This is a nice mountain pasture with a great view over Innsbruck and the surrounding mountains and…read morevalleys. You'll get a selfmade traditional food and sometimes special nepalees dishes, cause the chef is a original sherpa from the himalaya. The way up tooks you around 2 hours through nice woods and an even more beautiful landscape.

Excellent food, friendly service, can't beat the location. You earn your meal on the way up!read more

Is this place real?…read more It is! The food is good, so much better than it needs to be (or would be in the US) with that view. Don't forget to ask for some local mountain flora schnapps on the way out!

I recently stayed in this mountain hut on a 6 day Alpine Crossing. I would definitely rate this as…read moreone of the better mountain huts I have stayed in. The sleeping accommodation was comfortable, the washroom facilities adequate and spotlessly clean, the food and service good and friendly in spite of the fact that the hut was hopelessly overful. The hut is designed for max 250 guests and had to accommodate 390 on the night. Under mountain rules no hiker can be turned away. Under the circumstances the staff did a great job. Needless to say the scenery is breathtaking and well worth the climb from Oberstdorf which took us about 4 hours.

Yes... "as good as it gets". OK, so I've only been to a handful of rifugios (mountain huts in the…read moreAlps where you can eat and/or spend the night... you know, a refuge) ... http://www.altabadia.org/en/italian-alps-dolomites/food-and-drink/mountain-huts-dolomites.html ... but these people served great espresso and machiattos. I didn't try their food but I'm guessing this is a view that you are not going to come across every day. It was worth the effort of hiking 8 miles uphill. (You might be able to drive there, too?) This rifugio started off as a church built in 1484, the detached house built in 1718. They have food... I hear the Kaiserschmarren is a classic and they have things like eggs with speck and polenta with cheese and mushrooms. This is one of those rifugios where you can spend the night, at least in the summer. More info--- http://www.dolomitemountains.com/en/resources/resources135.htm

I have no doubt that the views here are fantastic...unfortunately, the day we decided to get in a…read more'quick' (8.4 miles round-trip, in this case) hike from San Cassiano, it was quite cloudy, with the opportunity for rain virtually the entire time. We made it to the rifugio at Santa Croce just as the rain began to let loose, so we took the opportunity to wait out the low-hanging thunderstorm in the rifugio and grab a quick snack while we were at it. It was quite thinly-staffed while we were there (and there were few tourists there as well - just a couple other parties that got stranded by the weather), so it took a bit of time to get our check at the end, which was important given that we got a let-up in the rain long enough to book it back to town. The entrance has sliding doors - a modernity that wasn't at any other rifugio - and that leads you to a dining room on the right. We got a speck and cheese sandwich to share, along with a bowl of tagliatelle with a porcini mushroom cream sauce. The sandwich was alright - the speck was great, and the cheese reminded me of a muted Swiss cheese (a plus in my book, as I don't like Swiss usually), but utilizing the Tuscany-style bread that lacked salt made the sandwich a bit on the plain side. The tagliatelle, on the other hand, was very good, and with tagliatelle that was a bit different from the rest of the trip - the edges were serrated, giving it a bit more texture with each bite. The mushroom-infused sauce wasn't the best we had on the trip, but it was still very enjoyable (and quite affordable to boot). While we did not stay here for very long, we enjoyed the coziness of the rifugio while we waited out the rain. It's not the best rifugio we visited, and there's no doubt that the view would be more enjoyable with a clearer sky, but it was a sight to behold when we stepped out after the rain had passed and we saw the limestone mountains washed in rain and seeing endless waterfalls running down every nook and crevice. The trail is worth a hike for the views, but the food is pretty good as well!

Hay soup. Think about that. Does not sound appetizing or even real. Well, hop the chair lift from…read moreCompatsch, at the top turn left and after a 30-minute meander along a view-spectacular trail, veer off to this "mountain hut" as the locals call these dining oases in the Dolomites. The setting, the building, the tables, the menu...everything is 100% alpine natural. Specialty of the house? No kidding...hay soup. Actually it is a secret recipe of herbs and spices served in bowl that you can eat.... literally. It's a bowl made of the local bread and it is DELICIOUS. There are many other food and beverage offerings to tempt and after an extra long hike, tranquilize happily. We were recommended to this place by the fine folks at Hotel Rosa Eco Alpine, about a five-minute walk from downtown Compatsch. Looking to hike and receive a genuinely unique culinary reward? Climb and find Gostner Schwaige.