The Cellar, by the Glass
Tantris opened in 1971. It is Germany's oldest two-Michelin-star restaurant and the room that brought nouvelle cuisine to the country. The Maison Culinaire at Johann-Fichte-Straße 7 in Schwabing now holds three things: the two-star Tantris, the one-star Tantris DNA, and the bar between them. The bar is the way in. It pours the house cellar by the glass and serves snacks from the kitchen without the commitment of a tasting menu, and for a wine drinker it is the best seat in the city.
The list is the reason. Fifty years of collecting runs from grand cru Burgundy — Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Rousseau, Dujac, Leflaive — to old Mosel and Rheingau Riesling from the decades when German wine was the most collected in the world. The sommeliers are among the best in Bavaria. A Burgundy by the glass here is not the same exercise it is elsewhere; ask them to pour you something you do not know.
The snacks come from Benjamin Chmura's kitchen. Chmura runs both Tantris and Tantris DNA, has held the two stars, and was the Feinschmecker Chef of the Year in 2024. A plate of his amuse-bouche with a glass of premier cru Chablis, in the preserved 1971 interior, is one of the most concentrated hours of luxury Munich offers. Glasses start around €12; snacks run €8 to €22. More in our Munich dining guide.
Best for Solo Dining
Book the Tantris bar for solo dining for three reasons: a bar stool is the natural seat for one, the cellar needs no companion and no occasion to justify it, and the bar takes walk-ins when the rest of the complex demands a booking weeks out. The snacks bridge drinking and eating with two-star precision. An hour here — one extraordinary glass, a plate of snacks, the architecture — is an hour no concierge will hand you. Seek it deliberately. More in Best Restaurants for Solo Dining.
Not for
Not for a full dinner or a big group. This is a bar for a glass and a few snacks, not a tasting menu; if you want the cooking in full, book a table at Tantris or Tantris DNA proper, weeks ahead, and pay accordingly.
Community Reviews
"I asked the sommelier to pour me something from the Burgundy section that I wouldn't know. She opened a 2008 Nuits-Saint-Georges from a domaine I'd never encountered and it was one of the best glasses of wine I've had in a restaurant." — J.W., Solo diner
"The 1970s interior is genuinely extraordinary. You are sitting in a preserved piece of architectural bravado from 1971, drinking wine that the kitchen has been accumulating since before you were born." — C.H., First date
"The bar snacks are from the Michelin kitchen and they're exceptional. Don't miss the amuse-bouche selection — it's a genuine preview of what's happening behind those doors." — M.T., Wine enthusiast