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.
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.
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
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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