St Johann Mountain Restaurants
St Johann has a number of excellent mountain restaurants with high standards, excellent cuisine and an abundance of character all a common feature. The restaurants’ owners all take great pride in their tradition and cuisine, to the extent that three of the mountain restaurants have combined to offer a very special wine tasting experience.It is quite telling that St Johann has more mountain restaurants than pistes. Although this might give you a sense of the limitations of the ski area, it is also indicative of the importance of good mountain dining in this Tirolean resort. There are some special mountain restaurants in St Johann, including the oldest in the Kitzbühelerhorn – the Angereralm.
With over 200 years of history, the Angereralm is steeped in Tirolean tradition and has taken on an added sense of character since being taken over by Annemarie Foidl – the president of the Austrian sommelier association – in 1989. This cosy hut now not only offers excellent Tirolean cuisine – and overnight accommodation for those wishing to indulge – but is home to the highest located wine cellar in the Kitzbüheler Alps, with 6,000 wines from 400 vineyards across the world.
With a range of wining & dining packages, most notably including the Weinwirte am Kitzbühelerhorn package which will also see you take in the Stangalm and Penzinghof restaurants as part of a skiing and wine tasting tour, the Angereralm should feature prominently on the to-do list of anyone visiting St Johann.
There are plenty of other good options to stop for lunch in St Johann, however, and on a sunny day many skiers prefer the sun terraces at the Harschbichl or Baβgeigeralm huts. All of the restaurants have a family friendly feel – none more so than the Grander Schupf whose slide down to the toilets is a favourite among the kids!
For skiers looking for a livelier place to end the day, the après-ski bar Webern can become lively later in the afternoon before skiers and local guides head down to the Gasthof Schöne Aussicht sun terrace or more likely to Max Pub at the bottom of the piste.