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This time, we have Stephan Eberhard, the kitchen director of the legendary Hotel Adlon Kempinski, and renowned chef Josef Viehhauser teaming up with Olaf Böhlke from Restaurant Maison Blanche in Kreuzberg to create a remarkable dish. Additionally, Andy Saul, a Michelin-starred chef, and Tim Tanneberger from theNOname restaurant will be part of the festivities. Tim will be receiving his first Michelin star this year. The gala will feature esteemed wineries, including Prof. Dr. Georg Prinz zur Lippe, owner of VDP.Estate Schloss Proschwitz in Meissen, talented winemaker Matthias Hey (VDP), and the remarkable VDP.Estate Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt. We have a cherished tradition of presenting awards at the closing gala. One of them is the “Promotion of the Gourmet Culture” award, which has been bestowed Ramona Pop, Herbert Beltle, Anja and Carsten Schmidt, Alexander Dressel, Bernd Matthies, Gesumino Pireddu, Guido Wegner, Michael Hoffmann, Ingrid and Karl Wannemacher, and Sonja Moor. Additionally, we will announce the winner of the “Audience Award,” where festival attendees vote for their favorite event using our app. Previous winners include Stefan Hartmann, Katja Grünebaum, Cynthia Barcomi, Regina Vogt, Sonja Frühsammer and Felicitas Then, Markus Herbicht, Anja Antonowicz and Alexander Dressel, Bini Lee and José Miranda Morillo, and Florian Glauert.

But the absolute highlight of the evening is the presentation of the prestigious “Lifetime Achievement” award. Past winners have included Eckart Witzigmann, Wolfram Siebeck, Alfred Biolek, Gianni van Daalen, Harald Wohlfahrt, Wilhelm Weil, Thomas H. Althoff, Jürgen Dollase, Jörg Wörther, Léa Linster, and Hans Haas. We are eagerly anticipating fresh oysters from Transgourmet, Imperial caviar, VDP.Prestige sparkling wine, and the delightful and entertaining hosting by Daniel Finger and Sven Oswald. We can’t wait to see you there!

• Su. 12.11.
• 6-course menu with accompanying wines
• AXICA Kongress- und Tagungszentrum
• Pariser Platz 3 | 10117 Berlin
• Admission: 5.30 pm | Start: 6.00 pm
• 179,-

Our Levant Casual Fine Dining Breakfast

Here we start with champagne as aperitif, then Shay Dagmi prepares delicacies from the variety of oriental cuisine such as oysters with lemon and harissa oil, lachuch with salmon and caviar, baklava French toast, and much more. Decide quickly, there are only twenty seats.

• Su. 12.11.
• Gourmet breakfast with champagne aperitif
• Penthouse im Precise Tale, Berlin Potsdamer Platz
• Stresemannstraße 95 | 10963 Berlin
• Admission: 11 am | Start: 11.30 am
• 109,-

Veggie at Tierpark

We are unsure about how nice Frederick the first was but we have to thank him for the name Charlottenburg and Charlottenburg Palace. After the death of his wife Sophie-Charlotte of Hanover, he had everything renamed in her honor. The King of Prussia, who once started his career as Elector Frederick the third of Brandenburg, achieved a lot and created the basis for a strong empire. However, the Friedrichsfelde Palace was originally called the Rosenfelde Palace and belonged to Benjamin Raule, Brandenburg’s director of the navy. He came from a Dutch merchant family but made a name for himself as a privateer and colonialist. Presumably, he was not a nice person. Raule fell out of favor with the king and was imprisoned and expropriated. Thus, the Rosenfelde Palace became the Friedrichsfelde Palace. In 1954, the Tierpark was founded and the Friedrichsfelde Palace served as its headquarters. During the GDR period, the palace increasingly deteriorated and was to be demolished. Due to the persistent intervention of the then Tierpark‘s director Heinrich Dathe, the castle was renovated between 1971 and 1981.

During this event, the great chef Andy Saul * from the restaurant Bandol sur Mer in Berlin-Mitte is cooking for us. In addition, we were able to get Frank Schreiber (16 points in Gault&Millau, 2006 Master Chef) to travel from the Hotel Goldener Hahn in Finsterwalde to Berlin to cook for us. As the alliance’s third member, you’ll be introduced to a new and completely fresh talent: Nikodemus Berger, the chef of the vegetarian cocktail bistro Bonvivant in Schöneberg. He has already been nominated as Berlin’s master chef in the bar culture category. Obviously, the very word cocktail opens a door. Go there, it’s an ordinary and exceptionally good restaurant.

The winemaker of the evening is Stefan Lergenmüller, who has been a friend of festival founder Bernhard Moser for a long time. He is part of the Lergenmüller family of winemakers from the Palatinate and caused a sensation with the purchase of the traditional winery of the Reinhartshausen Palace in the Rheingau. Here, he cultivates the top vineyards in a traditional and subtle manner and thus manages not only to continue the estate’s high-quality tradition but even to develop it further. In addition, he makes extremely exciting wines on the island of Mariannenaue, which at first glance have little to do with the tradition of this region. For example, the orange wine “Verschollen”, which is one of the best of its kind we have ever had. In addition, Stefan Lergenmüller is the owner of the Clüsserath-Eifel winery in Trittenheim, which also owns wines at the top site “Apotheke”. Moreover, the friendly top winemaker can draw on many different wines to accompany this evening for us.

• Su. 30.10.
• Day ticket for Tierpark Berlin, 5-course-menu with accompanying wines
• Tierpark
• Am Tierpark 125 | 10319 Berlin
• Visit the Tierpark at will | Meeting place: 7.00 pm Schloss Friedrichsfelde
• 189,-