Hotel Bayerischer Hof Promenadeplatz 2-6 PO Box 100 253 Tel. +49 89.21 20-0 www.bayerischerhof.de D-80333 Munich 80076 Munich Fax +49 89.2120-906 [email protected]

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OUTSTANDING! – THIRD MICHELIN STAR FOR JAN HARTWIG AND THE RESTAURANT ATELIER

Michelin star for Munich, 14 November 2017. The Michelin hotel and restaurant guide has been Hotel Bayerischer Hof awarded a third star to the restaurant Atelier of Hotel Bayerischer Hof under head Jan Hartwig. The 35-year-old chef from Lower Saxony and his team managed to up this third Michelin star in less than four years. “It’s unbelievable, a dream come true,” comments Jan Hartwig. Jan Hartwig has been chef de cuisine of the restaurant Atelier since May 2014. He Jan Hartwig leads a team of 9 people. Only 6 months after assuming charge, he was awarded his first Michelin star and the second was to follow just one year later, both of which he defended again last year. Following his training in the restaurant Dannenfeld in Braunschweig, he held important posts under Christian Jürgens in the restaurant Kastell in Wernberg- Köblitz and at GästeHaus Erfort in Saarbrücken. From 2007, he worked in the restaurant aqua, The Ritz Carlton Wolfsburg under Sven Elverfeld (3 Michelin stars and 19 points and 4 toques by Gault Millau 2017). There, he advanced from to sous chef and ultimately to the head of a brigade de cuisine of 9 members. Jan Hartwig about his “I am speechless. It’s my grandest dream as a chef and it has come true. The third distinction star for the restaurant Atelier means the world to me. I’d like to express my extreme gratitude to my team and the Hotel Bayerischer Hof – without them, it would still be only a dream.” Innegrit Volkhardt, “I am absolutely delighted at this highest gastronomical distinction for Jan Hartwig Managing General Partner of Hotel Bayerischer Hof and his wonderful team. Now after 23 years, since Eckart Witzigmann’s Aubergine closed in 1994, the restaurant Atelier is the only restaurant in Munich to carry three Michelin stars. This fills me with immense pride. It is a magnificent reward and recognition for the efforts our establishment also takes to offer the highest standard of restaurant service.”

Atelier Restaurant Atelier Interior design: Axel Vervoordt Chef de cuisine: Jan Hartwig (since May 2014) Menu: 1 five-course menu and 1 seven-course menu, optionally with wine

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Wine list: approx. 300 items Restaurant manager and : Jochen Benz Capacity: 25 diners plus 8 people in the Privé and 4 people in the Silent Garden Opening hours: Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 7 p.m. to 12 midnight (The kitchen takes orders until 9 p.m. or 9:30 p.m.) Tel. (reservation requested): +49 89.21 20-743 Hotel The multiple award-winning, traditional business Hotel Bayerischer Hof, owned and Bayerischer Hof run by the family Volkhardt for more than a hundred years with 337 rooms including 74 suites, is one of Germany’s top establishments and counts among the Leading Hotels of the World and Preferred Hotels. The family business also operates the highly traditional Hotel Zur Tenne in Kitzbühel and Volkhardts Wein.

For enquiries: Hotel Bayerischer Hof Public Relations Tel. +49 89. 2120-634 [email protected] www.bayerischerhof.de