Café Sax keeps the longest hours on its block and earns them. The bar sits at Hans-Sachs-Strasse 5 in the Glockenbachviertel, and it runs from a morning coffee through to late cocktails, a Munich all-day room that slides into its best hours after work.
The menu is deliberately broad. The kitchen crosses Bavarian, German, Italian and Mexican plates, and the bar pours cocktails and beer late, which is the combination that keeps the room turning over from breakfast to last orders. One regular on Tripadvisor calls it a great place day and night, for the football or a late cocktail, and that range is the point.
The room is a relaxed Glockenbach café-bar, with street-side seating that comes into its own once the weather turns. It reads casual rather than designed, the kind of place locals treat as a second living room. The screens come on for the big matches, so the after-work crowd that wants a game with its drink is well served.
What to order depends on the hour, but the late shift is cocktails and a Bavarian beer. A classic cocktail holds up here, and a cold Helles is the easy after-work default with a plate from the kitchen. For an early sitting, the food carries the visit, so order a Mexican plate or a Bavarian classic and let the drinks follow.
The crowd is a Glockenbach mix that shifts through the day, daytime café regulars giving way to an after-work and pre-night-out set as the evening lands. It leans easygoing and local, and the long hours mean there is rarely a wrong time to walk in. Service can run uneven on a busy match night, the honest cost of a room this versatile.
Who is it for. After-work drinkers who want food and a game with their cocktail, anyone who needs a bar that is open when others are not, and locals who treat a café-bar as a daily fixture. Skip it if you want a hushed, drinks-only cocktail den, since Sax is a busier, broader room than that.
Best time to go is early evening after work for the kitchen and the first cocktail, or later on a Friday and Saturday when the bar runs to 3am. It opens at 9am daily and stays open to 1am most nights, stretching to 3am at the weekend.
A practical note: the street seating fills fast on a warm evening and for marquee matches, so an early arrival secures a spot. Hans-Sachs-Strasse sits minutes from Fraunhoferstrasse on the U1 and U2 lines, in the heart of the Glockenbach bar district.
For the wider field, our guide to the best after-work bars in Munich sets this all-day café-bar against the dedicated cocktail rooms nearby, and the Munich bar guide maps where to drink around Gärtnerplatz. Cocktail drinkers should read our pillar on the best cocktail bars in Munich, and travellers comparing rooms can scan the global after-work bars collection.
The long hours are the strategy. A room that opens at nine and closes at three has to be several things at once, and Sax leans into that rather than fighting it, a café by day and a late bar by night. The kitchen crossing four cuisines follows the same logic, a menu built to suit whoever walks in and whenever they arrive.
Sources: Falstaff, Café Sax, Munich; Yelp, Sax Essen & Trinken München (updated 2026); Tripadvisor, Cafe Sax, Munich; mux.de, Café Sax Glockenbachviertel.
