History of the cacti-dinner

In our jubilee-year 1997 the first official cacti-dinner took place, Dr. Werner Hoffmann from Geisenheim, who was one of the fathers of the cacti-dinner, hosted this evening with enormous success.



The cacti-dinner was planned as a big gala-dinner based on cacti meals, which was served in a suitable setting. The response on the event was so we decided to repeat the dinner in the following year.

On July 11th 1998 the second cacti-dinner was served in one of the large and beautiful greenhouses. The culinary responsibility for the preparation of our five course menu was deligated to Ulrich Manck and Manfred Sawo. Both are successful celebrity-chefs, who are running four speciality restaurants in Erfurt. This year our guests were so impressed that some of them spontaneously decided to already book their seat for 1999.

1997 and 1998 the catering was done by our family and friends. Since 1999 preparation and serving lies in professional hands. This cacti-dinner, which now took place on two days, became a great success again. The media had started to get excited and tv stations reported on our special event (for example Sat 1 und mdr - TV).

Shortly after the planning for 2000 started the first two days (out of four!) were booked out. In the year 2000 we were able to welcome the first double-visitor, after she had visited the dinner the first night she reserved a place for the cacti-dinner on the next weekend. Not only she was that enthusiastic, 1/3 of our guests booked for the following year. In August 2000 half of the seats were already booked.

As you can see every dinner since 1997 was a very special evening and a great success.

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