Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Hanover from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Hanover
Jante in Südstadt holds two Michelin stars, and Handwerk in Südstadt holds one. Votum holds two Michelin stars and is set in the Leineschloss.
Jante in Südstadt holds two Michelin stars and a 2026 La Liste score of 85 points. Its wine program is exceptional: an extensive, sommelier-led list. The cooking is modern European fine dining in a Scandinavian-style interior. The kitchen serves tasting and set menus.
Votum is a fine dining restaurant that holds two Michelin stars, including the 2026 award, and cooks creative modern cuisine. It is set in the Leineschloss, the seat of Lower Saxony's state parliament, and pairs that cooking with a historic-meets-contemporary setting.
Handwerk in Südstadt holds one Michelin star and cooks modern European fusion with Nordic and Far Eastern influences. The kitchen offers tasting and set menus in a casual fine dining room with an open kitchen, where chefs present each course. The wine program is sommelier-led and includes natural wine.
In our guide, exceptional wine programs include Jante and Ristorante Tesoro, both in Südstadt. Beckers in Oststadt and Schorse im Leineschloss in Mitte hold wine lists, and Zwei in Zwanzig in Linden serves wine with Portuguese dishes.
Ristorante Tesoro in Südstadt cooks modern Italian fine dining, with handmade pasta and stone-oven pizza in a modern setting. Its wine program is exceptional, and the list is extensive and sommelier-led. The restaurant serves both à la carte and a tasting menu.
Beckers in Oststadt is a Modern German wine bar, a classic bistro in a historic building serving premium steaks. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and serves à la carte. The wine program has an extensive list.
Schorse im Leineschloss in Mitte serves French bistro cooking in the historic Leineschloss building on the Leine riverfront, with English service style and a service trolley. The wine program has an extensive list. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026, and it offers à la carte and a set menu.
Zwei in Zwanzig – Wein in Linden. | Luis und Diana Souto Méndez GbR in Linden is a Portuguese-influenced wine venue in a small, traditional room. Bacalhau à Brás and Pastéis de Nata are served with a wine list. It holds the Falstaff Winery Listed award for 2026.
The Wild Duck, Rüpel in Linden-Limmer and EssKultur in Mitte all offer tasting menus. The cooking covers Asian-French fusion, vegan fine dining and modern European fusion.
The Wild Duck offers creative Asian-French fusion in a fine dining setting, with an exceptional wine program: an extensive list, natural wine and biodynamic wine pairings. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026. The kitchen serves tasting and set menus.
Rüpel in Linden-Limmer is a fully vegan fine dining restaurant with tasting and set menus, house-made sourdough and a Michelin Plate for 2026. The wine program pours natural wine and has a sommelier-led, extensive list, and alcohol alternatives are served as well.
EssKultur in Mitte serves creative modern European fusion as a tasting menu that changes every 6 weeks, in a casual fine dining style. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026. The list is extensive.
Südstadt and Vahrenwald hold exceptional wine programs in our guide. Jante and Ristorante Tesoro in Südstadt both have extensive, sommelier-led lists. The Wild Duck has an extensive list with natural wine, and Restaurant Basil in Vahrenwald has an extensive, sommelier-led list and a Star Wine List award for 2026. In Mitte, Schorse im Leineschloss and EssKultur each have an extensive list.
Hanover has 4 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, and those restaurants account for 6 Michelin stars in total. Jante and Handwerk are both in Südstadt, Marie is in Oststadt, and Votum is set in the Leineschloss, the seat of Lower Saxony's state parliament.
Südstadt, Linden-Limmer, Mitte and Hannover Mitte have tasting-menu restaurants in our guide. Südstadt has Jante, Handwerk and Ristorante Tesoro. The Wild Duck serves tasting and set menus. Rüpel is in Linden-Limmer, EssKultur is in Mitte, and THE LIVING - room - is in Hannover Mitte.
Jante, Ristorante Tesoro, The Wild Duck and Restaurant Basil are among the 7 exceptional wine programs in our guide. Jante and Ristorante Tesoro in Südstadt and Restaurant Basil in Vahrenwald have extensive, sommelier-led lists, and Restaurant Basil holds a Star Wine List award for 2026. The Wild Duck has an extensive list and natural wine.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Hanover
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Jante holds two Michelin stars and scores 85 points in the 2026 La Liste rankings, placing it firmly among Germany's serious creative-cooking addresses. Chef Tony Hohlfeld runs a tightly focused menu at Marienstraße 116 in Hanover's Südstadt, where the kitchen operates at a level that competes well beyond the city's dining scene.
