Top chef takes over traditional economy - and wants to continue without vegans: "It just doesn't fit"

Created: 10/17/2022, 12:08 p.m

By: Stephanie Ebner

Hans Jörg Bachmeier (right) takes over “Beim Sedlmayr” from Rudi Färber (left).

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Munich's top chef Hans Jörg Bachmeier takes over the traditional restaurant "Beim Sedlmayr".

Cult landlord Rudi Färber will stay with the guests as head chef until 2024.

Munich – Rudi Färber is a cult in Munich.

Not only numerous celebrities love the kitchen of the tradition-conscious 73-year-old chef at the Viktualienmarkt.

The locals also appreciate his cooking skills.

Because he still serves the classic Munich cuisine that you can hardly find anywhere else on the city's menus: Briesmilzwurst and sour kidneys, for example.

His calf's head cheeks, for example, are legendary, as are the calf's feet.

Some come to the tavern just for the Kaiserschmarrn.

Färber promises: "I'll tell my friend Hans Jörg the recipe.

Tradition should not be lost.”

Munich: Despite a new tenant - classic Bavarian cuisine should be retained at "Sedlmayr".

Hans Jörg Bachmeier (56) is currently running his "Bachmeiers Genussfreuden", which opened in 2020, just a stone's throw away.

It is important to the new tenant that "the DNA of the inn and its dishes are preserved" - despite all the trends in the kitchen.

You will therefore look in vain for vegan dishes at "Sedlmayr" in the future - "it just doesn't go with classic Bavarian cuisine".

Bachmeier and Färber agree on that.

The vegetarian offer, on the other hand, will be minimally expanded - in future, a celery schnitzel will be on the menu alongside the obligatory cheese spaetzle.

In one respect, however, Rudi Färber's Munich cuisine has always been modern: the chef has always cooked according to the now so highly praised "nose-to-tail" principle.

The whole animal ended up in the cooking pot, so to speak, not just the precious parts.

So the tradition lives on.

Bachmeier says: “We are continuing the Sedlmayr concept.

Nobody will miss their favorite food.” Rudi Färber adds: “I'm glad to have Hans Jörg by my side.

So I can withdraw step by step.”

Munich: Bachmeier still has these plans with the “Sedlmayr”

Bachmeier also takes over the entire service staff of the "Sedlmayr".

Nothing will change in the near future when it comes to the interior design either, which is dignified in Munich style.

With his legendary cuisine and his hospitality, he has created a real fan community, emphasizes Andreas Steinfatt.

The managing director of the Paulaner brewery says: “We are very pleased that Färber is now practically training a successor himself.

And who is not only a colleague for him and also for us, but also a friend.”

The two friends only disagree on one point: when it comes to football.

Dyer is a die-hard Leo and a lifetime member.

The 1966 championship team even celebrated their 50th anniversary with him.

Bachmeier's heart, on the other hand, beats for FC Bayern.

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Traditional economy "Beim Sedlmayr" - the story of the new tenant

Bachmeier loves his Bavarian homeland.

His motto in the kitchen is "simple and good". Born in Eggenfelden, he completed his cooking apprenticeship in his parents' business in 1983.

He then worked in 1984 at the Kupferpfanne in Fürth and in 1988 at Tantris in Munich with Heinz Winkler.

From 1989 to 1991 he cooked in the Kurhausstüberl with Alfons Schuhbeck in Waging am See, then he worked at Feinkost Käfer.

From 2004 to 2020 he managed his own restaurant "Blauer Bock".

Since October 2020 he has been running his restaurant "Bachmeier" at Westenriederstraße 43 - a good hundred meters away from "Sedlmayr".

Since March 2012, the top chef has also been seen regularly on Bavarian television – in “Einfach.

Good.

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Bachmeier has also written several cookbooks.

Extensive renovation work on the building is due in about two years.

Then the "Sedlmayr" will be temporarily closed.

Tavern with an eventful history

The tavern "Beim Sedlmayr" is a restaurant with an eventful history: In February 1989, folk actor Walter Sedlmayr opened "Beim Sedlmayr" at Westenriederstraße 14 in the immediate vicinity of Munich's Viktualienmarkt.

Before that, the economy was simply called "Fischerwirt".

At the opening, the popular actor is said to have renamed the saying "Whoever doesn't become a landlord" to "Anyone who has become something can only become a landlord".

Sedlmayr was no longer able to prove that he was a good landlord: he was found murdered just a year later, on July 14, 1990, in his Schwabing apartment.

Before that, the actor had withdrawn this job from his foster son, to whom he had initially entrusted the management of the restaurant.

Even more: Sedlmayr also wanted to disinherit it.

He had found out that he had embezzled goods on a large scale.

In May 1990 there was a rift between Sedlmayr and his foster son.

In a circumstantial trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

“Beim Sedlmayr” will also be the name of the restaurant in the future.

In 2000, the Munich cult host Rudi Färber took over the business, which he made into an institution of Bavarian cuisine in downtown Munich.

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