Dining Out The Best Inns around Kitzbuhel

Kitzbuhel is a paradise for skiing, but is equally lovely as a base for hiking in the summer. And the best part of hiking is finding the beautiful mountain inns in which to have a drink, watch the sunset and take dinner. Late summer - August and September - brings you into the mushroom season when the inns feature delicious variations of eierschwammel (chanterelle) and steinplitzer. Better still, some of them will have a wonderful heidelbeeren (known locally as moosbeeren and in French as myrtille) pudding. Drink the delicious Grune Veltliner whites and Sweigelt reds that are now becoming rightly popular outside Austria.

My favourites include

On the mountains:
Wirthaus Steuerberg - behind Schwartzee
Bergstorf Hagstein - high up past the Tennerhof hotel
Sonnberg Stub'n / Pension Rossi high above Aurach
Hallewirt at Ober Aurach
Filtzerhof - on the sunny side above Kirchberg Nord

In the valley:
Gasthaus Chizzo and Hotel Reisch in the town
Stanglwirt at Going