Julius Ernst

The little sibling of ernst in Wedding: French-Japanese cooking from an open kitchen, à la carte or omakase, natural wines, house-roasted coffee at weekends.

Julius Ernst is the little sibling of ernst, the restaurant of Dylan Watson-Brawn and Spencer Christenson that closed at the end of 2024. At Gerichtstraße 31 its approach lives on: the kitchen works with a handful of small farmers and producers from the region and beyond, and the menu changes every day with what they deliver.

The room is minimal, with tall glass panes, tables and chairs of walnut and zinc and a concrete floor. Behind the counter is the open kitchen of head chef Shunsuke Nagaoka, which brings together French and Japanese influences. Recent dishes included grilled oysters with beef bone marrow, eel toast with beetroot tapenade, celeriac katsu with tonkatsu sauce and a whole sole off the grill, with colostrum milk ice cream and shoyu caramel for dessert. In the evening you order à la carte or leave the choice to the kitchen with the omakase menu of eight to ten courses. Seats at the bar are always kept free for walk-ins.

Inga Krieger is in charge of the wine. The list changes constantly and focuses on growers who work biodynamically and without chemicals, many of them from France. At weekends Julius Ernst becomes a café during the day: the coffee is roasted in-house in small batches over fire and brewed by hand for each guest, with pastries and a small lunch.