Restaurant Bieberbau

(Last visited 1/24/2023.) While working in Hamburg, Germany for the first time visiting this wonderful country, I decided to take a drive down to Berlin and visit the biggest city in the country! Often when in Europe my wife and I like to visit Michelin Star rated restaurants because they're typically cheaper, more available and the tip is included (thus cheaper)! Lol. So today, we checked out Bieberbau, a Michelin 1-Star restaurant! Atmosphere/Appearance: Set a bit outside of the city center is this gem that genuinely is a bit hidden among some residential neighborhoods. This place is built inside an old studio house that was built at the end of the 1800s. The decor is so cool, laid back and filled with history. The carpet is bright red, the archways are so incredibly detailed and the energy in here was laid back. Service: Like an any Michelin-rated restaurant, the service was EXQUISITE. Beyond good. However, almost everyone has an accent of some kind so you have to really pay attention to when they're explaining things to you. Needless to say, we had no complaints. Food: This is going to be the hardest part for me to explain. Lol. Since I wasn't taking notes on each dish as I was eating them, I can't describe everything to you. What's most important is that the food is TOP TIER. The menu is designed to tell a story of the colder months in Germany, which it does. One thing I do absolutely love about these kind of tasting menus is that when you first sit down to check out the menu, you see 6 courses. But there's almost always extra. Lol. Amuse bouches come out then the pre-desserts after the savory courses conclude. The dinner winds up being like 9 and you're completely stuffed. Value: I mean, look. If you're coming to a place like this, you should know you have to pay to play. However, Bieberbau is willing to work with you. So they have several menus you can choose from and you can choose 3 courses for 86.50€. However, there are MANY more courses you can add to seemingly create your own menu and it's only an addition 12.00€ to do so! So if you're on a date and you get some wine, you can easily come out around 400.00€ at the end, but like I said, this is an experience, a journey in food. Totally worth it. In conclusion, I'm sitting in Berlin, Germany RIGHT NOW as I type this over 2-years later and this took me back down memory lane. I'm considering revisiting this place since they change their menu often... We shall see... Thank you for reading!

Superb dinner at Restaurant Bieberbau last week. Sensible prices for the quality, charming historic surrounds and warm welcoming bi-lingual service (our German is far inferior to the floor staff's English). Michelin recognition is often associated with overt technique - foam, mist, ingredients pretending to be something else. That can be fun but sometimes you just want a proper dinner full of seasonal flavour- which is what Bieberbau delivers in spades. There are two menus and you can pick and choose between them. Cleverly, if you want to sample a number of dishes, they will adjust the serving sizes so you all leave feeling replete and not uncomfortable. The menu changes every six weeks. We encountered pure Autumn - beetroot soup with coconut and lovage, caviar with (of all things!) a kind of paprika custard, steamed cod with risotto, sublime venison and so on to a perfect vanilla ice cream with cous cous with raspberry and parsley gel dots. The Owner and Head Chef, Stephan Garkisch, is not throwing his skills at you- it's much more subtle than that but apparent in every mouthful. Perfect blends of seasonal flavours, a lovely crunch or textual element in every dish, a remarkable lack of obvious seasoning (which you also feel no need for). You just know that everything has been thought through - that ice cream will have been practised 50 times and you will enjoy the simple perfection of it. With a set menu you often have one favourite. Here is the opposite - we found it hard to single out the highlight as all was consistently excellent and not a single dud. Amazing. On wine, very reasonable offers of half bottles to go with the current menu after a house champagne cocktail. We had the helpful assistance of Owner and Front of House lead, Anne Garkisch also in advising on the odd local wine by the glass to go with a course, or digestive with coffee. Loved it and would love to return.

Food was fancy but not extremely yummy. The starter was very very tasty but afterwards the food taste declined slightly. The main was the cod which was good in taste but basic, not too great though for what you’d expect from a restaurant in this category. What I really liked were the small surprises from the kitchen which all were great in taste and surprisingly refreshing between the chosen meals. What I liked: the decoration was on point! Service was good but forgot to write down some reservations of one or two guests which I believe should not happen here. All in all very interesting but maybe I would choose something else next time. Price was normal for this category of restaurant.

