Hochsteiermark offers many culinary highlights that are just waiting to be discovered. Old meets new: from rustic mountain huts to modern award-winning cuisine, with products sourced locally. Enjoy your meal!
From Mariazellerland with its gingerbread to the Pogusch with Steirereck or Johanns with the smallest award-winning restaurant in Austria: Hochsteiermark has long known how culinary delights work. Take a seat in one of the many restaurants and enjoy the world of Hochsteiermark specialities!
17 Gault&Millau ‘Hauben’ and 16 Falstaff ‘Gabeln’, spread across six restaurants in Hochsteiermark, that is quite something. However, good things take time. That's why in selected restaurants, slow food is on the programme instead of fast cuisine. The result is delicacies such as ‘venison heart with sliced goose liver’ or ‘matjes from the Pretulsaibling with nasturtium’. Perfect service and warm hospitality go naturally without saying.
Tradition has its place: welcoming innkeepers serve home-style cooking that has stood the test of time. Where else can you feel genuine Hochsteiermark culture better than where the locals meet? Let the landlord tell you about local folklore while he serves you a dish that generations before you have already enjoyed. Relax to the sound of folk music and savour the ambience of the tried and tested.
All Styrian inns here at one glance: Steirisches Wirtshaus
Be treated to a traditional 'Bretteljause' and a glass of raspberry lemonade. Or would you prefer a coffee and a slice of freshly baked cake or a portion of 'Fedlkoch'? Tradition and hospitality are paramount in the rustic mountain huts. Combined with the marvellous view of the wide meadows and valleys, where even the cows enjoy the beautiful weather and the crickets put on a lively concert. You've really earned it after the hike up to the hut.
In the eight Kulinarium Steiermark businesses in Hochsteiermark, delicious dishes are created with regional ingredients - you can be sure of that thanks to the award. The restaurants are subject to quality criteria which ensure a tasty and pleasant visit. Convince yourself!
Simply slip into the role of a Hochsteiermark chef and learn how to cook ‘Hochsteirernudeln’ or other renowned award-winning dishes yourself on a cookery course: this is how you can take your holiday back home with you in culinary terms. The chefs in the region will be more than happy to show you a few tricks of the trade so that you can create the culinary masterpieces yourself.
At the mountain huts in Hochsteiermark, food is always cooked with love. If you want to be active first and then enjoy good food afterwards, you shouldn't miss out on the culinary hut tours. Exercise makes you hungry and in Hochsteiermark no culinary wishes remain unfulfilled.