Munich meets Naples: The "Casele" brings Italian flair to Glockenbach

The Editors, 26.05.2026

Sommelier Raffaele Colonna attempts an ambitious balancing act on the Isar, combining Neapolitan culinary tradition with the raw charm of a former butcher’s shop and a sharp sense of design.

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Munich being “Germany’s northernmost Italian city” is one of those clichés repeated so often that few stop to question it anymore. Usually, the phrase describes a polished version of dolce vita unfolding somewhere between Aperol Spritz and Maximilianstraße. But in Munich’s Glockenbach district — more precisely inside the former Schlagbauer butcher’s shop — that idea is being reinterpreted in a far rougher and more honest way.

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