Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Iphofen from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Iphofen
Both of our top restaurants hold Michelin Plate recognition, and one works with an extensive wine list while the other adds an exceptional wine program.
Historic wood-panelled dining in a former prince-bishop's residence, Zehntkeller serves Franconian specialties with an extensive wine list and wines from its own organic vineyard. The restaurant offers both à la carte and set menu formats, and its Michelin Plate history in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
On the market square, Zur Iphöfer Kammer serves modern Franconian cuisine with an exceptional wine program that is sommelier-led and built around an extensive list. It offers à la carte and prix fixe formats, and its Michelin Plate recognition spans 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Zehntkeller Iphofen Hotel & Weingut is a historic hotel and winery in Altstadt with Bio-Weingut wines, restaurant service, cellar visits, and garden-facing hospitality. The format brings lodging and wine together, with an integrated food-and-cellar experience in the centre of Iphofen.
Iphofen’s wine scene is broad for a small town, with estate visits ranging from classic Franconian producers to natural-wine and sparkling specialists.
Weingut Hans Wirsching is a family estate in Iphofen, now in its 14th generation. It helped establish Scheurebe in Franconia and produces Silvaner on gypsum Keuper soils. Red Keuper sandstone soils and a continental microclimate shape its wines. The estate holds Falstaff Winery 4 Stars (2026).
Weingut Weigand brings a contemporary natural-wine perspective to Iphofen, with old vines, Keuper soils, hand harvest, spontaneous fermentation, guest apartments, and cellar gatherings. The estate is shaped by biodynamic farming, Silvaner-led bottles, and a design-led rural setting, and it holds a Falstaff Winery Listed (2026) award.
Organic Franconian winegrowing defines Weingut Bausewein in Iphofen, where vineyard visits, garden wine service, and a wine hotel are part of the estate. The winery produces Silvaner and has worked organically since 1995.
Iphofen itself has 11 venues in our guide, and that is the main neighbourhood for the city’s wine scene. Marktplatz appears on Zur Iphöfer Kammer, while Altstadt is home to Zehntkeller Iphofen Hotel & Weingut, and Old Town Iphofen, Iphofen Altstadt, and Altstadt / Herrengraben also appear in the guide.
Iphofen has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Zehntkeller and Zur Iphöfer Kammer each hold Michelin Plate recognition for 2026, with both restaurants also receiving Michelin Plate awards in 2024 and 2025.
Zehntkeller and Zur Iphöfer Kammer hold Michelin Plate recognition. Zehntkeller is listed with Michelin Plate awards for 2024, 2025, and 2026, while Zur Iphöfer Kammer carries the same run of awards and serves Franconian Fine Dining and Modern Franconian Fine Dining.
Weingut Hans Wirsching focuses on Scheurebe and Silvaner from gypsum Keuper soils, Weingut Weigand works with natural wine, old vines, and spontaneous fermentation, and Weingut Bausewein centres on organic winegrowing and Silvaner from Iphofen Julius-Echter-Berg. Weingut Olinger adds hand-harvested dry white wines and a three-tier range of Gutsweine, Ortsweine, and Lagenweine.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Iphofen
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Zehntkeller sits on Bahnhofstraße in the walled Franconian wine town of Iphofen, serving country cooking that has earned a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. The kitchen draws on the agricultural depth of the surrounding Steigerwald region, and the price point sits at €€, making it one of the more accessible Michelin-recognised tables in rural Bavaria.
Iphofen, Germany
Zur Iphöfer Kammer holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and sits on Iphofen's market square, one of Franconia's most intact medieval town centres. The kitchen works a farm-to-table format at the €€ price point, positioning it as the accessible end of the region's recognised dining tier.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Iphofen.
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Iphofen
Selected entries from the current guide for Iphofen.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Hans Wirsching operates from the heart of Iphofen, one of Franconia's most consequential wine villages, where red Keuper sandstone soils and a continental microclimate shape a house style defined by mineral precision and structural restraint. Visitors arrive for wines that argue the region's case plainly, without ornament.
