table are suddenly conducted in English, Spanish or more exotic languages. Theresa Parstorfer
Café Wiener PlatzInnere Wiener Straße 48, 81667 Munich, 089/4489494