Good Lunch/snack stops Dolomites

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Hi, thanks for reading. Advice on reliable lunch and snack stop places welcome. Staying Arabba, December, if that helps. Nothing fancy but aimiñg to get around Sella Ronda and offshoots.

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It is difficult to find a bad one. Ski fast and lunch long. Don't forget the coffee stops. Great coffee and food at half the price of France snowHead

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Thanks for posting and giving me the chance to 'borrow' some of the info you gain; off to Arabba (Bellavista, booked before really delving into this site and thinking the BB could be a future possibility) in Jan and already picked up loads of info from here.......SR, Marmolada, Hidden Valley, time in Val Gardena, a day in Kronplatz.......but haven't even considered when or where we might stop to actually fuel up and savour some of the views!

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What Lechbob said. However he forgot to mention the hot chocolates - they are so thick and rich you can virtually stand your spoon up in them (I think they just get a chocolate bar and melt it with the steam from the espresso machine!) Laughing

Here's a few particular favourites of mine:
1. On the blue run from Pralongia down to Armentarola, the Rifugio Saraghes on the right hand side has excellent hot chocolate. When you leave it you go a few hundred metres further on and then turn off to the right down to Armentarola where you get the taxi/bus transfer to Passo Falzarego (about 6 Euros per person). From Passo Falzarego you take the cable car to the top of Lagazuoi for the start of the famous Hidden Valley run. Half way down is Rifugio Scotoni - very popular so often busy, but their mixed grill is amazing. Alternatively at the end of the Hidden Valley run is the Capanna Alpina which is also very good, especially for pasta dishes. Skiers arriving here are usually greeted by the sight of the restaurant's dogs sitting on the flat roof observing proceedings. Laughing

2.From Passo Falzareggo alternatively you can ski the nearby Cinque Torri ski area - this is a fairly small area but great views and never crowded. At the very top of the Cinque Torri is the Rifugio Averau - the place is renowned for its food, I'm not sure but it may even have a Michelin star!

3. Head for La Villa and then follow the signs for Santa Croce/La Crusc/Heiligenkreuz. The restaurant at the top (adjacent to the church) is very good, and the ski runs down are tree lined at the edges of the piste.

4. On the Sella Ronda circuit I like the restaurant Mathiaskeller in Colfosco, which is situated just to the right as you get off the top of the Sodlisia chairlift in Colfosco. Traditional local food and the interior is very nice with cosy small dining areas. The bar stools as you enter are also quite amusing....

5. Also in Colfosco if you go up the Edelweiss side valley the Rifugio Forcelles at the top of the Forcelles chairlift is good and has great views.

I've only scratched the surface with the list above, I'm sure other snowHeads can add their favourites.

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Yup, can't recall a bad meal there, honestly.
Some places we frequented (more due to location than because they are exceptional, I haven't tried all of 'em yet Laughing

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- When connecting from Canazei to Campitello there's a bit where a tunnel takes you under the road. On the Canazei side is a good spot for a quick espresso (a snack bar) and on the other side a hotel called Lupo Bianco where we had a few good lunches.
- At Passo Pordoi we had a pretty good lunch but I really can't recall the place's name. It's a place worth visiting though, the views from the top of the Sass Pordoi gondola are amazing.
- If you get to Alba di Canazei, I recall a good and cheap lunch with excellent dessert at Rifugio Ciampac
- If you happen to go into Campitello (the town itself) there was a place smack in the middle called Tobia that had amazing hot chocolate, just like Alastair described. So thick you need a spoon to drink it. Don't forget whipped cream snowHead

Fair warning - I haven't been there in 4 years or so. Things might have changed and my standards back then might have been lower. Very Happy

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Wow, thanks for those and any more ideas welcome please. Having just returned from PSB in Tignes, I'd better starve myself this week or none of my trousers will fit! snowHead

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Following this thread with interest.

The Lupo Bianco where the Sella crosses the road is a personal favorite.

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Day trip to Corrina. Long lunches. Table clothes and everything.

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Rif Bioch on the blue plateau around Pralongia is good. Fancy side of the range.
The pizza place at the top of the bubble out of La Villa is good although a while since I have been there.
I think Las Vegas above San Cassiano is also rated by a number of folk although I have not been there myself.
I always enjoy a spagetti vongole at Jimmy's Hutte if I manage to go past at the right time on a day when it is their special. Like so many of the places it also has excellent view from the outside tables.
Always like Saslonch as well, just below Ciampinoi (but better to do the Saslong run before lunch rather than first run after).

Like others have said, just an indication that it is harder to find a bad place than a good one.

Or if you get far enough afield, the small BBQ hut with a large steak Very Happy

at the end of La Longia....

Oh and of course there is good cake and coffee at Col Raiser.

Another fab view.

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Capanna Nera is a good one too (think it's on one of the runs from the Pralongia plateau back down to Corvara).

If the Santa Croce is so rammed that there's no chance of a table (it's always popular/busy despite being right out on a limb, and a walk uphill), then ski back down, past the rifugio(s) at the top of the chairlift, then quite a way down on the right is another good place.

It's Italy - nowhere really does bad food.

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Thanks everyone. I'm gonna try to plot all these suggestions on a piste map. I can add more as they come in, or from personal experience, then share it with other snowHeads later.

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Ah, got it. So on the long run from down from Pralongia towards Cherz and the Vizza chair lift that takes you up to the top of Monte Cherz.

I think that's the La Marmotta.

Crep de mant at the top of the drag number 17, (come off the boe, head back towards corvara and head Right).

bambi on the piste of the same name (I'm the alfa badia sector, head down from piz sorega to the right, up thr chair opposite and you more on less go over it. Particularly good if sunny

The best, well I can take you there but I broke a few on the journey back due to distance and slush bumps.

But as other have said it's hard to find a bad one

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There are no bad restaurants in ALta Badia, but some very pricey ones.

We liked Las Vegas and Bamby.

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Can I add some of my favourites to the mix? If you get over to Kronplatz then try the Oberegger Alm on the way down towards Olang. Above Campitello we have found the Rifugio Friedrich August very good. And last but not least, the Utia Pic Pre just above San Cassiano - very good Tree Dumplings😄

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I've always liked the look of the one at the top of the Passo Padon, I think its called Rifigio Padon? I've never eaten there but the views must be amazing. Anyone been there?

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@luigi, We stopped at that one (Lamarmotta) this year, struggled to find a seat, but once we did it was a wonderful meal, fast service for such a large crowd as well. Recommend this one...and we'll be back this year.

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Take the black out of Alba, heaed over to Val di Fassa. Just before you drop down into Val di Fassa there's a hut at the lift - off to the right. Awesome place.
The refuges at Conque Torri have an amazing reputation. Well worth the trip. One has outdoor hottubs and is quite reasonable for the night

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Sella Cuca has quite a good reputation too?

Always wondered about the Troier hut up by Seceda as well, as they bother to put the diversion trail in place to get to it and people go down there, so I think it must have something worthwhile.

On the other hand, may be worth recording a few "less successful" ones.
In my view, the food at the hotel at the top of the Saslong bubble out of Santa Cristina (Hotel Sochers?) was not v good.
We have never been very successful at finding good places on the Skitour Panorama (Alba-Pozza), Valeruz, Al Zedron, Buffaure and Malga Al Crocifisso all seem to have disappointed a bit.

Maybe I need to try the place that @cameronphillips2000 refers to above - would that be Pizzeria Winkler? Although Soldanella also looks interesting if it is open in winter daytimes.

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