I’ve lost my heart in Heidelberg, as a famous German song goes – and rightly so, this pearl on the Neckar offers not only a picturesque old town, hordes of tourists and a world-class university, but also a culinary highlight: the restaurant oben im Kohlhof, high up on the Königstuhl in the Kohlhof, opened in 2017 with…
Bistronomic restaurants are seldom to be found in Germany – besides the meanwhile established and Michelin-starred Weinsinn and the Schaumahl in Offenbach along with some newer concepts in Berlin the German gastronomic ladder is missing some intermediate steps that could facilitate the climb-up, especially for younger and less experienced but interested diners.
Since September 2009 Munich has a new culinary hotspot: Innegrit Volkhardt, owner of the prestigious Hotel Bayerischer Hof immensely invested in the redesign of the former Garden restaurant and established a new Fine Dining restaurant called Atelier” and appointed Steffen Mezger, previously the chef the cuisine at the Garden restaurant, to lead both restaurants. Very…
Before I try to write about today’s German Fine Dining some comments on the history of Fine Dining in Germany are necessary. Why? Because it is hard to understand recent developments without knowing the roots. A Brief History of German Fine Dining (until WWII) German cuisine stands for a wide variety of very distinct regional…