Marvin Böhm to run the kitchen at Hamburg's Alsterpavillon
The former Aqua sous chef, whose own restaurant Buoy closed in July after about three months, takes charge of some 30 cooks at the rebuilt pavilion on the Jungfernstieg. No opening date has been published.
Marvin Böhm, 36, will run the kitchen of the rebuilt Alsterpavillon on Hamburg's Jungfernstieg, the chef confirmed to the Hamburger Morgenpost on 4 October. It is his first post since Buoy, his restaurant in HafenCity, closed in July about three months after opening.
The scale is different. The paper reports that he will lead a brigade of around 30 cooks and train young ones. The operators plan roughly 700 seats indoors and outdoors, according to the Hamburg site Table Tales. At Buoy he served a single five-course menu.
The pavilion is run by Hannes Schröder, the Hamburg restaurateur behind Küchenfreunde, and Niklas Nordmann of the Ratsherrn brewery, who won the city's tender for a 40-year building lease. They call it a "Hanseatic brasserie" and sum it up as "Zwischen Moin und Merci", between hello and thank you: North German cooking with French brasserie habits. The pavilion's website lists a café, a main room called Salon, a boulevard terrace, a roof deck and a Ratsherrn counter with beer and fish rolls.
From five courses a night in HafenCity to a brasserie with around 700 seats on the Jungfernstieg.
What Marvin Böhm brings from Aqua
He spent 15 years at Aqua in Wolfsburg, which holds three Michelin stars, part of that time as deputy head chef, according to the Morgenpost. He won the Koch des Jahres competition in 2022 and has been Germany's candidate for the Bocuse d'Or. After Wolfsburg he worked on a KaDeWe outlet in Berlin for the burger chain Goldies, then took over the former Bianc in Hamburg early this year and renamed it Buoy, with a Nordic accent.
Buoy did not last. Its operating company said the restaurant could not be run in an economically sustainable way under current market conditions, Genuss-Guide Hamburg reported in July. The chef said then that he had nothing concrete to announce. Bianc had held two stars since 2020 under Matteo Ferrantino, who left at the end of 2025.
A 1953 pavilion without an opening date
The building, designed by Ferdinand Streb and finished in 1953, is the sixth pavilion on a site that has had one since 1799. The chain Alex ran it from 2001 until 31 October 2025. The conversion adds the roof terrace that the architect drew and nobody built, and the lease requires at least 50 cultural events a year.
The opening was first set for summer 2026. In July Schröder moved it to autumn, t-online reported, and the Morgenpost now writes only that it should happen this year. Neither a menu nor prices have been published.
Elsewhere in the city the top end is shrinking: Haebel is closing its one-star restaurant in Hamburg at the end of the year, while Kevin Fehling takes The Table's name to sea. Marvin Böhm is heading the other way, from five courses a night to a house built for fish rolls and 700 seats.
