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Master's Home
This is a wonderfully quirky cellar just east of the Viktualienmarkt. The off-centre décor time warps you back to the colonial era - antique furnishings, plenty of knick-knacks and oddities such as a room built around a bathtub.
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Mathäser Filmpalast
Modern 14-screen multiplex in a former beer hall. For show information check any of the listings publications. Admission usually ranges from around €7.50 to around €9.50 though one day a week, usually Monday or Tuesday, is Kinotag (cinema day) with reduced prices. Movies presented in their original language are denoted in listings by the acronym 'OF' (Originalfassung) or 'OV' (Originalversion) ; those with German subtitles are marked 'OmU' ( Original mit Untertiteln ).
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Molly Malone's
This award-winning Irish pub is a good bet if you'd like a quiet drink or a decent conversation. It's famous for its authentic fish and chips and has over a hundred types of whisky on hand.
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Morizz
This mod Art Deco-style lounge with red leather armchairs and mirrors for posing and preening goes for a more moneyed clientele and even gets the occasional local celebrity drop-in. The service is impeccable, the food's good and the wine and whisky list keeps everyone happily pickled. Packed on weekends.
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Muffathalle
The Muffathalle culture centre was converted from an old power plant. It's now a multi-hall complex that holds large concerts and, in summer, an open-air disco on Friday with drum 'n' bass, acid jazz and hip hop (it's always crowded, so expect long queues).
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Münchner Kammerspiele
Just as venerable as the Staatsschauspiel, this stage has an edgier, more populist bent and delivers provocative interpretations of the classics as well as works by contemporary playwrights. Performances are in a beautifully refurbished Art Nouveau theatre at Maximilianstrasse and in the Neues Haus (M024D), a new glass cube at Falckenbergstrasse 1.
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Münchner Philharmoniker
Munich's premier orchestra regularly performs at the Gasteig cultural centre. Book tickets early as performances usually sell out. Check the website for upcoming public rehearsals costing just around €8 (free for students, tickets available one hour before the concert).
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Museum-Lichtspiele
Cult cinema with wacky interior and weekly screenings of Rocky Horror Picture Show (Saturday nights) and Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice (Sunday mornings). For show information check any of the listings publications.
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Nationaltheater
The Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera) performs here. They perform a diverse collection of works each season including many by German composers. It is also the site of many cultural events, particularly during the opera festival in July. You can buy tickets at regular outlets or at the box office.
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Netzer & Overrath
This alt-flavoured double-pub is named for two members of the German national soccer team that won the FIFA World Cup in 1974. Overrath is the quieter one, more a daytime place where for reading, sipping coffee or snacking. After dark Netzer puts 'fun' in 'funky' with loud rock, Britpop, cold beer and a Fussball table.
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News Café
Not just another news-bar clone, the plush leather seating, rows of glowing red lamps and African-inspired art make this hip joint a great place to hang out. It serves light food and a multitude of cocktails.
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Nil
A construct in wood and marble, this chill café-bar is open till and a good place to crash after the party has stopped elsewhere. If you need a reality check, a plate of its kick-ass goulash soup should do the trick.
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NY Club
After a complete revamp, it's again 'Raining Men' at Munich's hottest gay dance temple where you can party away with Ibiza-style abandon on the cool, backlit main floor.
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Optimolwerke
Just behind KuFa, Optimol is a clubbers' nirvana with about 15 different venues after dark. Favourites include Harry Klein and Milch & Bar, which is open daily until (weekends til ) and the place to go when the action winds down elsewhere. Latin lovers flock to Do Brasil, while Choice-Club heats up the dance floor with black beats, chart music and house.
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P1
Is a Munich guide definitive without a nod to this playground of playboys, tabloid regulars and trust fund babies? Not yet, perhaps. If you make it past the notorious bouncers, you'll find the crowd too busy seeing and being seen than to actually have a good time, but the décor, summer terrace and great pizza still have their appeal.
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Pacific Times
This is a trendy joint to hang out at. It's decked out in dark wood and wicker chairs to attract all the beautiful people. You too could be one of them.
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Prinzregententheater
One of Bogenhausen's main landmarks is the Prinzregententheater. Its dramatic mix of Art Nouveau and neoclassical styles was conceived under Prince-Regent Luitpold as a festival house for Richard Wagner operas. After WWII it became the temporary home of the Bavarian State Opera for a couple of decades, but then was left to crumble for a quarter century to the point where it almost had a date with the wrecking ball.
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Pub Crawl
New Munich's (in)famous Pub Crawl makes stops in five bars and clubs, includes free vodka shots and meets at the corner of Münzstrasse and Orlandostrasse.
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Rote Sonne
Named for a 1969 Munich cult movie starring 'It-Girl' Uschi Obermaier, the Red Sun is a fiery nirvana for fans of electronic sounds. An international roster of DJs from the US, Berlin, Paris, Glasgow and elsewhere keeps the wooden dance floor packed and sweaty until the sun rises.
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Roxy
The place to talent spot and people watch, this slick bar attracts a designer crowd keen to hang out, look good and sip cocktails. By day it offers surprisingly good food at decent prices.
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Schumann's Bar
Urbane and sophisticated, Schumann's has been shaking up Munich's nightlife with libational flights of fancy in an impressive range of more than 220 concoctions. Great for a first date.
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Seehaus
A drinks station for the posh set is Seehaus, right on the Kleinhesseloher See, with dreamy views of the lake and the park. Paulaner is the featured brew.
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Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
This splendid theatre lords over the circular Gärtnerplatz. Founded by citizens in 1865, the theatre was taken over by Ludwig I after the owners went bankrupt.
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Substanz
About as alternative as things get in Munich, this low-key, beery lair gets feet moving with house to indie to soul, tickles your funny bones during the English Comedy Club (first Sunday of the month) and brings out edgy wordsmiths for the SRO (standing-room-only) Poetry Slam (second Sunday).
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Teddy Bar
Presided over by cuddly Fridl, this is a friendly, been-there-forever kind of bar for 'bears' and friends that still manages to stay current and cool. The crowd generally skews older and you can actually hear yourself talk. Happy hour til Monday to Thursday.
