Schladming Bars & Restaurants
There’s an unusually wide selection restaurants – more than 40 all told – with everything from fine dining at the Hotel Post to Giovanni’s universally acclaimed pizzas.The Talbachschenke, a converted wine cellar offers traditional Austrian Grill cuisine. The Dorf Stockl, in the centre of Rohrmoos is a mountain restaurant which also has a celebrated a la carte menu the evenings. In the basement you’ll find the Knappenkellar – a restaurant-cum-disco-cum night-club.
One of the most popular haunts is Erlebniswelt (Adventure World) at Rohrmoos, with its Knappenkellerdiscotheque, Pfitschigogerl bar and Dorfstöckl restaurant. If you want to make yourself heard (a rarity during après ski), try the Talbachschenke.
Other agreeable places to meet for a drink include The Pub and The Beisl, both just off the main square. There are two other discos in the vicinity: the Sport Alm in Ramsau and the Erlebniswelt in Rohrmoos.
The Siglu Bar has a daily Jägermeister competition, with live music on Mondays, and Thursdays, hits from the 1980s and 90s on Tuesdays, “pay for one drink, get two” from midnight on Wednesdays, Ladies’ Night on Fridays and cheap drinks on Saturdays. Austropop 4 Ever is the Sunday night ‘attraction’.
The Szenario, which specialises in freshly-baked baguettes has a grill evening on Thursdays and a “pop-song” evening to celebrate the “best of 50 years of music history”. It warns guests: “You may overstay and still be here at sunrise!”
The X-Small bar has music, cocktails and “some of the best Austrian wines” to wash down pizzas and baguettes.
Apres-Ski
By general consensus, Schladming’s nightlife is lively but rarely too rowdy. Opposite the Planai gondola, Charly’s Treff also known as the Planaistub’n is complete with photographs of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was born not far away in Graz.
Loud music announces the usual party atmosphere at Onkel Willi’s – once amusingly described in the Guardian as “a goldmine disguised as a ski emporium…inside, you can’t breathe; outside, you can’t hear”.
Later, revellers move on to establishments like The Pub, La Porta, close to the old town gateway, and the Hanglbar (ten pin bowling in the basement, with lanes hand carved into rock).
Late-night party-goers favour the Sonderbar disco beneath the Hotel Rössl, which – even with three bars – is kept busy.