Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich

What the classifiers highlight

Opened in 1858 on Maximilianstrasse, between Bulgari and a run of Hermès, Dior and Cartier windows, this address puts photographs of Alte Pinakothek paintings on guest room walls and ceilings, a stray Rubens or van Dyck included. Forbes counts 230 rooms and 65 suites, and singles out Schwarzreiter's Bavarian menu, pork cheeks with chestnut celery, duck with red cabbage.