Yes, Nobelhart & Schmutzig is one of the (many) Michelin star restaurants in Berlin. And yes, it somehow made its way into the “top 50 restaurants” of the planet. However, after a six course dinner there, I wasn’t convinced that this place lived up to its reputation. And certainly not to its very high prices. The Nobelhart & Schmutzig likes to emphasise that they source everything locally. And only that which is seasonally available. Ok. Fine. I get it. And they make sure that you are very, very aware of this. Each course is introduced by someone from the kitchen staff. At length. Ad nauseam. Honestly, a little bit of info can be nice, but I really don’t need to know the name and place of work of the guy who raised the guinea fowl which somehow ended up on my plate. Or that the chap who baked the bread had his parents send him this kind of bread to wherever he happened to be on the planet. I really, honestly don’t care. If I did, I would ask. And as the saying goes: The proof is in the pudding. Let the food speak for itself. And this is - unfortunately - where Nobelhart & Schmutzig didn’t quite deliver. A little side note on “ambiance”: The restaurant likes to play an eclectic mix of (or course) vinyl records at a rather high volume. Sells more drinks, I guess. Yet, for me it got a bit in the way. Also, the place smells, well, like a kitchen where things are fried. Because you sit right next to the chefs preparing your dishes, and ventilation can be tricky. Which not only impacted the way I tried to enjoy my food, it also left a lasting stench in my clothes. Back to food and drinks: As my partner put it bluntly yet accurately, you end up having “your grandmother’s cooking at a very high price.” The first course, “Brotzeit”, was exactly what it said on the menu: bread, self-made butter (so what?) and a couple of vegetables. Nothing special, really. Followed by grilled white asparagus in a béchamel sauce. Nicely done, yet again nothing to write home about. Third course: “Käsespätzle” - kind of the German equivalent of mac & cheese. Again, well prepared, however, it is not exactly a high bar to get this right. Fourth course: asparagus (again), this time green with lots of herbs and a (truly fantastic) parsley cream. For me, this was the best course of the evening. Fifth, pieces of the aforementioned guinea fowl with mashed potatoes, some salad and an egg yolk sauce. In my eyes, the disappointment of the evening. The little meat I had on my plate was ok, however, the potatoes were mostly tasteless, and I found the texture of the salad in this combination irritating, to say the least. The final course, desert, consisted of a piece of strawberry roll (with verbena cream, an interesting combo), some strawberry sorbet (fine, although a bit lacking in sparkle) and a dash of double cream from happy cows who lived in Berlin’s neighbourhood. All of this to the sound of €160 (including tap water) per person left me wanting. And a bit hungry. On the drinks side, Nobelhart & Schmutzig showed some potential, yet overall - in my eyes - could still not live up to its very high prices. The sommelier was kind of friendly, yet always a bit hectic, and spoke too quickly with a weird focus on the tiniest details of the (sometimes exotic) wines served. And over all this, he sometimes just forgot his clients and their tastes. One can - kind of - get individual glasses of (some) wines to accompany the menu, however, the prices for these wines by the glass were a bit high, even for a Michelin star restaurant: Around €25 for only 0.1l (!) of a wine which was listed in the wine menu for €120 a bottle. You do the math. The sommelier on the one hand was nice enough to pour out small tasting shots of (the few paired) wines. However, he didn’t quite accept a “no” from us when we didn’t like the wine in question, giving us push-back on two occasions. Sorry, it’s our taste, and no, we don’t have to defend it. In one case, the (light) red wine had significant bits of depot floating around in the tasting glass, and he basically dismissed it as “normal”. Only for us to discover he later decanted that same wine for some other patrons a few seats over. Which would have been the professional thing to do in the first place. Apart from this exception, staff were generally nice, friendly and helpful. Although some points have to be deducted for a comment about the single (!) knife each guest gets for the evening: “Yeah, if you take this one home, we will charge you €400.” Neither do I understand the (for lack of a better word) threat in the drinks menu to charge clumsy patrons €30 for each glass broken. Is there a massive wave of glass-smashing going on in Berlin’s Michelin star restaurants? Doubt it. Overall, we ended up paying almost as much for our (non-excessive) drinks as we did for our food. Which in our opinion was too much for the kind of food and drinks served. Your mileage may vary. We shall not return.

