Dustin Dankelmann leaves RARO

SCHRIESHEIM. A few weeks after opening the farm-to-table restaurant RARO, head chef Daustin Dankelmann is leaving the business. According to him, the decision was made on 10 October, just two weeks after the opening. Dustin Dankelmann had conceptualised the RARO and worked towards its opening for a long time. The owners, the Lautenschläger family, will now continue to run RARO themselves. "I am now looking for a new challenge. I would like to emphasise that we have parted on the best of terms and wish the RARO and its team all the best for the future," Dustin Dankelmann's statement continues.

Dustin Dankelmann began his career as a trainee chef at Juan Amador's three-star restaurant in Mannheim. After his apprenticeship years at the Schlosshotel Lerbach (Bergisch Gladbach**), with Hans-Stefan-Steinheuer (Bad Neuenahr**), Joachim Wissler (also Bergisch Gladbach***), Yannick Allenó (Paris***) and Klaus Erfort (Saarbrücken***), he returned to the Rhine-Neckar region in Heidelberg, where he was head chef at the "959" restaurant.restaurant "959", he was awarded 16 points by Gault&Millau and named Germany's "Discovery of the Year 2020". Over the past four years, the 31-year-old chef has planted around 1.5 hectares of his own fields around Heidelberg, with a variety of over 750 different herbs, fruit and vegetables from all over the world. He has already received an award for this from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics, Labour and Tourism.