Sebastian Frank (cook)

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Sebastian Frank (born November 6, 1981 in Mödling ) is an Austrian chef . He is the head chef and owner of the Horváth restaurant in Berlin .

Live and act

Frank grew up in Bruck an der Leitha and learned the kitchen trade at the Hotel Wende in Neusiedl am See . At the end of the 1990s he moved to Vienna. He worked in the restaurant of the Burgtheater , then in the restaurants Vestibül and the award-winning Steirereck in Vienna, which he left as Chef de Partie of the cold kitchen. He then switched to Christoph Zangerl as Sous Chef à la carte at the Chef's Table restaurant in the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Telfs . In 2008 he applied for Gault Millau's Newcomer of the Yearand won the award. At the Interalpen Hotel he met his future partner, Jeannine Kessler from Berlin, who worked in the service there. At the beginning of 2010 he followed Kessler, who returned to Berlin.

On May 1, 2010 Frank took over a position as head chef at Horváth on Paul-Lincke-Ufer in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Just one year later, the kitchen received a Michelin star under his management , and at the age of 30 he became Berlin's youngest chef in a Michelin-starred restaurant. At the beginning of 2014 he took over the Horváth together with his partner Kessler. Frank is known for his “semi-vegetarian cuisine”, in which he puts vegetables at the center of the dishes, but spices them with meat and fish flavors, such as pork jus. He dispenses with expensive raw materials and uses products that he grew up with in his homeland in Lower Austria . Sebastian Frank published a cookbook in April 2019.

exile

In what is now Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44a, there have been restaurants since 1918. The locality became known under the name Exil when it was taken over in 1972 by the Austrian writer and philosopher Oswald (Ossi) Wiener and his wife Ingrid. The exile became the meeting place of the literary, political and artistic avant-garde scene of the 1970s and 80s. David Bowie , Joseph Beuys , George Tabori and Rainer Fassbinder are said to have been among the guests who "drank Burgenland wines with sauerbraten ...". The restaurant was run by the Wieners until 1986. The daughter Sarah Wiener gained her first gastronomic experience in exile . In 2005, the restaurateurs Edith Berlinger and Dietmar Schweitzer opened under the new name Horváth , in which Wolfgang Müller cooked until 2009, who cooked a star in Adermann in 2002 .

Awards

  • 2008: Newcomer of the year in Gault Millau
  • 2011: Chef of the year 2011 at Anuga
  • 2011: Star in Michelin Germany
  • 2016: Two stars in Michelin Germany
  • 2017: Berlin master chef
  • 2018: Best Chef in Europe 2018 , madridfusión

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Brav Andi: From Bruck to Berlin . In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten online from May 7, 2013
  2. Heiko Hofmann: "I do without any exotic": Interview with star chef Sebastian Frank ( Memento from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Zitty from February 7, 2014
  3. Sebastian Frank publishes "kuk [cook]". Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
  4. ahgz.de: Wolfgang Mueller's second life in Berlin
  5. Website: Restaurant Michelin
  6. Four new two-star stars: Atelier, schanz, Lafleur and Horváth
  7. restaurant-ranglisten.de: Sebastian Frank is Berlin Master Chef 2017
  8. ^ Restaurant-ranglisten.de: Award for Sebastian Frank at an international gastro congress