The dairy house on Queen Street near the English Garden has had an eventful history since 1896. It used to be a tool shed and in the 1970s a meeting place for Schwabing clochards, “always unkempt and with a wonderful audience”, as the website so beautifully puts it. It was renovated in 2003 and has since been a pretty daytime café and beer garden with a purely organic range, which was fairly new at the beginning.
It was also unusual that the little house just gave up in October: It was moved by a crane by about 50 meters – so that a cellar could be built in the usual place. This was necessary because the storage space for the kiosk was no longer sufficient. The basement was finished a few weeks ago and the crane heaved the little house back to its old location at the end of April. Now it’s on sunny days when you literally have to climb over the densely packed sunbathing people in the park, one of the last oases of, well: peace (Milchhäusl, Königstraße 6, daily 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., telephone 45 24 84 30, www.milchhaeusl.bio).
Pop-up restaurant at Tegernsee
The future of a tourist restaurant for rich Munich residents on Lake Tegernsee is still very unclear: dem Three-star restaurant Überfahrt. After extremely strange behavior (“wonderful” would be decidedly too weak for it) of the previous chef Christian Jurgens became known, the Seehotel Überfahrt has separated from him.
Jürgens is now probably at the end of his career, my prediction is in the direction of a private chef in Qatar or with a Russian oligarch. At Tegernsee, the well-known Berlin crossover Asian jumps first The Duc Ngo a, with its upmarket fine dining pop-up restaurant, Le Duc. But that will hardly result in three stars, and since the hotel has not yet announced the end of the guest performance, one can assume that the search for a Jürgens successor is not yet over.
Maybe you’re waiting for a whole new kitchen star? For example, in the “Chef of the Year” competition, which is primarily aimed at top gastronomy. There is also a Munich player in the finals this year: Miguel Marques, Max Natmessnig’s sous-chef in the Alois von Dallmayr restaurant. He will compete in the final in Bonn on November 13, together with four other chefs and one chef from all over Germany (Le Duc at the Seehotel Überfahrt, Rottach-Egern, Überfahrtstraße 10, from June 20, Tuesday to Saturday 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., reservations by phone on 08022 66 90 and via the home page).