Cooking coaches and judges

Cooking coaches: Jennifer & Nathalie Dienstbach

The Dienstbach twins serve up wit, spirit and expertise every time they appear onstage. Nathalie trained as a cook with Harald Wohlfahrt at Hotel Traube Tonbach, while Jennifer studied hotel management at Institut Bocuse in Lyon, France. Both are half French and half German and have TV experience. They even won against Tim Mälzer and Tim Raue on Ready to beef! They have received numerous awards and distinctions for their Wiesbaden restaurant Les deux Dienstbachs and their pop-up restaurants, including from Gault&Millau. 



Cooking coach Bertl Seebacher

Taste is a matter of, well, taste – but skill and craftsmanship are a different matter. Seebacher (35) has operated the Kraftwerk restaurant in Oberursel for years and was named rising star of the year by restaurant guide Gault&Millau. He received 16 out of a possible 20 points for his cooking. Seebacher has cooked at Munich’s Tantris restaurant, Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Marcobrunn at Schloss Reinhartshausen, and side by side with Eckart Witzigmann, Lea Linster and three-star Swiss cook André Jaeger. He has appeared on more than 70 Hessischer Rundfunk TV programs (Hallo Hessen, Hessen à la Carte).



Judge Dr. Eva Vollmer

Eva Vollmer took over her parents’ winery and took it in a fresh new direction. She has received many awards for her wines and is the star of Germany’s first feature film about wine, weinweiblich. She became a journeyman cooper in 2003 and then embarked on a study program in enology in Geisenheim, completing a doctorate in enology there in 2013. Vollmer has been committed to organic wine growing from the start. In just its second year, the Eva Vollmer winery was a huge success, being named discovery of the year in the Gault&Millau guide.



Judge Christian Ress

Christian Ress is a Rheingau native with a vintner’s heart. He studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, graduating with a Diplom degree, and since 2010 has been in charge of his parents’ winery. Today, with 50 ha of land under cultivation, it is one of the major organic member businesses of VDP and is in its fifth generation. The Balthasar Ress winery is one of the major family businesses in the Rheingau region. It also operates a vineyard on the North Sea island of Sylt and wine restaurants and wine bars in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Wein.plus has called Balthasar Ress “one of the world’s best producers.”


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