Well this didnt turn out to be a true foodie visit to Munich - it mostly wasnt planned around eating destinations so we wound up eating lunch wherever we happened to be at midday - with the exception of day 2 where, after a long morning’s walk in the Englischgarten, we landed at Spatenhaus an der Oper for a return visit. There, we ate in the more traditional downstairs dining room, where all was the same as we remembered and the food was classic bourgeois fare, en point. My fried fish was cooked perfectly, the potato salad with cucumber was terrific as i n the past, my husband loved his pork , the fine potato dumplings and the accompanying red cabbage with apple was perhaps the best Ive ever had (as before). Nice light clove flavor, not too much sweet and sour.
Of the other midday meals, I think the one on Day 1 at the Hofbraukeller biergarten in Haidhausen was the best, simple but good especially my sauteed pferrelinge with scrambled eggs
the kiosk at Schloss Nymphenberg provided the minimum as in the past and lunches during the two days we spent in the Museums were average only. If you ever consider Brasserie Tresznjewski because its close to the Alte Pinacothek, just dont, mediocre. It was raining and it was across the street.
Our dinners were mostly of the bread , fruit and cheese variety at our very nice apartment in Haidhausen. Lots of coffee bars in that area, but I would particularly like to single out for praise the lovely little Wolfl Patisserie Konditorei right behind the Gasteig. The family there bake beautiful pastries on a daily basis, using fine ingredients. We particularly enjoyed their Esterhazy torte, with lovely hazelnut layers, buttercream, rum and a nice raspberry layer on the bottom. We were sorry to only have a few samples, since they are only open from 8-6. Just a couple of tables on the street so we took out .
Lots of good nutty, seedy, hearty bread in Munich; we recommend Fritz’s in the Vitualmarkt (their bread is also sold elsewhere now); i addition to their hearty country bread they now have an extensive line of gluten free loaves; we actually bought (by mistake) a seed-packed gluten free loaf and they seem to have cracked the code on how to make a good one tho obviously without the taste of wheat.
There was a great fruit steand and a nice little cheese shop, Tolzer Kasladen, with french and other cheese and also wines nearby that we patronized; prices and quality seemed reasonable, especially compared to stateside for the same products
Finally, we did have one dinner out, at Herat, an afghan place in Haidhausen. It was really good value, plenty of nice lamb in the qabuli pilau, and the mashawi, a well spiced lentil soup/stew was first rate. On our last evening we stopped by our favorite local from the last visit, Wirthaus an der Au, and just had a drink while we soaked up the atmosphere and watched plates of dumplings etc go by.
My apologies for how the pictures are displaying in this post, I hope you can figure out which is which!
