Bolzano Restaurants

In Bolzano (Bozen in German) town centre you can find this nice and comfortable restaurant, a real institution for the town. Everybody know it. First of all, you have to be ready to be seated with other people, at least for lunch, when the restaurant is full of student and employees. At evening the ambience is much more intimate.
The menu is full of everything that Sud Tirol can offer to satisfy great appetite; the dishes are really big and you will pay for the bread only if you eat it. Otherwise, no "coperto" charge...but, like in Austria (remember that Bolzano is in Italy but most of the population is German native speaker. They speack a good Italian with a strong German accent) they expected to receive a tip.

Favorite Dish: Canederli
Apple strudel

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This restaurant is a huge restaurant, but still it has a nice atmosphere to it! There are various rooms one behind the other and a little courtyard. We had lunch here and enjoyed it quite a bit!

Despite the size this place was full, when we came there - it must have a good reputation! We shared the table with a man who goes here quite often and he, too, was very satisfied with the quality and the price.

Hubby and I both opted for a plate with 3 different kinds of food - so we did not have to decide and maybe miss out on something exceptional! Everything was very delicious, the service was very fast and very friendly and as I mentioned before - the cost of the meals were very reasonable.

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This place captivated me with its charme at once and I can only highly recommend it to you!

"Fischbänke" means "fish banks" and this place used to be the old fish market of Bolzano. You can still see the marble fish banks that are now part of the outside restaurant. Various cane chairs, oleander plants and various little signs with funny and philosophical sayings on them. Most outstanding is the owner of the place, Rino Zullo, called Cobo - he is the owner of the restaurant, a cartoonist and artist and pretty well known!

Favorite Dish: We only had a little something to drink, but the bruschetta there are said to be excellent as well! So, next time I will definitely go there again and try them as well!

On the way to Meran, just out of Bozen and quite close to the hospital (krankenhaus !) you can find Moritzingerhof a nice restaurant with typical sud-tirol food.

Favorite Dish: Filet with mushroom !!!!!!!! ... and don't forget to taste the smoked ham they usually serve you as a starter !

This is not a restaurant but a stand on Via Stazione Bahnhofallee near the Bolzano train station that sells cheap and very very yummy German food. The owner (and his family) of the stand is very nice and friendly. You will have to stand by the stand and eat. There is no place to sit.

Favorite Dish: The stand has everything from German bratwurst to roasted chicken and all the traditional German foods. And the quality is great! The foods are served with a German salad completed with a roll.

A roasted chicken meal, for example, only costs 3 euros.

JRE is a "chain" of hi-level restaurants born in France and enlarged to Europe in 1992. In Italy the headquarter is in Bolzano's area.
The aim of this association is to propose traditional food in a new concept; all associated are young and dynamic chef.
For the restaurant list pls check the website www.jre.it

Expensive restaurant in downtown: wonderful historical environment with outside space for summer.
Actuall food is not always at level you could expect in such a spot but for sure you can have an interestinf wine list.

I often judge a restaurant by the quality of the glasses that they use to serve the wine. At Blaues Schiff near the Piazza del Grano they excelled. We ate twice there and the food was really good and sat outside on a warm evening it’s a great place to soak up the atmosphere of Bolzano. We had a bottle of local wine from Gries. I can’t remember the name of it but it was a deep red mature cabernet sauvignon and the waiter told us it was his favourite. Delicious.
Another local wine is a rose – it slides down very easily on a warm afternoon and you can be drunk before you know it.