The Best Japanese Food in Munich
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The best Japanese food in Munich, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide and The 50 have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Tohru in der Schreiberei comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in München.
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JAPATAPA TOSHIBAR and KOI hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.
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Rank 1. Tohru in der Schreiberei
Contemporary Japanese
Up a steep wooden staircase inside Munich's oldest town house, Tohru Nakamura's tasting-menu restaurant earns its three Michelin stars by doing something harder than fusion: making French and Japanese cooking feel like they were always the same thing. Koshihikari rice with regional trout caviar, a beurre blanc fermented with sake and elderflower. The kitchen tour that opens the meal sets the tone: nothing here is an afterthought.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 3 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 2. JAPATAPA TOSHIBAR
Japanese
A counter-and-one-small-table Japanese restaurant tucked into a Schwabing side street near Münchner Freiheit, where the room is minimal and the sake list is not. The couple behind it have been fixtures in Munich's Japanese dining scene for a long time, and the cooking follows their lead: clean, unhurried, and rooted in something closer to Tokyo than to trend. The wine list pulls its weight too, which in a sake bar is a pleasant surprise.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. KOI
Modern Japanese
Dark wood and warm light set a sleek, grown-up tone at this contemporary Japanese restaurant on Wittelsbacherplatz. The menu moves across sushi, robata-grilled meats and fish, and vegetable dishes with a modern edge. An upstairs bar adds a loungey layer for the evening, and the terrace fills fast when Munich actually delivers on summer.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Matsuhisa Munich
Peruvian Fusion Japanese
The rooftop terrace with its summer views over Munich is a nice bonus, but Nobu Matsuhisa's restaurant inside the Mandarin Oriental earns its keep year-round. It's a sleek, minimalist Japanese-Peruvian dining room where sushi and sashimi share the menu with black cod and Peruvian anticucho skewers, everything designed for sharing. The kind of place where the bill arrives in a leather folder and nobody flinches.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. sansaro
Japanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant