Country guide

Iconic restaurants
in Germany

A personal selection of 4 memorable dining rooms in Germany: places chosen for their architecture, history, atmosphere and enduring sense of place.

München, Germany

Augustiner Stammhaus

I selected it for its distinctive setting, atmosphere and sense of place.

View this place →Berlin, Germany

Lutter & Wegner am Gendarmenmarkt

I selected it for its distinctive setting, atmosphere and sense of place.

View this place →Leipzig, Germany

Auerbachs Keller

This is a rare union of literary myth, five centuries of hospitality and a genuinely monumental restaurant interior. The vast painted arches, dark timber and crowded tables of the Großer Keller make Leipzig’s most famous dining room both theatrical and unmistakably rooted in the city.

View this place →Bremen, Germany

Bremer Ratskeller

The historic hall has the scale, continuity and civic identity this collection demands. Eating beneath one of Europe’s great medieval town halls, beside monumental barrels made for the city’s wine trade, turns a regional meal into an encounter with Hanseatic history.

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