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I once read an article in Vanity Fair about fine dining titled ‘Who are they cooking for?’, they being the owners of the hailed restaurants in the big western cities. That title sprung to mind immediately when visiting N&S. The food was absolutely gorgeous and the chefs very warm and skilled, clearly taking pride in their craft. The hosts (among them seemed to be the owner) however did not possess the qualities of the chefs. We felt as though we should be grateful to be accepted as diners and that we were somewhat in the way of their performance. I still reccommend this place highly due to the amazing food but be aware - you might be the ones that the chefs are cooking for, but the place exists for the the staff, not the patrons.

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I found the ambience with the open kitchen very pleasant and it contributes to good service, as there is always someone there to serve guests. The regional concept is consistently followed and the visit is an overall result. The fatty schnitzel is recommended.

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We had dinner at the counter of this interesting restaurant which by choice offers cuisine that is as simple as it is refined, using exclusively Brandenburg products. The atmosphere is convivial and welcoming, maintaining a very high level of attention to the customer, but in an informal way. It's really interesting to see the team working together, letting everyone interact with the customer by explaining the choices and philosophy of the restaurant. The dishes are excellent, with particular attention to cooking that respects the raw materials and leaves the possibility of enjoying flavors and aromas intact. Immense wine list with very high choice: we stayed in Germany (studying first😀) with an excellent Moselle Riesling…. So this restaurant really deserves both the Michelin star and the green star for sustainability. Prices in line with the proposal. Two tips: - try to book at the counter, where the experience is complete; - let yourself be involved in the interesting mood of this “Speiselokal”.

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We were looking for a Michelin star restaurant in Berlin to have a special dinner and we were greatly disappointed with the dishes served that evening. It was very pedestrian. The best part of the meal was the bread and butter. Main course was a chicken thigh, mashed potatoes and a few leaves of romaine. Really? For more than 100 Euros? We would not recommend it especially for the price. The wines were also very underwhelming. Service was very good.

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Luckily, I was an invited guest and didn't have to shell out the excessively high bill. It all started well: On the outside door there was a notice saying that AfD members were not welcome, and the welcome letter asked us to refrain from using our cell phones as much as possible out of consideration for other guests. That's how it should be! (Among Democrats.) The presentation of the restaurant concept was also charming: The principle of "regionality" is taken so seriously, we were told, that even the pepper stays where it grows and AfD members belong. Chapeau! That takes courage and a deeply green soul! I secretly promoted the shop to my favorite place and happily asked for a regional aperitif, perhaps from Werder. The friendly waitress rejected this request as impossible. Because of the quality, there are exceptions. I should order a Cremant or champagne instead. The latter was unfortunately stale and corky. When we complained, she said sarcastically that corked champagne is never served, but that she would be happy to bring us another drink as a gesture of goodwill. The first course was bread and butter, with the explanation that it was a particularly old, matured butter. We couldn't find anything special about it, but were glad that it didn't have to be diagnosed with rancidity. At least the rye bread was convincing. However, bread and butter is served in every normal restaurant before (!) the start of the meal, without charge, to tide us over. Here it had to serve as a real first course, enriched for the sake of good form by microscopic green side dishes, which we were asked to consume without cutlery. The second course was 4 medium-sized stalks of asparagus. They were served with roasted elderflower. A nice idea, even if the aroma of elderflower is fleeting and of course couldn't survive the heat treatment. It was just embarrassing that you could order this dish separately for an extra 30 euros! The third course was spaetzle. These can definitely be described as regional due to the high proportion of Swabians in the Berlin population. But what was served were knöpfle. A trained chef would certainly have known how to distinguish them better. The "chicken" served as the main course came from Lower Saxony. That surprised me. Apparently Berlin and Brandenburg must be chicken-free and Nobelhart had the fluttering birds flown in from far away out of sheer necessity. At least we were told that these animals are constantly active all day, pecking wildly in a large area and that the meat is therefore firmer than we as broiler fans are used to. That was true, the beasts had been pan-fried so much that the 50 - 80 gram portions were bone dry and rock hard. At least: We hadn't been promised too much. I'll cut to the chase. There was also dessert, and when we gave up on the confusing wine list and asked the waitress to serve us a dry Mosel, she was lucky. Rating: 1. Cell phones should be turned off for the sake of peace and quiet. To compensate, we were constantly bombarded with music that made conversation at the table difficult. - Unsatisfactory! 2. The concept of "regionality" is inconsistent. Pepper is taboo, but not champagne from France. - Unsatisfactory! 3. Service - Overall still satisfactory! 4. None of the dishes were convincing. Kitchen with obvious defects in craftsmanship. - Unsatisfactory! 5. Not enough cutlery. Coleslaw had to be eaten with hands. - Unsatisfactory! 6. The claimed star is not a "real" one, but a green one. That should have been pointed out. - Unsatisfactory! 7. Price-performance ratio reminiscent of a rip-off. - Unsatisfactory! The whole performance was a parody of a Michelin-star restaurant. That's how we took it in the end and afterwards we were amused by the fact that we had been ripped off. But you have to be able to afford it.

