What is Alfons Schuhbeck?
{{Infobox Chef | name = Alfons Schubeck | image = AlfonsSchuhbeck2011.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|5|2|df=yes}} | birth_place = {{flag|Germany}}<br />{{flag|Bavaria}}, [[Traunstein]] | death_date = | death_place = | style = South [[German Cuisine]] | education = Feinkost Käfer (Dallmayr)<br />Restaurant Aubergine ([[Eckart Witzigmann|Witzigmann]]) and<br />the College of Hotel Management [[Bad Reichenhall]] | restaurants = ''include'' Platzl<br />Südtiroler Stuben<br />Check Inn | television = ''includes'' Meine Bayerishe Küche }} '''Alfons Schuhbeck''' was born on 2 May 1949 in [[Traunstein]], Upper [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]]. He is one of Germany’s top chefs, as well as being a writer, [[restaurateur]], TV cook and businessman. == Biography == Born as ''Alfons Karg'', he trained as a telecommunications engineer, but was not happy. When he stopped at the Bavarian holiday resort of Waging, he ran into the restaurateur Sebastian Schuhbeck. He began working for Schuhbeck, and Sebastian Schubeck later adopted Alfons, and made him his [[heir]].<ref name=BR>{{cite web |title=Ein Leben in fünf Gängen |url=http://www.br-online.de/land-und-leute/artikel/0603/13-schuhbeck/index.xml |access-date=2007-07-08 |archive-date=2007-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929105153/http://www.br-online.de/land-und-leute/artikel/0603/13-schuhbeck/index.xml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Alfons quickly became a very good chef. The village inn he worked at soon became a favourite restaurant of the richer people of [[Munich]] and [[Salzburg]]. He did more training in [[Salzburg]], [[Geneva City|Geneva]], [[Paris]], [[London]] and [[Munich]] as well as Feinkost Käfer, Dallmayr and in the ''Restaurant Aubergine'' of [[Eckart Witzigmann]]. He also studied at the College of Hotel Management in [[Bad Reichenhall]] in Bavaria. He finally took over the Kurhausstüberl in Waging in 1980. In [[1983]] he got a star in the [[Michelin Guide]]. The [[Gault Millau]] restaurant guide gave him 17 points and in 1989 he was elec