Closed for winter 2026–27. Back on Princess Street when the snow clears.
The truck is parked. The kitchen isn't.
Closed for winter at 64° North. Until the snow clears, this is a Küchenmeister's test kitchen for home cooks.
WHO'S BEHIND THE WINDOW
Christian Schiffner, Küchenmeister
I trained the old way. I finished my apprenticeship at Schwarzwaldhotel Rothaus in 2004, then cooked in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Spain.
In 2014 I sat the Küchenmeister exam in Munich. Master chef, the long way round.
Dawson happened because of a cook I worked with in Switzerland. He landed in the Yukon, took a job at the Aurora Inn, and told me to come. I came for the summer of 2012. I went home. It didn't take.
I came back in 2014, and the paperwork to stay came through in 2017. That same year, Grumpy Schnitzel opened in the concession. We did two winter seasons of schnitzel at forty below and catering through the summers.
Now it's a P30 step-van at 152 Princess Street, beside The Bunkhouse. I gutted it and rebuilt it from the walls in: flat top under a commercial hood, a fryer that cooks nothing but fries, stainless everywhere. It's a real kitchen that happens to have wheels.
No vegan options. No apologies. Schnitzel done properly, at 64° North.
— Chris