It is intended to be a foretaste of what Munich awaits in the near future: With the pop-up restaurant "Jan", Jan Hartwig has been serving the finest haute cuisine since the beginning of February in the premises of Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg in Munich.

Guests are offered a seven-course menu that is put together daily by the star chef.

"The beautiful setting with the traditional castle and the manufactory park immediately appealed to me," says Hartwig.

Just last summer, the rooms of Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg were equipped with a show kitchen. The restaurant pop-up offers space for 16 people, who will also be able to talk directly to the star chef five days a week. "The guest should have the feeling that he is at my house," says the three-star chef.

The restaurant of the same name in Munich is to follow in early summer, which, like the pop-up, could become a gastronomic highlight.

Hartwig, who was born in Lower Saxony, received his first Michelin star just six months after his engagement in the “Atelier” of the Bayerischer Hof in May 2014, followed a year later by the second, which he received in 2016 could defend.

In November 2017, the restaurant was awarded three Michelin stars for the first time.

A fresh start in the adopted country

Previously, only two chefs had been able to cook the

trois étoiles

in Munich . In 1980, it was Eckart Witzigmann who was the first chef in Germany to receive the award with his restaurant Aubergine on Munich's Maximiliansplatz. In 1981, the Italian chef Heinz Winkler, who succeeded Witzigmann, was honored with three stars in the “Tantris” restaurant. Since the Michelin Guide is evaluated annually, Munich had not been home to a three-star restaurant for 23 years before Hartwig received the award in the "Atelier".

In the summer of 2021, the thirty-nine-year-old finally left Munich's culinary institution after seven years in order to start his own business after a short creative break.

Sommelier Jochen Benz and most of Hartwig's chefs at the Bayerischer Hof have joined him for this fresh start.

And that is apparently already happening with the pop-up in the Nymphenburg building: Within a few days, the restaurant is fully booked up to and including April 15th, i.e. almost two and a half months in advance.

Incidentally, just one floor above the coveted restaurant, the Nymphenburg dinner plates that go with the menu are made by hand: the “Lightscape” porcelain collection inspired by paper models by Argentinian designer Ruth Gurvich, the Adonis series by German architect Wolfgang von Wersin and the mussel shells by Ted Muehling, who has been designing for Nymphenburg since 1999 and has received several awards.

According to Jan Hartwig, the combination of haute cuisine and porcelain is a successful liaison: "A beautiful plate, a hand-painted bowl or a sauce boat add even more value to my dishes."

Pop-up restaurant "Jan", menu per person 285 euros, Nördliches Schlossrondell 8, open from Monday to Friday from 5.30 p.m., also on weekends on request.

Reservations only online at: https://www.nymphenburg.com/pages/restaurant-jan