The French Week in Starnberg starts on - with more stands than last and, above all, with a sophisticated culinary offer.
Starnberg – Oliver Lutz has already brought out the tricolor.
Next week, the master butcher from Pöcking also wants to hoist it on the Starnberg church square.
Because on Monday, May 23rd, the French week starts there again - with eight stands and thus significantly more than last time.
Lutz runs one of them and is already looking forward to it: "It's great that there are so many," he said at a press event on Monday.
In 2018 the short-term cancellation due to organizational difficulties, in 2020 and 2021 the Corona-Aus - the anticipation is all the greater for everyone involved.
"The French Week is an incredibly important event for Starnberg, it is a Starnberg institution," said Mayor Patrick Janik and was "infinitely grateful" to the organizers around Lutz and the chairwoman of the Friends of Dinard, Angelika Galata.
"Everyone is looking forward to it," emphasized Dominic Bernhard, owner of the restaurant Kommod from Pöcking, who this year is running a stand at the French Week for the first time together with Friedrich Federsel.
It is said to represent Aquitaine, the region south of Bordeaux.
There are French bratwurst with champagne cabbage and Dijon mustard in a baguette, poisson et frites (fried fish with fries) and fleur bleue (purple potatoes) with garlic dip, among other things.
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Oliver Lutz stands for Alsace - with tarte flambée, Alsatian bratwurst, cheese specialties and Alsatian wine.
The team from the Seebad-Restaurant Strandhouse offers fish and salad, just as it should be on the Cote d'Azur.
Also present is Wigbert Cramer from the organic bakery of the same name in Gauting.
His stand represents a Parisian sidewalk café serving brioche and croissants, tarts and quiches.
There are also sweet specialties.
"We also bake on site," promised Cramer.
The Starnberg ice cream workshop is at the start with crêpes.
There will be no special types of ice cream for the French week, said owner Jan Thunig.
Varieties such as "caramel fleur de sel" would go well with the rest of the range anyway.
Stefan Hartl offers specialties from Normandy at his stand.
Although the Munich resident is a full-time security contractor, he has been going to the French Atlantic coast for 32 years and only got Calvados, cider, sausages and more there a few days ago.
Right next to it is Brittany with Starnberg's twin town of Dinard.
And from there seven friends come to Starnberg.
They have fresh oysters, muscador, champagne, cider and cheese with them, and they also prepare crepes and galettes at their stand.
The Starnberg restaurant “Zeitlos” is also included.
The French Week will be officially opened on May 23 at 5 p.m. by Patrick Janik and representatives of the partner clubs from Dinard and Starnberg.
On all other days up to and including Sunday 29 May, the stands will open at 11 am.
It closes at 10:30 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, at 11 p.m. from Wednesday to Saturday and at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.
The French Week is accompanied by a supporting programme.
On Mondays the town band and the youth wind orchestra "GreenSTARs" play, on Tuesdays and Fridays between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. there are so-called "walking acts", in which artists, for example, dressed in haute couture on stilts or as "lady with two dogs" walk over the walk church square.
The book dinghy on the church square is also dedicated entirely to the subject of France with a reading on Wednesday at 7 p.m. “Diagonal through France – from Brittany to Provence” (registrations are required here by calling 0 81 51/1 28 28).
The wide-screen cinema on Wittelsbacherstraße shows "children's films, film classics, current French highlights and previews of upcoming great French films" every day, as operator Matthias Helwig announces.
On Wednesday there is also a long evening of shopping around the church square until 8 p.m.
"It is important for retailers that there is life in the city," said Annette von Nordeck from the City Initiative board.
There, too, the anticipation for the week is great.
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