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Will be in Arabba early January, not at the bash, sorry. I would like to be reminded of recommended mountain restaurants. I know there are almost as many as grains of sand but it is always helpful to hear of personal favourites.
Thank you once again in anticipation of snowheads boundless knowledge.
ps Nice to plan a route centered around a great lunch stop!
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sat 6-11-21 17:10; edited 1 time in total
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We are (hopefully) in Selva at Christmas and would also be interested to hear of peoples current fave spots in different areas...
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I prefer Harveys best bitter to Stella! Thank you so much. 
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@Alastair Pink, totally agree with your choices 
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@peter w, Others will chip in with the real names.
A great run is to go up the burz then down to pass campolongo, up to Cherz then down to the left, up the next lift then down to La Visa then he'd to Corvara. 1/2 way down that run is the "Mammoth" and a great stop for a hot chocolate and cake 
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ps Nice to plan a route centered around a great lunch stop!
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…and brunch and mid-afternoon tea n cake stops.
It’s the only civilized way to ski 
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Rifugio Padon on the way to Marmolada is good too.
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If you get to the top of Dantercepies on the anti-clockwise route, take the black run to your right, stay right all the way down to the Ciampac hutte. You can get there via a red, too, I think.
https://www.baitaciampac.com/
Make sure you sit outside with a view of the slope just in front of you. I highly recommend the venison pasta, if on the menu, but everything is pretty good. But what's great about it is that it's out of the way and nice and quiet. Even if you just have a drink in mid-afternoon it's pretty great.
After lunch, take the little 2-man chair up and cut diagonally down to the base of the Dantercepies area, go under the road and stay left on the cat track through Selva, and continue on your way around the SR.
Another one I like, but only on a sunny day, is Utia Sole in the Plan Gralba area. It's also a bit off the beaten path and you can easily ski right past it. http://www.utiasole.it/benvenuti-all--utia-sole.html, could be a good lunch destination from Arabba. They have a really nice tiramisu.
Finally, we like the Belvedere refuge in Canazei, not necessarily because the food is fabulous, but the views (as the name suggest) are mind-blowing. And it's often cold up there so it's great to warm up with a hot chocolate and a bowl of pasta. IIRC the schnitzel is pretty good, too.
Those are pretty much directly on the SR. I have some other honey holes but they're on spur areas like the Secada or Alpe di Siusi
In general I like to have a lunch plan well in place. It's the main reason we ski in Italy!
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Think most of the usual favourites are already posted above.
I'd just add Biok/Bioch to the list for pretty decent food. And the one at the top of the sasslong for custom pizza to share between 4 if that's your thing.
Coffee / Hot Choccy stops I'd normally stop at are the "wooden elephant" one above (don't remember ever having lunch there), and the one in the Edelweiss valley above Colfosco whose name escapes me, but has ace views.
One of these days I might actually pick a day's skiing route that means lunch in one of the places near Arabba, rather than just a glühwein or bombardino at the end of the day. When you're based there, 99% of the time you end up being far away around lunch time.
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@andy,
Ooh, yes, can't remember its name either.
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| andy wrote: |
| .. and the one in the Edelweiss valley above Colfosco whose name escapes me, but has ace views. |
That'll be the Forcelles.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ütia Forcelles, apparently
Don't recall going to the Col Pradat one (which must also have stunning views)
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Poster: A snowHead
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That's the one.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| GlasgowCyclops wrote: |
@peter w, Others will chip in with the real names.
A great run is to go up the burz then down to pass campolongo, up to Cherz then down to the left, up the next lift then down to La Visa then he'd to Corvara. 1/2 way down that run is the "Mammoth" and a great stop for a hot chocolate and cake |
If you head for Corvara from the top of Pralongia (the long, cold, windy chair), you’ll not get to Utia Saraghes. It’s on the way to San Cassiano / Armentarola
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| andy wrote: |
One of these days I might actually pick a day's skiing route that means lunch in one of the places near Arabba, rather than just a glühwein or bombardino at the end of the day. When you're based there, 99% of the time you end up being far away around lunch time. |
If anyone should find themselves actually in Arabba at lunchtime then Miky's Grill right by the base of the Burz chairlift does some great food.
