TV chef comes with a sushi restaurant in the station district
Star chef Steffen Henssler opens a new sushi restaurant in Frankfurt. The station district’s bad reputation doesn’t worry him.
Frankfurt – Not far from Frankfurt’s main train station, there is now Californian-Japanese cuisine from the team of Hamburg TV chef Steffen Henssler. The 49-year-old celebrates the quarter. If you don’t feel like going to a restaurant, you can have sushi delivered to your home. And on plates.
The favorite sushi and a classic of TV chef Steffen Henssler is the Ultra Roll: This includes avocado, cucumber, onion, ceviche, tempura shrimp, house mayonnaise and teriyaki sauce. Eight of them cost 19 euros. Everything is beautifully presented, different sushi are colour-coordinated, you almost don’t dare to eat them, they are so pretty. It’s called food styling. It’s also premium sushi and, as one radio reporter put it, Henssler is “the German sushi king”.
The 49-year-old from Hamburg made the extra trip to Frankfurt for the opening of his new restaurant “GO by Steffen Henssler” on Thursday. The soft opening, a kind of test phase, took place two weeks ago. But now things should really get going in Frankfurt. His Japanese-Californian cuisine is already available in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Sylt. In Frankfurt, the sushi restaurant is right next to Salon Slevan on Düsseldorfer Strasse, where dry haircuts and hair extensions are available. There are only a few steps to the main train station. There is space for 90 guests on two floors.
Frankfurt: Exclusive cuisine in Steffen Henssler’s new restaurant
Even before the opening party in the evening, Henssler is walking around at the press lunch, posing for photos in the stylish Japanese shop with lots of wood everywhere. Walking up the show stairs, there’s a lounge area where guests can order cocktails like Shisho Smash (Japanese mint, Japanese lemon juice, gin, and sugar). There is also a private dining room upstairs.
The menu also features exclusives like Wagyu beef or scallop sashimi. Henssler has to answer one question over and over again: Why did he open his sushi restaurant in the station district of all places? “I always thought Frankfurt was great,” he says. He got to know the district mainly through his buddy, the rock singer Daniel Wirtz, who lives here. “I’m relaxed about it. When I opened my restaurant “Henssler Henssler” in Hamburg in 2001, there was street prostitution there. That too belongs in an urban corner.”
Steffen Henssler opens a restaurant in Frankfurt – in the station district of all places
The Frankfurt train station district reminds him of Hamburg 25 years ago. But I’ve looked at that because of the many tourists. “I think that will also happen in Frankfurt.” The sushi chef Mike Bäcker, who was born in Frankfurt and completed his training at Henssler for five years, is part of the local management team. The opening will also see sushi chef Kazu San, who has even spoiled Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio with culinary delights in Monaco. In Frankfurt, Kazu San is present in the kitchen on a high-performance rotation. In the future, after-work parties and sushi brunches are also planned at Go. Vegetarian sushi is already available, and from 2023 every sushi roll on the menu should be available in a vegetarian version.
GO by Steffen Henssler
Düsseldorfer Strasse 1-7; Opening hours Monday to Friday 6 p.m. to midnight; Wednesday to Friday also from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Info: www.gobysteffenhenssler.com/de
You can also have all the sushi delivered to your home. The new thing is the “Go Zero” concept. It was like meals on wheels. In order to avoid single-use products and because it looks nicer, everything is delivered to your home on real plates. You can then use an app or phone to let the delivery service pick up the dark dishes with the electric car. (Kathrin Rosendorff)
At the same time there is the Oetker Group their digital gastronomy concept in Frankfurt up after a year. 50 employees of “Gugelhupf und du” are affected by the closures.