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The 10 Best Bars in Munich

Munich drinks in grand-hotel American bars and in the house Charles Schumann built. The best bars in Munich cluster in the Altstadt around Odeonsplatz and Maximilianstrasse. Schumann’s Bar am Hofgarten, which traces back to 1982 and was No. 34 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2019, calls itself a sophisticated canteen and keeps its cocktails classic, with few ingredients; upstairs, Les Fleurs du Mal seats guests around one nine-meter table cut from a single tree. Die Goldene Bar, inside the Haus der Kunst, is lined with gold-leaf murals from 1937 that work as an illustrated drinks list. The Jahreszeiten Bar has been the Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski's American bar since the early 1960s, Falk’s Bar fills an 1839 hall of mirrors at the Bayerischer Hof, and Bar Montez at the Rosewood has live jazz every day. Outside the center, Barroom near Rosenheimer Platz travels the world of rum. Hotel bars set age rules: Bar Montez admits no one under 18 after 8pm. These are the ten we would start with.

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  1. Schumann’s Bar am Hofgarten
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    Schumann’s Bar am Hofgarten

    Charles Schumann's Munich institution, facing the Hofgarten from Odeonsplatz. The house style is spare and classical, a short list of drinks made without ceremony by a team in white jackets, and it has shaped how a generation of German bartenders think about a cocktail. Open from morning through to late.

    Odeonsplatz 6-7, 80539 Munich
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  2. Die Goldene Bar
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    Die Goldene Bar

    Inside the Haus der Kunst on Prinzregentenstrasse, under 1930s gold-leaf murals of the wine and spirit regions of the world. It works as a cafe by day and a cocktail bar at night, with a terrace onto the Englischer Garten, and the room is the reason to come as much as the list.

    Prinzregentenstrasse 1, 80538 Munich
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  3. Bar Montez
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    Bar Montez

    The bar of the Rosewood Munich, in a former state bank and palace on Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse. Named after Lola Montez, the dancer whose affair with Ludwig I cost him his crown, and furnished to match: high ceilings, heavy stone and a long counter, with a list built around Bavarian and Alpine spirits.

    Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse 1, 80333 Munich
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  4. Barroom
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    Barroom

    A Haidhausen bar built around rum, with a list that travels from the Caribbean and Latin America through Panama to India and Australia. The room is classical and unshowy and the bar treats the category as a subject to be worked through rather than a shelf to be shown off.

    Milchstrasse 17, 81667 Munich
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  5. Call Soul
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    Call Soul

    A Breaking Bad themed bar in Schwabing, and more serious about the drinks than the premise suggests. The room is staged as a lab, the cocktails are built with theatrical presentation, and the team describe the whole thing as an obsession rather than a gimmick.

    Biedersteiner Strasse 6, 80802 Munich
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  1. Falk’s Bar
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    Falk’s Bar

    The bar of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, set in the mirrored hall of 1839 that was the only room in the building to come through the war intact. An island counter under a rococo plaster ceiling, gilt mirrors down the walls, and a list of classics and house creations. It has been a Munich late-night fixture since 1945.

    Promenadeplatz 2-6, 80333 Munich
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  2. Jahreszeiten Bar
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    Jahreszeiten Bar

    The bar of the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski on Maximilianstrasse, Munich's grandest shopping street. Panelled, quiet and unhurried, it serves the hotel's guests and the city's older money in roughly equal measure, with a classics-led list and a piano most evenings.

    Maximilianstrasse 17, 80539 Munich
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  3. Les Fleurs du Mal
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    Les Fleurs du Mal

    The upstairs room above Schumann's on Odeonsplatz, run as its own bar rather than an overflow: darker, quieter and more deliberate than the ground floor, with a list that leans on Charles Schumann's own canon of classics. One of four rooms the Schumann's name covers in Munich.

    Odeonsplatz 6-7, 80539 Munich
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  4. Ory Bar
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    Ory Bar

    Ory has been the bar of the Mandarin Oriental in Munich's Altstadt since 2018, a room built on fine materials, generous geometry and an avant-garde feel. Selektiv Studio designed it, down to a wall structure made for the room. The signature list maps Munich itself: Vibrant Silence, for the Isar, mixes tequila with meadowsweet distillate, hops and verjus; the Bavarian Old Fashioned, for the Wirtshaus, pairs Hibiki Harmony whisky with pretzel distillate and chocolate malt; and the Kir Royal 2.0, for Schwabing, adds parmesan to cognac, apricot brandy, cranberry and champagne. A separate list of eight alcohol-free drinks sits alongside, and the whisky and champagne selection runs deep. Sebastian Hess is partner and bar manager.

    Neuturmstraße 1, 80331 MunichSun-Thu 17:00-01:00, Fri-Sat 17:00-02:00
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  5. Zum Wolf
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    Zum Wolf

    Zum Wolf in the Glockenbachviertel calls itself the Home of Whiskey & Blues, a neighborhood hangout styled after American cocktail bars and juke joints. The shelves run deep in whiskey and bourbon, including the bar's own Maker's Mark Private Select edition. The house list keeps to that spirit, from the 8 Foot Punch of Jamaican and overproof rum, mandarin liqueur, lime, orgeat and nutmeg to a Smoked Old Fashioned with Buffalo Trace, Islay whisky and lapsang tea syrup, while the König Otto Spezial tops rye and Greek vermouth with champagne. The soundtrack is rhythm and blues, jazz and soul, with a vinyl night from the house records every second Sunday.

    Pestalozzistraße 22, 80469 MunichDaily from 18:00; Sun-Thu to 01:00, Fri-Sat to 02:00
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