The Viktualienmarkt is the central food market in Munich. When I lived for a decade close to Munich I lived in small towns outside the city - a good 30 minutes away by train or car - so rarely visited this market. Dragging small kids to the city centre was always a major undertaking!
It is centrally located a bit to the south of Marienplatz and Sankt Peters Dom (this is the cathederal and not the twin towered Frauenkirche). The photo above shows the altes Rathaus (old city hall) in the distance with its distinctive tower.
The market consists of both permanent structures with roofs and glass windows as well as more conventional market stalls. Some of the permanent structures have been in place for a very long time such as a row of butchers on the north side of the market.
When we lived in Bavaria we found that there were excellent choices of some things in supermarkets - e.g. different salad leaves - but some things like fresh coriander were almost never sold. Less common items could always be found at the Viktualienmarkt.
There are a large number of vegetable stands with a wide choice of both locally produced and more exotic imported items.
This stand specialised in mediterranean products such as olives, olive oil blanched garlic, chillies, etc.
Close to the altes Rathaus at the north end of the market there is a row of butchers. All but one seemed to be family businesses such as the two shown here. All seemed to be doing a good trade and it was refreshing to see that shoppers were not simply loading up a the supermarket.
A number of stands focused on sausages and cold cuts such as this permanent stand.
There were some excellent cheese stands such as this one which had a big variety of local alpine and rural cheeses as well as imports.
The only weak area of the market is fresh sea fish. This is perhaps not surprising when Munich is one of Europe's cities that is most remote from the sea. I did not check out the whole market but the only fish seller that I found was the permanent stand from NordSee which is a large fishmonger chain.
Having no means to store food on my trip, I was unfortunately just "window shopping"....
