Overview
- The Season 11 episode on Sunday took Mälzer to an olive‑oil finca on Mallorca, where a photo of his late friend Pep Solivellas brought him to tears.
- He called the Solivellas family his refuge during a past burnout and said they felt like an adopted family when work left him depleted.
- The long-running rivalry with Alexander Herrmann returned for their fourth duel as they faced local dishes without recipes, including Arroz Brut, Coburger Rutscher and a Sardinian raviolo.
- Herrmann struggled with the Franconian potato dumpling known as Coburger Rutscher in his home region, while Mälzer tackled a three‑star fish course at Hamburg’s Haerlin restaurant.
- Season 11 airs on VOX and streams on RTL+, spans eight episodes, adds a new Team‑Edition and features Roland Trettl as Mälzer’s stand‑in in three installments.