Personal|03-23-2026

Rutz Remastered – Menu for the 25th Anniversary

A quarter of a century is an eternity in the restaurant world. On March 12, 2001, Anja and Carsten Schmidt, together with sommelier Lars Rutz, founded the eponymous restaurant on Chausseestraße in Berlin-Mitte, initially as an ambitious wine bar. Today, Rutz is Berlin’s only three-Michelin-star restaurant and ranks among the finest dining destinations in Germany.

For its 25th birthday, head chef Marco Müller has devised something special: under the title „Rutz Remastered – 25 Years of Inspirations,“ he is reimagining iconic dishes from the restaurant’s history. The idea behind it is not nostalgia but distillation — the question of what remains of a dish when you strip away everything superfluous and elevate it with today’s experience to three-star level.

The menu is deliberately conceived as an album: each inspiration a track, each course a precise moment. Eleven courses trace different creative phases — from Potato and Marjoram to Spring Trout and Kohlrabi, Charcoal Oil, all the way to the final Sandalwood Granité and Heritage Apples, Wild Rose. The „Roulade and Salad, Spruce Pollen,“ for instance, took Müller over ten years by his own account to translate the beloved classic beef roulade into the distinctive Rutz style.

The menu is accompanied by head sommelier Sebastian Höpfner, recently named Sommelier of the Year, who offers not only a wine pairing far from the mainstream but also one of the most innovative non-alcoholic beverage pairings in German fine dining.