The new restaurant of the three-star chef Jan Hartwig is simply called “Jan”. In August of this year he left the Bayerischer Hof’s studio to set up his own business – now he has also found a new restaurant in a prime location. Not far from Königsplatz, at Luisenstraße 27, his own restaurant Jan is to open in the early summer of 2022, just like him SZ betrayed. In the past few years, the so-called “Rhaetenhaus”, named after a student union that is also based there, housed pop-up restaurants from the Enchilada restaurant chain and a branch of the Grill & Grace steak house. Now it should be a star restaurant. The renovation should start soon. “I would prefer to open in May,” says Hartwig, “but that is not yet certain because there are also delivery bottlenecks for the tradespeople. That is why I prefer to count on early summer.”
Address Luisenstraße 27 – the new restaurant is to open here in the Rhaetenhaus.
(Photo: Catherina Hess)
Nevertheless, fans of his kitchen don’t have to wait six months until the 39-year-old top chef is back at the stove for them. Because he wants to temporarily open his own pop-up restaurant as early as mid-January, “provided there is no new lockdown for gastronomy, of course”. He does not want to reveal the location at the moment, “because not all permits have been given yet”. It is, however, quite exclusive, but there has not yet been any star cuisine there. Here Hartwig wants to give a foretaste of what his guests can expect in the new January. And it also has the advantage that the new kitchen team can familiarize themselves with it and prepare for the new tasks.
In 2017 Hartwig was crowned a three-star chef
Jan Hartwig left the Bayerischer Hof in the summer after seven very successful years to take a “creative break” and then go into business for himself. Born and raised in Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, he worked after his apprenticeship with the later three-star chefs Christian Jürgens, Klaus Erfort and Sven Elverfeld, in whose Aqua restaurant in Wolfsburg he was sous-chef for five years before moving to Munich in 2014 changed the Bavarian court. Its gourmet restaurant Atelier had one star in the Michelin guide at the time, but Hartwig had already got the second star in the second year. The coronation followed in 2017, with three stars Jan Hartwig was now one of only ten German chefs in this category.
In the summer he decided to start his own business – a decision that two other three-star chefs had made in Munich before him: Eckart Witzigmann with his Aubergine restaurant and Heinz Winkler with the Heinz Winkler residence near Aschau im Chiemgau. Both had left the Tantris, their previous place of work, and worked from then on on their own account.