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There's around a dozen or so restaurants visible as you wander around Arosa by night. Less obvious, but worth checking out are some of the hotel restaurants

Grottino Pizzeria is a popular Italian restaurant. It’s easy to imagine the menu offering, and the pizzas are good, but there are other reasons for being here. Look beyond the typical Italian menu and you’ll find an incredible choice of wines with a wine list featuring sixteen pages of superb red wines including many top reds from Italy, America, Australia and France – Sassicaia, Opus One, Chateau Talbot, Le Pin, Petrus and Mouton – and some excellent Spanish Rioja’s. Cigar smokers too will be excited by the selection of 60 top smokes – Cohiba Robusta, Siglo 1-6 and Montecristo A to name but a few and there’s also a tasty selection of 24 Rochmilchkäse cheeses. Wine buffs and cigar smokers can have a lot of fun and the prices of wines are reasonable considering what they are.

Hotel Cristallo on Post Strasse is recommended – in fact here you can choose between two restaurants: Le Bistro is visible from the street and Cristallo's main restaurant (open to non-residents) at the rear of the hotel has good views across the valley. It’s a rich menu with speciality dishes and stronger on meat – steak and lamb especially – than fish. There’s a good wine list including quality Spanish wines and waiters are knowledgeable. It’s not cheap, like for like wines are probably around 305 more expensive than Grottino but it’s good food and wine in a tasteful spacious interior with good atmosphere and a plenty of tables seating for 2, 4 and 6 in comfort plus a big table for larger groups. It’s

The Hotel Eden's Ta Pa Restaurant is also a fun place to eat and serves a selection of 24 tapas dishes chosen from the blackboard. The dark wood tables, comfy chairs and cushioned benches, terracotta tile floor and deep orange walls, candle lighting and a trophy head and horns of a 600kg bull makes for a modern setting in the Spanish style. There are tables for only about 40 covers mostly on large (shared) tables and booking is essential.