In our region, an exquisite, award-winning culinary culture awaits you – on this page we share some recommendations with you.
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Restaurant experience
Posthotel Alexander Herrmann in Wirsberg
The Posthotel has existed as a family business spanning generations since 1869 and has always given its guests a wonderful time in a family atmosphere. Today it is an innovative Power Sleeping hotel with unique, internationally recognised gastronomic concepts, which have been awarded two Michelin stars, among other accolades.
Address: Marktplatz 11, 95339 Wirsberg
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Restaurant AURA by Alexander Herrmann & Tobias Bätz
In the Michelin-starred restaurant AURA, regional ingredients meet surprising preparation methods and unique explosions of flavour – find out exactly what happens and what makes it special.
In January & February the restaurant is open from Thursday to Saturday, and for the rest of the year from Wednesday to Saturday. The menu always starts promptly at 6 pm.
Bistro “oma & enkel”
At the Bistro “oma & enkel”, our grandmothers’ traditional cooking meets the modern age, and culinary childhood memories are brought into the here and now – read how the bistro does it.
It is open daily from 6.30 pm. Last orders are taken at 8 pm.
The big food festival “Zu Tisch” with more than 20,000 visitors in Wirsberg
Once a year, Wirsberg hosts the festival “Freaks to Table/Zu Tisch!” – a big food and knowledge festival for young and old, which was attended by more than 20,000 people in 2025.
Awards with a national reputation (a selection)
- Two Michelin stars for the restaurant AURA by Alexander Herrmann & Tobias Bätz
- The green MICHELIN Star for the restaurant AURA by Alexander Herrmann & Tobias Bätz (with this distinction, the Michelin Guide honours establishments committed to sustainable practices, conscious use of resources and responsible sourcing)
- 1st place in the 100 BEST CHEFS award, launched by Jürgen Pichler, founder of the international trade magazine for the restaurant industry ROLLING PIN
- Innovator of the Year 2025 with the Future Lab ANIMA
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Concierge service
Shuttle service:
The hotel offers an exclusive shuttle service to dinner at AURA within the districts of Bayreuth, Hof and Kulmbach. In addition, both hotel guests and external restaurant guests can use the exclusive VIP Porsche shuttle service as a special extra.
Landhaus Gräfenthal in Obergräfenthal near Bindlach
Today Peter Lauterbach runs the house in the fourth generation. Like his father, he gained experience in the best Michelin-starred restaurants in Europe: he worked in kitchens such as the Schwarzwaldstube and cooked in restaurants in Bayrischzell, St. Moritz, Zurich, Ascona and Australia. But as he had already stood in the kitchen at home as a child, the way back to Gräfenthal was clear. Today he sets the culinary tone in the restaurant’s kitchen and combines traditional dishes with international delights from France, Asia and around the world.
Address: Obergräfenthal 7, 95463 Bindlach
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- The Bayreuther Gourmetfestspiele, the house’s culinary summer festival: on 12 July 2026 it is time again – top chefs and winemakers from all over Europe come to Landhaus Gräfenthal to celebrate the Bayreuther Gourmetfestspiele.
- With a focus on local flavours, the dishes also feature the best of French or Asian cuisine, so the menu includes both traditional dishes and fine, modern delicacies; the ingredients often come from small producers in the region who share the restaurant’s sustainable philosophy
- With more than 400 items, the wine list is one of the largest in Franconia, with the right vintage for every taste and budget
Awards with a national reputation (a selection)
- two toques from the renowned restaurant guide Gault&Millau 2025
- 5 out of 5 grapes in the Gault&Millau Grand Selection Award Winelist 2025
- Recommended in the Michelin Guide
- 2023 Bib Gourmand from the Michelin Guide (= flavour and quality at very good value for money)
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Beer experience
Maisel and Friends
The Bier-Erlebniswelt (beer experience world) of Maisel & Friends showcases four generations of brewing – from historic equipment to the modern brewing workshop. The site also tempts you with beer tastings, the Liebesbier restaurant with more than 100 specialities, the Urban Art Hotel and the Crazy Sheep KaffeeManufaktur. A wide variety of moments of indulgence, then.
