More Than Just Schnitzel

1821: Europe settles into the post-Napoleonic order. German literature revels in late Romanticism. And in Tübingen, a group of local intellectuals establishes the Museumsgesellschaft, still one of the most important pillars of culture in Tübingen today – and since 2022, home to a restaurant that would fit in well in any big city. Its name: 1821, “the magic number for Schwäbisch food”, as the owners, brothers Marcel and Pascal Jehle, confidently say. With culinary highlights from the Swabian province as a trendsetting specialty. Kässpätzle Royal, for example, refined with truffles. 

That goes down well in this city of 90,000 inhabitants and 28,000 university students. At any rate, Marcel and Pascal Jehle quickly felt at home here. “On the one hand, the city is exceedingly Swabian in its traditions, but on the other hand, there’s a really young, cosmopolitan vibe here,” is how the two Esslingen natives describe their first impression. And this is exactly what their restaurant reflects. Totally sustainable, too, on the menu and otherwise. The brothers are proud of their six trainees.

The conversion was planned in detail together with the Museum Society, with a special focus on the service staff’s routes between the dining room and the kitchen and the living room atmosphere for the guests, who are quite welcome to stay a little longer even after they’ve finished their meal. “We want people to have an experience here with us,” the Jehles say. And that’s certainly what the guests can expect, at the latest when they get to the cocktail menu featuring many in-house creations alongside the typical classics. With that in mind, a gin having a tasty rendezvous with some Earl Grey tea shouldn’t really come as a surprise.

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