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Took the kids, late 20s lol, skiing for the first time skiing this year and they loved it. Splashed out for club med in La Plagne which was fabulous but realistically need to keep the cost down for next year since we will be footing the bill but also we fancy Austria. Any recommendations? Main issue is that two out of six of us are the world’s fussiest eaters so somewhere with a buffet for dinner would be good. Two very experienced, two relative newbies without fear and two nervous beginners so needs to be good for beginners without boring some of us to death.. 
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@Posidrive, specify fussy. Austrian food is pretty basic
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Pasta, burgers or pizza is pretty much the limit. Does our head in because the rest of us will eat virtually anything.
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@Posidrive, the fussy eaters are in their late 20s?!?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You’ll be fine with pasta, hamburgers & pizza.
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@Posidrive, You can get pasta, burgers and pizzas pretty much anywhere. Maybe book a B&B or an apartment and then you are free to choose any restaurant or take-away in the evening.
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If they can cope with meat & potatoes and variations on that, they will be fine. Austrian cuisine is a good deal more varied than that but in the Tirol it is based on peasant fare. That said, like most places, vegan & vegetarian diets are popular with younger folk so that would be no issue either. The most popular lunch fare is (pork) schnitzel or sausage & chips! There is also Kaiserschmarn which is fed to tourists (and others) basically chopped up pancake with raisins & stewed apple. Of course there is also beer & schnapps 
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I second what @Scarlet suggests. B&B or self cater and eat out. Self catering doesn’t have to involve doing your own cooking.
I have a daughter who is vegan and a daughter who is allergic to dairy (no milk butter cheese etc to the extent that it matters what oils have been used for frying and whether the bread contains dairy products - it usually does)
We have no difficulties in the Südtirol and I expect Austria to be equally good
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| Posidrive wrote: |
| Took the kids, late 20s lol, / |
they are - or should- be adults, able to make to find food for themselves without being breast / bottle fed by mum
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Pasta, burgers or pizza is pretty much the limit.
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Is this the upper or lower limit. IE do they want better food than this and you are worried about the cost of feeding them? If so there is plenty of good food in Austria that doesn't cost the earth. A bowl of goulash springs to mind for example.
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I thknk I know the answer. I reckon they eat only the (predominantly) junk food specified... 
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My brothers in law are like this. Much as I love them (and I do!), I go where Lady F and I want to, and if they come along, they need to fend for themselves. I certainly wouldn't plan a holiday around their inability to try anything new.
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@red 27, with all due respect OP didn't ask your opinion on that.
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You know it makes sense.
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Define fussy?
I like German food. More meat based if they like pork, duck, etc. Quite a few potato based dishes.
Still the usual continental breakfast. Bread, ham, cheese, jam, cereal, yoghurt, etc.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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French bread doesn't contain milk! Neither does good quality English bread for that matter!
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Poster: A snowHead
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If Alpine cuisine (certainly AT, CH) caters to anyone, surely it’s “fussy eaters”. All the bread, pasta, potato, meat, and cheese you can possibly eat. We (somewhat jokingly) prepare for a week of famine each time we go.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ischgl has a Burger King on the main street. Fire and Ice not far away does a good range of pizzas. Good resort for B&B
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| red 27, with all due respect OP didn't ask your opinion on that |
You're right - but red 27's response did make me laugh. Nothing to suggest it's the 20-odd year olds who are the fussy eaters though - it could be the old fogeys of the party 
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@Posidrive, As mentioned already, just book a B&B and eat out in the evenings. For example in Mayrhofen, there's a restaurant called Mo's that covers all the dishes you mention. Plus there's plenty of other restaurants that would cover your needs.
Mountain restaurants would also be fine for lunch too.
Honestly, Austrian food is nothing adventurous, they'll be just fine.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| swskier wrote: |
| Honestly, Austrian food is nothing adventurous, they'll be just fine. |
Indeed. Anyone who cooks something remotely interesting or slightly adventurous immediately gets my repeat custom!
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I could live on Tiroler Grostl . . ! Proper skiing food . . .always ask for an extra egg
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@Posidrive, For pasta and pizza you'd be better off in Italy....
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The simple answer is to self-cater. Or assume that adults will be able to cope perfectly well with feeding themselves. Or if you really want half-board, do a bit of research and contact hotels you are considering to enquire about the dining arrangements. Or stop stressing that a wealthy, western European country will be so outlandish that your grown children will not be able to find anything to eat.
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@Belch, +1 yummo!
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Another +1 for self catering, prefer this to B&B as you have access to kitchen facilities. You don't have to use them for all meals but rather have access to those.
I have one person who is lactose intolerant and a fussy daughter (sadly obsessed with ensuring she doesn't eat too many calories  ) this works the best.
Although Austria also works the best us as she has found a love now for Goulash soup and Kaiserschmarrn and thank God Austria doesn't print calories on menus. We now can't eat out at all as she refuses everything on menu due to calorie count.
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@swskier, only one place that needs visiting for food in Mayrhofen and that’s the Butchers Shop opposite Penken! If you can’t find food you live in there then you’re beyond help! Awesome.
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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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Another vote for self catering. And let the fusspots stay home and cook themselves a burger while you explore some nice restaurants.
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@jirac18, i'll check it out some time. I know where you mean, but we haven't been yet.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Posidrive, go to Italy and get a self-catered apartment near a pizzeria. If you're gonna eat pasta and pizza all week, you might as well get the good stuff. It'll be cheap too (6.50 euro for a proper margherita, 3 euro for a slice at our 'local').
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| jirac18 wrote: |
| @swskier, only one place that needs visiting for food in Mayrhofen and that’s the Butchers Shop opposite Penken! If you can’t find food you live in there then you’re beyond help! Awesome. |
Plus 1 for the Butchers Shop where they weigh and fill (in my case crusty cob) with fantastic meat that's as cheap as chips. Best burger Goldkind and decent selection of tasty grub in Brasserie Q all within 50m of each other and the Happy End Bar 
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Uncle Rico, You must be wrong! Austria is such an exotic destination that it will be impossible to get a burger and 2 people in their late 20s will struggle to find anything that is not too foreign for their tastes....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| zikomo wrote: |
| @Uncle Rico, You must be wrong! Austria is such an exotic destination that it will be impossible to get a burger and 2 people in their late 20s will struggle to find anything that is not too foreign for their tastes.... |
My ever expanding waistline (unfortunately) begs to differ 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Good fast food burger joint opposite hotel magdalena.
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If all else fails if they decided on Mayrhofen, they could always jump on a train to Schlitters and enjoy the delights of the golden arches!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Orwell wrote: |
| If Alpine cuisine (certainly AT, CH) caters to anyone, surely it’s “fussy eaters”. All the bread, pasta, potato, meat, and cheese you can possibly eat. We (somewhat jokingly) prepare for a week of famine each time we go. |
Yeah, we always joke that's glorified baby food. Or not glorified. Soft, salty, fatty, sweet.
Sadly, because of a cholesterol issue, I actually can't really eat much in a typical alpine restaurant. I mostly go for a warm goat cheese salad.
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