Tantris

Wednesday

A table for six in the kitchen

Tantris opened in Munich in 1971, in Schwabing, built by a developer named Fritz Eichbauer. It is still a family business: Felix Eichbauer owns it now. It opens only four days a week, Wednesday to Saturday, and each day lets you in by a different door. The house has a private parking lot out front; if it is full, the Schwabinger Tor garage is next door, at number 5.

Start with the one most people never see. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, a single table for up to six is set inside the kitchen, at the pass. It is called the Dîner au Passe. Benjamin Chmura and Emma Betti, his pastry chef, cook for that table alone. The sommeliers pour from the cellar, and on request someone walks you through the rest of the house: two kitchens, a bakery, a pâtisserie.

The walls are orange tile. The stoves are Molteni, made to measure near Lyon: the first one worked here for 40 years, and both kitchens now cook on black ones. The charcoal grill is back, with a rotisserie beside it. Chmura trained at the Institut Paul Bocuse and ran the kitchen at Maison Troisgros in Roanne before he came here in 2020. Betti makes the desserts.

Thursday

Under 35, the whole table

The Menu Jeune is the house’s offer to anyone under 35, on one condition: everyone at the table has to qualify.

Dinner, Wednesday and Thursday, is five courses with an aperitif, the wine pairing and coffee, for €225. Lunch, Wednesday to Friday, is four courses with the same, for €150. It is booked online only: lunch two months ahead, and dinner, the house says, one to two months ahead. Say vegetarian when you book. There is no vegan menu. Cancel less than 24 hours ahead and the house charges €100 a person for lunch, €200 for dinner.

If you are past 35, book it for your grown children. You will not be at the table, and that is the rule.

Friday, noon

Lunch in the garden salon

Tantris DNA is the second dining room, à la carte, in what the house calls the garden salon. In the late 1970s it was briefly a nightclub where a band called Los Paraguayos played. The architects Sabine Eichbauer and Jochen Kraske extended it into the garden. Today it serves the classic French dishes of five decades of Tantris, with the desserts and the cheese on trolleys. The house lists one Michelin star here, two next door.

The lunch menu, Wednesday to Friday, is three courses for €95. Order from the à la carte menu instead, in this order: the pâté en croûte Richelieu, duck, Hohenlohe pork and duck liver, €42. Then the sole Fernand Point, €78, or the sweetbread Rumohr in pastry with black truffle and sauce Albufera, €86. On the November menu there is lièvre à la royale, €84; for two, a sea bass baked in pastry with sauce Choron, €160. Then the cheese trolley, €30, and the Mont Blanc, €24. The bread comes from the house bakery. The water is €15 a person, and the menu calls it “energetically enriched.”

Saturday, noon

The long lunch, refilled

Saturday lunch at Restaurant Tantris is a house habit, “a beloved classic for decades,” it says. Four courses by Chmura and Betti, with the wine pairing, for €225. The menu promises three glasses. The house adds that refills are part of it.

If you want more, the five-course lunch menu and the whole wine list are served on Saturday too. That menu is €210.

The plates are Nymphenburg porcelain, made in Munich. The glasses are Riedel, from the Tyrol. The paper of the menu comes from Gmund, on Lake Tegernsee.

Saturday, 6:30 p.m.

Under the eye

For dinner, ask for a table facing the wine. In the middle of the room, where Eckart Witzigmann used to stand at the grill, there is now the wine cellar, lit from inside. The house says it sits “under the eye”: a round red sculpture hung above it, over a red band lettered in German: Hunger, Bärenhunger, Affendurst, Schlummertrunk. Bear-hunger, monkey-thirst, nightcap.

Where Witzigmann stood at the grill, the wine now stands.

The dinner menu is seven courses, €345 in November 2026: tuna, scallops with sea urchin, sole with caviar, Challans duck with pheasant, and a pear to finish. Allergies and vegetarian requests go in 48 hours ahead. Dress up. The house asks men to skip shorts and open-toed shoes. Book online; if your date is not on the calendar yet, or you are more than six, write to the reservations office. Children are welcome, and there are high chairs.

Then walk to the bar, which stays open until 1 a.m. Its lamps, the house says, recall Verner Panton’s canteen for Der Spiegel in Hamburg, built in the same years as Tantris. Order a classic cocktail, or champagne from the same cellar, and something from the bar menu if dinner was not enough. The bar takes online bookings for up to four. On Sunday the house closes for three days: spend them in the Alps, at Schloss Elmau, an hour and a half from Munich by train.