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Bagutta Pizza Culture – Pizza and Pasta at the Airport – My Tasty Tour (#biancastastytour) at Munich Airport is in full swing. This time I was at Bagutta. Bagutta (pronounced: bagutta), like the one next door, belongs to Mangostin Airport,...to the renowned Kuffler restaurant in Munich. I must admit I was particularly looking forward to this review. Why? Firstly, because I had already set my sights on the bagutta when I was testing at Mangostin, and secondly, because I'm a big fan of Italian cuisine. Now the time had come.

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Space for large groups at the tables

What can you expect at Bagutta Pizza Culture?

At Bagutta, you can enjoy delicious Italian pizza and pasta at tables of varying sizes, in cozy booths, and at long communal tables that seat up to 14 people. The name "Bagutta Pizza Culture" clearly reflects the restaurant's focus: fantastic Italian pizzas. However, the restaurant is committed to high-quality ingredients, always fresh and prepared with care. Salads, soups, and other dishes are also available. The open layout, allowing you to watch the pizza chefs shaping and topping the pizzas, along with the many thoughtful details throughout the restaurant, make Bagutta a cozy hotspot for Italian food lovers.

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My table

Food offer and selection

Bagutta's menus consist of a regular standard menu and a monthly changing "specials" menu. There's also a daily special. On my visit, for example, it would have been "Penne Pesto Rosso" with red tomato pesto and buffalo mozzarella (for €11.90). Personally, though, I was much more drawn to the "White Pizza" category on the standard menu. Bagutta's "White Pizza" is well-known far beyond Munich Airport. It forgoes tomato sauce as the pizza base and uses other, lighter, and healthier ingredients.

But back to the full menu: The aforementioned specials menu showcases new highlights each month. The Bagutta team places great importance on clearly demonstrating to you, their guest, that flexibility and individuality play a major role both on the menu and throughout the entire restaurant. Modern cuisine, reinterpreted and always featuring fantastic new ingredients. For example, on the current specials menu you'll find the "Pizza Luce Del Sole" with avocado cream, mozzarella, mountain cheese, Parma ham, and pineapple (€13.50) or the "Insalata Americana" with fried shrimp, sweetcorn, giant tomatoes, and various leafy greens (€11.90). Pasta dishes, desserts, and the cocktail of the month are also featured.

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homemade redberry iced tea

The standard menu also includes a section for the Bagutta breakfast. This is divided into three set breakfasts (from €6.90), as well as a white sausage or Vienna sausage breakfast with original Kuffler sausages (from €8.90 and €6.90, respectively). Extras such as fruit salad, honey, scrambled eggs, croissants, muesli, or fresh orange juice are available for between €1.00 and €4.50. This already demonstrates a fair pricing policy. The same applies to the focaccias, appetizers, salads, soups, (vegetarian) pasta, the numerous different pizzas, and the desserts. The selection is generous, varied, and creative. For example, pasta (from €9.80) is available in classic versions with Bolognese or "alla Carbonara," as well as variations with, for example, shrimp, cherry tomatoes, arugula, and olives (for €14.50). Also worth mentioning: The pasta used in these dishes also comes from Italy, and they spent a long time perfecting the right noodle for the bagutta. Now you can enjoy top quality Italian pasta in every dish.

As the name "bagutta pizza culture" suggests, the selection of different pizzas is naturally the most extensive. A total of 24 different options are available in this category. From the aforementioned white pizzas (each €11.90), to classic (from €10.90) or vegetarian (from €6.90), to creative and specialty pizzas, there's something for everyone. The pizzas are larger than average, nice and thin, not too crispy, and generously topped. How do I know this? Well, because I simply couldn't resist trying one of these pizzas in a restaurant like bagutta. So, based on the recommendation of a friend and even the waiter, I opted for the white "Avocado" pizza with avocado cream, mozzarella, leek strips, and fresh mushrooms (€11.90), as well as a homemade "Redberry" iced tea (0.4l for €4.30).

