100/200 Kitchen

100/200 kitchen is a tasting-menu restaurant in a former warehouse by the Billhafen in Rothenburgsort, Hamburg. It sits on the third floor of the building on Brandshofer Deich. The name stands for two temperatures, one for cooking and one for the oven.

Chef Thomas Imbusch and his wife Sophie Lehmann, sommelier and host, run it together. Imbusch had worked for Tim Mälzer at the Off Club and already had most of the concept worked out when a friend introduced the two; Lehmann, who had planned to move to France, stayed to build the restaurant with him. Guests ring a bell at an unremarkable door on the edge of the city and take a lift up to a large room with an industrial feel.

At the center stands a huge Molteni stove, and the tables are arranged around it. Imbusch cooks a surprise menu from regional produce and uses whole animals, nose to tail, so that very little goes to waste. The year is split into four seasonal themes; in early spring, for example, the menu turns to water and salt and to what comes from rivers, lakes and the sea. Each morning the chef decides how the evening's ingredients will change, and techniques such as fermenting and smoking appear across the courses.

Lehmann buys wines from small producers rather than famous names, natural wines among them, and every bottle can also be poured by the glass. Many guests take the full drinks pairing. Large furniture contrasts with delicate tableware: fine silver cutlery by Robbe & Berking, porcelain from Hering Berlin and thin Josephine glasses. The Michelin Guide gave the restaurant a second star in 2022.