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The first surprise after entering was that a Michelin starred restaurant was only 30% occupied on a Friday night with what appeared to be exclusively tourists; but we would soon find out why. The place consists of a large windowless room with dim lighting and fairly loud, alternative music/soundscapes playing that made it hard to talk to anyone not sitting right next to you. Throughout the evening, different waiters would introduce each course with varying levels of charm. While some appeared to be very enthusiastic about their so-called "food concept", others made you feel like it was beneath them to have to explain their great work to you. The theme of the menu was "brutal lokal" with ingredients only sourced from around Berlin and Brandenburg (except when they could not find them there, like cheese) meaning they tell you the name of the farm and farmer for each individual ingredient. All of this would have been fine by us if the food had tasted great, however it was simply incredibly plain throughout. It started off with some bread and spread which was fine but nothing you can't get at your local bakery for 3 euros. What followed was a radish salad that had no taste at all, bland cheese spatzle which I can make better (e.g. by using Swiss cheese and black pepper but alas, that would break the concept), a dry piece of chicken and some rhubarb with ice cream. Nothing tasted particularly good and nothing had any sort of twist or something special you would expect from the price range. When leaving, we each got a canele which tasted like burned dough, presumably because they made it without rum, vanilla or sugar and it ended up in the trash can of outside. Overall, this place is was hugely disappointing and just a collection of Berlin hipster snobism. I am sure a local concept can be a great experience if done right but this was not it. How this place was ever even considered for a Michelin star is beyond me.

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45 best restaurant on The World's 50 Best List, and a Michelin Guide Michelin Star restaurant. The only photos I took during the entire meal, which was a first for me. They have an old school photo ban. You're not allowed to take photos during service. Honestly, it was super relaxing and the food was incredible. An absolute amazing experience.

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We visited on February 9th, dinner was very long and terrible! They fed us delicious bread and that’s it, the rest is simple village food and not worth that kind of money... We took the set for 225 euros - it turned out to be a serving of tiny portions of potatoes, then a piece of beetroot, a little cabbage and onion, just trash The portions are very small and you would have left hungry, but here we had to eat bread, which we didn’t spare ( They even brought a calorie bun with cream for dessert... The wine list is large, but the wine turned out to be a simple Beaujolais for 190 euros. Apparently, they don’t understand at all what delicious food and presentation are! Hell, it’s definitely not worth the money, sausages taste better outside!

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A lot promised, price/performance ratio completely unacceptable, own microcosm, drink prices not transparent We travel a lot around the world and have rarely experienced something like this. You're happy to spend a little more money on good food, but our visit there will definitely not be repeated. We went to eat fatty schnitzel, the quality was certainly not bad. A glass of wine with it, 0.1 for 21.00 euros (without mentioning the price...). They're probably speculating that you won't ask. The drinks menu with around 180 pages is a tome, the prices there are completely confusing. For drinks, the quantity on offer must be stated, that's what the law says... Luckily we pulled the emergency brake and ended up with 190.00 euros. Somehow a tip was expected, and when I asked what "soup with meaning" meant, I got the answer that the 1.19 per person was for homeless assistance. To be honest, I would have preferred to donate everything there..... And then on the subject of signage at the entrance. Excluding people just because they have a different opinion is no longer appropriate. I also don't want to indicate the political opinion of the owners at the entrance door, it's just disgusting to me. We'll be back in Spain soon, enjoying the uncomplicated hospitality, the good regional food and the much better wine. What a pity

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Rarely post. Feel the need to do so. Average food. Poor service. Grossly overpriced. Will never recommend. Not to mention go back (obviously).

