Restaurants in Tirol
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Stern
This lounge and restaurant gets a clientele from the very young hanging out on the psychologist’s couches and postmodern sofas during the day to a mixed crowd that comes here to feed on steak – its speciality (though Stern also does wok and salad dishes). The steaks are fine, but don’t always live up to the lengthy check list you fill out to order one, and the chef certainly doesn’t mess around with his meat when you tick ‘well done’.
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Batzenhäusl
Murals of merry wine-guzzlers reel you into Batzenhäusl, Tyrol’s oldest wine tavern, which burrows into cliffs below the fortress. This eccentric, 500-year-old haunt is packed with curios from nativity scenes to 16th-century canon balls. The cuisine is seasonally inspired and the fluffy Salzburger Nockerl (Austrian soufflé) comes recommended.
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Restaurant Pasta Bistro
This restaurant and vinothek set in a cosy, vaulted room offers an unusual menu of fish specialities alongside fresh, gourmet baguettes (as a main course) and a selection of salads and pastas (with about 16 different sauces). There are also a couple of meat and vegetarian dishes available.
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Villa Masianco
This sassy bistro on the square satisfies Kufstein’s Italian cravings with risotto, fresh fish and tender veal fillets. Chandeliers, wooden floors and leather stools give the vaulted restaurant a modern kick. The chestnut tree-shaded terrace hums with life in summer.
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Hellas
Hellas is a classy little Greek place with vaulted ceilings, exposed brick and bold colours. The terrace is quite something: waiters have to cross the road to get there and perform a balancing act to ensure your tasty moussaka doesn’t land on someone’s bonnet.
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Café Munding
Modern art gives this 200-year-old café a contemporary kick. As well as whipping up delicious cakes – try the Mundingzopf – the family roast their own coffee and make preserves with fruit freshly picked from local farms.
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Metzgerei Kröll
This family-run butchery is famed for its unique Schlegeis-Speck ham, cured in a hut at 1800m for three months to achieve its aroma. There are a handful of tables where you can sample this speciality and the delicious homemade sausages.
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Café Konditerei Rainer
Villach’s oldest café offers a sumptuous array of more than 50 different cakes, lunch snacks, a kid’s play area, and in summer a screen with live pictures from the ‘falcon cam’ at the top of the church steeple.
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Hotel Schrofenstein
Schrofenstein’s restaurant dishes up Austrian classics from veal goulash to spinach Spätzle (egg noodles) in wood-panelled surroundings. When the sun’s out, pull up a chair on the chestnut tree-shaded terrace.
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Wirtshaus Zum Griena
Set in high pastures, this woodsy 400-year-old chalet is the kind of place where you pray for a snow blizzard, so you can huddle around the fire and tuck into Schlutzkropf’n (fresh pasta filled with cheese).
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Papa Joe’s
Toucans, waterfalls, palms, sharks…you name it, Papa Joe’s is a snippet of Mexico. This wacky party haunt has a menu packed with jumbo steaks and jambalaya, and a Caribbean bar for after-dinner caipirnhas.
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Adlerstüberl Restaurant
Adlerstüberl is the grandaddy of Lienz, where grizzled locals put the world to rights over beer, humungous schnitzels and plates of piping goulash. Find a cosy nook in one of the vaulted rooms and join them.
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Lichtblick
Elegant simplicity sums up Lichtblick on the 7th floor of the Rathaus Galerien. The panoramic views over Innsbruck through glass walls are as appetising as flavours like duck breast on artichokes and nectarines.
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Café Haag
Locally picked plums are the key ingredient in this café’s divine chocolates. Once you’ve sampled them, try the cakes – just the sugar kick needed for the uphill trudge to the castle.
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Strandperle
Strandperle is a funky granite-and-glass place. The menu delivers fresh flavours such as jumbo green mussels and alpine beef fillets. The decked terrace has the finest views of the Alps anywhere in Seefeld.
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Panino & Co
Blink and you’ll miss this Italian deli, where you can create your own panini with Parma ham, cheese and olives. It’s a good place to stock up on picnic supplies and the cheery owner makes a mean espresso.
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Pizzeria da Franco
This hole-in-the-wall pizzeria isn’t plush, but the thin, crisp pizzas baked in a brick oven do Italy proud. Top that with cheery staff and pocket-pleasing prices and you’re onto a winner.
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Café Nino
Nino’s is a friendly, buzzing café on the old town square, with plenty of tables outside and fresh calamari on the menu each Friday. It also serves great ice cream and extravagant coffees.
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Tapabar
Popular for its chilled vibe and late-night nibbles, this riverside Spanish bar is the place to order a plate of tasty tapas and a glass of Rioja. Catch free flamenco concerts every second Wednesday.
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Mamma Mia
Outside the plush Hotel Elisabeth, this vibrant pizzeria recreates Italy with its terracotta floor, bold colours and murals of Florence. The wood-fired pizzas and salads are unrivalled in Mayrhofen.
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China-Restaurant Singapore
A pot-bellied Buddha greets you at Singapore, which spices up the village with its tasty Asian fare. Fill up on Sichuan beef or shark fin soup before crossing the street for drinks in Scotland Yard.
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Restaurant
The Erlebnis Sennerei dairy leaves the best till last: the restaurant where you can savour local cheese-rich specialities like Graukasrahmsuppe (Graukäse cream soup).
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Gallo
This trendy bistro-cum-bar jazzes up its minimalist interior with zebra stripes and mosaics. When the sun shines, diners spill out onto the terrace for antipasti, juicy steaks and wood-fired pizza.
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Lotos
You’ll need both chopsticks to tackle the generous portions of chop suey and Verrücktes Huhn (crazy chicken) at this Chinese haunt, tucked down an Altstadt alleyway.
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Hendl Ortner
The tasty rotisserie Hendl (half-chickens) sprinkled with spices make this one of the best fast-food joints in town, but you’re pretty stuffed if you don’t like chicken.
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