The food is amazing. Great touch on classical ingredients fused with modern notes. The staff is really friendly and polite. Michelin star totally deserved

A beautifully decorated restaurant in the middle of a residential area. Well deserving of it's Michelin star which it has held since 2015. The three courses were all excellently crafted with some unique flavour combinations and interesting textures to make one of the most interesting dining experiences I've had. There was also plenty of little extras including three delicious after dinner sweets and an amuse bouche before each course. Please remember to bring cash to tip as they don't take tips on card! A wonderful time had. Service was generally excellent but we were left waiting for the bill for a long time and had to remind our waiter that we wanted it.

Exceptional food, very well balanced and thoughtful flavor combinations. Seamless and professional service. Good wine recommendations. Little downside: the place gets very very crowded!

We celebrated the birthday of our son at Bieberbau and couldn’t be more pleased. Our party of 9 had been taken care of the moment we entered the beautiful and special location. The service and food (including the homemade bread selection) was excellent. Just as you would expect it from a Michelin restaurant. The white wine recommendation fit all 5 courses beautifully. We were even surprised with a little birthday cake with a candle for our son. The staff was very friendly, accommodating and knowledgeable (in German and English). We enjoyed everything and will definitely be back when we’re (hopefully soon again) in Berlin.

Beautiful experience that definitely should be tried once in Berlin. Service, ambiance, food presentation and flavors of each dish was outstanding. My personal favorite was dessert - pistachio cannelloni with melon purée. Exceptional and mouth-watering! P.S. if you would like to leave a tip, bring cash as they can’t charge tips with credit card

(Last visited 1/24/2023.) While working in Hamburg, Germany for the first time visiting this wonderful country, I decided to take a drive down to Berlin and visit the biggest city in the country! Often when in Europe my wife and I like to visit Michelin Star rated restaurants because they're typically cheaper, more available and the tip is included (thus cheaper)! Lol. So today, we checked out Bieberbau, a Michelin 1-Star restaurant! Atmosphere/Appearance: Set a bit outside of the city center is this gem that genuinely is a bit hidden among some residential neighborhoods. This place is built inside an old studio house that was built at the end of the 1800s. The decor is so cool, laid back and filled with history. The carpet is bright red, the archways are so incredibly detailed and the energy in here was laid back. Service: Like an any Michelin-rated restaurant, the service was EXQUISITE. Beyond good. However, almost everyone has an accent of some kind so you have to really pay attention to when they're explaining things to you. Needless to say, we had no complaints. Food: This is going to be the hardest part for me to explain. Lol. Since I wasn't taking notes on each dish as I was eating them, I can't describe everything to you. What's most important is that the food is TOP TIER. The menu is designed to tell a story of the colder months in Germany, which it does. One thing I do absolutely love about these kind of tasting menus is that when you first sit down to check out the menu, you see 6 courses. But there's almost always extra. Lol. Amuse bouches come out then the pre-desserts after the savory courses conclude. The dinner winds up being like 9 and you're completely stuffed. Value: I mean, look. If you're coming to a place like this, you should know you have to pay to play. However, Bieberbau is willing to work with you. So they have several menus you can choose from and you can choose 3 courses for 86.50€. However, there are MANY more courses you can add to seemingly create your own menu and it's only an addition 12.00€ to do so! So if you're on a date and you get some wine, you can easily come out around 400.00€ at the end, but like I said, this is an experience, a journey in food. Totally worth it. In conclusion, I'm sitting in Berlin, Germany RIGHT NOW as I type this over 2-years later and this took me back down memory lane. I'm considering revisiting this place since they change their menu often... We shall see... Thank you for reading!

The best restaurant in Berlin. Would 100% come back again. Service was excellent and everyone was very pleasant and accommodating. The restaurant is not in city center which is actually a nice change. It's located in an old charming building that has been renovated into this now Michelin star restaurant. We got different dishes from Menu 1 and all of Menu 2. Biggest recs would be: the asparagus (the best asparagus I've ever had), the char and burratini were equal for me but my partner in crime liked the burratini more, the Guinea fowl was better in our opinion than the cod (really liked the Guinea fowl - perfect amount of crunch and tenderness), and the strawberry dessert more than rhubarb (better balance of sweet/tarty with good combination of texture). But just our takes! We elected to do Riesling wine which was very refreshing. One of the underrated parts though is the bread!! The bread bowl comes with little different breads and the butter/honey is soooo creamy. It's like the consistency of lotion. It tastes like perfection. Outstanding!