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While tricky to find, once we had found the restaurant we were greeted by our host who was amazing throughout. Very friendly and approachable and went well and beyond to find a wine to my partners taste. The restaurant is split into two seating areas one watching the chefs and one on a side table which is where we were. Each course was introduced with an explanation by the chef responsible for it and the fact they could do this so well in English was great. There were 8 food courses although a welcome drink and “parting gift” are also included on the menu. Each course was amazing and made from “local local” ingredients. The duck course and apple dessert were highlights but the smoked potato was also amazing. I left very full and happy. Compared to some Michelin star places everything here was more relaxed and approachable but the food remained amazing!

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Apart from the duck as the main course, everything was vegetarian. No fish, no meat, but expensive. You don't have to have it.

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Completely agree with Murphy10000. It's a joke. The food is very ordinary but it is presented to you as if it were exceptional. The wine list is extensive and the sommelier is not bad. But the prices are totally overrated for poor quality food and wines that are not worth the price. Michelin really needs to wake up and remove this star which is not deserved, far from it. There are so many good cooks who deserve it much more

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The butter is absolutely incredible and the service is great. They can offer you great suggestions on wine parings as well. It's a very cool vibe.

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Ridiculous = Aufgeblasen This restaurant has good food but has not grasped the concept of the customer being king.The wine list is bizarre. Organised by a madman it has no reference or stock to the great wines of the world and some of the wines it stocks are frankly awful. The height of the bizarre absurdity of this place was the coffee ritual complete with pseudo science resulting in mediocre coffee. As a caffeine addict - well versed in the coffee rituals of all continents - this was insulting

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This is an easy review: everything was bad and disappointing. I would call it a total rip-off. And you feel they know it, feel proud about it and ridicule you if you try to address whatever topic that is bothering you. Food. 200€ set menu per person. A small cup of standard onion broth, bread and rance butter, 2 leaves of kale with mustard seeds, 2 spoons of cabbage with glue-like bechamel and meat stock, 2 slices of marinated cucumber, 1 tiny slice of white chicken with sticky stock, a small pot of mashed potatoes with cheese to finish. That was it. Sticky caramel with a slice of pear and uncooked streusel as desert. A total sham presented as low footprint modern cuisine. Drinks. You want pairing? They cannot tell you the price. It depends on what you will drink. Difficult to drink a lot. A glass corresponds to 11mm of fluid in your wine glass. That's all. Not enough fluid to surpass the ugly smell of washing machine soap in the glass. Only cheap wines (but original ones, that would be the only positive note). I guess all in all there was 30-40 cl per person all over the evening. Price tag? 185€ per head. Unannounced. The summit of disaster: the staff. Arrogant and uninterested. And I still do not know if they are incompetent. If yes, they are good at hiding it. Good Con artists at best. That summarises the entire program of the restaurant: show people that they are cash providers not guests, that they are being despised whatever money they will pay. This is the SM dungeon of pseudo gastronomy: beat me, make me suffer while asking me to pay a fortune. I am amazed to read that some people love to be treated like this. Thanks to Michelin and San Pelegrino for your misguidance.

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Oh dear, where to start... Nice room, with a little over 20 covers all seated at a chef's table counter so you feel special already with your view straight into the kitchen. We were almost immediately told off for not reading the wine list in advance of our arrival and not knowing precisely which wines we wanted - who does that?? The wine list is an impenetrable thick tome with wines listed in a category system I could not fathom. Also there are no prices for wines by the glass - this is excused as a sort of 'it'll be 7 Euros or 40 Euros and we are happy to explain'. Here's a thing - why not just tell your clients the price? Also, what on earth value is there in listing wines which are 'not yet ready to drink'? Hilarious (not). Isn't the ethos on locally-sourced ingredients? Wines are from all over Europe - Spain, Italy etc.... It's a fixed menu so you get what you're given which is great but the results were patchy - some dishes (the shallot for instance) are outstanding, others less so. Bread + 3-year old butter was good. Dessert of Wheat beer and strawberries was absolutely divine. But the Bresse chicken dish with coriander seeds was a tiny portion, only just cooked and mediocre, not helped by the presentation staff advising that the taste was 'better than supermarket chicken' (sorry - at these prices, none of your diners are shopping at Lidl and you should know that). Service started well but the Head Chef went home before service was over, walking around with coat, hat and bag in an obvious show of departing - again, who does that? Does the Stage Manager leave the theatre before the curtain comes down? No they don't and as a result, service fell off a cliff. We sat with dirty plates, hoping our next course was on its way whilst staff either chatted or simply disappeared. Ambient music is vinyl - love that - and 80's albums - again love that and I sang along to Kate Bush, but the Communards (80s disco) at full volume?! Not for us. The fixed menu was 175Euro each and the biggest shock was learning that some of the wine we'd had by the glass was 27,50 Euro per glass. We have eaten in Michelin starred restaurants around the world - including our local at home which is 5mins walk from the house - but I've never seen such prices. As we left, we were handed our 'final course' - a palate-destroying sugar-coated freshly-made Berliner (jam doughnut) which we were entreated to eat on the way home but no serviette to help with the mess as 'we've run out'. Honestly you couldn't make it up. This was supposed to be a special meal for us on our last night in Berlin but we left angry and disappointed, not about the ludicrous price but the careless and pretentious attitude and the lack of professionalism.

