The best restaurants Aosta Valley

Le Barmé de l'Ours, or "the bear's cave" in French, is a restaurant serving traditional cuisine with a twist. Dishes are colorful and tastefully prepared. The restaurant often organizes themed meals and offers special menus for special occasions. The house in which the restaurant is located is built in traditional style and has a lovely terrace surrounded by meadows and fruit trees, where you can enjoy lunch on fine days. Excellent value for money.

At Gorret, a traditional hotel-restaurant in a magnificent alpine chalet, everything on offer is very appetizing, and although the interior decoration is fairly simple and classic, that of the dishes is decidedly sophisticated. And the cuisine is rigorously Valle d'Aostan, so you can feast on dishes typical of the region! Both upscale and warm, it's a perfect blend of cocooning and elegance. And to perfect your gourmet moment, the welcome and service are very pleasant. A beautiful place!

Near the Walser village of Niel, famous for its ancient wooden houses and fountain, La Gruba is a restaurant and B&B. Dishes are based on local traditions, such as focaccine (oven-baked flatbreads) with cured ham from Les Bosses, homemade pasta with game sauce, crusted pork tenderloin, zucchini pancakes and goat's cheese. The structure has two dining rooms, one of which opens onto a covered terrace, and an accommodation section with pretty wooden rooms suitable for tourists and hikers.

The restaurant of the homonymous hotel, newly opened a few months ago, is composed by a small room of 30 seats, which contributes to give an exclusive touch to the place. Open in high season, lunch and dinner during the winter and only for dinner in the summer, it offers a menu composed mainly of traditional Valle d'Aosta products such as venison stew or plates of local tomes.

After a morning on the snow-covered slopes of the Crévacol ski resort, your stomach is crying out for a quick bite to eat, so you can get on with your skiing as quickly as possible At the Arp du jeu restaurant! In winter, it offers self-service with a large buffet of national and Valle d'Aostan dishes. The bar serves sandwiches for those in a hurry. In summer, the formula changes, with mainly local dishes served at the table. In the evening, the kitchen opens only for groups of 20 or more.

This restaurant is very popular with the locals, not only because it's on the Gran Pista in the Valtournenche resort, but also because it's open all day, so that whenever a little hunger strikes, it can be satiated immediately. Some dishes are Valle d'Aostan, others Italian, but they are all very appetizing, another reason for the success of the place! It's a pleasure to enjoy typical dishes on the edge of the slopes, accompanied by a glass of one of the wonderfully selected wines on the menu.

Lo Ratelè is a small farm where cattle and goats are raised, and where the fruit and vegetables served in the restaurant are produced. Bread is kneaded and baked on site. Meats are cooked with mountain herbs. In addition to traditional polenta, trychnolle (cornmeal gnocchi served in broth), peilà (rye and wheat flour soup, served with bread, fontina and butter), entrecôte de veau à la valdôtaine, carbonade and fricandeau,chopped veal cooked with onions, rosemary and wine.

This restaurant overlooking the vineyards of Arvier offers typical dishes of Valle d'Aostan cuisine, often decorated with spontaneous and edible flowers, as well as many other Italian specialities based on fish. The plate dressing is really excellent, the raw materials are of good quality and the tastes ... unique.

The philosophy of L'Alpe rebelle is that of its owner Daniele: a native of the valley and a professional mountaineer, who is the founder of the NaturaValp association, which promotes eco-responsible tourism in the Valpelline. This large house surrounded by a garden with a view of the Becca de Luseney is also a restaurant that uses ingredients from the valley. Its specialities are polenta, game, cheese dishes and seupa a la vapelenentse. Six neat and simple rooms are named after a local peak and the climber who first climbed it.

On the road to the Great Saint Bernard, a small restaurant where you can eat a Valle d'Aosta or Italian dish. Friendly staff.

The tables in this restaurant are large and, surprisingly, to keep your fondue, raclette or pierrade warm, in the centre of the table is a small cooking plate! The establishment bears its name well and is perfect for a meal with family or friends.