Gourmet-Restaurant Der Butt

The top floor of a pavilion perched at the marina puts the yacht masts level with your eyeline, which is a decent opening move for a Michelin-starred fine dining room. The chef's cooking is modern and precise, built around clean, intense flavors and very good produce rather than theatrical flourishes. The menu reads as quietly confident, the kind of place where the food does the talking and the room supplies the sunset.

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