Munich, by the cup
Germany · 25 hand-picked cafés
Munich's specialty coffee scene is compact, serious, and deeply rooted in craft. Unlike Berlin, where volume and concept often drive the conversation, Munich's best cafes tend to be owner-operated roasteries or curated multi-roaster bars where the cup is the point and the room is secondary. The city's affluent professional population and strong brewing culture have created an audience that takes quality for granted.
The Glockenbachviertel is the spiritual home of Munich specialty coffee, with Man Versus Machine and several others within walking distance in this inner-city district. Maxvorstadt comes second, anchoring the university and museum belt. Schwabing is rooted in neighbourhood daily life around the Elisabethmarkt, and Haidhausen, east of the Isar, is quieter but growing fast.
What distinguishes Munich from other German specialty cities is the breadth of the roaster tier: many of its best cafes roast within the city, meaning visitors can track a coffee from roaster to cup without leaving the municipality. The city also hosts a confident multi-roaster culture where the weekly rotation of guest beans functions as a genuine expression of curiosity about origin and process.
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Café Blá
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Founded by Jacob, who trained at Vits, Café Blá on Lilienstrasse roasts in-house on a Giesen WA15 and pours the…
Café des Bellevue di Monaco
The café at the Bellevue di Monaco cultural centre on Müllerstrasse serves fair-trade coffee and a vegetarian-vegan…
Café Faber
Tucked into Zeppelinstrasse in the Au, Café Faber pairs some of Munich's most seasonal brunch food with a…
Café Frischhut
Known locally as the Schmalznudel after its iconic fried yeast pastry, Café Frischhut on Prälat-Zistl-Strasse near…
Café im Vorhoelzer Forum
The café on the roof of the Technical University of Munich's architecture faculty on Arcisstrasse offers panoramic…
Café Jasmin
A Munich institution on the corner of Steinheilstrasse in the Maxvorstadt, Café Jasmin has been serving espresso and…
Coffee Twins
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Twin brothers Daniel and Jonas Fondaj opened Coffee Twins on Ehrengutstrasse in March 2022, combining specialty V60…
Gartensalon
Tucked into the Amalienpassage between Türkenstrasse and Amalienstrasse since 2009, Gartensalon is one of the most…
Kaffeerösterei Viktualienmarkt
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Operating from Stand 3/26 at the Viktualienmarkt since 2014, this roastery stand hand-roasts specialty Arabica using…
Kanso Coffee Lab
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Kanso Coffee Lab hides in the quiet inner courtyard of the Residenzpassage off Theatinerstrasse, minutes from…
Lost Weekend
Lost Weekend on Schellingstrasse occupies the overlap between bookshop, café, and evening event space, with a fully…
Man Versus Machine Coffee Roasters (Glockenbach)
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Munich's most celebrated independent roastery, founded in 2014 by Conny and Marco Mehrwald, roasting only…
Man Versus Machine Coffee Roasters (Maxvorstadt)
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The second MVSM outpost on Schellingstrasse puts the roastery's single-origin programme in the middle of the…
Schneid-Kaffee
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A third-generation family roastery founded in 1955 and still operating from a Feldmoching courtyard in Munich's far…
Sorry Johnny
Sorry Johnny opened in 2021 on Preysingstrasse in Haidhausen, founded by Katrin Brüggemann, Johannes Rühl, and…
Standl 20
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Since 2015, Standl 20 has operated as the specialty coffee stand at Munich's Elisabethmarkt, a covered market in the…
stray coffee roasters
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Stray launched as a micro-roaster in Munich's Westend in 2021 before Feldi and Ilan opened the Gollierstrasse café in…
Suuapinga (Herzogstrasse)
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Founded in 2021 by three Munich friends on just sixteen square metres of Herzogstrasse, Suuapinga is named after the…
Suuapinga (Leopoldstrasse)
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The Münchner Freiheit location of Suuapinga on Leopoldstrasse puts the brand's signature light-roast espresso and…
Suuapinga (Wiener Platz)
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Suuapinga's Haidhausen outpost operates as a market stand at the lively Wiener Platz, the smallest of the brand's…
Sweet Spot Kaffee (Reichenbachstrasse)
The second Sweet Spot opened on Reichenbachstrasse in November 2023, bringing the same rotating-roaster ethos to the…
Sweet Spot Kaffee (Viktualienmarkt)
Perched at Heiliggeiststrasse 1 with the Viktualienmarkt as its front garden, Sweet Spot rotates a curated trio of…
The Barn Munich
The Barn's sole Bavarian outpost sits on Müllerstrasse in the Glockenbach, bringing Berlin's best-known specialty…
The Spirited Goat
The Spirited Goat on Hohenzollernstrasse was opened by a founder with roots in Hong Kong and experience in the…
Vits der Kaffee
A roastery and café on Rumfordstrasse steps from the Viktualienmarkt, where Alexander Vits roasts on a Coffee Tech…
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Munich coffee, answered
- Where is the best specialty coffee in Munich?
- Remembrew lists 25 hand-picked specialty cafés in Munich, Germany. Standouts include Café Blá, Café des Bellevue di Monaco, Café Faber, Café Frischhut. The densest neighborhoods for coffee are Glockenbachviertel, Maxvorstadt, Schwabing, Altstadt. Every café is chosen for the quality of its coffee, never for payment, so the list reflects the scene rather than who paid to appear.
- How many specialty cafés does Munich have?
- Remembrew tracks 25 specialty cafés in Munich that clear our bar for coffee quality. The count reflects the real depth of the local scene rather than a fixed quota, and we add cafés as we verify them.
- Which Munich neighborhoods are best for coffee?
- In Munich, the neighborhoods with the most hand-picked specialty cafés are Glockenbachviertel (6), Maxvorstadt (5), Schwabing (5), Altstadt (4). Each has its own page on Remembrew with the full list and a map.
- Does Remembrew take payment to list a café in Munich?
- No. Remembrew is an independent directory and never accepts payment for a listing or for placement. Cafés appear only because they clear our specialty-coffee bar, and you can read the full criteria on our directory standards page.
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