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Frommer's Highly Recommended

Our hangout in Munich is this cafe/restaurant that pays tribute to the writer Oskar Maria Graf (1894-1967) and is decorated with Graf memorabilia. Jenny Holzer, the New York artist, was called in to carry out the Graf theme. She took sentences from Graf's writings and inscribed them on the cafe's leather benches or on the plates you're served: You have to clean your plate to see what Graf had to say. A typical remark: \"It must soon be that I am famous.\" Munich is the center of publishing in Germany, and writers, editors, and readers drop in throughout the day for coffee and cake. Management invites you to \"drink books\" and \"eat pages.\" This is no mere coffeehouse, however. The restaurant serves a full-fledged, freshly prepared cuisine using some the finest ingredients from the Bavarian countryside. At lunch, try one of the sandwiches such as a baguette with rabbit or the pastrami with sauerkraut. At our most recent dinner, we enjoyed baby roast lamb from Pauillac, which is a delicacy hard to come by even in France. The Blutwurst (blood sausage) in pastry, with diced apples, was better than the typical boudin noir in a French bistro. For dessert, we took delight in the pear tart with almond cream. Newsweek recently named this cafe as one of \"the world's top gathering places.\"

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps, 6th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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