Food chronicles continue: Mural

Our second, and final, Michelin star restaurant of the trip: Mural. It is a cozy, artsy restaurant, seating around 10-12 tables, connected to the Munich museum of modern art.

We arrive around 715 and of course start with some champagne. 🥂 We promptly lose any semblance of restraint and all cave to the additional truffle add-on course and a wine pairing each. Bringing us up to 7 courses.

The meal:
Amuse-bouche or as I like to call it the welcome small snacks. These had a lot of nicely pickled veggies.

Followed by a light soup course, and the bread joining the table with the fluffiest butter you ever saw. The bread is always a dangerous game, so good but so so filling. We all take different strategies here.

Our first actual course (of the 7) is the lake trout. Very nicely prepared, it almost resembles salmon sashimi.

The next course is surprisingly one of my favorites of the whole meal, the onion dish. Individual onion leaves filled with an amazing balance cream/fennel/herbal sauce.

At this point I'll note, we had many wines along the way but don't recall which went with which. That said, they gave us some really interesting whites - including one that tasted almost like a sour beer, and another that tasted and smelled like a dry sherry. So good!

The carrots were Amiyah's favorite, earning high priase.

Our bonus truffle course shows up around now and in a show of calm, we just get two to share. One on the raviolis filled with sweetbread (brains of some animal??) and one with gnocchi. Both delicious, who doesn't love truffles and pasta?

I was very impressed with the level of approachability of the restaurant giving fine dining establishments can sometimes be very strict on coursing that everyone gets everything.

Final mains include the pike perch, and pigeon. I loved the pigeon, which was wild so a bit tough but quiet good! This meal has been full of surprises!

At this point we're about 3 hours into our meal and quickly approaching full. In a show of no-chill (a reoccurring pattern) we add on the cheese course 😅 it is Ams's favorite course and we rally to support her.

The cheese comes at the very end after 2 other dessert courses. But all in all the meal turns out to be one of the most enjoyable and welcoming fine dining meals I've ever had. The pace was perfect, great atmosphere, and really reasonable portions and wine pours that leave us feeling very full but not miserably so.

Just after midnight we take our leave and enjoy a quick walk home.Read more