Sankt Benedict

After the flood disaster the water stood a metre high in the restaurant, and it borders on a miracle that just four months later the first guests could take their seats again in this long-established house.


After his grandmother and his mother, Maximilian Kreus is the third member of the family to be awarded a Michelin star for his cooking. So the Gasthaus Sankt Benedikt in the Aachen district of Kornelimünster looks back on a long tradition.

In the Corona year, however, that tradition hung very much in the balance, because the restaurant was completely destroyed by the flood disaster in the...