Dinner at 1-star Michelin Restaurant Steins Traube in Mainz, with Philipp and Alina Stein, Germany, 2022

Annette and I had dinner at Steins Traube, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Mainz-Finthen, in June 2022, with friends.

Chef Philipp Stein 

Philipp Stein was borne in Mainz, where his parents were the fifth generation to own and run the Steins Traube restaurant. In 2019, at the age of 29, Philipp and his wife Alina took over the family restaurant, after a period of renovation. Alina Stein manages the service in the Steins Traube restaurant. 

After working with Dirk Maus, at the Ente in Wiesbaden, with Dieter Müller and at Waldhotel Sonnora, in 2014, Philipp Srein took up his first position as head chef at the Favorite restaurant in Mainz. In the same year, he was awarded a Michelin star and became the youngest Michelin-starred chef in Germany in that year. Philipp and Alina Stein met at the Favorite restaurant, where Alina holding the position of restaurant manager. Since 2017 Philipp Stein he has been a regular television chef on the ARD program ARD-Buffet.

Michelin Guide Deutschland

Michelin Guide Deutschland: Philipp Stein represents the sixth generation at the helm of this restaurant. His ambitious cooking attaches great importance to the changing seasons. An example from the menu is the lukewarm-marinated cured veal tongue with cream of chives, pumpkin and toasted seeds. Smart, modern interior, a lovely courtyard and a really friendly junior chef at your service. 

Dinner 

You have a choice between à la carte, Menü Légère (Euro 80) and Menü Prestige (Euro 125). We all took the Menü Prestige and had 12 bottles of wine. There were 8 of us.

Dinner was outside, in the lovely courtyard of the restaurant. Because of noise restrictions, we moved inside to finish the dinner.

Menü Prestige

Fine de claire oysters #3

Baked curry prawn croustillant in kataifa dough

Carpaccio of dried water melon, imperial caviar, dill mayonnaise, olive, tomato, smoled almond

Ceviche of lake trout, coconut vinegar, coriander, shallot, sweet potatoe, coconut

Wild red prawns, marinated fennel, chanterelles, lovage, lobster jus

Crispy pork belly, octopus curry, dried apricot, pistachio, pepper

Sweetbreads, morel, wild mushroom, cream peas

Saddle of venison, macadamia crust, green asparagus, medlar, parsley root puree, pepper laurel jus, sauche riche

Blackberry mousse, biscuit base, violet, Bodenheimer milk ice cream, meringue, hibiscus

Food and Wine 

Outside

 

Inside

Bye-bye

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Dear wine friends,

It is just six weeks until the wine tour to the Bordeaux wine region starts. 

Hotel reservations for these tours need to be made well in advance - more than 6 months earlier. Since I never know how many singles and how many couples join the tours I always reserve enough rooms to accommodate every possibility. 

At this point I have one room left (single or double occupancy). I do have to cancel this room by August 17th to avoid penalty charges.

I would like to let my wine friends know about this fantastic tour. There might be someone out there who would like to jump on the unexpected opportunity to explore the Bordeaux wine region at the end of September. 

The tour starts in Bordeaux city. Our first day takes us to Château Haut-Bailly in the Graves region where we can look at the brand new chai finished during the Covid years, and to a merchant house where we learn about the system of the “place de Bordeaux”. After the first day, we move around to get the feel for the different subregions of Bordeaux. We stay two nights in breathtakingly beautiful Saint-Emilion, then visit a Château in the Entre-Deux-Mers region where the owner/winemaker - Marc Lurton - will giver us a thorough lecture on winemaking in Bordeaux; we head across the Garonne river to explore Sauterne, and go back to Bordeaux city for Friday and Saturday night. The Saturday we will spend in Puisseguin Saint-Émilion, one of the Saint-Émilion satellite regions, with a winemaker family and learn about biodynamic winemaking. Sunday we head out to the Bassin d’Arcachon where we learn about oyster breeding and harvesting, and of course we will have an oyster feast with some crisp Bordeaux white wines. After that we spend three nights in the Médoc area to explore Saint-Éstèphe, Pauillac, Saint-Julien, and Margaux. We will have three exceptional wine pairing lunches and dinners at famous Châteaux with the owners/winemakers/general managers, and will also visit a barrel production facility to learn how important it is to produce the right barrel with the right wood, and correct toasting to perfectly age the Bordeaux wine.

Don’t hesitate to call me at my US cell phone (I am currently home in McLean, VA) or send me an email with all questions who may have. If you are interested in the tour, I will send you the updated itinerary for the 2022 tour.

To sign up, and to register, simply go to the following website:  https://ombiasypr.com/index.php/wine-tours/bordeaux/bordeaux-registration

Cheers

Annette

Wine Tours - Wine Events - Wine Education

Annette Schiller, Diplom-Volkswirt

Washington DC - Frankfurt am Main

USA: +1 703 459 7513

GER: +49 -177 337 0281

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