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Baita Curona tiny but good, below Seceda on the run down to Ortisei.
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| HutToHut wrote: |
| Baita Curona tiny but good, below Seceda on the run down to Ortisei. |
Also on the run from Seceda as you near Ortisei I think the last eating place is Baita Pauli. Apart from the main restaurant there's a small cabin which accommodates about a maximum of 12 people seated around a central wood burning fire. On the 2020 Birthday Bash a group of us booked the Baita Pauli cabin, a great experience.
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Morning coffee at MrX. Bar Peter actually does nice pizza. I prefer the one at the roundabout in Arabba
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A week based in Sëlva and we didn't find a bad caf anywhere, had difficulty paying at one if that's a problem
Edit due to beer!
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That's one slice and a 15' long ash table on top of Arabba at Rif. Luigi Gorza, with a view to match. Returned the next day and had two.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| peter w wrote: |
Will be in Arabba early January, not at the bash, sorry. I would like to be reminded of recommended mountain restaurants. I know there are almost as many as grains of sand but it is always helpful to hear of personal favourites.
Thank you once again in anticipation of snowheads boundless knowledge.
ps Nice to plan a route centered around a great lunch stop! |
Although you're in Arabba, you can peg it round the sella (orange direction, I think) and make it back to plan boe for lunch. Stay all afternoon for apres on a pasta party night and the music and vibe is excellent as well as the free (but thirst-inducingly spicy) pasta.
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| giantsquid wrote: |
Although you're in Arabba, you can peg it round the sella (orange direction, I think) and make it back to plan boe for lunch. Stay all afternoon for apres…. |
There’s no way I could consider wasting half a precious day’s skiing in the bar
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You know it makes sense.
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| Red Leon wrote: |
| giantsquid wrote: |
Although you're in Arabba, you can peg it round the sella (orange direction, I think) and make it back to plan boe for lunch. Stay all afternoon for apres…. |
There’s no way I could consider wasting half a precious day’s skiing in the bar |
Two laps of the sella it is then
(it's actually possible in spring with later lifts times)
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| HutToHut wrote: |
| Baita Curona tiny but good, below Seceda on the run down to Ortisei. |
Best Hutte, with the best views in the WORLD! Period.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Mollerski, @HutToHut, We are mountainbiking in Ortisei at the end of June and this has just shot to the top of my list.
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I've always rather liked Mathiaskeller, to the right at the top of the SodLisa chairlift in Colfosco.
Cozy and cavernous - particularly apt on a cold snowy day.
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I've always rather liked Mathiaskeller, to the right at the top of the SodLisa chairlift in Colfosco.
Cozy and cavernous - particularly apt on a cold snowy day. |
Yep, you'll note it's the first one I mentioned in my original reply to the OP.
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Any recommended lunch stops in the Val di Fassa? Apologies for the mispelt title!
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I recently discovered a Michelin starred restaurant 'L Chimpl, 12mins cab ride from the base at Pozza Di Fassa (Jump off the Sella Ronda at Canazei => Alba => Pozza). You need to book ahead for lunches, apparently.
Now I have tended to find the food I encounter in Italy, by randomly stopping at places when I'm hungry, has been satisfying enough not to feel the need to go seeking 'special' but... the mission over to Pozza from Arabba is one of the goto day-trips of the Birthday Bash, so it appeals to have this as a destination (and a motivator to get out that little earlier in the morning).
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has eaten there?
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| peter w wrote: |
| Any recommended lunch stops in the Val di Fassa? Apologies for the mispelt title! |
You or a mod can correct the spelling. It would help with future searches. 
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FAQ
) just to the left of the piste between Piz la Ila and the top of Bamby. I also like Rif Ciampai just below Piz Sorega (the bubble up from San Cassiano) for a morning stop - usually sunny and with LOUD music 
Sorry to inadvertently agree with you 
