SEEN Restaurant

Chef Jianguo Zhang trained in Chengdu — the spiritual home of Sichuan cuisine — before passing through Shanghai and landing in Munich, where he runs SEEN as the city's only fine-dining Chinese kitchen. The dining room sits on Augustenstraße between Karls- and Briennerstraße, elegant and pared-back, with a covered terrace for warmer months. The menu reads as a clean Sichuan canon: ma-la (numbing-spicy), sweet-sour, and aromatic dishes built on proper imported peppercorns and chillis, no concession to the sweet-and-sour-duck tier. Service is polished, the wine list pairs Riesling and Grüner Veltliner against the spice with skill, and the result is a Chinese restaurant that feels like a destination rather than a takeaway-with-tablecloths.