Short of splashing out on Café Tambosi, this is the closest you’ll come to a neoclassical Viennese Kaffeehaus in Munich. Heavy with stucco, chandeliers, doilies and silk-scarfed bodies, the recently restored, 115-year old building bubbles with elegance. Thomas Mann, Paul Klee, Kandinsky and Lenin all cut their teeth here but don’t expect contemporary debate to rise much above the level of whether the freshly baked Kuchen cuts the mustard.

(€6-12)