Vegan cake in Café Kuko
Veronika Geiger is the owner of Café Kuko.
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
Leafing through travel reports, trying on jackets from Malawi, admiring woven baskets from Ghana and sniffing cakes: all of this is possible in the Kuko shop café. Those who shop here are doing something good, because owner Veronika Geiger uses the proceeds to support projects in Uganda. For the culinary offer, she mainly uses organic ingredients; she gets the coffee beans from a Berlin Fairtrade roastery.
The café prepares dishes with and without animal ingredients. The vegan offer includes various cakes, from banana bread and lemon cake to the chocolate and berry tart, a piece costs 3.20 euros. On Saturdays there is breakfast with vegan porridge. Even those who feel hungry at lunchtime will find what they are looking for. Dishes from all over the world are on the menu, every day there is a vegan one, for example a quinoa and coconut stew or a chili sin carne.
Café Kuko, Westendstrasse 87, 80339 Munich, opening times: Tuesday to Friday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 01705529046. Company holidays from November 14th to 21st.
Breakfast until the afternoon in Emmi’s Kitchen
American pancakes and acai bowls are served in Emmi’s Kitchen, vegan of course – like everything there.
(Photo: Florian Peljak)
The owners Jennifer and Götz Möglinger run this café twice in Munich: One restaurant is located in an inner courtyard on Buttermelcherstraße on Gärtnerplatz, here it is furnished in a shabby-chic style to match the chic nightlife district. The café has also been open again in Giesing on Werinherstrasse near the train station for a year. In keeping with the down-to-earth working-class district, it is more modest here with shades of gray.
What sets the café apart in both cases is its all-vegan range. You can have breakfast in both restaurants until 5 p.m. If you like sweets, you can order pancakes – without eggs, of course – with fruit, maple syrup and homemade granola (11.50 euros). A hearty start to the day is prepared with a breakfast burger with a vegetable topping (14 euros). Emmi’s Kitchen also provides its guests with vegan dishes such as falafel bowls, spaetzle or burgers and cakes.
Emmi’s Glockenbach, Buttermelcherstraße 15 (in the inner courtyard), 80469 Munich, opening times: Monday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 089/55261878.
Emmi’s Giesing, Werinherstr. 69, 81541 Munich, opening times: Monday to Sunday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., 015156655200.
Open sandwiches to fill you up
Breakfast at Ooh Baby will keep you full for a long time.
(Photo: Catherina Hess)
Small and charming, that’s how the “Ooh Baby” can be described. If you want to get a seat in the café between Isartor and Gärtnerplatz, you have to be quick because there are only five tables. Owner Gianna Steigerwald created the impression of a flat share with many small details: postcards and small pictures on the wall, flea market furniture, green plants and books on the hanging shelf.
The dishes are an eye-catcher: The sandwiches are so generously arranged that the bread can hardly be seen for the topping. In addition to classics such as scrambled eggs and croissants, there are vegan alternatives. The menu includes, for example, the vegetable bag with avocado, grilled vegetables, rocket and tomato (8.90 euros) and the “Ooh Baby’s Bowl” made from regional quinoa and vegetables, hummus, sweet potato wedges and baked chickpeas (10.90 euros) . Gluten-free bread and homemade jam are available as extras.
Ooh baby, Rumfordstraße 39, 80469 Munich, opening times: Tuesday to Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday to Sunday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., 089/89052339.
Barista coffee in the Josefina
Owner and barista Murat Dagli offers healthy indulgence in his café.
(Photo: Robert Haas)
A good coffee shop needs good coffee. There is one in Café Josefina, because owner Murat Dagli is also a trained barista. What else is there: healthy food, made from organic products, sugar-free, gluten-free and vegan. With its tiled walls, tables decorated with mosaics and oriental carafes, the café is reminiscent of southern areas.
The menu presents a wide selection of drinks from cappuccino and hot chocolate with chilli to frozen smoothies and freshly squeezed organic juices. The breakfast menu includes, for example, crumble muesli with almonds, buckwheat, coconut, oat flakes and fruit in homemade almond milk. The café also offers warm vegan dishes every day. Early risers are welcome on weekdays from 7.30 a.m.
