Intimacy and distance are crucial factors in any relationship. You can also feel this on a culinary experience evening at Lake Plön, when Robert Stolz invites you to his private dining room with open kitchen three days a week. Access with a view into the cooking pots is expressly desired, the inevitable closeness that arises is extraordinary, the reserved polite distance vanishes in an instant. Almost as if you were here in private, like at a friend’s house. And indeed, the top chef from Plön himself describes his thoroughly unique gastronomic concept eat.share.live with the words: “I am happy when my guests at the big oak table are my friends that evening.”
Creative, natural and purist cuisine with Nordic accents
Every Thursday to Saturday, Robert Stolz opens the doors to his guests, who take a seat at one of the two large oak tables and enjoy a four- or six-course menu, depending on the day, which is geared to the season. In summer, for example, young vegetables such as first broccoli, young carrots in various colours, beetroot, onion leek or young fennel, and many salads that, like almost all other ingredients, come from regional farms, manufactures and suppliers.
The natural aroma of the ingredients is always the focus in Robert Stolz’s cuisine and seems to have been with him from childhood. He had already taken a liking to his grandmother’s vegetable garden in Plön as a child. It is said that little Robert, in contrast to his two younger brothers, first enjoyed a freshly harvested carrot during his summer holiday visit, before happily greeting his grandmother. It is no surprise that typical regional vegetables, salads, flowers and wild herbs are still an integral part of his cuisine today and lend the dishes an original aroma, which the top chef brings to full fruition through coordinated compositions.
In addition to the special relationship to nature and the seasons, creativity and authenticity are the defining elements in Robert Stolz’s cuisine. He has his own ideas and is difficult to pigeonhole. Only the influence of Nordic cuisine with its purism and creative compositions of natural, regional ingredients cannot be denied. Current samples are his home-made Nordic vermouth with herbs, the refreshing cucumber lassi or the bell apple juice with fir oil.
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From excellent chef to culinary free spirit and friendly host
Robert Stolz has experienced almost everything and has had a remarkable career:
Learn from great chefs all over Germany – from Chiemgau to Sylt. His first restaurant on the Baltic Sea. The first Michelin star in 1997 and his equally decorated restaurant Stolz, 12 years on Plön’s market square, where many German and Scandinavian star chefs were not only guests but also guest chefs. A creative time-out. His job as head chef in a well-known grand hotel in Hamburg.
Robert Stolz has been back in Plön since autumn 2018. Firmly anchored in his house with restaurant on Lake Plön and with a clear vision of pure cuisine and inviting hospitality in a private ambience. At the same time, he has always remained authentic and approachable, honest and genuine. Someone you would like to count among your friends, even if it’s just for one evening. True to its gastronomic motto: eat.share.live.
Our gift recommendation: In his private kitchen on a one-to-one basis with top chef Robert Stolz
Are you still looking for an unusual gift for family, friends or business partners and would like to combine this with new culinary delights in an almost private atmosphere? Take advantage of this highlight of experiential gastronomy at the large oak table as well as at the garden events at the fire ring with top chef Robert Stolz, and opt for a gift voucher that you can redeem with him at any time.