A basement bar without daylight has a hard time in the summer. You have to offer something to survive. Restaurant Mun on Innere Wiener Straße has managed to do this pretty well over the past seven years with Korean-Asian fusion cuisine. But now it is hoping to make another leap forward with its new beer garden outside the entrance door. It stands out from the usual Euro pallet monotony and is more reminiscent of a temple of Asian food culture. You even eat on white tablecloths. And from next Tuesday there will also be a new summer menu, with a “best of” from the kitchen of master Moon Kim: with sushi, fish and meat dishes. Also new and a special feature is the Korean BBQ with twelve different side dishes based on the tapas principle and rice to a main course – ribeye steak, chicken, black cod or portobello mushroom – at prices between 45 and 55 euros per person. (Restaurant Mun, Innere Wiener Straße 18, Tuesday to Thursday 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., Friday/Saturday 6 p.m. to midnight, telephone 089-62809520, www.munrestaurant.de).
The idea of what constitutes trendy Japanese cuisine has been shaped worldwide since 2002 by the German chef Rainer Becker – with his London restaurant Zumawhich he expanded into a chain of 24 restaurants. Many of his dishes have now become the standard for Asian fusion cuisine. He explained the ideas behind them in March to SZ colleague Sarah Maderer in a detailed interview. Since last Saturday, the dishes can be tasted during a three-month guest appearance in the five-star hotel The Charles In addition to sushi variations, the inevitable “black cod” in magnolia leaf – black cod seems to be the schnitzel of Asia – there is also Japanese Wagyu beef from the Robata charcoal grill, all of very high quality. And the house music plays along (Zuma Summer Residency at Sophia’s, Hotel The Charles, menu: 140 or 200 euros, Sophienstraße 28, until 31 August, daily 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., telephone 089/5445551211, www.roccofortehotels.com/en).
The wine merchant Garibaldi celebrates its traditional House & Court Summer Festival in the Milbertshofen headquarters, twelve winemakers from Italy, France, Austria and Germany are taking part and presenting their wines (Garibaldi Haus & Hof, Frohschammerstraße 14, Sunday, 9 June, 2-7 p.m., admission: 30 euros, www.garibaldi.de).