Mangostin

(Restaurants)

Address: Maria-Einsiedel-Str. 2

Postal code: 81379

Telephone: (0 89) 7 23 20 31

Information

Two thoughts guide us every day at Mangostin: Quality and Authenticity.

Both demand a great deal of time, money and effort from us.

Our purchasing office in bustling Bangkok sends us a delivery each and every week. This guarantees us the best local fare and the opportunity to procure seasonal delicacies that are available for short periods.

In Munch we have a network of suppliers that know our high standards and can come up with produce to meet them.

For instance, we source sensitive Asian herbs and salads here; beef, pork and poultry we obtain from Kuffler’s own butcher’s.

THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS

The co-ordination between Roland Kuffler and Joseph Peter, two gastronomes that are the proprietors of Mangostin, is on a par with that of yin and yang.

While Kuffler is responsible for all things commercial and the interior design of Mangostin, Peter is the creative helmsman of the restaurant, constantly on the look-out for new Far Eastern trends in cuisine. Thanks to his many years’ experience working as Chef de Cuisine in luxury hotels in Bangkok and as Head of Thailand’s national team of cooks, his connections with Asia are excellent.

Several times a year he travels to the metropolises of Thailand, Japan, Vietnam and China along with his specialist colleagues to recruit staff and keep up with developments in Asian cuisine.

Together with his sons Stephan and Sebastian, Roland Kuffler runs one of the largest privately managed gastronomy firms in Germany, the Kuffler Group.

He was the driving force behind the refurbishment of Mangostin completed at the end of 2008. He and his architecture bureau Kuffler Inn Design gave the restaurant a matchless new gloss.

As so often in his entrepreneurial life, only the extraordinary was good enough when designing the new Mangostin: for instance, he managed to buy famous art teacher Xiao Hui Wang’s spectacular photo installation “Red Child” off her, and it now dominates the entire front of the “Lemon Grass” part of the restaurant.