Restaurant in Cologne, Germany
Hard book. Two Michelin stars. Plan ahead.
La Cuisine Rademacher holds a Michelin star for the second consecutive year (2024 and 2025), making it one of Cologne's most consistent fine-dining destinations. Chef Kunihisa Goto runs a Modern French kitchen with Japanese-influenced precision in Dellbrück — a deliberate destination, not a casual drop-in. Book four to six weeks out minimum at €€€€ pricing.
La Cuisine Rademacher holds a Michelin star for the second consecutive year (2024 and 2025), making it one of a small number of Cologne restaurants to have demonstrated consistent kitchen-level excellence across back-to-back Michelin cycles. Chef Kunihisa Goto runs a Modern French kitchen in Dellbrück — a residential neighbourhood far from the tourist centre , which means this is a destination restaurant in the truest logistical sense. You come here on purpose. With a Google rating of 4.8 across 355 reviews, the room is clearly delivering on the promise. The question for most readers is whether the €€€€ price tier is justified, and the answer is yes , provided a structured tasting menu is the format you want.
Dellbrücker Hauptstraße 176 places La Cuisine Rademacher in east Cologne, well outside the Cathedral quarter and the concentration of fine-dining options in the Innenstadt. That distance is worth factoring in when you plan your evening. You will need a taxi or rideshare both ways, and combining this dinner with other central Cologne stops is not practical. On the other hand, the neighbourhood setting tends to produce a more focused, unhurried room than you get at city-centre restaurants managing tourist traffic alongside regulars. If you want a long, uninterrupted dinner with a kitchen that has earned its place on Cologne's serious list, the commute is worth it.
Chef Goto's Modern French framework is the right lens for understanding what La Cuisine Rademacher is selling. Modern French in a Michelin-starred context at this price tier means a sequenced tasting menu built around classical technique applied to seasonal product , the arc typically moves from delicate, aromatic openers through richer mid-course preparations toward composed meat or fish mains, before a transition into dessert. The Japanese heritage Goto brings to a French kitchen is a documented characteristic of his cooking, and in this pairing it tends to produce dishes with cleaner acidity and more precise restraint than you find in kitchens working a heavier classical French register. That is a meaningful distinction for the explorer-type diner: this is not a butter-forward, sauce-heavy experience. Expect more precision, more restraint, more attention to texture and temperature contrast. For a point of comparison, the Modern French tasting format here sits closer in spirit to Schanz in Piesport than to a looser brasserie-style progression. Readers who have enjoyed Vendôme in Bergisch Gladbach , one of Germany's most decorated French kitchens , will find Rademacher operating in a related but more intimate register.
Two consecutive Michelin stars in a city the size of Cologne produce real booking pressure. La Cuisine Rademacher is a hard book. Plan for a minimum of four to six weeks lead time on weekends; midweek tables in the quieter calendar months may open with slightly less notice, but do not count on walk-in or short-notice availability. Michelin publication cycles , the 2025 guide dropped in early March , reliably spike reservation demand for newly confirmed or retained-star restaurants for the following three to four months. If you are reading this between March and June 2025, expect the hardest availability window. Book the moment you have a date confirmed. For context on the Cologne Michelin-starred tier more broadly, see our full Cologne restaurants guide.
| Detail | La Cuisine Rademacher | maximilian lorenz | Ox & Klee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelin Stars | 1 Star (2025) | 1 Star | 1 Star |
| Price Tier | €€€€ | €€€€ | €€€€ |
| Cuisine | Modern French | French Brasserie / Modern | Modern Cuisine |
| Booking Difficulty | Hard (4–6 weeks+) | Hard | Hard |
| Location Type | Residential / destination | City centre | City centre |
| Google Rating | 4.8 (355 reviews) | Not specified | Not specified |
For transport, plan for a taxi or rideshare. The address in Dellbrück is not walkable from the city centre. Uber and local taxi services operate reliably in Cologne. No website or phone number is currently listed in verified data , check current booking channels via Google or reservation platforms for live availability.
See the full comparison section below.
| Venue | Cuisine | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Cuisine Rademacher | Modern French | Michelin 1 Star (2025); Michelin 1 Star (2024) | Hard | — |
| maximilian lorenz | French Brasserie, Modern Cuisine | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| NeoBiota | Modern German, Modern Cuisine | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| ZEN Japanese Restaurant | Japanese | Unknown | — | |
| Ox & Klee | Modern Cuisine | Michelin 2 Star | Unknown | — |
| taku | Asian | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
How La Cuisine Rademacher stacks up against the competition.
Bar seating details are not confirmed in available venue data for La Cuisine Rademacher. Given the €€€€ price point and Michelin-starred tasting menu format, the kitchen typically drives the pace and format here — this is not a drop-in bar dining scenario. check the venue's official channels at Dellbrücker Hauptstraße 176 to ask about counter or bar options before assuming flexibility.
Go in expecting a structured tasting menu experience, not à la carte flexibility — that is the Modern French Michelin format Chef Kunihisa Goto is working in. The restaurant sits in east Cologne, a 20-plus minute journey from the Cathedral quarter, so factor travel into your evening. Two consecutive Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) signal consistent kitchen discipline, which means the format is tight and the pacing is deliberate.
Book at least four to six weeks out. Two consecutive Michelin stars in a city the size of Cologne create real demand pressure, and this is not a restaurant where last-minute tables open up reliably. If you have a fixed travel date, lock in the reservation before you book your flights.
Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurants at the €€€€ price range generally cap private group sizes due to kitchen capacity constraints — La Cuisine Rademacher is unlikely to be different. For groups larger than four, check the venue's official channels to confirm availability and any private dining options; do not assume a standard reservation covers a large party.
Specific menu items are not documented in the venue data, so any dish-level recommendation would be speculation. What is confirmed: Chef Kunihisa Goto runs a Modern French kitchen at Michelin-star level, which means a set tasting menu is the primary format. Commit to the full menu rather than looking for shortcuts — at €€€€ per head, that is what the experience is built around.
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