Restaurants in Bolzano
Where to eat in Bolzano: Alto Adige speck IGP, canederli and Schlutzkrapfen, strudel, and mountain wines.
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From the Bitebooker blog
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Eating in Bolzano
In Bolzano you eat South Tyrolean: the menus are in two languages and the dishes come from the other side of the Alps, even when the wine is Italian.
The dishes
- Speck Alto Adige IGP — cold-smoked and matured, cut thick with rye bread (Schüttelbrot);
- Canederli (*Knödel*) in broth, with speck, spinach or grey cheese;
- Schlutzkrapfen — rye half-moons filled with spinach and ricotta, with melted butter;
- Goulash with polenta, and roast pork shank.
The cheese
Graukäse (grey cheese) from the Valle Aurina is lean and pungent, eaten with onion and vinegar: the opposite of a board cheese, and entirely at home here.
The sweets
Apple strudel, Kaiserschmarrn, Buchteln and Christmas Zelten.
In the glass, and in autumn
Lagrein, Santa Maddalena, Gewürztraminer and Schiava. In autumn comes Törggelen: you climb up to the farmsteads for chestnuts, speck and new wine — a season, not a venue.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
Other towns in the province of Bolzano
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.