Gold Coast gourmets breathe a sigh of relief: Tina Turner’s favorite pub isn’t going to be a hotel

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The house at Seestrasse 160 in Küsnacht is a place of pilgrimage for Gold Coast gourmets: from 1981 to 2010 Horst Petermann (79) ate here at the “Kunststuben” with his wife Iris, two “Michelin” stars and 19 “Gault Millau” He cooked it.” points, followed by his former apprentice and longtime partner, Rico Zandonella (61), taking over the restaurant. It has since been awarded two stars and 18 points as “Rico’s” and was awarded Zandonella “Chef of the Year” in 2018. The restaurant is famous not least for its unusual interior designed by Zandonella.

The horror was heightened at the end of April when the estate agents of Engel & Völkers in Küsnacht put up for sale “a four-person house with a leading one-star restaurant”: 685 m2 of plot, 472 m2 of living space, eight parking spaces, four apartments, terrace, lake view and “delicious restaurant”. The ad even talked about a possible transformation as a fine dining hotel. The previous owners, Horst and Iris Petermann, obviously wanted to see cash.

Sold for 6 million

The sale of the building dating from 1700 is now complete. Rico Zandonella, who lives in one of the apartments above the restaurant, did not react, saying, “I didn’t want to buy it at this price.” Its new owner has not yet been registered in the land registry, but he is also from Küsnacht and is said to have paid around six million francs.

But much more importantly: There is no possible change of use. “Nothing changes for me,” says Zandonella. Petermann stipulated in the purchase agreement that the Ticino native could continue his life’s business for at least seven years under the same conditions. After seven years, Zandonella is 68 years old, so we’ll see if she dares to do something new again. But until then, gourmets from the Gold Coast and Zurich should continue to make pilgrimages to Küsnacht.

Source :Blick