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White pizza with avocado, mushrooms and leek strips

Review of the food and service

My pizza was served incredibly fast. I could even watch it being made through the glass windows from my table. Less than 13 minutes passed and I had my pizza. Even if you have to wait a minute or two longer, it's no problem, as the paper placemats have little mini-games printed on them that you can play while you wait. The moment it was placed on my table, I knew: this is great value for money! Under €12 for such a delicious pizza – that's fantastic.

The employee who brought me my pizza, along with homemade iced tea, was very friendly and attentive. Throughout the restaurant, empty plates were cleared quickly, every guest was served politely, and staff were happy to answer any questions. Friendly service is, and increasingly so, the be-all and end-all of good gastronomy. Of course, this also includes delicious food. And that was definitely what I had in front of me. My pizza, larger than the pizza plate, smelled of fresh mushrooms and leeks, had high-quality ingredients, and offered an appetizing crunch when I first cut into the thin crust. Delicious. Everyone eats pizza differently. Some people keep cutting off small forkfuls until the very end, others cut the pizza into larger pieces and grab them with their hands, and some even fold the pizza in half before cutting. I initially ate my baguette pizza piece by piece, but since the crust extended beyond the plate, cutting it was a bit tricky, so I cut myself individual, manageable pieces.

The taste was perfect. Nice and thin – neither too soft or soggy in the middle – you know how pizzas get thinner and soggy towards the center – nor too crispy or dark at the edges. According to manager Jürgen Halwachs, they experimented extensively with the pizzas at Bagutta until the cheese – made especially for Bagutta – from Italy was exactly what it should be for the perfect Bagutta pizza. Nice and soft, warm, and maintaining its consistency right to the last bite. My pizza was also topped with plenty of fresh mushrooms and leeks. In the end, I had a real struggle with the portion and had to give up a small piece. All in all: absolutely top-notch.

View of the bagutta from the stairs

Ambience

I'd like to elaborate on the ambiance and the resulting atmosphere. Thanks to its location, Bagutta feels exceptionally open and spacious, offering a wide, unobstructed view across the entire floor. I dislike cramped spaces, so I felt all the more comfortable and at ease here. Many details contribute to making Bagutta an ideal place to relax and unwind. For example, there are three lounge boxes with purple benches (see photos), perfect for enjoying food and drinks in a cozy and private setting. The restaurant's tables are truly unique, brought to Munich from Paris by the Kuffler family. Above the screened-off kitchen area, a screen silently plays classic Italian black-and-white films. Fresh herbs adorn the tables, cutlery and place settings are already laid out, and overall, Bagutta exudes a wonderful ambiance.

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The restaurant

Key facts and personal conclusion

Bagutta, with its 28 tables seating 200 people, is open daily from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Hot food is served until 9:00 PM. It gets quite busy at lunchtime on weekdays, and again from around 7:00 PM onwards – but you can always find a spot. As with other restaurants, since Mangostin Airport and Bagutta are both owned and operated by Kuffler, you can order anything on the Mangostin menu at Bagutta and vice versa (see the Mangostin Airport article – linked above). Card payments are accepted, and you get three hours of free parking with a minimum spend of €20. Reservations are recommended for larger groups. Breakfast is normally served until 10:30 AM, but you can also request it later.

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The lounge boxes

I would eat at Bagutta again anytime. Their white pizzas, in particular, ensure you don't feel overly stuffed afterward. Bagutta also refreshingly demonstrates that the stereotype of "airports = impersonal, expensive restaurants" is completely misplaced. While they do fill you up, you avoid that unpleasant feeling of being bloated at the end. The restaurant and its team are open to compromises and individual requests. Here, you receive friendly service and get incredibly filling meals at fair prices, attractively presented and freshly prepared. Bagutta definitely deserves a thumbs up.

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Place visited: bagutta pizza culture
Address: Munich Airport, Terminalstrasse East 2, 85356 Munich
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