Address: Andreas-Maisel-Weg 1, 95445 Bayreuth
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Beer tastings on various themes
The Liebesbier restaurant with trendy dishes and more than 100 beers on tap, where historic 19th-century masonry meets modern industrial design, collector’s pieces meet modern urban art, and cosy nooks meet spacious brewhouse flair.
The Crazy Sheep KaffeeManufaktur with coffee beans from a wide range of growing regions around the world, its own in-house roastery and café.
Awards with a national reputation (a selection)
- The Maisel & Friends brewery site with Maisel’s Bier-Erlebniswelt was named in 2024 and 2025 at the „World Beer Awards” in London as „Visitor Attraction of the year“, honouring the special overall experience around beer, indulgence and craftsmanship created on our brewery site
- The Liebesbier restaurant receives the Travelers’ Choice Award 2025
- „Brewery of the Year“ 2023 and 2024 at the „Finest Beer Selection“ beer tasting competition run by Doemens and Meininger Verlag
- Maisel’s Weisse Alkoholfrei was, at the European Beer Star 2025 in the Non-Alcoholic Hefeweizen category, awarded the gold medal (for the sixth time)
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An event tip: 4 Hands Dinner with Stichling & Locker on Saturday, 31 October 2026
Enjoy an exclusive 6-course gourmet menu created by Eugen Stichling – formerly Chef Pâtissier at KOMU** and previously at Restaurant Alois** at Dallmayr in Munich – and Liebesbier head chef Mathias Locker.
Bakery experience
The Lang Genusswelt in Bayreuth
For more than 250 years, bread has been baked and beer enjoyed at Jean-Paul-Straße 7. For more than 100 of those years it has been in the hands of the Lang family of master bakers – making Bäckerei Lang the oldest bakery still in operation in Bayreuth (its right to fire a baking oven dates back to 14 December 1764) and possibly even the oldest in Franconia.
The heart of the Lang Genusswelt is made up of: Upper Franconian bread and pastry specialities, unique designer rolls, creations from the patisserie, traditional baked goods from times gone by and preserves made the way grandma did.
Address: Jean-Paul-Straße 7, 95444 Bayreuth
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The Buschenschänke
Four times a year (May, June, September and October), in front of the bakery and in the idyllic courtyard, the traditional Buschenschänke serves home-brewed Beck´n Bier made according to old brewing tradition, hearty classic Brotzeit snacks, a daily changing Bayreuth speciality dish and Bäckerei Lang’s cult dessert, the oven-fresh Buddakung.
Growing Landweizen and Rotkorn
The bakers have teamed up with a dedicated farmer and a passionate miller to have Upper Franconian Landweizen (country wheat) and Rotkorn (red-grain wheat) grown and milled exclusively in the heart of the Fichtelgebirge, free from pesticides. In doing so, they want to help preserve these two endangered cereal varieties and, they hope, also protect their customers from intolerances.
Traditional baked goods
The Genusswelt also has a range of traditional baked goods in its repertoire for New Year, Carnival, Easter, Mother’s Day, Kerwa (church fair), Harvest Festival, All Saints’ Day, Christmas and throughout the year.
For example the Springerle or Pfeffernüsse, which rise out of the mould and “jump” (springen) during baking – hence the name Springerle. According to Franconian folk belief, and because the moulded images are beautiful to look at, it is said that hearts leap for joy. The poet Jean Paul is said to have loved them too, by the way.
Awards with a national reputation (a selection)
- 2024: Voted one of the best bakers in Germany 2024 by Germany’s leading gourmet magazine “Der Feinschmecker“
- 2023: 1st place in the readers’ vote of the gourmet magazine “Falstaff” for the most popular bakery in Bavaria
- 2019: State Prize of Honour of the Free State of Bavaria in recognition of consistently outstanding results in the quality tests of the Bavarian bakers’ trade