Café Josefina, Augustenstraße 113, 80789 Munich, opening times: Monday to Thursday 7.30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., 089/60034722.
Vegan cheese at Om Nom Nom
Where there used to be a butcher’s shop, the Om Nom Nom now serves vegan dishes.
(Photo: Catherina Hess)
“Om nom nom” is what it should sound like when guests enjoy their breakfast. So owner Marlen Ventker and her partner Daniel Tesic called the café that. In the seventies, the Sendlinger shop was a butcher’s shop, today only the light tiles on the wall remind of it, because the café serves exclusively vegan dishes.
The café is known for its vegan cheese: There are up to fifty different cheese alternatives made from cashew nuts, chickpeas or pumpkin seeds. The most popular is the “Nom nom Brotzeit”: For 24.90 euros you get a mixture of different vegan cheeses with grapes, bread, nuts and sweet fig mustard. Granola fans are served with the Acay Bowl for 9.50 euros, which combines bananas, berries, chia seeds and nut butter. Your favorite cheese is also available to take away at the counter, as is the vegan Bolognese and truffle chips.
Café Om Nom Nom, Oberländerstraße 24a, 81371 Munich, opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 089/76702464.
Tea enjoyment in Tushita
Tushita prepares tea in the traditional way for vegan cakes.
(Photo: Jakob Berr)
The Tushita is a meeting point for all tea connoisseurs and lovers of vegan cuisine. High shelves are stocked with oriental teapots and colorful bowls. In the Asian tea house in the Gärtnerplatzviertel, all types of tea are prepared and served in the traditional way. The majority of the tea varieties are certified organic, some come directly from selected tea gardens in Japan, China, India and Thailand.
For breakfast there is millet porridge with various additions such as cranberries, almonds and coconut or you can order the granola muesli with berries and yogurt. The in-house bakers also prepare cakes and desserts, some of which are sugar-free and gluten-free. All ingredients of the dishes as well as the tea are certified organic.
Tushita tea house, Klenzestraße 53, 80469 Munich, opening times: Monday to Saturday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., 089/189 755 94.
Fluffy company in the cat temple
Drinking coffee and petting cats go hand in hand in the cat temple.
(Photo: Alessandra Schellnegger)
If you are lucky, you will get a fluffy neighbor to scratch your seat. Six “temple tigers”, as they are called in the café, roam the cat café near the university. They all come from animal welfare and, depending on their mood, enjoy being petted by the guests or withdraw to their relaxation room.
A visit to the Katzentempel is also worthwhile for the vegan food and drinks. For the hangover breakfast, the café serves baked beans, vegan scrambled eggs and bread with spread (12.90 euros). For the sweet snack, there are chocolate-cherry pancakes (9.90 euros) or various cakes to choose from. In keeping with the season, guests drink the gingerbread latte (4.20 euros) or warm orange saga with ginger, cinnamon and aniseed (4 euros).
Cat temple, Türkenstraße 29, 80799 Munich, opening times: Monday to Thursday 12 noon to 8 p.m., Friday 12 noon to 9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sundays and public holidays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., 089/20061249.
Eat healthy in the Shotgun Sister coffee bar
The Shotgun Sister Coffeebar is named after the owner’s favorite song.
(Photo: Florian Peljak)
Named after the favorite song of the owner Katharina Böttger “Shotgun Sister” from the Swedish band Friska Viljor, the Shotgun Sister Coffeebar in Giesing exudes authenticity. The café is rather simply furnished, some furniture comes from the flea market, a poster hangs on the wall and the guests get their cold drinks from the fridge themselves.
What is more unusual is what is on the menu. In addition to white coffee (3.60 euros), guests order Chai Matcha marzipan (3.40 euros) or golden latte (4.60 euros). There are vegan options for food such as coconut and zucchini bread (3.40 euros), an acai bowl with granola, acai puree, coconut and fruit (7.80 euros) or peanut and banana bread (5.80 euros) .
Shotgun Sister Coffee Bar, Deisenhofener Straße 40, 81539 Munich, opening times: Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 089/26010730.