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Votum holds two Michelin stars and consecutive La Liste recognition at 81–82 points, placing it among Germany's most serious creative kitchens. Chef Jun Lee operates from Hannah-Arendt-Platz in central Hanover, where the menu structure itself carries the editorial weight of the restaurant's ambition. At €€€€ pricing, this is Hanover's most demanding table, and one of its most rewarding.
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Handwerk holds a Michelin star for the second consecutive year (2024 and 2025), placing it among Hanover's small tier of destination-grade modern cuisine restaurants. Chef Thomas Wohlfeld leads the kitchen at Altenbekener Damm 17. At the €€€ price point, it sits in the same bracket as The Wild Duck and one tier below the two-starred Jante.
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Marie holds a Michelin star earned in 2025 and brings a French kitchen to Wedekindplatz, one of Hanover's more characterful addresses. Chef Miguel Trinidad runs a €€€ programme that positions the restaurant comfortably above Hanover's mid-market French options while staying a tier below the city's most experimental creative tables.
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Occupying a ground-floor space in Hanover's Leineschloss complex at Hannah-Arendt-Platz, Schorse operates at the €€ price point while holding both a 2025 Michelin Plate and a 2024 Bib Gourmand, the latter being Michelin's explicit endorsement of good cooking at moderate prices. Its international menu.
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Beckers on Bödekerstraße brings classical French technique to Hanover's mid-tier dining scene with enough seriousness to earn a 2025 Michelin Plate. Sitting at the more accessible end of the city's recognised restaurant spectrum, it occupies a niche that the starred houses above it, Jante, Votum, Handwerk, do not: French cooking at a price point that doesn't require advance financial planning.
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EssKultur occupies a residential address on Voßstraße in Hanover's Nordstadt district, positioning itself within a city dining scene that has grown quietly serious in recent years. The restaurant draws regulars from across the city who come for considered cooking in a setting that favours atmosphere over spectacle. It sits comfortably alongside a peer group that includes creative and modern cuisine addresses at the upper end of Hanover's independent restaurant spectrum.
Hanover, Germany
Little Cortile occupies a quietly residential stretch of Goethestraße in Hanover's Südstadt, operating in a city where the fine-dining conversation is increasingly concentrated around a handful of address-specific reputations. For Hanover, that distinction matters.
Hanover, Germany
Restaurant Basil at Dragonerstraße 30 in Hannover earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in 2024, signalling a wine program that punches above the city's usual casual-dining norm. For a city that sits outside Germany's headline fine-dining circuit, that credential matters. Basil represents the quieter, more considered end of Hannover's restaurant scene.
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An Italian-accented restaurant on Kleiner Hillen in Hanover's eastern residential quarter, Restaurant Tropeano Di-Vino GmbH occupies a niche where wine-led dining and Southern Italian cooking tradition intersect. The name's Di-Vino suffix signals the dual ambition: cucina and cantina treated with equal seriousness. Hanover's fine-dining corridor runs through the city centre, which makes an address at Kleiner Hillen 4 a deliberate step away from the obvious circuit.
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Rüpel at Kötnerholzweg 30 in Hannover's Linden district operates as a fully plant-based restaurant recognised by the We're Smart community for strong price-to-quality value. Chef Lennart Röbbel leads the kitchen with a vegetable-forward focus, while the drinks list runs toward alcohol alternatives and natural wines. It sits in a different register from Hannover's conventional dining scene.
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A Michelin Plate holder for consecutive years, The Wild Duck operates at the serious end of Hanover's modern cuisine tier, sitting at the €€€ price point alongside peers such as Handwerk. Located on Podbielskistraße in the city's northern districts, the restaurant draws, a signal of consistent execution that places it firmly in Hanover's upper-mid dining bracket.
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A bread-and-wine address on Böhmerstraße 17 in Hanover's Südstadt, ælling reads its menu through two anchors that most restaurants treat as afterthoughts. The format places fermentation and grain at the centre of the dining proposition rather than the periphery, positioning it within a small but growing tier of European venues where the bread program and the wine list carry equal editorial weight to the kitchen's main plates.
