• Come in the morning, when the market is quieter; the food stalls and beer garden get crowded around lunchtime
• Picnics welcome in the beer garden, where food from home is allowed as long as you buy your drinks there
• Scooters and bikes are walked, not ridden, across the market grounds, and dogs stay on a leash

Viktualienmarkt is the Old Town's open-air food market, with more than 100 stalls selling fruit, cheese, bread, honey and flowers around a blue-and-white maypole.

Kids can snack their way through the stalls, spot the six statue fountains of Munich comedians and folk singers, and sit in the central beer garden, where families may bring their own food.