The real heart of our hotel is the restaurant. It has already won a number of awards (Michelin * and Gault Millau 2 Chef´s hats) and is well known to gourmets everywhere. You can relax comfortably in the "Zirbenstube", a non-smoking saloon which is a masterpiece of local cabinet-making, and in the sunny garden, just as soon as the weather allows.

The son, Tobias Brandstätter, at 26 years of age, is Austria´s youngest chef de cuisine, and he and Karl Poller maintain the highest standarts of traditional Austrian cooking. Long since reckoned to be classics are, for instance, "Brawn of the house, accompanied by best pumpkin seed oil from the region of Steiermark", or "Crisp farm duck, slowly roasted hour after hour in the oven". Just look at an abstract from our dinner menu.

The patron, Elfi Brandstätter can helpfully suggest the most appropriate wine to acccompany every dish. Continually searching for new names to add to the unusual and comprehensive wine list, she has located the best Brunello around and discovered a single island of quality in the vast Valpolicella wine lake, while on her travels. Elfi Brandstätter´s pride and joy and favourite place - and not only hers! - is the walk-in, temperature controlled wine room, with its wines from the best vineyards of Austria, France, Italy and Spain.