Ahlmanns

Rating: 16
Author: Gault&Millau

Niemannsweg 102, 24105 Kiel, Germany

16/20
Remarkable Restaurant

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Chef: Lasse Knickrehm
Cooking: Gastronomic | German | International | Local | Vegan | Vegetarian
Services: Access for people with disabilities | Accommodation | Electric charging station | Private Parking | Terrace
Style: Bar | Casual | Elegant | Exceptional setting | Romantic | With friends

Gault&Millau's review 2025

The Hotel Kieler Kaufmann is located as you would imagine the residence of one: dignified, overgrown with ivy and a wide view over the sailing yachts of the Kiel Fjord. Today, Ahlmanns invites you to a fine-dining experience here, next to the casual second restaurant "Kaufmannsladen", which is one of the most enjoyable in the region. After Arne Linke's intermezzo, Lasse Knickrehm has now taken over the kitchen management - and is cooking big. By the way, if desired, it can also be less large, because his up to eight-course menu can only be enjoyed in three excerpts, but we strongly recommend the more detailed version, the variety of which is already shown by the four successful snacks at the start (including parsley root in textures, piglet aspic and a miniature fish burger). Across the board, excellent product quality and skilful, contemporary preparation characterize the cuisine of Knickrehm, for example with the Danish yellowtail mackerel, pleasantly contrasted with fennel, smoked almond and pomegranate, as well as with the slice of char pickled in coriander and fennel with boiled buckwheat, cucumber cress, caramelized icicles (radis) and roe in cucumber stock. The turbot in beurre blanc came to the table with ox marrow, a gentle kimchi and glazed grapes - all quite independent compositions that give us hope for more from this creative cuisine. A strong start in any case!