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Albertz. operates from Hinüberstraße 6 in Hanover's Südstadt district, placing it among a compact tier of serious restaurants that have quietly reshaped what the city's dining scene can offer. With several strong independent kitchens now competing at similar price points, Albertz. earns its place through kitchen discipline and a setting that rewards the kind of dinner you actually plan in advance.
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Aspera occupies a measured address on Roscherstraße in Hanover's central district, operating within the city's emerging fine dining tier alongside creative-leaning peers such as Jante and Votum. With sparse public documentation relative to Hanover's better-profiled restaurants, it sits at the quieter end of the city's upper-end scene, making direct contact with the venue a reliable first step for any prospective visit.
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At Lange Laube 16 in central Hanover, Baba Mia occupies a stretch of the city where casual European dining and neighbourhood regulars converge. The address places it within easy reach of the Steintor quarter, and the format reads as an accessible mid-range option within a city whose upper tier is anchored by creative and modern cuisine venues. A reliable stop for those moving between Hanover's more ambitious tables.
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Beef and Reef at Oesterleystraße 1 sits in Hanover's Südstadt, a neighbourhood where mid-range bistros and specialist restaurants share street space with residential life. The name signals a surf-and-turf orientation that places it in a different register from the city's creative fine dining tier, offering a more direct proposition: quality meat and seafood without the tasting-menu formality found elsewhere in Hanover.
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On Osterstraße in central Hanover, BESTIA Vera Pizza Napoletana brings the Neapolitan tradition to a city better known for its modern fine-dining circuit. The format is disciplined and specific: wood-fired dough, southern Italian technique, and a room that signals intent through its materials and noise level rather than white-tablecloth formality. It occupies a distinct position in Hanover's dining mix, where tasting-menu restaurants dominate the conversation.
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BoBo occupies a central address on Georgstraße in Hannover's city core, placing it within easy reach of the main station and the Mitte dining corridor where much of the city's serious restaurant activity is concentrated.
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Botticelli Ristorante on Sutelstraße 70 occupies Hanover's Italian dining bracket, where cuisine tradition and front-of-house coordination carry more weight than star tallies. The address sits in the city's northern residential stretch, a setting that tends to reward regulars over tourists.
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Broyhan Haus sits on Kramerstraße in central Hanover, occupying a historic address that has drawn locals back for generations. The format here is traditional German hospitality at its most settled: a room that rewards return visits over single-occasion dining. For those mapping Hanover's eating beyond its creative fine-dining tier, this is where the city's everyday loyalty lives.
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Brudis occupies a residential address on Hogrefestraße in Hanover's northwestern quarter, positioning it well outside the city's more visible fine-dining corridor. Visitors planning a visit should confirm current details directly before booking.
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Buddha Bowl occupies a central Hanover address on Pferdestraße, placing it within easy reach of the city's core dining corridor. The name signals a plant-forward, bowl-based format that has gained steady traction across German mid-market dining in recent years. For visitors working through Hanover's restaurant options, it represents a lighter, grain-and-vegetable counterpoint to the city's more formal European dining rooms.
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Butjer occupies a quiet address on Falkenstraße in Hanover's Linden district, a neighbourhood that has developed a reputation for independent, craft-led dining away from the city centre. The kitchen positions itself at the intersection of local northern German produce and technique-driven preparation, placing it in the same conversation as Hanover's growing tier of serious independent restaurants.
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Hanover, Germany
Dormero Hotel Hannover holds Michelin Selected status in the 2025 guide, placing it among a small tier of Hannover properties recognised for consistent hospitality standards. Located on Hildesheimer Strasse in the south of the city centre, it serves both business travellers and visitors exploring Lower Saxony's commercial capital. Proximity to the main station and congress facilities makes it a functional base with recognised quality credentials.
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Michelin Selected for 2025, me and all hotel hanover occupies a sharp-edged design position at Aegidientorplatz that separates it from the grand-hotel tier dominating German city breaks. The property reads as an urban lifestyle hotel, considered materiality, a deliberate social atmosphere, and a location that puts the city's central axis within walking reach. For travellers who find the traditional luxury formula too formal, this is the counterargument.
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Hanover, Germany
Zwei in Zwanzig – Wein in Linden brings a Southern European wine-and-food rhythm to Hanover, with Portuguese references leading the kitchen and wine treated as part of the meal rather than a separate retail exercise. The draw is the small, traditional room, the Iberian tilt, and a format that suits unhurried drinking with dishes such as Bacalhau à Brás and Pastéis de Nata.
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