Café Puck - Türkenstr. 33, 80799 Munich, Germany
Puck is pretty studenty, but the students around here are dead trendy. Not really a place to meet new people, because it's cliquey and although usually busy it never seems to be really full. Perhaps that is an illusion created by generous table spacing, but compare it to Sausalitos across the street and see what I mean.
The bar at the back is a little more dark and secretive than the open plan front room and it does have a feeling of conspiracy or something about it. A starting point for a night out or somewhere to kickback and chill out midweek.
Review © 2001 Christopher Larmour & Damien Fournier, Groovy Munich
Went here for dinner. All the tables in use on a Wednesday evening. Service was decent and the food was very good. Cafe Puck now offers wireless LAN and DSL connections for free with your own laptop.
Posted by: "Show'Em" at 9:23 pm on 28.Jan.2004Great place! We hold the Munich4Kerry meetups in the back area. They are very accomodating and the food is good with an eclectic menu. You will find something you like and for once there is no schweinebraten mit knödel in a German place - a nice change!
Posted by: "Jeffrey Ely" at 11:21 am on 7.Oct.2004Isn't this where Hitler used to hang out? Odd choice for Munich4Kerry meetings...
Posted by: "Patently Obvious" at 12:17 pm on 8.Oct.2004Geeze! It seems like every cocktail house, coffee house, out house, and dog house in the whole of Munich was once a place where Hitler used to hang out. Get over it!
Posted by: "Churchill" at 12:22 pm on 8.Oct.2004Cafe Puck is the site of the former Allotria, a famous Jazz place which died with all the other great jazz clubs in Munich --Domizil, Cadillac, Gaenzebluemschen. The hip thing to do in the 60's was to go to Sunday morning jazz sessions. I like the idea that Puck's is still packed late Sunday mornings. You can see some pictures of the old days in Allotria at this site, which I found through Google: http://www.dr-jazz.net/jazz1/
Posted by: pink jello at 12:15 am on 19.Oct.2004We were there the other day and I have to say I found it really terrible, apart from the food. Because there were no tables (of course) we had to sit at the counter. After a few minutes I realized that the cigarette smell was especially strong, even for a German restaurant, and found out that the waitress had left her burning cigarette right next to the bar where people were eating. Very nice. After she didn't come back for awhile, we just put it out. We waited for some time, and finally had to beg a waitress to take our order, which is getting really tiresome - I like to go out to eat but I don't see why I should have to go out of my way in order to, well, give someone money. The best service we received at a restaurant in Schwabing was in a small Pakistani restaurant - the waiters there were fabulous.
Posted by: "Lisa" at 6:10 pm on 23.Oct.2004a good munich cafe, buzzy atmosphere, a menu that doesn't excite too much, but differs from the standard boring munich fare a little.
Posted by: "the mongrel" at 12:23 pm on 13.Feb.2006Unfortunately, Cafe Puck no longer offer free wireless internet, now electing to charge €2 for one hour or €4 for one day. Doesn't appear to have impacted upon the number of people hunched over laptops down the back much. I enjoy their New York BLT, generous portions of smoked salmon and bacon, a crisp salad, served on a toasted bagel slathered in cream cheese. Service has gotten slower of late.
Posted by: Punchbear at 5:13 pm on 12.Mar.2008