Iphofen, Germany
Boessneck Wein gives Iphofen’s Franconian wine culture a sharply focused sparkling-wine counterpoint. The house works on a boutique scale, with Pinot Noir, Spätburgunder and Chardonnay at the centre, and Falstaff 92-point ratings for two brut nature bottlings adding critical weight to its quiet, appointment-led format.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Bausewein brings organic Franconian winegrowing into a guest-facing format: vineyard visits, garden wine service, and a wine hotel in Iphofen. The strongest lens here is terroir, especially Silvaner from the Iphofen Julius-Echter-Berg, where the estate’s organic work since 1995 gives the visit more substance than a casual cellar-door stop.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Emmerich Franken is a family-run Franconian winery in Iphofen, shaped around vineyard views, garden tastings, guest rooms, and small-scale production. Its appeal is less trophy-driven than place-driven: still whites, reds, rosé, and sparkling wines presented in a quiet rural estate setting tied to one of Franconia’s established wine towns.
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Weingut Ernst Popp is a heritage Franconian winery in Iphofen, active since 1878 and built around gypsum-keuper sites, Silvaner, Scheurebe and classic Burgunder varieties. The draw is not spectacle but terroir literacy: named vineyards, a fourth-generation family framework and recent recognition for Scheurebe and Silvaner give the estate a clear regional argument.
Iphofen, Germany
A historic Franconian winery in Iphofen, Weingut Ilmbacher Hof ties Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau, Riesling and Scheurebe to a courtyard-and-cellar hospitality model rather than a simple tasting-room stop. Its draw is the combination of sixth-generation family continuity, a broad wine portfolio, guided tastings, food pairing and stayover apartments in a town where wine culture is inseparable from old stone and local tradition.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Johann Arnold fits the Franconian model where wine, lodging, and town life sit in the same frame. The Iphofen estate combines a family-run guesthouse atmosphere with private and cellar-door tasting formats, organic production philosophy, and a focus on regional grapes including Silvaner, Riesling, Scheurebe, Weissburgunder, Müller-Thurgau, and Bacchus.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Johann Ruck is a historic Franconian VDP winery in Iphofen, founded in 1839 and rooted in the Steigerwald’s dry-white tradition. Expect a quiet, traditional cellar-door setting focused on wine sales and tasting, with Silvaner, Riesling, and Müller-Thurgau forming the practical grammar of the visit.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Olinger is a small, organic-leaning Franconian estate in Iphofen, shaped by hand work in the vineyard, dry white wines, and a three-tier range of Gutsweine, Ortsweine, and Lagenweine. The focus is Sylvaner, Burgunder and Riesling, with appointment-only visits suited to travelers who want vineyard context rather than a polished tourism complex.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Seufert puts Iphofen’s Franconian vineyard identity through a natural-wine lens: local varieties, low-intervention cellar work, and site language from Julius-Echter-Berg, Kalb, and Kronsberg. The estate’s interest lies less in polish than in how Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau, Riesling, Bacchus, and Kerner can carry limestone, Keuper, and a quieter family-winery scale.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Thomas Mend is a small Franconian winery in Iphofen with roots dating to 1894 and a portfolio built around Silvaner, Riesling, Kerner, Morio Muskat, Rosé and site-named bottlings from Iphofen Kalb and Iphofen Kronsberg. Its appeal sits in restrained, place-led white wines, an old-town bistro atmosphere and a recent Golden Grape Awards silver for Silvaner.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut von der Tann gives Iphofen’s Franconian wine tradition a looser, more contemporary register: Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau, Bacchus and Domina framed through guided tastings, wine walks and a small wine café rather than formal cellar-door ritual. The point here is not trophy culture, but a small producer using the Iphöfer vineyards, direct hospitality and a rock-and-metal streak to make regional wine feel less codified.
Iphofen, Germany
Weingut Weigand gives Franken wine tourism a contemporary natural-wine reading: old vines, Keuper soils, hand harvest, spontaneous fermentation and a design-led rural setting outside Iphofen. The draw is not conventional luxury, but the way biodynamic farming, Silvaner-led bottles, guest apartments and cellar gatherings turn terroir into a full hospitality format.
Iphofen, Germany
Zehntkeller Iphofen Hotel & Weingut is a historic hotel-winery in Iphofen where Franconian wine culture is experienced through lodging, restaurant service, cellar visits, and garden-facing hospitality rather than a tasting-room-only model. Its strength is the integrated format: a classic family-run atmosphere, organic wine positioning, food pairing options, and an old-town setting that suits travelers building a slower wine-country stay.
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