Kaiserschmarrn appears as a signature dish in 1 Germany cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Kaiserschmarrn · Munich
Bavarian and Austrian fluffy torn pancake: thick eggy batter cooked in butter, torn into caramelised pieces, dusted in icing sugar and served warm with stewed plums. The Alpine dessert named for Emperor Franz Josef.
Kaiserschmarrn translates to Emperor's Mess, in reference to Habsburg Emperor Franz Josef I (1830 to 1916), with several apocryphal origin stories: one says it was an accident when a cook tore the imperial pancake; another claims a peasant farmer's variant the emperor preferred over palace food. The dish became codified through the late 19th-century cafe culture of Vienna, Munich and Salzburg as a substantial late-afternoon snack. The Munich Bavarian version is light eggy batter (whites whipped separately and folded in), often with rum-soaked raisins, torn rather than flipped.
Where to eat in Munich:
- Café Frischhut (Schmalznudel)
- Spatenhaus an der Oper
- Andechser am Dom
- Rischart