Every Thursday the light goes on in the small Giesinger corner bar called “Weinstube”. Not only does it look like it belongs to the restaurant next door. When the previous tenants gave notice, the “Dantler” restaurateurs secured the neighboring shop with the beautiful, large arched window and opened the “Weinstube” there last autumn nor menus. Of course, that’s not so accessible to everyone,” says Maximilian Süber, who runs the upscale restaurant together with Jochen Kreppel. “We want to have something here again where the neighbors can stop by, just for a glass of wine and a snack.”
The “Dantler” is an upscale restaurant where creative dishes meet sophisticated wine pairings. Without white tablecloths and without attitude – but not everyone can treat themselves to a menu evening with wine accompaniment. The “Dantler” has meanwhile grown up; It used to be the wild “Upper Eat Side”, with changing small dishes that the guest could put together individually. Today’s “Dantler” certainly has a similar atmosphere, but the menus are the same. And the “Weinstube” should now be there for more informal gatherings.
The small room behind the huge shop window has a few seats at the central bar and those on the walls around it. Few, but that’s what makes it so charming. The stairs next to the bar lead up to a small hallway, which leads to a cozy room with armchairs and sofas next to the toilet. It looks like the living room of a small, pretty old building. Almost an invitation to put your feet up here and drink a good glass of wine with friends.
In addition to the advantage that the “Weinstube” is “more accessible,” says Süber, there is also the fact that they can experiment wilder here again. The wines in the “Dantler” next door have to match the food. In the “Weinstube”, however, the craziest things can be offered.
A Pétillant Naturel “Ordinaire” from Burgenland, for example (0.1 for 9 euros), a still fermenting wine in sparkling wine bottles, hot number from the natural wines series at the moment, tastes tingly and yet cloudy-dry, with little alcohol. “Wouldn’t be my thing at all,” says the companion and sticks to the Riesling, later to a Pinot Blanc, both excellent drinking wines for 7 euros each.
As cozy as in the living room: The “Weinstube” makes you want a good glass.
(Photo: Mark Siaulys Pfeiffer)
Even non-wine drinkers will find a drink of their choice.
(Photo: Mark Siaulys Pfeiffer)
Butter bread is not just butter bread – in the wine bar it also looks more upscale.
(Photo: Mark Siaulys Pfeiffer)
Everything is possible, nothing is neccesary. For example, if you don’t feel like drinking wine but still want to experiment, you can try Orca Brau’s “Carrot Cake” Indian Pale Ale (0.33 for 6 euros), which, as the name suggests, tastes like carrots. The basis for the ever-changing liquid taste experiences is sandwiches in “Dantler” style: Poltinger lake trout, lightly marinated, horseradish, fresh herbs on top, and grilled cheese. We try shaved Comté with grapes, “that’s bread for twelve euros,” says the companion cheekily, but of course the quality is a little different than at the to-go bakery.
The food changes too, last week there were gourmet tacos, straight kimchi grilled cheese sandwiches. In addition, a spacious terrace has recently been added to the nice Herzogstandstrasse. The “Weinstube” is still operating as a kind of weekly Thursday pop-up. Soon she will get more opening days. The neighborhood will be happy.
Weinstube GiesingWerinherstraße 15, 81541 Munich, telephone: 089/75979785, opening hours: Thursday from 6.30 p.m. to midnight.