Restaurants in Munich: When Sophia’s becomes Florio – Munich

In the Sophia’sthe restaurant of the luxury hotel The Charles at the Old Botanical Garden, there has been a lot of movement recently. In the summer months, a pop-up from the international Japanese restaurant chain Zuma took place there. The previous autumn, chef Michael Hüsken moved to Café Luitpold after eight years. And at the beginning of last year, Fulvio Pierangelini, the chief culinary director of the Rocco Forte hotel group, was brought from Sicily to the sister restaurant in Munich for a guest appearance.

At that point, they were already looking for a successor restaurant to Sophia’s, says Florian Steinmaier, hotel director of the Charles. The concept was simply not tangible. In addition, the pressure on the Munich market has increased: “With the Rosewood and the Königshof we have two new competitors who don’t sleep either and have spurred us on accordingly,” explains Steinmaier.

Fulvio Pierangelini’s dishes were so well received by the Munich public in spring 2023 that his restaurant concept is now being developed Florio which has permanently replaced Sophia’s. After Palermo and Rome, it is the first Florio location outside of Italy and the third within the Rocco Forte Group. Now the line of his hotel restaurant is very clear, says Steinmaier: “Everything is 100 percent Italian.”

Even the new head chef at Munich’s Florio, Alberto Brandolin, is Italian and implements Pierangelini’s recipes according to his instructions. You can’t get away cheaply. The starters range between 24 and 39 euros, the main courses between 25 and 59 euros. But the guests who afford dinner in a five-star hotel are not “price-sensitive” anyway, says Steinmaier. The pumpkin ravioli with truffles and parmesan (30 euros) are really a poem (Florio at The Charles HotelSophienstraße 28, daily from 12 to 2.30 p.m. and from 6 to 11 p.m., telephone 089/5445551200).

That too Tivu on Rumfordstrasse is making a new start. After the brothers Thi and Vu Nguyen, who are also responsible for Brasserie Thi in the old town, had to close Tivu at the beginning of July due to a cable fire in the kitchen, they used the weeks of repair work to make small adjustments to the menu. Instead of Vietnamese tapas, they now want to offer Asian tapas with Vietnamese aromas – if only for this reason, explains chef Thi Nguyen, so that he no longer has to justify himself to the supposed Vietnam connoisseurs among his guests when he uses yuzu instead of lime. The reopening will be celebrated on Friday evening (TivuRumfordstrasse 14, Monday to Thursday 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday until 11 p.m., telephone 089/37919576).

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