Munich no longer has a three-star restaurant. On Wednesday afternoon, the gourmet guide Michelin announced its new star rating for Germany in Hamburg. There were no major surprises for Munich, and the loss of the three stars for the Atelier restaurant in the Bayerischer Hof was also to be expected. After all, the head chef Jan Hartwig left the house with almost the entire team in the summer of last year, his new restaurant Jan is still in the making and is scheduled to open in early summer.
From this point of view, it is already a mature achievement that his successor in the studio, Anton Gschwendtner, was awarded two stars under difficult corona conditions and after only four months. Even if he had already received it in his previous position as head chef at the Olivo restaurant in Stuttgart at the beginning of 2021. So Gschwendtner knows how to do it.
But Munich has four other two-star restaurants. Above all, the new Tantris, where Benjamin Chmura and his team were also awarded two stars right from the start. His kitchen probably also has the potential for three stars, but the testers of the gourmet bible always take their time with the highest award, so a chef has to prove himself for longer than a few corona months. Good news for Tantris, which is now called “Maison Culinaire”, i.e. “culinary house”: The second restaurant in the same building, Tantris DNA, was also awarded a star.
The newcomer in Tantris: Benjamin Chmura.
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
Michelin also awarded two stars to Tohru in the writing of Tohru Nakamura. The other two in the two-person league are old friends: Bobby Bräuer’s dining room in the BMW World and Alois in the Dallmayr delicatessen. Its chef Christoph Kunz recently announced his departure for the summer.
Last year, Les Deux also received two stars for the first time. Bitter for the restaurant: after saying goodbye to chef Edip Sigl, it lost one of them again. Nathalie Leblond and Gregor Goncharov, who replaces him, were only awarded one star. There was also a star for Sigi Schelling and her Werneckhof (she was previously sous-boss of Hans Haas in Tantris).
The other restaurants with one star are the Sparkling Bistro (Jürgen Wolfsgruber), the Mural (Joshua Leise), the Showroom (Dominik Käppeler), the Schwarzreiter (Hannes Reckziegel), the Tian (Viktor Gerhardinger), the Acquarello (Mario Gamba) and the fork game (Florian Berger).
But there is still a surprise: Because the Michelin also awarded a star to the Mountain Hub Gourmet and its chef Stefan Barnhusen. This is the Hilton Hotel’s fine dining restaurant at the airport. It is located almost exactly on the border of the district of Erding with the district of Freising and is therefore far away from the Munich city area. The Michelin reviewers probably just couldn’t imagine that the airport was so far out of town.