Book Roecklplatz for dinner at a restaurant that trains young people. Try Conviva for a meal by the Kammerspiele, Bellevue di Monaco for a vegetarian lunch, or Kuchentratsch for coffee and cake made by older bakers. Each place does something different alongside serving food, so choose the one that fits your day.
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When friends think of food in Munich, the first answers are often schnitzel, sausages and a pork knuckle. Fair enough. But the longer I’ve lived here, the more I’ve enjoyed finding other kinds of places to eat. Here’s the challenge I set in my first article: the next time you decide where to spend money on lunch or dinner, choose a place where somebody gets a chance to train, meet people or do work they’d like to keep doing. Then see if the food makes you want to go back.
Where can you eat at a training restaurant?
Roecklplatz, at Isartalstraße 26, is a dinner option in the Dreimühlenviertel. Young people train in the kitchen and in restaurant service, with vocational and social support. The operator lists 11 apprenticeship places and four qualification places. The restaurant publishes Monday to Saturday hours from 17:30 to midnight. Check the menu and book through its site if you’re planning an evening around it. Restaurant and booking · Training project
The Dreimühlenviertel is part of the appeal for me. I like walking through its few streets of independent shops and bars before dinner. Roecklplatz is where I’d take someone for a birthday or a night out for two. I remember the garden strung with little lights. Inside, the work in the kitchen and at the tables is part of the apprentices’ training. Pick it because you want a proper dinner, and have a look at the changing menu if one of your group doesn’t eat meat.
Where can you eat near the Kammerspiele?
Conviva im Blauen Haus is at Hildegardstraße 1, at the Münchner Kammerspiele. Its operator, cba, brings employees with and without disabilities together in its workplaces. The restaurant serves food drawing on Alpine and Mediterranean cooking and publishes separate lunch and evening menus. For an earlier stop, its Cafébar Conviva at Pettenkoferstraße 26–28 opens weekdays from 07:30 to 15:00 for breakfast, coffee and lunch. Conviva im Blauen Haus · Inclusion project · Cafébar Conviva
I’d choose Conviva im Blauen Haus before a play, especially if I’d rather have a meal than make do with something at the interval. I liked the idea of the restaurant using an old Kammerspiele workshop. The plain room feels different from the theatre next door. The food draws on the areas south of Munich as well as Bavaria. Give yourself time to finish before the show, or choose the weekday café if you are looking for an earlier meal.
Where can you find a vegetarian lunch in Glockenbach?
Bellevue di Monaco’s café, at Müllerstraße 6, is part of a social cooperative that provides support and a meeting place for refugees. People with refugee experience help run the café. Its menu is vegetarian and vegan, with a weekly lunch list and an English menu. Café, menus and hours · Bellevue di Monaco
The project I first found at Einstein 28
Über den Tellerrand was on my original list for its café at the adult education centre. What I liked about it was the way food gave people something to do together. You could have a different lunch depending on who was cooking, and on a sunny day take your plate into the courtyard. There were three suggested ways to pay, including one for people on a tight budget. That was the arrangement I described then. For a current visit, the Munich association now lists its community cooking events, including the Kochtreff at Einstein 28. Choose a listed event rather than relying on the old café’s opening hours or prices.
Where can you have cake from a bakery for older people?
Talking about Kuchentratsch (Cake Gossip) just warms our hearts! Kuchentratsch Café is at Theresienhöhe 30. The bakery brings older people together to bake. From the café, you can look into the bakery. The cake selection changes, so go for a slice and see what’s on the counter. The operator lists weekday hours of 08:00 to 18:00 and weekend hours of 09:30 to 17:30. Kuchentratsch café and bakery
I loved the name Kuchentratsch, roughly “cake gossip”. In the bakehouse I first wrote about, I liked seeing the cake associated with an actual person. Oma Irmgard’s carrot cake was the one that stuck in my mind, and there were photos of the bakers on individual packages. The bakery gave older people a reason to work a shift, bake a recipe they knew and catch up with other people. The carrot cake is a memory, so I’d see what’s on the counter at Theresienhöhe 30 today. I’d go for a slice and sit where I can look into the bakery before deciding what to order for a celebration.
What’s changed at Bellevue in 2026?
When we checked on 12 November, the café listed a new evening kitchen service. The published dinner menu runs Tuesday to Saturday, 17:00 to 21:00. Check the current menu before making a separate trip for dinner. Bellevue’s current menu
For other ways to shop and eat locally, see our second-hand shops guide and Munich café picks.