CODA Dessert Dining

René Frank's two-star restaurant on Friedelstraße: a menu built on patisserie techniques, without refined sugar.

René Frank and Oliver Bischoff opened CODA on Friedelstraße in 2016. The first Michelin star came in 2019, the second in 2020, making CODA the first two-star restaurant in Germany whose cooking starts from desserts. In 2022 Frank was named the world's best pastry chef by the World's 50 Best Restaurants.

The kitchen uses patisserie techniques, but the boundaries between savoury and sweet, starter, main and dessert do not exist here. A menu might include aubergine with pecan, apple balsamic and liquorice salt. CODA uses no refined sugar; sweetness comes from the ingredients themselves, from honey or beet syrup, and fruit is preserved rather than puréed. Head chef Julia A. Leitner has been in the kitchen since day one. The room is deliberately understated; open in the evening from 7 pm, Wednesday to Saturday.