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Ate at this place with some friends. Food is interesting but not exciting, and one wonders how the Michelin star was acquired. Quite pricey for the 90% vegetarian meal. Service was good at the start, but not consistent throughout and was abrupt. The policy of no photos could have been reinforced nicely. Instead, the manager was very rude about it and the pompous and racially-biased sommelier-owner talked down to us, citing our lack of understanding of German culture as the reason for our displeasure. Had dined in other Michelin-star restaurants which prioritise the diner experience genuinely. This place lacks the finesse for this, and instead comes across as a pretentious set-up. This was not only our worst Michelin meal, it was also our worst experience in Germany. Would not recommend this place to anyone.

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The end. Jk not the end! We sat at the long u-shaped counter and had an incredible experience and by the end of the night my friend and I were best friends with the three groups next to us (a couple and two solo ladies). FUN. The guy in charge has such a fun, sassy attitude. The staff are all friendly and professional. And the food. Yeah, incredible. Something I especially liked was the no photo rule. Also that to start they ask you if you prefer something bitter or sweet to start. Bitter! They gave me the best vermouth I've ever had. There's a beverage pairing but it's the most flexible I've ever seen. It get organic and customized. Not stuffy or set in any way. We did ALL the recommended beverages and it was a fun adventure. People around us were more selective and drank way less. The staff were good at accommodating all the different preferences and personalities. AND the entrance is a unlabeled door with humorous stickers in it. I love that one of the top 50 restaurants in the world has a sticker that says anal on its front door. Perhaps that summarizes the experience in of itself.

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Have eaten at the restaurant on three earlier occasions; had been really impressed and rated it highly as a result. This time not so much. Previously the concept of extremely local sourcing of product was genuinely novel and the dishes l remember and reviewed were full of flavour and complexity. This visit we felt there was a real lack of technical input into many of the dishes and it's just no longer enough to coast along on the novelty value. That being said, the tomato broth starter was perfect, as was the house bread and butter. The shallot dish was also extremely well handled. This appears to be a go to dish at the moment Both Gagnaire and Arpege did a version of this recently and to its credit the N&S version compares favorably. However, the spaghetti squash was a little underdone, losing most of the stringiness the dish relies on. Further the Hollandaise accompaniment was flat and bland adding little except some liquid contrast. The black kale dish lacked any of the advertised caraway seed impact though the soft cheese component helped....a boring, lazy dish though. The following duck with spicy plum sauce dish was also below par. The duck was well cooked and a great product, but the spicy plum sauce a misnomer....flat and bland again. Also a problem with portion sizing as my wife received half as much again of the sauce that my plate exhibited. Presentation also an issue...irregular chunks of duck whacked on the plate next to a spoonful of sauce is just not good enough. The liver spatzle a lovely idea, but was one dimensional and forgettable. Pear dessert was very good while both the black current and mint and the babka were exemplary. The former exhibited an astonishing depth of flavour and was the highlight of the meal. Massive wine list but, and this is from someone that's had to deal with monster tomes regularly, it proved impossible to navigate and verged on being totally unusable. Idiosyncratic structuring of the list under imprecise categories made locating wines really difficult...took me a good five minutes just to find where the burgundies were hiding. Not just me....watched diners all around me take a look and give up,either defaulting to the pairing option or letting the sommelier choose. Neither option a disaster, but makes a mockery of such a list and, if one wanted to be cynical, allows the house to curate to their advantage. Would of course help if the list was posted on line so those with a serious interest could spend some time prior to arrival....many high end restaurants do just that. Service is fine if a little frenetic and the price asked would be more than fair if the delivery was up to scratch. In conclusion and especially if you present a predominantly vegetable based menu (only one protein on the night), more needs to be done and you really need to nail it. As indicated, an unexpected disappointment.

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