1789

Verdict: A Michelin-Starred Reason to Make the Drive to Baiersbronn

At the €€€€ price point, 1789 delivers a modern cuisine tasting experience backed by consecutive Michelin stars in 2024 and 2025; a meaningful credential for a restaurant in a town that already punches well above its weight in fine dining. If you are travelling to Baiersbronn for the first time and want a serious modern tasting menu without booking into the three-star stratosphere of Schwarzwaldstube, this is the right first call.

What to Expect on Your First Visit

1789 sits on Tonbachstraße; the same address corridor as several of Baiersbronn's most decorated dining rooms, which tells you something about the concentration of ambition in this small Black Forest town. For a first-timer, the atmosphere here is the thing to calibrate to before you arrive. This is not a loud or gregarious room. Expect the kind of quiet, focused energy that characterises serious tasting-menu restaurants: measured service pacing, unhurried transitions between courses, a dining room where conversation carries at a normal volume. If you are coming from a city restaurant where noise is part of the texture, the stillness here may take a course or two to settle into. That is not a criticism, it is the format. A meal at 1789 is designed to hold your attention at the table.

Chef Kyoo Eom leads a kitchen working in modern cuisine, a format that in the German fine-dining context typically means a tasting menu structure with European classical technique applied to seasonal produce, often with non-European influences woven through. Given that the restaurant has retained its Michelin star across consecutive guides, the kitchen is demonstrably consistent. For a first visit, commit to the full tasting menu rather than attempting to shortcut the experience. That is the format the kitchen is built around, the Michelin recognition reflects the complete arc of the meal, not individual dishes.

Booking is hard. Baiersbronn's reputation as a fine-dining destination means that the town's starred restaurants fill well in advance, particularly across spring and autumn when the Black Forest is at its most accessible. Plan a minimum of three to four weeks ahead, consider that weekend tables at this tier are the first to go. If you are visiting as part of a wider Baiersbronn trip, coordinate your 1789 reservation before booking your hotel, not after.

A Multi-Visit Strategy

One Michelin star sustained across two consecutive years suggests a kitchen with a clear point of view and enough consistency to reward a return. If you are already planning a second visit to Baiersbronn, the town gives you good reasons to, there is a logical progression available across two or three meals here.

On a first visit, the full tasting menu is the only sensible choice. It is the vehicle through which Eom's kitchen communicates its identity, skipping it leaves you with an incomplete picture of what 1789 is actually doing. On a second visit, the interesting question is whether the menu has evolved seasonally. Modern cuisine restaurants at this level typically rotate their tasting menus with the seasons, so a spring visit and an autumn visit will produce meaningfully different meals. A third visit, if you get there, is the moment to request any available à la carte options or shorter menu formats, if the kitchen offers them, to see how individual dishes hold up outside the tasting menu context.

For broader context across Baiersbronn's dining scene across multiple visits, Restaurant Bareiss and Schlossberg offer distinct creative registers worth comparing against 1789. For a lighter meal between tasting menus, Dorfstuben and Engelwirts-Stube provide accessible, lower-pressure alternatives. See our full Baiersbronn restaurants guide for the complete picture across price tiers.

How 1789 Fits Into Germany's Broader Fine-Dining Map

For context, one Michelin star in Germany is a meaningful benchmark, the guide is conservative with its awards and consistent in its standards. Restaurants such as JAN in Munich and ES:SENZ in Grassau operate at a comparable tier and offer useful comparison points if you travel widely across German fine dining. If modern cuisine in a tasting-menu format is your primary interest, CODA Dessert Dining in Berlin offers a contrasting approach at a similar level. Beyond Germany, Frantzén in Stockholm and Maison Lameloise in Chagny represent the category at higher star counts, useful reference points if you are calibrating where 1789 sits in the European modern cuisine hierarchy.