Augustiner-Keller

The beer garden

The Augustiner-Keller presents itself as Munich's oldest beer garden. It already appears on the 1812 city map as a beer store, began serving food in 1842 and has barely changed in appearance since 1895. It has 5,000 seats at long tables under more than a hundred chestnut trees, and the star beer is Edelstoff drawn from a wooden barrel. It is divided into a self-service area, a waiter-service area, the terraces and a children's playground. In the self-service area, and only there, you can bring your own food, as Münchners do; drinks are bought there. The litre mug of Edelstoff, Dunkel or Radler costs €9; the half-litre is served only before 17:00 and after 22:00.

The beer garden is open from 11:00 to 24:00 in good weather, with the kitchen until 22:00, and closes earlier if it is quiet. The website's front page says each day whether it is open: in November 2026 it was closed and only the restaurant was operating. From November to February they set up Eisstock lanes (a Bavarian curling), shepherd's wagons for dinner and an Alpine hut, by reservation.

The restaurant

Inside there are several rooms: the Bierstüberl, the Jagdstube, the Festsaal and the Lagerkeller, a vaulted cellar eight metres underground where the beer was stored. It is open every day from 10:00 to 1:00, with the kitchen until 23:00. On the menu, roast pork with potato dumpling and red cabbage at €17.90, half a crispy pork knuckle at €21.50, veal Wiener Schnitzel at €27.50, white sausage at €3.90 each and Kaiserschmarrn at €13.95. It has vegetarian dishes, such as Allgäu Käsespätzle at €14.50, and gluten-free bread if you ask.

Getting there

It is on Arnulfstraße, about a ten-minute walk from the main station. Stops: Hauptbahnhof (U-Bahn U1, U2, U4 and U5, and all S-Bahn lines), Hackerbrücke (S-Bahn) and Hopfenstraße (trams 16 and 17, with the 17 coming direct from Nymphenburg). It has few parking spaces.