If you have breakfast at Wagner’s Juicery, you can be sure that you will be able to add a picture of food to your Instagram feed that morning. Because in the café on Fraunhoferstraße everything is actually “instagramable”, so modern and aesthetic that it seems to have been created for the photo app. But the restaurant right on the Isar is more than “just” a place where beautiful people take beautiful photos.
Lots of wood, clear lines, light colors and a marble-look counter: the design of the café is successful both indoors and outdoors. Plants, a light gray awning and the woven wicker chairs on the terrace help a little to forget the hustle and bustle at the Reichenbach Bridge. You can’t completely block out the traffic noise, but you can eat in the middle of the Glockenbachviertel, right on the Isar.
Cornelius Wagner and his wife wanted to create a place where you can relax and be inspired. Wagner has traveled a lot – preferably to destinations that are known for their waves. Among others to Hawaii and California. He also wanted to bring the mentality and food culture that he experienced in surfing cities to Munich. The result was Wagner’s Juicery in 2016.
The modern design of Wagner’s Juicery is also continued in the interior.
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What is there and what does it cost?
The name “Juicery and Health Food” is – as expected – a program. The café mainly uses vegan dishes and always uses plant-based ingredients. Of course, you pay for the design, location and “Instagram popularity”.
Various smoothies are available on the menu. For 6.90 euros and up, you can also get 450 milliliters of pureed fruit. The juices are named after bays and surf spots. The Margarete River, for example. The city is located 277 kilometers south of Perth, Australia. On Fraunhoferstraße, the drink named after her consists of beetroot, carrot, apple and ginger (5.90 euros). The coffee is good (Americano 3 euros, cappuccino 3.30 euros) and also available with plant-based alternatives to cow’s milk.
The sun terrace invites you to enjoy.
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For breakfast it is recommended to try one of the bowls. The Protein Choco Bowl (9.20 euros) is creamy and tastes like chocolate, but like the light, healthy type of chocolate made from raw cocoa. There are also dates and avocado in the bowl. In addition, the Wagners serves fresh fruit and a peanut butter that melts on the tongue.
A classic of Instagram cuisine and originally a dish from Brazil is the Açaí Bowl (8.50 euros). It is made from açaí berries, the fruits of the cabbage palm from the Amazon region. The berries are not only rich in antioxidants, but also simply delicious. The bowl is good for a hot summer day, it tastes like ice cream, but it’s healthier. There is also fresh fruit, roasted almonds and granola.
Wagner’s Juicery relies on fresh and healthy ingredients.
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In the corona pandemic, some people discovered baking for themselves. A recipe in the most varied of variants (healthy, non-healthy, paleo, low-carb, …) was right at the forefront in many circles of friends and family: the banana bread. If you haven’t had enough of it, you should try the Surfers Banana Bread (6.50 euros) at Wagners. It’s snappy, as they say in Bavaria. And only in a good sense. The coconut cream served with it rounds off the taste.
You can also have lunch at the Wagners. For example the Green Earth pasta with avocado-spinach cream (10.90 euros). There are also bowls for lunch, including wholegrain rice or beluga lentils (from € 12.50).
If you need a short digestive walk after the feast (attention: the banana bread is a really large portion and the bowls are also filling), cross the street once and find yourself on the Isar. It’s not quite like Hawaii there, but at least you can stroll along the water.
Who do you meet there?
The Wagner audience is like the café itself: young, modern and style-conscious.
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The Wagners has a colorful mix of guests, most of whom are in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties, or at least look like one. Mothers brunch with their babies, women behind Rayban sunglasses and books, young men meeting for coffee. What they all have in common is that they seem to know what to wear and what to eat. You can see Birkenstocks, sneakers and designer sandals. Even during the week there are hardly any vacancies, but reservations are not possible. The word got around that you can not only take beautiful photos at the Wagners, but also have a good breakfast.
Wagner’s Juicery and Health Food, Fraunhoferstraße 43, 80469 Munich, opening hours: Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and public holidays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., [email protected]