A visit to a Michelin-starred restaurant usually comes with a pretty hefty bill. Of course, the list of award-winning restaurants in Berlin is long and the selection is vast—but where will it be easiest on your wallet, you might ask? We’ve got a pretty good tip for you right now: a special promotion at one of the city’s most famous Michelin-starred restaurants. Through September 30, Nobelhart & Schmutzig is offering an extraordinary “Heimat” menu, which you can enjoy at this Michelin-starred restaurant for just 39 euros.
Nobelhart & Schmutzig is located at Friedrichstraße 218 in Kreuzberg, right next to the Kochstraße subway station. Behind its rather unassuming facade lies one of Berlin’s most famous fine-dining restaurants. The restaurant opened in 2015. Billy Wagner is the owner and host, while Micha Schäfer is in charge of the kitchen. Nobelhart & Schmutzig has been awarded a Michelin star. It also holds a Green Michelin Star, with which the Michelin Guide recognizes the restaurant’s special commitment to more sustainable gastronomy. The cuisine focuses on seasonal ingredients and consistently regional sourcing.
The Berlin restaurant has also made a name for itself internationally. In 2024, Nobelhart & Schmutzig ranked 43rd on “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list, placing it among the world’s 50 best restaurants. In 2025, it reached 59th place, landing on the extended list of spots 51 through 100.
Normally, an evening at Nobelhart & Schmutzig comes with a hefty price tag. The regular menu currently costs 120 euros per person from Tuesday through Thursday. On Fridays, the price is 135 euros, and on Saturdays, 140 euros. Beverages are generally charged separately, though filtered table water is included in the menu price.
This makes the “Heimat” concept all the more extraordinary—it currently lets you dine at the Michelin-starred restaurant for just 39 euros. The series was launched in January 2026 and highlights a new dish roughly every two months. The idea doesn’t originate from the kitchen at Nobelhart & Schmutzig, however. Instead, each dish is based on a personalchildhood or dining memory of someone from Berlin.
The focus is on the question of which dish first comes to mind when a person thinks of their childhood and home. The team at Nobelhart & Schmutzig then takes this personal memory and reinterprets it through their own culinary philosophy. In previous editions, the menu has included, among other things , stuffed cabbage rolls, chicken fricassee, Beuscher, and Ghormeh Sabzi. “Heimat” is thus not simply a more affordable fine-dining menu, but a culinary series about people, heritage, family, and personal memories.
Currently , the fifth installment of the series , titled “Heimat #5: Polpette,” is underway . It will be available from August 11 through September 30, 2026 , and is based on a Sardinian family recipe by Nina Serra. She moved to Berlin in 2005, and among other things, she associates her childhood with her mother’s polpette— meatballs in tomato sauce. The original dish was intentionally simple, as her mother worked as a nurse and had little time for elaborate cooking in her daily life.
Nobelhart & Schmutzig draws on this family memory and combines it with its own philosophy. The polpette are made with veal from the Erdhof Seewalde. They’re served with tomatoes and toasted sourdough bread from the Berlin bakery Sironi, which is meant to evoke the Sardinian bread civraxiu.
For 39 euros per person, you get a plate of polpette in tomato sauce with toasted sourdough bread. If you’re still hungry afterward, you’re in for a treat, because a second helping is included in the price. The offer also includes a small “take-home snack” and filtered Brita table water, available in still and sparkling varieties.
