Mandarin Oriental, Munich Houses Nobu Matsuhisa's Only Restaurant in Germany

Mandarin Oriental, Munich occupies a genuinely unusual building for a luxury hotel: a converted 19th-century former opera house in the city's Altstadt, with an August Endell Jugendstil relief from 1897 still marking the property's original public rooms. The hotel's dining program makes equally distinctive use of the space, none more so than Matsuhisa Munich, the only restaurant chef Nobu Matsuhisa operates anywhere in Germany.

Matsuhisa Munich carries the Japanese-Peruvian fusion cooking that made Nobu's name internationally, built around an eight-seat live cooking counter where guests watch the kitchen work in real time rather than simply receiving dishes from an unseen back-of-house. The restaurant has earned a place in the Falstaff Restaurant & Inn Guide Germany 2026, holding its own among Munich's increasingly competitive fine-dining scene.

Pairing a Nobu-branded restaurant with a 19th-century opera house is the kind of contrast that could easily feel forced, but at Mandarin Oriental, Munich it reads as intentional, a historic Bavarian building repurposed for a genuinely international culinary program. For travelers who know Nobu's restaurants from Tokyo, London, or New York, Munich's version, tucked inside a former stage for German opera, is worth the detour on its own.

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