The service and food here is fantastic. I cannot explain how amazing this experience was. We had a larger group and people ordered different amount of courses, so they gave the people with the smaller amount of courses still small bits between. The chef really knows what he is doing. I would highly recommend this spot.

Honestly my experience did not live up to expectations for a Michelin star restaurant. I was already prepared for smaller portions but food was mediocre. Ambiance was nice but service was extremely slow. They gave us "freebies" between each course but I'm not sure it made up for the wait.

Bieberbau is not the most convenient location to get to - but I highly recommend it for the quality of food will be worth your trip and it is accessible via the Ubahn/Sbahn. There are 2 menus to choose from ( and may a third vegetarian one but that was not presented or offered to us by our server). You can choose between 3, 4, or 5 course for roughly 49,50, 59,50 and 59,50 - mix and match all you wish. I opted for the 4 course, but long story short there was a miscommunication/language barrier which resulted in my 3 course meal - service was the only reason that this review is not a 5 star. Hands down, the food is absolutely a 5 star quality. The baked potato foam was one of the most flavorful, creative and indulgent " soups" I've ever had the pleasure of tasting. My second course choice was the sea bass with oyster mayonnaise - the oyster mayonnaise was a strong flavor - but I appreciated it for such creativity and execution. My last 2 orders included the Demeter cheese selection and the quince and saffron. I unfortunately only received the quince and saffron according to the server ( although I believed it to be the cheese selection). My partner also enjoyed the baked potato foam as well as the lamb. The lamb comes highly recommended - cooked to the perfect temperature, tender and delightful. If I was to come back to Berlin - I would definitely return despite the mix up in service, as the quality of food for price is one of the best I've ever received. Thank you Bieberbau for a meal I will never forget

Came here for Valentine's Day with the bf when we were in Berlin last month. I had made a reservation by emailing them about a month prior to our trip, and I would recommend doing the same as it was fairly busy when we went in (though, that could've been because it was Valentine's Day, though it also doesn't seem as if Germans and/or Berliners really celebrate it anyway). The restaurant is inside of a building that was built in the late 19th century. The original timber framing is still viewable, and the restaurant's walls are decorated with either reliefs of folk German images or damask wallpaper. We sat inside of a smaller room, that appeared to be only seated with other couples. This restaurant allows you to choose 3-5 different courses from 2 different menus. They didn't have as many vegetarian offerings for me, so I had opted for their kale salad, their cheese plate, and their fruit sorbet and dumpling dessert offerings. The bf had gotten their soup starter, their lamb entree, and the other dessert offering for that evening. We had also gotten a couscous amuse bouche before our first courses came in, and then a mini dessert consisting of ice cream and a chocolate tuile prior to our dessert courses coming in. The bf enjoyed all of his choices and I had really enjoyed mine as well, though I had just wished that they offered some sort of vegetarian main on 1 of their different menus for the night. Nevertheless, our service was fantastic, and the restaurant itself was lovely as well. Might be worth coming out here for an anniversary celebration or a date.

This one-star Michelin restaurant is a bit inconvenient to get to from central Berlin, but more than worth the journey. When you walk into the historical restaurant (where a few famous German expressionist painters formerly lived and worked), you feel like you've been transported back several hundred years and like you're stepping into someone's home. The service is exceptional in a genuine, rather than stuffy, way. The meal opened up with a homemade sparkling wine that was quite possibly the best alcohol I have ever tasted. A handful of complimentary treats from the kitchen were then brought out before I enjoyed three beautiful, perfectly-cooked courses. The baked egg was out of this world, and the pork was more succulent than any I have ever tasted. This was the most laid-back and thoroughly enjoyable Michelin star dining experience I have ever had, and I cannot recommend this restaurant highly enough!

Amazing quality, great ambient and all for a even reasonable price! Highly recommend!

Came here for some local German dining. Got told the kitchen was closed when it was clearly open. This restaurant doesn't seem to cater to anyone that isn't a local. Won't be coming back