Michelin stars<\/a>. But while gastronomic excellence is not news in the forest, future-facing plates are now creeping onto traditional menus. In the south, the valley of M\u00fcnstertal is the Black Forest spot from central casting, blessed with a mild climate, picturesque farms and the contented grazing of cows. It\u2019s also the childhood home of Viktoria Fuchs, who, though still only 35, is one of Germany\u2019s most well-known chefs. After training under Douce Steiner at Sulzburg\u2019s two-Michelin-starred Hirschen restaurant, she worked at Le Canard in Hamburg, R\u00fcssels Landhaus in the Hunsr\u00fcck mountain range near Luxembourg, and Luce d\u2019Oro (now Ikigai) at the famed hotel and retreat Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps. But she describes herself as \u201cthe homesick type\u201d so, eventually, she returned to the historical Romantik Hotel Spielweg, a M\u00fcnstertal institution and home to her family\u2019s business since 1861. A few years ago, her sister took over managing the hotel and Fuchs and her husband, Johannes Schneider, started running the kitchen. The rest is recent history: they\u2019ve since been awarded a Michelin Green Star.<\/p>\nFuchs and Schneider deliver the Black Forest classics \u2013 black pudding br\u00e4gele, a fried potato dish; and sauerbraten, a marinated meat roast \u2013 but also dishes that throw out the rule book, including wild boar dim sum and venison vitello (as opposed to the traditional veal) from their hunting grounds. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to wander too far from the path of tradition, but we\u2019re also eager to try something new,\u201d says Fuchs, sitting in her dark grey chef\u2019s jacket at the table in the family dining room, surrounded by century-old timbered walls and ceiling (modernity incurs in the adjoining sitting room with its dark green walls and leather sofa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until about a decade ago, the metropolitan Germans may have been right about the Black Forest. In 2010,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[53184,2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-653522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-destination-guides","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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