Bavarian beer-garden cheese spread: ripe Camembert mashed with butter, paprika, onion and caraway. Served with radishes, pretzels and Brezn.
Obatzda was invented in 1920 by Katharina Eisenreich at the Bräustüberl Weihenstephan in Freising, using overripe Camembert that could not be served as a cheese course. The mixture, spiced with paprika and caraway, became a standard beer-garden Brotzeit (snack plate) item across Bavaria and is now sold at every Munich beer-garden and Wirtshaus.
4 editor picks for Obatzda in Munich, ranked by editorial score. All Munich signature dishes · Obatzda across every city.
Augustiner-Stammhaus ★ 4.2
altstadt-lehel · Neuhauser Strasse 27, 80331 München
Augustiner-Stammhaus on Munich's Neuhauser Strasse, in business since 1829, is the city's oldest Augustiner room; ask for the 1897 Muschelsaal hall.
Hofbräukeller ★ 4.2
haidhausen · Innere Wiener Strasse 19, 81667 München
Hofbräukeller on Wiener Platz in Munich Haidhausen is the calmer Hofbräu room: the city's locals come here instead of the Hofbräuhaus tourist hall for the same beer.
Augustiner Klosterwirt ★ 4.1
altstadt-lehel · Augustinerstrasse 1, 80331 München
Augustiner Klosterwirt sits under the towers of Munich's Frauenkirche in the Altstadt; the gasthaus pours Augustiner Helles vom Holzfass to 400 indoor seats.
Hofbräuhaus am Platzl ★ 3.8
altstadt-lehel · Platzl 9, 80331 München
Hofbräuhaus on Platzl has poured Hofbräu beer in Munich's Altstadt since 1589; the ground-floor Schwemme hall seats 1,000, the upstairs Festsaal handles groups.