Restaurant Schanz in Piesport, Mosel: Germany`s Newest 3-Star Michelin Restaurant - Dining there on the 2017 Germany-North ombiasy WineTour

Pictures: 3-star Michelin Chef Thomas Schanz with 3 Michelin Stars and with Christian Schiller

Currently, Germany has nine 3-star Michelin restaurants. The newest is Restaurant Schanz in Piesport in the Mosel Valley. It was promoted from 2-star Michelin restaurant to the elite club of 3-star Michelin restaurant in the Michelin Restaurant Guide Deutschland 2022, which was released in early 2022. 

Michelin Restaurant Guide Deutschland 2022: The pleasing modern approach reflected in the smart minimalist-style interior is also apparent in Thomas Schanz’s fresh cuisine, which is strong on flavour and product quality. All served with wines from his parents’ vineyard.

At the same time, one restaurant lost the third star, Restaurant Vendôme, the elegant fine dining restaurant of the luxurious Althoff Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg in Bergisch-Gladbach. 

As a result, the total of 3-star Michelin restaurants remains at 9 in Germany.

• Berlin: Rutz
• Baiersbronn: Restaurant Bareiss
• Baiersbronn: Schwarzwaldstube
• Rottach-Egern: Restaurant Überfahrt Christian Jürgens
• Hamburg: The Table Kevin Fehling
• Wolfsburg: Aqua
• Dreis: Waldhotel Sonnora
• Piesport: Schanz
• Perl: Victor's Fine Dining by Christian Bau

On a recent ombiasy wine tour to the Mosel, the group had lunch there. I am re-issuing the posting I released after the lunch.

 

Dinner at Restaurant Schanz, 2 Stars Michelin, Piesport, Mosel – Germany-North Tour 2017 by ombiasy WineTours

This was a busy day: We started in the Ahr Valley, visited the world class producers Weingut Markus Molitor, Weingut Immich-Batterieberg and Weingut Fritz Haag in the Mosel Valley, ended at a world class restaurant: Restaurant Schanz, 2 stars Michelin, in Piesport.

Pictures: Piesport

Restaurant Schanz

The Schanz family in Piesport are winemakers. Besides their winery they also opened a small guesthouse and a wine tavern. In the meantime the guesthouse became a modern, state of the art hotel, and the tavern a 2 Michelin star restaurant. Son Thomas Schanz had ambitions. He trained with top 3 Michelin star chefs and soon enough he received his first Michelin star. In 2016 he was awarded the second Michelin star.

Pictures: Hotel and Restaurant Schanz

Michelin: Thomas Schanz hat seinen Stil: aufwändig und exakt, kontrastreich und zugleich harmonisch interpretiert er klassische Küche auf moderne Art. Die Zutaten nur vom Feinsten. Sie mögen Wein? Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf regionalen und natürlich auch auf eigenen Weinen. Ebenso niveauvoll: Ambiente und Service.

Thomas Schanz

After training at the Hotel Traube Tonbach in Baiersbronn (3 stars Michelin) in 1999, Thomas Schanz moved in 2003 to the Alte Kelterhaus in Wintrich and to the 3 star Michelin Restaurant Gästehaus Erfort by Klaus Erfort in Saarbrücken. From 2005 to 2011 he was sous chef at the Waldhotel Sonnora with Helmut Thieltges in Dreis (3 stars Michelin).

Since August 2011 he is the Owner and Chef of Restaurant Schanz in Piesport.

2011: Opening of Restaurant Schanz
2012: First Michelin star
2015: Second Michelin star

Picture: Chef Thomas Schanz and Christian Schiller

The Dinner

Menu

Brot

Grüsse von der Küche

Grüsse von der Küche

Grüsse von der Küche

Gänseleber Crostini mit Dörrobst, Haselnuss und Cremeeis

Warm Marinierter Schwertfisch

Hunsrücker Rehrücken

Geeistes Tartelette

Grüsse aus der Küche

Grüsse aus der Küche

The Wines

The four of us had 3 bottles of wine, from the Mosel and Bordeaux.

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